I have received e-mail asking if I meant that drugs should be legalized. The intent in last week's column was not to push for legalizing drugs just that there is no alternative given our present justice system.

Attempting to legislate changes in human behavior is a losing proposition, as it ignores one important fact. Some humans are destined, whether by genetics or diseases or downright orneriness to be socio-paths, criminals, druggies, alcoholics, or perverts. Ignoring that fact is what makes our present justice system a charade. It becomes a facade that makes people feel good instead of correcting the problem.

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I am neither for nor against random drug testing. I am against those that use "junk" science and knee jerk reactions to justify laws only to expand the power base of politicians or those in charge of something. It is wrong, immoral in fact, to experiment with ideological uncertainties developed at the expense of individual privacy and freedom. Unfortunately, as one writer put it, it is this way because the voters let it be.

That rhetorical nonsense beginning "Americans should not have to put up with." as gun destroying advocates and others use it, is as realistically impossible as legislating zero lawlessness er-tolerance. Given the nature of humans, it is sheer idiocy to believe that laws will stop behavior. Laws only define what is right or wrong and what is punishable, always after the fact. Laws, as it is plain to see, do not solve problems, some only create them.

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