DRUG WAR DISCRIMINATORY

Editor, The Sun:

I read your editorial about U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft and his
misguided plan to expand the drug war. Ashcroft is a clown and he must
believe we are too. Anyone who knows anything about racial discrimination
and the drug war, knows that the drug war was founded over 70 years ago on
racist principles and ideologies.

"DEA-land" criticizes ethnic cleansing around the world from Hitler to
Milosevic but practices it daily with its drug war. In the October 1999
edition of "High Times" Jello Biafra says that "DEA-land's" drug war is
ethnic cleansing American style.

If your readers doubt this, they should ask themselves why white drug users
outnumber non-white drug users but a majority of those dying or doing time
for non-violent drug crimes are people of color.

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 "drug
treatment" industry, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA and the politicians
themselves can't live without the budget justification, not to mention the
invisible profits from 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

Fort Worth