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THE QUESTION

Ladies and gentlemen, I have been writing for the last year a number of
personal reports on the drug war. If you have followed my thinking on this
you will know that I believe the war has been a colossal and utter failure.
Expensive too.

If you believe as I do that prohibition is wrong and counter productive I
think it is time to hold the politician's feet to the fire. If every one
who reads this writes just one letter a week to just one politician we can
get the message out in very short order. Tell all your friends too. The
more the merrier.

If every time you meet a politician you ask this question perhaps we will
get some real answers about drug prohibition.

The question is short. One simple sentence, though, if you want to add your
own comments I'm sure our fearless leaders would be glad to hear from you.

The question is this:

" Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home or
because it finances terrorists abroad?"

George W. Bush The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, DC 20500

Senator Dick Durbin 332 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. Washington, DC 20510

Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald 555 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington,
DC 20510

Congressman Donald Manzullo 409 Cannon HOB Washington, DC 20515

George Ryan Office of the Governor 207 Statehouse Springfield, IL 62706

Along with my regular drug war comments each week I plan to include the
address of one politician who needs to get asked the question. Writing by
e-mail is good, but a hand written (legible) letter is better. That is why
in this space I am only giving the mail address of the various politicians.
Let us not let up with our efforts to end this war on Americans until our
energies are focused on our real enemies, fascists of all stripes.

I recently gave a talk about the drug war (I'm available - contact the Rock
River Times) to a very nice group of people. About 70% favored ending
prohibition, about 20% slightly favored continuing it , and about 10%
thought prohibition was a real good thing. Not one person in any of those
groups had a rational counter argument to the question. Mostly it was we
can't end prohibition because we can't.

There is no rational argument for supporting terrorists or criminals.

But if there is one I'd like to hear it. Write a letter to this paper
explaining your views. Even if it is not published the editor will make
sure I'm informed.

M.L. Simon is an industrial controls designer and Libertarian activist