Pubdate: Mon, 05 May 2008
Source: East Valley Tribune (AZ)
Copyright: 2008 East Valley Tribune.
Contact:  http://www.eastvalleytribune.com
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Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v08/n400/a06.html
Author: Kirk Muse

WE'RE SUCKERS FOR WAR ON DRUGS

I'm writing about Bill Richardson's outstanding column: "What about 
all the other drugs? (Opinion 2, April 18). The so-called war on 
drugs is a huge industry and huge bureaucracy.

Victory in the drug war is not possible, nor is it the goal. Victory 
in the drug war would mean that the drug war industry and bureaucracy 
are out of business. There are basically two types of people who 
support the so-called war on drugs:

* Those who make their livelihood from it. This includes politicians 
and bureaucrats who are probably on the payroll of the drug cartels. 
Al Capone had hundreds of politicians and prohibition officials on his payroll.

* And suckers -- taxpayers who have bought into the lies and 
propaganda of the drug-war industry and bureaucracy. Suckers -- who 
are willing to deny liberty and freedom to others but think that 
their own liberty and freedom will never be in jeopardy. Suckers -- 
who believe that criminalizing a substance will make it go away. 
Suckers -- who think that drug prohibition somehow protects children.

Suckers -- who think that giving criminals control of dangerous drugs 
somehow protects children and our society.

Suckers -- who think that they live in a free country even though the 
United States is the most incarcerated nation in the history of human 
civilization.

KIRK MUSE

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