Busted

Re “The price of protest,” editorial, Dec. 27

Thank you for your editorial on the protest by Tim DeChristopher, who bid up prices for oil and gas drilling leases in pristine public lands, even though he did not intend to pay for them, in hopes of disrupting the auction. These leases offered by the Bush administration in its dying days were its final spit in the face of the American people.

DeChristopher does not deserve to be prosecuted, he deserves depiction in a statue, placed in front of the George W. Bush presidential library, with the engraved words, “Tim DeChristopher, a hero who refused to remain silent as the 43rd president tried to continue his assault on America’s environment.”

Leon M. Salter

Los Angeles