In response to Ryan Brubaker's letter yesterday, he seems to have many issues with the way the police and stadium security officials go about their business.

First, he complains that he and his friends, who were drinking alcoholic beverages, were asked to produce identification because they were presumed guilty. What a horrible ordeal to actually have to pull out your wallet and show the police identification. Of course, since they are all probably the ripe old age of 21 years, the police officers must have been way out of line to suspect that some might be underage.

I suppose Mr. Brubaker gets insulted every time he walks into a bar and they ask for ID as well.

Second, he complains that the police actually had the nerve to discipline his group for removing a barrier after stadium event staff politely informed them that the barrier was not to be removed. Mr. Brubaker contends that a polite warning from the police, rather than the disorderly conduct citation would have been more appropriate. Mr. Brubaker, the event staff issued you a polite warning and your group chose to ignore it.

How many polite warnings does it really take?

Last, the oppressed Mr. Brubaker asks if we are tired of our tax dollars going to support a police force that cites improper behavior at events. I must say I am not. It comforts me to know that there are hard working police personnel making sure that there is no rowdy underage drinking at a family event. Penn State football games tend to be a little on the crowded side, therefore I am also thankful that the police do not permit groups of people to take up valuable parking space with their little kickball games.

Barriers are there for a reason, and unless Mr. Brubaker has a minor in traffic control, he should leave those decisions to those who know what they are doing.

Mr. Brubaker states that it is "time for people to start taking a stand for the freedoms our country was founded upon." He obviously has a flair for the dramatic. Could someone point me to the section of the Constitution that gives us the right to take up multiple parking spaces at crowded events with a bocce ball game?

Surely Mr. Brubaker can find a better cause to champion than that of likening police doing their job at a football game to the Gestapo.