Pubdate: Thu, 27 Sep 2001
Source: Daily Independent, The (KY)
Copyright: 2001 The Daily Independent, Inc.
Contact:  http://www.dailyindependent.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1573
Author: Redford Givens

FAILED FADE SHOULD LOSE ITS FUNDING

The mental corruption that goes with America's lunatic drug crusade let's a 
drug warrior's casual remark about stealing people's property through 
forfeiture go without comment. Eighty percent of the forfeiture account 
FADE Director Bob Jessie speaks of came from people who were never even 
charged with a drug crime.

Our delirious drug warriors rob and plunder the innocent like the high 
sheriff of Nottingham to pay for their idiotic and long failed drug war. 
The citizens of Kentucky would be wise to de-fund the FIVCO Area Drug 
Enforcement Task Force entirely since they are obviously having zero effect 
on drug dealing when they are buying ``larger quantities than normal" year 
after year. If these degenerate narcs were succeeding, drug use would be 
falling. Instead, they admit that drug trafficking is bigger than ever.

It's time to accept the fact that drug prohibition is a more destructive 
failure than alcohol prohibition and to remember that Eliot Ness and the 
revenuers never put the booze barons out of business. Repeal and a 
regulated market for adult alcohol use did that.

Regulation works for alcohol and regulation will work for drugs. 
Prohibition, on the other hand, never works.

Redford Givens

San Francisco
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