Dear Editor:

HOW TO PUT AN END TO DRUG USERS

1. Identification - pick a relatively small segment of the population
with mainly minorities involved in some type of behavior that can be
demonized. Drug users are ideal. Drug use is a behavior not considered
an innate charecteristic. Certain subgroups of the population have
cultural affinities for certain drugs. This makes it possible to
target the subgroup without seeming to identify innate
characteristics.

2. Ostracism - Good people don't associate with drug users. Drug users
are the cause of our problems. If we could just make drug users quit
or leave the country most of our problems would go away. Of course
drug prohibition like alcohol prohibition is just wonderful in this
regard. The black market causes a LOT of violence which at least
initially can be blamed on the alcohol or the drugs depending on the
era.

3. Confiscation - Since the drug users are no good and the cause of
our problems we will relieve them of their property to pay for the
damage done. While we are at it we will make it difficult for them to
get jobs. With drug testing we can be certain to identify those who
have used most drugs in the last 24 to 48 hours. Or if they have used
pot in the last 2 - 4 weeks. Since pot smokers represent the largest
number of drug users this is good. It generates business for testing
companies. As prisons generate demands for prisoners and confiscations
generate demand (and the ability to pay) for more police. Boy are we
getting them good now. We have stolen their homes. So their wives and
children are on the streets. We have put them in prisons so that
husbands can no longer be fathers. And those that haven't met with
this fate are prevented from getting jobs. And still they won't give
up their vile habits.

4. Concentration - There are half a million people in jail for
non-violent drug crimes. About another half million in for violent
drug crimes or property crimes related to drugs. We have arrested over
11 million pot smokers in the last twenty years. We can't build
prisons fast enough. And besides they are way too expensive. Too much
up keep. Too many guards (whose unions in Calif are asking for stiffer
drug sentences - they know a good thing when they see one). Well we
have these boot camps for drug users - perhaps they could be expanded.
Out in the desert to make escape improbable. We have at least 1/2
million and perhaps 1 million druggies in jail. And we have identified
another 11 million. Yep - just what we need camps in the desert.

5. Annihilation - but as all too often happens in enterprises like
these costs mount and profits from confiscations declines. And besides
there is no new income because the druggies aren't working. Its
getting way too expensive and unsustainable. Well speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich had the right idea. Death for sales of 2 oz of
marijuana. Well not this year maybe but try again next year Newt. Them
druggies got it coming for ruining the country.

And to keep this all nice and tidy we will do all this nice and legal
like. With the consent of the governed. Dopers are certainly not a big
enough or cohesive enough segment of the population to identifiably
swing any elections. Easy to generate consent if only a small minority
is involved.

And why am I so confident of my plan? Because it has worked before in
Germany against the Jews.

Read 'Drug Warriors and Their Prey' by R. L. Miller whose previous
book was 'Nazi Justiz'

M. L. Simon