SHOULDN'T DRUG AGENTS CONCENTRATE THEIR EFFORTS ON ALL MIND-ALTERING DRUGS?

The Dec. 25 headline said "God's troops on front lines in war on drugs."
The article told how federal DEA agents rationalize their daily practice of
lies and deceptions with "their stringent sense of right and wrong."

The punchline of this bad joke was about one of the agents getting his
first score and stopping to brag about it to his wife before joining his
buddies to celebrate with "raw jokes, high-fives, and stiff drinks."
That's right, drug agents busting citizens for using drugs and then abusing
drugs themselves. Can a DEA agent spell H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E?

Readers may wish to consider which is more dangerous: people using deadly
drugs such as tobacco or alcohol (which are more deadly than cocaine or
heroin), or true believers enforcing hypocritical drug laws and violating
our inalienable right of liberty?

Since tobacco (a Schedule I drug), alcohol (Schedule II), and coffee and
tea (Schedule V) meet the definitions of controlled substances, since they
are all mind-altering, physically-addicting drugs, will the DEA immediately
demand that Congress and state legislatures regulate these drugs as
controlled substances? Will any DEA agent uphold his oath of office and
actually guarantee citizens the equal protection of the law by ensuring
that all drugs are subject to the drug laws and not just most of them?

If these DEA agents are really "Peace Officers for Christ," won't this be
the highest priority for them in their professional and personal lives?

Tom Barrus
Registered Pharmacist and President of the American Federation for Legal
Consistency
Golden, Colo.