Pubdate: Wed, 03 Feb 1999
Date: 02/03/1999
Source: Little Rock Free Press (AR)
Author: Bob "Boogie" Oliver

I am 60 years old. I have traveled the USA for 22 years with a major
corporation. I worked my way through high school picking cotton,
mowing yards, etc. I started working on computers in 1969. That caused
me to change the way I analyse things.

I take the input to my brain and come out with the most logical answer
in much the same way as a computer.

I have always called Little Rock home. Every issue of the Free Press
that addresses the war on drugs has been right on in their analysis.

In the war on drugs (or war against the people) there have been many
casualities. I'm sure we all have a friend or relative that has either
been killed or had his or her life ruined in this war.

Now let's apply logic to this situation.

Have all these people including police officers been killed because of
drugs or because of the law against drugs.

The only logical answer is the law against drugs is the main
problem.

Without the law against drugs, most of these people would be alive
today.

The laws have ruined more lives than drugs ever could.

When a lawmaker tells you the laws are to protect you, that is an
absolute life. The only purpose for these laws is to give certain
people the power to kill, persecute, prosecute and rob the people.

These people can stop you at any time to search and humiliate you. If
any drug substance is found or planted on you, they have the power to
take your car, home and money.

They don't even have to find drugs to take your money.

If you have more cash than they think you should, they can take and
keep it. Drug laws have turned friend against friend and family
against family.

The laws have undermined the entire American way of life.They take the
scum of the earth and use them as snitches to put hard working people
in prison.

Where is the logic of putting a 20 year old in prison for one
joint?

The only logical answer to this problem is to eradicate the laws on
drugs and take the fate of your children out of the hands of the
police and courts and put them back in the hands of family and friends
who care.

No wonder the young people in this country don't vote.

Bob "Boogie" Oliver
Little Rock