WAR ON DRUGS BREEDS POLICE CORRUPTION

The article "Crime, in the name of the law" on the front page of the Sunday
St Petersburg Times on June the 18th, turned my stomach. Besides their own
lives, it sickens me to think of the other lives that the officers of Delta
squad ruined.

The investigations into Delta Force will undoubtedly continue to cost the
taxpayers of Florida millions of dollars for the next few years. This cost
does not and never will pay for the pain and suffering that Delta squad put
innocent people through.

However, Delta squad does not stand-alone. This is happening all over the
country. The Rampart Division in Los Angeles is under investigation for the
same thing.

It is inevitable. When a country declares war on its own citizens as
America has with the "war on drugs", there will be a countless number of
innocent victims that will suffer the horrible consequences.

We need to remember that soldiers are taught to dehumanize their enemies,
and most soldiers believe that the ends justify the means. As we fight this
war, we also need to keep in mind our precious Constitution because at the
present rate of decay; there will be nothing left of it when Americans
finally says that they have had enough.

The time for a change is upon us. It is time to put an end to soldier
interdiction. The time is right for peace, compassion, healing, and
medically interdiction. Let's take the profit out of the drug dealers'
hands. It is time for a harm reduction policy.