Folly Of The War On Drugs

COLOMBIAN SPRAYING HURTS MORE THAN IT HELPS

Re: "Guns at the Ready - Colombia's FARC a threat still worth
fighting," Monday Editorials.

Colombia's civil war is 38 years old; we don't need to be involved.
Corporations that sell helicopters and drill for oil benefit from
Plan Colombia at the price of human sacrifice. According to
Colombians, 12 percent of the acreage that we sprayed was coca and 88
percent food crops.

The American Medical Association, at its 2004 convention, said the
spraying is causing widespread illnesses, destroying pastures,
destroying food crops, poisoning livestock, displacing thousands of
small farmers and killing birds, mammals, aquatic life and natural plants.

Our government's 2006 survey showed Colombia had 144,000 acres of
coca being cultivated - more than when Plan Colombia began.

When will we declare our independence from big government's
scandalous waste of our precious lives and resources?

Colleen Minter McCool, Stephenville