Letters: A bridge disaster in New Jersey

Re “Christie tries to stem traffic scandal fallout,” Jan. 10

One can imagine a movie in which several fraternity brothers drink and decide to close all but one lane leading to the nation’s busiest bridge, which they do by simply putting up traffic cones. We would all laugh as the camera shows schoolchildren on buses having to go to the bathroom, a baby being born in a car or a jobless man going crazy because he misses an interview.

But in the real world, what New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s staff did was an almost unimaginable abuse of power and an act of terror. Peter Drucker (now deceased, formerly of Claremont Graduate University) wrote that for people in charge there is no such thing as power, only responsibility; the governor and his staff obviously cut that class.

Make no mistake, this was an act of terror. The target was one political foe, but millions of people were adversely affected.

Karl F. Schmid

Los Angeles

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