NATION'S WAR AGAINST DRUGS HAS NEVER WORKED

To the editor,

Mr. Sharpe's article was right on the money for such a short piece.
Unfortunately, at some point in the future, history will record
America's 20th century as the nation hiding its head so far in the
ground that only its shoulders kept it all above ground. From January
1990 through December 1999, because of Iraq, America was NEVER at
peace with itself.

First, we fought ourselves over booze as we created some form of Al
Capone in every city. No, not just major cities; every city in
America, as gangsters and innocent citizens died in gang wars over the
underground rights to selling booze. Almost as the anti-booze war
ended, World War II brought some peace or at least a semblance of it,
but McCarthy created his own era of Nazi fear as his "committee" lynch
mob raided America's entertainment industry.

We are still encountering tragedies that era created that followed on
the toes of World War II. Through all this, we spilled tons of blood,
good and bad, over retainment of segregation.

As Hitler fought to separate Jews, we fought to not only end his reign
of terror, but also fought for our version. We ended the 1900s with
such a horror that whole volumes will be written just for the final
decade as we carried the horrors of the 20th century into the 21st.

Today, we fight to force the Iraqi people to end segregation, and some
say it is not over here. Today, we fight to close the bars. Once
again, prohibition. Today, we fight to segregate the gay population.
We fight to evict illegals. We fight to enforce every moral code of
the Christian faith as a national law, in direct violation of the
American code as presented to the world in our Constitution. And, of
course, we fight drugs as we use them. Since we are the world's
biggest user of any drug in any of the schedules, how can anyone claim
the American citizenry wants a drug war?

For decades, we have been bullying the world into obeying our ideology
and preaching human rights as we publicly destroyed our own rights in
a clear model of Adolf Hitler's designs. Through all this, we cry
about our shrinking treasuries from national to village, simply
because of unwanted, illegal incarceration of innocent as well as
deserving criminals. Take a look at any government budget and after
you clear away the camouflage, take a look at just how much of the
budget is actually spent on our drug war against you.

Finally, two items: 1.) Let's put a proposition on the next voting
ballot to stop spending our dollars to enforce the force-fed national
drug war, and 2.) On the next federal ballot, a bill to have the
Secret Service randomly test one-tenth of both houses of the government.

D. David Darcy