Pubdate: Wed, 30 Jan 2002
Source: NOW Magazine (Canada)
Copyright: 2002 NOW Communications Inc.
Contact:  http://www.nowtoronto.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/282
Author: Dave Michon

US NEIGHBORS, SAY NO TO US DRUG MADNESS

Enzo Di Matteo's piece on Plan Colombia, the plan to turn the drug war from 
figurative to literal warfare (NOW, May 11-17), was very informative and 
ominous. This incredible development is moving fast, and public opinion 
here in the U.S. is being carefully managed. Sensible people pray the plan 
is stopped.

Citizens of other countries have no idea just how bad the oppression has 
become here in the erstwhile Land of the Free. How could a country with 
over 2 million of its citizens imprisoned claim anything to do with 
freedom? The truth is, it can't. The drug war has been ruining the tenets 
of personal freedom by degrees for years, but the results are becoming 
dramatic.

America's neighbours would do well to just say no to Washington's threats 
when the time comes for common-sense drug law reforms in their own 
sovereign lands. Good luck.

Dave Michon, Spooner, Wisconsin
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