To The Editor: It's apparent we do reap what we've sown. The chemical people of the 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's are beginning to see the fruits of their labor. Ogdensburg now has drug addicts that have no respect for human life. We now have drug addicts that care more for drugs than human life. We now have drugies who can watch a murder take place an casually forget about it for months. At what point do these drugies become accessories to the murder? How many other drugies knew about the murder and kept their mouth shut? Ogdensburg has now seen the tainted evil side of drugs. Illegal drugs are drawing this country into the obyss; and if the drug lovers or advocates ever get their way we'll all get a chance to see hell on earth. Apparently we're not that far from there right now. In my lifetime I've seen my share of loss of lives; but this young man's death has to be one of the most useless loss of life, I've ever seen or heard of. The scary thing is this could of been anyone's child, in this city, who was killed. [continues 517 words]
To The Editor: The Letter to the Editor Jan. 21 by Mr. Seguin was also long on propaganda as all his many letters are on legalizing drugs. The numbers I used in my letter were the numbers Clinton's drug war used in his last news briefing on TV. If you wish to argue his numbers go ahead I am not. Another thing is whether my numbers are right or you numbers are right 16,000 or 42,000 a year of deaths due to illegal drugs are totally unacceptable to me. Although they must be acceptable to you because you advocate legalizing drugs which will in all likelihood increase these deaths tenfold or more, that is why legalizing drugs is not an option to me. [continues 420 words]
To The Editor: The drug war must continue. 42,000 deaths by drugs a year demand it. This country would come apart at the seams if we were involved in a war in another country and 42,000 body bags were being shipped home every year. Yet we still have those that promote legalizing drugs. That would be a big mistake. In the entire Vietnam war, we lost roughly 57,000 brave servicemen and women. At today's rate of deaths by drugs per year for the same amount of time as the Vietnam war lasted we would lose 546,000 Americans to death by drugs. Then throw in the amount of felonies and murders committed by drug addicts to support their drug habits; these are very strong reasons to continue the drug war. [continues 261 words]
To The Editor: It's evident the drug war must continue with the most recent drug arrest and drug confiscations. St. Lawrence County now has a new drug on the scene. The new drug is Exctasy which is a very lethal drug. I recently watched a TV program which dealt with Exctasy the drug. A young man took shots of Exctast causing the young man to lose his epuilibrium and fall to the floor. After a period of time, his friends realized was in trouble as he thrashed around on the floor and couldn't get up. His friends then called an ambulance. By the time the ambulance arrived on the scene they had to strap the young man to the stretcher; by the time they got the young man to E.R. he was bleeding from every mojor organ. Needless to say, the young man died. Exctasy, another poison and another good reason to keep drugs illegal. Contrary to what the drug advocates would like us to believe, drugs still kill, drugs still wreck lives both the addicts and their loved ones. I still say the happening places if drugs are legalized will be the E.R., the morgue and the funeral parlors. Drugs still reduce people to their lowest point then one of two things happen, the addict kicks the habit or they die. [continues 250 words]
To the editor: When it comes to legalizing drugs one man's liberty is another man's chaos. If drugs are legalized everyone in this country will pay a price. First the family will suffer more than it has already, The last thing on a drug addict's mind is their children and so called loved ones. Their mind is on their next fix and themselves. The next ones to suffer are children that are born to a drug addict mother, because she can't get clean long enough to carry the baby until birth. These babies are born with parts of their brains missing and holes in their brains. These children will need almost total care their entire lives. This care will come at an astromonical cost to all of us, especially the taxpayer. Then there's the price these children have to pay through loss of quality of life. [continues 281 words]
To The Editor: With the recent events taking place in St.Lawrence County it may be time again to try to talk to the Undecided, and the ones who are already hooked on drugs. Hopefully if you're undecided when the time comes you'll say no to drugs yes to life. If you're already hooked on drugs it may be time to clean up your act. I know it isn't easy to quit the drugs, but people do it all the time. If you can't quit for yourself and you're a parent then quit for the children. I am sure they'll be glad to have you around to see them grow up, drugs do kill. So if you're hooked get the monkey off you back, get some help if you need to. Just think no more restless nights when you can't get that fix, that alone should be enough reason to quit drugs. If you quit you'll be surprised what a good ride life can be without the crutch. [continues 410 words]
