ANTI-DRUG COMMERCIAL SENDS WRONG MESSAGE

There is a new anti-drug campaign television commercial that has a
young man clumsily defending his purchase of illegal drugs against an
older man. This older man declares that drug money supports terrorism.
Is this what the feds expect me to think.

Were the 9-11 hijacking murderers financed oil-wealthy individuals and
nations or by the narcotics underworld? Were the 9-11 terrorist
allowed to roam the U.S. through failure to enforce immigration laws
or the drug laws?

How are/were known terrorist able to freely and frequently cross the
border where peaceful citizens are turned away because they are behind
in child support payments?

How were the 9-11 terrorist able to move large sums of money without
notice, which is something, no American citizen can do? For all its
failings, was not the Taliban strongly anti-drug and in the process of
eradicating the poppy fields of Afghanistan?

The small pox and anthrax possessed by Iraq was sold with the
permission of the federal government (maybe there is a drugs fry our
brain link after all). The Iraqi nuclear program came from Europe, in
particular the centrifuges and related enrichment technology from
Germany. Plastic explosives used by terrorist don't come from anyone's
garage either.

Are these weapons and poisons created and "controlled" by drug cartels
or governments? Were the purchases of these products done by drug
lords or by governments through taxation of the citizenry? Was the
distribution of these products and the potential dangers discussed
with the citizenry? And was permission to do so sought?

No, of course not! We, the citizens, have to deal with such
recklessness committed "on our behalf" by faceless, unaccountable
government. It's as though a child were to say, "by the way Dad, I
left that smallpox stuff with Saddam-oops!"

So the message of this particular anti-drug commercial is clear to me:
the federal government is not to be blamed for any part of the current
mess: we, the people are to blame.

No one at the federal level is to be held accountable. Neither
incompetence, nor failure to enforce just laws, nor the continued
refusal of the elite who rule us (as opposed to governing) to heed the
wise voices of the founders of this republic have caused the American
people harm. No sir! Indeed, and with certainty, it's the guy next
door smoking pot who is about to destroy our way of life.

ROBERT K. KIRCHOFF

Clayton