Pubdate: Mon, 23 Jan 2006 Source: Contra Costa Times (CA) Copyright: 2006 Knight Ridder Contact: http://www.contracostatimes.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/96 Author: Glenn White Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/find?115 (Cannabis - California) Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/decrim.htm (Decrim/Legalization) CORRUPTING I agree with Juan Navaez (Letters, Jan. 14) that the California budget is full of entitlement programs controlled by unions. The most notorious are law enforcement unions, particularly the prison guards, which corrupted Gray Davis. Their opposition to Prop. 36 demonstrates their desire to punish those who have harmed no one or their property with incarceration under their supervision that includes racism, prison gangs, violence and same-sex rape for essentially political crimes. This is the very behavior the men of Sodom threatened against Lot (Gen. 19:5-9). A Christian nation should know Jesus the Healer does not support institutional sodomy by Caesar's godless communistic industrial penal complex to cure medical conditions like drug problems. Greed for public funding and contempt for American democracy drives the disdain for both Prop. 36 and Prop. 215 by these Marxist unions. These immoral unions actually admit addicts recruit new addicts to sell to and that children have greater access to drugs than adults with their black-market system. That they say marijuana is a gateway to the black market yet refuse to shut down that gateway through legalization of marijuana proves their argument for deterrence are lies covering their terrorist actions. They actually need to attract more young folks to illegal drugs with this gateway because their funding depends on it. The governor should not be a girlie-man, like Davis, and insist on ending the most corrupting and destructive entitlement programs in the budget: The left-wing godless communistic drug war programs. Glenn White Dublin - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman