To the editor:

It definitely sounds like the Journal-World editor has been reading his own paper and various others, as is evident in the headlines of his Saturday Column of April 14.

“Secrecy, heavy-handed tactics” are definitely the trademark of our President George W. Bush, the executive branch of government, the Justice Department and the Republican Congress for the last six years.

For example, the Iraq war, the treatment of prisoners, the bypassing of the courts in his illegal surveillance tactics, the refusal to secure the Mexican border and especially the North American union of Mexico, Canada and the United States. I suspect that our president wishes that these things were not known to the media and to the general public.

I wonder if the Journal-World editor, since he is such a staunch Republican, really believes that our president is doing the right thing?

Howard Lynch, Lawrence