Who's to blame for the drug industry
By Joyce L. Jenkins

IN RESPONSE to the letter: "Shoot the dealers." The dynamics of
drugs in this country are about making money. Unfortunately, the majority
of dealers are mostly young AfricanAmerican males, unemployed, some not
well educated academically, and who do not understand they are being
used, pawns/slaves in a world that only sees dollar signs.

Understanding the elements to making drugs productive is knowing who
and where the decisions are being made that control this product. They
certainly do

not come from the intercities. If you want to shoot the real drug
dealers, you can start with those who own airplanes, private air strips,
boats, look to foreign banks/bankers, and don't forget the C.I.A. and its
covert operations, locally as well as internationally.

Look at big business, laundering money, businesses getting rich at the
building of each new prison that will house these young drug dealers and
the businesses that will supply these prisons (the vendors, etc.). Look
at the gun dealers.

So, yes, I would say shoot the dealers, but before you get to the
dealers, shoot the drug makers, drug deliverers and the drug money
handlers, and maybe after all the above mentioned are shot, there just
might not be any of the smalltime neighborhood dealers left to shoot. I
mentioned before they are just the pawns/slaves in a war where only the
most rich and powerful survives.

Joyce L. Jenkins

Berkeley