JUST WANT LIBERTY

Dear Editor,

I am one of the "legalization lobbyists" letter writer Owen McPhillips
rails against.

I am not paid. This is a labor of love for me because I am interested
in liberty for all no matter where they live on the planet.

I am a Canadian. With my cannabis criminal record I will never be able
to cross the border and visit McCook. American support of drug
prohibition has these types of profound ramifications all over the
world.

Americans with cannabis records are welcome tourists in
Canada.

Obviously, Mr. McPhilips does not speak for all Rural Nebraskans. The
"bill of goods" that "legalizers" want to sell is that the repeal of
drug prohibition is just as important today as the repeal of alcohol
prohibition was in 1933, for the same reasons. The policy does more
harm than good.

Desperation is not what motivates people like myself to want my side
of the story told.

I am a victim of the drug war. I lost everything I had in life to the
parasites of drug prohibition.

The victims of the Christian Crusaders, The Spanish Inquisitors and
other scapegoat persecutions similar to the war on drugs did not have
the opportunity to address their persecutors. I do and I simply do not
want to see what happened to me to happen to any other human being.

Jail, a destroyed career with the railroad and forever living in
poverty is the price I will pay for America's support of the immoral
drug war.

All over what was the natural right to self-medicate less than 100
years ago. Americans need to end the world-wide destruction of lives
caused by the war on (some) drugs. That means every person in every
nook and cranny in America must become aware of the magnitude of the
harm and ill will the drug prohibition policy America supports causes.

CHRIS BUORS

Winnipeg Manitoba

Canada