Pubdate: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON) Copyright: 2003, Canoe Limited Partnership. Contact: http://www.canoe.com/NewsStand/TorontoSun/home.html Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457 Author: Chuck Beyer Note: Parenthetical remark by the Sun editor, headline by newshawk PROHIBITIONIST POLICIES RESPONSIBLE RE: "BULLETS fly in bad drug deal" (June 15): I am sure that if one checked newspaper headlines during the Prohibition era in the U.S., one would have found the identical headline with the word "alcohol" substituted for "drugs" and gangsters taking the place of drug dealers in the story. Also available for public consumption would be a prohibitionist mindset on the part of the newspaper and the reading public that could not comprehend that they themselves and their prohibitionist policies were directly responsible for the war and carnage that surrounded them. Why is it that we need to learn the same lessons every generation? Chuck Beyer Victoria, B.C. (Collective amnesia) - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Stevens