"HITLER-LIKE GOVERNMENT DISTRACTION"

Dear Editor,

Re: Outdoor grows busted, Castlegar Citizen, Oct. 11.

Another day, another warmed over police press release served up by the
media to persuade us to support drug prohibition, a Hitler-like government
program intended to distract attention away from government failures in
other areas and to provide a measure of vicarious enjoyment for the white
and the non-poor by persecuting the non-white and the poor.

This cannot continue.

Tell me Ms. Editor, would you call the cops if your children or your
friends were using illegal drugs? No? So why do you continue to report on
the drug war as if it were the most normal thing in the world to jail
people for what they choose to ingest into their own bodies?

Please come to your senses and begin reporting on drug prohibition as the
fascist-like horror it is.

Besides, we must all be nuts to tolerate a law that punishes people for
what they ingest. Surely no government has the right to punish anyone for
ingesting anything, however harmful - yes including heroin and other hard
drugs too.

Charter? What Charter?

Alan Randell,

Victoria