Pubdate: Wed, 06 Dec 2000
Source: Hobbs News-Sun (NM)
Copyright: 2000 Hobbs News-Sun
Contact:  P.O. Box 850, Hobbs, N.M. 88240
Fax: (505) 393-5724
Website: http://www.hobbsnews.com/
Author: Myron Von Hollingsworth
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GOV. JOHNSON TALKING SENSE

To the Editor:

Gary Johnson is one of the few who is talking sense while the rest of the 
politicians and their constituents whose industries and jobs depend on a 
continuation of - but never a victory in - the drug war keep on spouting 
their lies and propaganda in order to preserve, but again - never to win - 
the war on drugs.

Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party 
line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and 
military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the "drug 
treatment" industry, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the politicians 
themselves et al can't live without the budget justification, not to 
mention the invisible profits, bribery, corruption and forfeiture benefits 
that prohibition affords them.

The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement 
policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed 
to be inalienable, according to the constitution and bill of rights.

Myron Von Hollingsworth,
Fort Worth, Texas
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