'RIGHT' MORALS

The editors of the Tribune-Review need to understand that it is Prohibition
that brings all the misery associated with whatever drug is capturing the
limelight at any given moment ("Ecstasy demands answers," Dec. 2).
"Ecstasy" in its pure form was known as MDMA to generations of
psychiatrists when it was handed out like candy for whatever disorder du
jour that secular religion redefined morals and politics into. Where were
all the deaths and "learning disabilities," amongst other "evils," when
psychiatry approved these drugs?

When presented with "facts" about drugs, teens generally do listen; when
presented with demonizations from vested interests passed off as
"education," it turns out kids are not so gullible. Kids understand that
the government will lie to them to exert influence in a moralistic attempt
to dissuade drug use. Exerting influence and passing it off as "education"
was understood to be indoctrination's when the Stazi or Gestapo were
educating children. When DARE uses the same "police" tactics, somehow
indoctrination becomes acceptable because DARE teaches the "right" morals.
Go figure. That is precisely what the Stazi and Gestapo wanted to do -
instill the "right" morals in children.

After a few generations, when everybody is thinking "right" and no dissent
is "heard," drug use will evaporate just like the enemies of communism and
Nazism did, right? Remember when Americans were appalled to learn
communists were sending "capitalists" to psychiatric "hospitals" to be
cured? Today Americans accept that sending libertarians to receive
"corrective thinking" passed off as treatment is what should happen to
those who foolishly believe that the state has no business controlling what
drugs a free man may use to cure whatever ails him.

Thomas Jefferson stated: "If the state were to control our drugs and our
diet, then our bodies would be in such keeping as our souls are now."
Better not print that; after all, the children ought be "protected" from
the rantings of that "liberal" idiot, because he was from out of state, right?

Chris Buors Winnipeg, Manitoba