MISSED CHANCE TO DASH D.A.R.E.

Atascadero came very close to bidding good riddance to the D.A.R.E. program.
The budget cuts of the Atascadero Unified School District nearly resulted in
the canceling of D.A.R.E.

Our police chief, however, in shameless complicity with his fast- talking
henchmen from several nearby communities, bam-boozled the gullible locals
and convinced them to continue funding this lucrative cash cow.

This obscenely expensive program has been a dangerous, grossly ineffective,
money-grubbing scam since its inception. D.A.R.E. has existed at the expense
of our children and our pocketbooks for the primary purpose of brainwashing
young children and turning them into obedient little Nazi-like informants.

It is our great misfortune that Atascadero is now unable to join hundreds of
other wise communities throughout the nation who have booted D.A.R.E. Let us
all hope that the travesty of D.A.R.E. upon our children and our freedom
rapidly becomes only a distant memory in our nation's history.

August Salemi, Atascadero