Although I am not, nor have ever been, in the liquor distribution business, I could not agree more with Tony Plescia’s May 20 letter, “Trap deceptively set.” If the Washington State Liquor Board wants to conduct “sting” cases, they should do so with their own employees. Under no condition should they be using under-age teenagers to conduct their espionage business. After all, many of these very teens are themselves likely to be struggling with alcohol abuse well before the legal age of 21 years.
Please level the playing field, WSLB. These are not the 1960s when we innocently stole our mother’s mascara to paint on a mustache before we proceeded to some unsuspecting tavern on Union Avenue in Portland to hopefully be served a beer. Today a teenaged “snitch” does not need to be exposed to the inner-workings and appeal of our state liquor stores. They will learn soon enough.
Robert Henry Walz
Vancouver
