Pubdate: Tue, 04 Jun 2002
Source: Parksville Qualicum Beach News (CN BC)
Copyright: 2002 Parksville Qualicum Beach News
Contact:  http://www.pqbnews.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1361
Author: Alan Randell

PEOPLE CAN PUT WHATEVER THEY WANT INTO THEIR BODIES

Re Man Charged In 1999 Grow-Op Bust In Court, May 28

No government has the right to punish anyone for ingesting anything, 
however harmful. There is no more reason to persecute drug users and 
distributors today than there was in the past to hang witches, lynch blacks 
or gas Jews.

If you want to know how it came to be that most Germans acquiesced to 
Hitler's policies towards the Jews, you only have to realize that the flood 
of "news" stories like this has made us think that rousting innocent people 
off to jail is normal. And of course by suppressing the victims' stories, 
you make it easier for us to ignore their plight. We shrug and turn the page.

Would it have killed you to send a reporter out to talk to this person and 
his family and friends?

The media: Where would the approaching police state be without you?

Alan Randell

Victoria
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