Pubdate: Sat, 30 Mar 2002
Source: Chicago Tribune (IL)
Copyright: 2002 Chicago Tribune Company
Contact:  http://www.chicagotribune.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/82
Author: Jim White

UNHOLY DRUG WAR

Oregon, Ohio -- The White House wants to justify combining the war on drugs 
and the war on terror, for a very good reason. With the war on drugs, there 
are no limits to what can be done, nothing is sacred, not the rule of law, 
not the Constitution or values or rights we hold so dear.

Many an innocent soul has been murdered by anti-drug dragoons. Millions of 
gallons of chemicals have been sprayed on people and families in foreign 
lands, killing hundreds of people and poisoning thousands of square miles, 
something that would otherwise not be tolerated by the civilized world.

Missionaries are shot out of the sky, and it's just a small error, no 
crime, just an error. Millions rot in prisons for using politically 
incorrect drugs. No harm done, they should have gotten drunk instead.

Once the war on terrorism and the war on drugs are successfully merged into 
one, the corruption that permeates our government, and the individuals and 
agencies it has spawned, will have free rein to roam the world plundering 
and killing whatever and whomever they please. Pot smokers getting high, 
and suicide pilots hell-bent on mass murder--no difference in the eyes of 
our government.

Jim White
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