COUNTRY'S 'DRUG WAR' IS A SCAM

You may worry about the economy, foreign affairs, war, health care and
a multitude of other major concerns. Our biggest concerns are the
issues that strike at the heart of every American community. That
would be the flood of narcotics on our streets.

It affects every single one of us. The retiree who gets mugged coming
out of the supermarket. Overcrowded prisons and jails. Gang shootings,
murders, robberies and burglaries that leave us feeling defenseless.
Parents who work hard to raise good kids (from all walks of life) then
lose them, many times forever, because of drug addiction.

This is far more dangerous than any perceived terrorist attack,
natural disaster or economic recession. It's a massive infective
disease that is eating away at our culture and way of life from it's
very foundation. The tremendous amount of money involved from the
pharmaceutical corporate giants, unscrupulous doctors, cartels, gangs
and local street dealers make this a fierce uphill battle.

An enemy wishing to destroy the United States might seek nuclear
weapons to annihilate us. Perhaps mutated biological weapons when we
have no antidote or vaccine to counteract them. Imagine their glee as
they watch us destroy ourselves with our own capitalistic greed. We
continue to poison our children, the future of our nation, because of
the powers that be.

We could have stopped this decades ago. Think seriously about it. If
we stopped all illegal and immoral legal drug trade tomorrow, the big
pharmaceuticals would lose billions.

All judicial systems, law enforcement systems, both government and
"for profit" prisons, as well as jails would shrink to at least half
their numbers and sizes. Imagine all of those unemployed lawyers. Our
"war on drugs" is a scam.

Rick Manning

Palmetto