GROWTH INDUSTRIES

Re: "The Border Bust Boom," February 2

Maybe the corrupt politicians and the 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 "drug
treatment" 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.