LETTER OF THE WEEK

FIGHT THE POWER

By Misty Novitch

Mr. Sugg is doing an amazing job of bringing back true journalism,
especially with his last article, (Metropolis, "Kathryn Johnston's
real killer," Feb. 15). He makes one of the best connections I've
seen in print: the war on drugs and the war on terror.

Both of these "wars" accomplish nothing but INCREASING what the war
is waged upon: drug dealing and terrorist activity.

The bulk of the "collateral damage" falls upon regular people,
whether it's the weed dealers in jail or the 655,000 Iraqis killed on
lies. I think basically every thinking person in this country -- the
rest of the world found out a long time ago -- now knows that both of
these wars are wasting time, money and especially lives. So why is
Bush allowed to continue and expand them? Why are we still relying on
the spineless politicians who supposedly represent us? Do we not want
to hurt feelings?

Are we too busy to participate in our democracy outside voting?

Have we grown too apathetic to stop our own government from acting
like Nazis? Is anyone else anywhere nearly as ashamed as I am? If so,
let's do something about it before they take the REST of our rights away.

Misty Novitch

Dunwoody

Pubdate - Wed, 21 Feb 2007

Source - Creative Loafing Atlanta (GA)

Referenced - http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v07/n182/a07.html