Editor:

This letter is in response to the ACLU investigating the rainbow family. When you camp on public lands in Wyoming, the law enforcement officers have the right to come and check on you to make sure that no state and federal laws are being broken.

They have a right to question your behavior and if that questioning brings up possibilities of laws being broken, they have a right to search your camp, and if they find just cause, they can arrest or fine you according to the law.

If you as person decide to not cooperate with these officers, they are allowed to use force in order to protect themselves while they are enforcing the laws they are sworn to uphold.

In Wyoming we have highly qualified law enforcement officers, and thus a very low crime rate; we see police presence as a deterrent to crime, as it should be. If you live in Wyoming or come here to visit and you are a law upholding citizen, then you will find no friendlier or helpful person than the local officer.

If you come here to trample the land and see how many laws you can break, you will find no greater foe. If the Rainbow people did not find their vacation to the great state of Wyoming a wonderful experience, like most people do, they don't have to come back. We won't miss them and neither will the Boy Scouts, who had their plans messed up.

As a wife of a law enforcement officer, I am thankful to those officers who stood up to protect our public land, and keep the people of Wyoming safe, not just for this gathering but every day of the year.

BARBARA BOULEY, Rawlins