COMMON SENSE HAS GIVEN WAY TO WAR ON DRUGS

The recent "Advil case" in Bossier Parish is simply an extension of The War
on Drugs, a costly failure pushed by Utopian moralists and individuals or
groups who stand to gain materially. Its agenda, based on what sounds good
rather than what works, is enforced at gunpoint by faceless bureaucrats
while billions of dollars change hands, not only in our country but in many
others. Government grows bigger by the day and liberties are lost, possibly
forever.

The irony in this case is that "public education" has for years
aggressively pushed "progressive" teaching methods to the exclusion of
common sense. The ability to think critically is aborted before given a
chance to live. As a result many adults either cannot or will not see a
given chain of events as related. They become "now" oriented, developing an
egocentric view of history, and, in turn, producing a handicapped
electorate that uncritically accepts stupid ideas, provided those ideas are
well packaged.

And accepting those ideas we create a vacuum into which rushes an
authoritarian government. This "Advil case" is just the tip of the iceberg
of stupid ideas. Take a critical look the whole picture and see that every
social goal put forth by Karl Marx has been achieved, in whole or in part,
in the United States in only a few generations - and all without a shot fired.

David Lassiter

Shreveport