Pubdate: Wed, 27 Jun 2001
Source: Marysville Globe, The (WA)
Copyright: 2001 Marysville Globe/Arlington Times
Contact:  http://www.mapinc.org/media/1288
Author: Kirk Muse, Vancouver, Wash.
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v01/n1020/a03.html ("Drug 
War finds its Atilla")

TRUE CONSERVATIVE

Bravo to Jim Hightower for his outstanding op/ed, "Drug War finds its 
Atilla" (6-06-0l). However, I disagree with his description of John 
Walters as a "right wing ideologue." Right wing implies conservative. 
As a "true" conservative, I am insulted by the hypocrisy of someone 
who supports the policy of prohibition being considered a 
conservative.

Prohibition is the policy of the government dictating to adult 
citizens what substances they may or may not put into their own 
bodies. True conservatives do not support the policy of prohibition. 
True conservatives believe in the principals of freedom and liberty 
as declared in the Declaration of Independence. True conservatives do 
not believe the government should attempt to protect adult citizens 
from themselves.

Prohibition is certainly not a policy that our founding fathers would 
support or tolerate.

True conservatives believe the people should be protected from the 
government: not the other way around.

Kirk Muse, Vancouver, Wash.
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