TODAY'S DRUG PLAGUE STEMS FROM '60S

Golden Pen

The methamphetamine series was horrifying, as is also, of course, the
broader plague of drugs in America with all it attendant
consequences.

In searching for the "why" of the situation, isn't it proper to ask
what are the origins of this vicious and devastating phenomenon?

Remember the guru Timothy Leary?

Remember "Tune in, turn on, drop out"?

Remember "If it feels good do it"?

Remember Woodstock?

These are merely part of the behavioral package that was ultimately
delivered to the American people during and after the 1960s.

Behold the legacy of that generation.

They have given us political correctness, a denial of freedom of
speech and thought; deconstruction and relativism, making a mockery of
the concept of "truth." A hate-filled program ironically aimed at
ending "hate," with their definition of what constitutes this
particular crime. This means that there is good hate and bad hate.
They hate intolerance.

An acceptance of the belief that the ends justify the means.
Intellectual dishonesty now camouflaged as spin. "Do as I say, not as
I do."

These believers are now the movers and shakers who currently dominate
our lives. They control the school systems, the majority of the media,
most of the governmental structure. Smug and arrogant, they divert
criticism by offering evidence of the good they have done, some of
which I agree with.

But let them also stand up and acknowledge and remedy the negative
consequences of their philosophy and its current laws.

Deliver us from Haight Ashbury.

Bernard E. Bobb

Pullman