GOVERNMENT WANTS DRUG WAR

The institution that makes drugs and dealers dangerous and violent and rich
is the drug war. It is prohibition that allows these "dangerous" dealers to
exist in the first place. After all, the government has declared war on
them, their black market businesses and their black market goods. If the
government wants a war, they've sure got one. One thing is going to
separate the dealers from their huge black market profits -- and it isn't
the government's war -- it is decriminalization, legalization, regulation
and an end to the government's domestic war on citizens.

Drug dealers, warlords, kingpins and guerillas fear only one thing. They
don't fear the DEA, CIA, FBI any other law enforcement or politicians or
armies because they either already own them or have them outgunned. The one
thing they do fear is legalization and regulation.

Truth to tell, the government rarely lists victory as an objective in their
expensive and oppressive trillion-dollar war. When they do spout their
"zero tolerance/total victory" rhetoric, how many of your readers actually
believe them? How many actually believe that this year's multibillion
dollar drug war budget will be the one that will achieve total victory
after decades of billion dollar budgets have totally failed?

Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party
line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and
military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the INS, the CIA,
the FBI, the DEA, the politicians themselves et al can't live without the
budget justification, not to mention the invisible profits, bribery,
corruption and forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them. The drug
war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement policies
and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed to be
inalienable according to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

MYRON VON HOLLINGSWORTH