INJUSTICES IN THE WAR ON DRUGS

The law is a crude machine at best, spitting out something remotely close
to justice if its tenets are committed to it. Conspiracy laws are so vague
defendants can't get a fair trial. Prosecutors have taken full control over
the justice system. We need committees to review these injustices and
create new legislation to correct them.

I don't think anybody besides the prosecutors and judges are aware of the
several injustices going on in the war on drugs campaign. For their only
interest are convictions, and judges being rejected. The judges' inner
sense of justice is compromised by having to follow precedent, even though
conditions have changed.

It is the mistakes, false promises and ineptitude of the leaders of the war
on drugs that keeps us on a path to more useless death and destruction.
They, like the generals and politicians of Vietnam, don't gamble with their
own lives, they risk those of others. Their primary concerns along with
judges and prosecutors are public image, their individual careers, and the
funding of their election campaign's and bureaucracy.

RICHARD KOENIG, La Crosse