DON'T LET EL PASO BECOME 'MARIJUANA CITY' IN BID TO SAVE JUAREZ

Beto O'Rourke and Susie Byrd, two of three city of El Paso pro
marijuana-legalization advocates on City Council, again spoke in
favor of legalizing marijuana this past Monday.

What is wrong with this picture and do this people really deserve to
actually represent us and continue to try and turn us into "Marijuana City?"

This drug-legalizing issue has been defeated in City Council twice
with the backing of the citizens of El Paso; do "B, S and S (Steve
Ortega)" not get our message?

Do they not understand that we the citizens of El Paso are not
willing to diminish and downgrade the future of our city simply to
give drug users the right to smoke their marijuana at home and
supposedly help Juarez with its crime problems?

Beto, Susie and Steve are hiding behind the drama that Juarez is the
deadliest city in the world since the start of 2008, and that we must
help at any price. Wrong!

Juarez has been one of the worst cities in the world from the very
beginning of its existence because of its awful police corruption,
prostitution, allowing children to drink alcohol in bars and, as of
lately, legalizing drugs.

The murder of men, women and children are in the hundreds of
thousands since Juarez was founded and El Paso legalizing marijuana
is not going to fix Juarez's criminal-political way of life that they
have brought upon their city themselves since the Mexican Revolution.

To say that a tax on marijuana would benefit our government is so
ridiculous that it makes me wonder what the real purpose of the "B, S
& S" campaign is.

The fact that after legalizing marijuana the addiction of our
citizens, to include our children, would multiply by the hundreds of
thousands and the cost of treating addicted people would far exceed
the so-called marijuana tax that Beto, Susie and Steve seem to think
would benefit our United States of America.

On Monday, "B, S & S" did their best to make their marijuana dream
come true by again trying to squeeze the legalization of marijuana
into their six-point "declaration in support of the city of Juarez,"
this time at the national level.

They managed to influence a turnout of about 20 persons; do they not get it?

Do "B, S & S" not understand that the morally repugnant situation
that exists in Juarez is their problem brought about because of their
corrupt style of government, and that El Paso bowing to the cartels
and becoming the cartels' friend is not going to solve the problem?

El Paso needs to listen to persons like Sen. Shapleigh, retired DEA
official Sandalio Gonzalez, Mayor Cook and many others who put El
Paso first, and not Juarez.

The reason we are the second-safest big city in the United States is
because we fight for our rights; we do not bow to drug cartels or
evil people who benefit from the sale of drugs.

We will never give up our noble way of life which belongs to us and
the future generations of our great city and country.

The citizens of El Paso's religious groups, educators, business
community -- and our heroes -- need to stand up and say no to those
who would throw our community under the bus so they can succeed in
legalizing marijuana and then later come back and try to legalize
cocaine, meth and then heroin so that "Juarez can be saved."

Stand up and fight on the side of honesty, truth and goodness for our
city of El Paso and get rid of those pro-marijuana city
representatives. We do not need them.