Dear Editor:

HOW TO PUT AN END TO DRUG USERS

1. Identification - pick a relatively small segment of the population with
mainly minorities involed in some type of behavior that can be demonized.
Drug users are ideal. Drug use is a behavior not considered an innate
charecteristic. Certain subgroups of the population have cultural
affinities for certain drugs. This makes it possible to target the subgroup
without seeming to identify innate characteristics.

2. Ostracism - Good people don't associate with drug users. Drug users are
the cause of our problems. If we could just make drug users quit or leave
the country most of our problems would go away. Of course drug prohibition
like alcohol prohibition is just wonderful in this regard. The black market
causes a LOT of violence which at least initially can be blamed on the
alcohol or the drugs depending on the era.

3. Confiscation - Since the drug users are no good and the cause of our
problems we will relieve them of their property to pay for the damage done.
While we are at it we will make it difficult for them to get jobs. With
drug testing we can be certain to identify those who have used most drugs
in the last 24 to 48 hours. Or if they have used pot in the last 2 - 4
weeks. Since pot smokers represent the largest number of drug users this is
good. It generates business for testing companies. As prisons generate
demands for prisoners and confiscations generate demand (and the ability to
pay) for more police. Boy are we getting them good now. We have stolen
their homes. So their wives and children are on the streets. We have put
them in prisons so that husbands can no longer be fathers. And those that
haven't met with this fate are prevented from getting jobs. And still they
won't give up their vile habits.

4. Concentration - There are half a million people in jail for non-violent
drug crimes. About another half million in for violent drug crimes or
property crimes related to drugs. We have arrested over 11 million pot
smokers in the last twenty years. We can't build prisons fast enough. And
besides they are way too expensive. Too much up keep. Too many guards
(whose unions in Calif are asking for stiffer drug sentences - they know a
good thing when they see one). Well we have these boot camps for drug users
- - perhaps they could be expanded. Out in the desert to make escape
improbable. We have at least 1/2 million and perhaps 1 million druggies in
jail. And we have identified another 11 million. Yep - just what we need
camps in the desert.

5. Annihilation - but as all too often happens in enterprises like these
costs mount and profits from confiscations declines. And besides there is
no new income because the druggies aren't working. Its getting way too
expensive and unsustainable. Well speaker of the House Newt Gingrich had
the right idea. Death for sales of 2 oz of marijuana. Well not this year
maybe but try again next year Newt. Them druggies got it comming for
ruining the country.

And to keep this all nice and tidy we will do all this nice and legal like.
With the consent of the governed. Dopers are certainly not a big enough or
cohesive enough segment of the population to identifiably swing any
elections. Easy to generate consent if only a small minority is involved.

And why am I so confident of my plan? Because it has worked before in
Germany against the Jews.

Read 'Drug Warriors and Their Prey' by R. L. Miller whose previous book was
'Nazi Justiz'

M. L. Simon

Opinions expressed herein are solely my own and may or may not reflect my
opinion at this particular time or any other.

Checked-by: (Joel W. Johnson)