Pubdate: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 Source: Merritt Herald (CN BC) Copyright: 2006 Merritt Herald Contact: http://www.merrittherald.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1446 Author: Chris Buors JUST SAY NO Editor: Robert MacKay must think that some people are devoid of will. The truth is that users seek out drug distributors. Users value their suppliers so much that they will protect them from the police. Mr. MacKay ought to understand that from a pleasure seeker's perspective the "evil pusher" is a bringer of liberty and enlightenment. Al Capone said it best. He was just giving the people what they wanted. There is no such thing as mind control. Even under torture many men go to their deaths without telling their tormentors a single thing. All people have free will that can not be destroyed by drugs or anything else. If someone is living in a pit of drug despair, they are there because they want to be there. People do choose to destroy their own lives and Robert MacKay is right in that there is nothing anybody in the universe can do about that. God himself can not help a man against his own will so there is little the magistrate can do about it. It just puzzles me why Canadians were stupid enough to make drugs the forbidden fruit in the first place. Didn't anybody but me get the moral of the Parable of the Fall taught in Sunday school? To be sure, God lies, Eve lies, The Serpent tells the truth and Lucifer leaves the Garden of Eden a whole lot more powerful than when he got there. The lesson was meant for the authorities to learn not to forbid fruits and to tell the people the truth. I'm willing to bet Stephen Harper and Randy White can not relate those parable lessons to drug prohibition. The Sunday school lesson never sunk in yet these foolish people are pretending to lead us on to a better life. Me thinks the vision of a 1,000 years sin free existence is the mote in their eye. These law makers don't see their own evil rests in forbidden the fruits in the first place. Chris Buors Winnipeg, Manitoba - --- MAP posted-by: Beth Wehrman