Pubdate: Tue, 27 Mar 2001
Source: Vacaville Reporter (CA)
Copyright: 2001 Vacaville Reporter
Contact:  http://www.thereporter.com/
Author: Crispin Nickolas

LAWS MUST TARGET PUSHERS

Reporter Editor:

In your newspaper (Reporter, March 22), there was an Associated Press 
story from Washington under the headline. "Most believe U.S. is 
losing drug war."

What else is new?

If it is a war, it's one we can never hope to win. The countries that 
have tough laws and penalties for selling narcotics have few problems 
with all the crimes associated with drugs. It doesn't take an 
Einstein to figure out we need much tougher narcotic laws.

It's obvious that what we are doing is not working.

Lee Iacocca had the right idea in his autobiography when he suggested 
that a second conviction for selling narcotics should be an 
"automatic death sentence -- no appeal."

The pushers know the laws better than the average person and rely on 
our lenient laws. Laws without severe punishment are meaningless laws 
and the pushers know it.

The liberals will scream about a death penalty, but what about all 
the countless people the pusher kills every day they continue to sell 
drugs? Ask any policeman the number of crimes associated with drugs.

Crispin Nickolas, Vacaville
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