PROHIBITION REGIME AND THE NEW JAIL

I want to congratulate The Rock River Times and Jeff Havens for the fine
article on the need for the new jail.

I think he proves to all but the most skeptical that drug prohibition has
nothing to do with protecting us from the dangers of drugs, and everything
to do with stealing from the citizens of this country in the name of
protecting us from imaginary demons and hobgoblins. These demons have been
manufactured out of whole cloth in order to scare us into parting with our
cash and our liberties.

There is no better way to generate a crime wave than to create a
prohibition regime. We learned this the hard way in the 1920s. We are
learning this the harder way today. Prohibition regimes do not come cheap.
Ask the USSR, where everyone was a snitch to help keep illegal goods from
being bought and sold.

The only way to prevent people from trading for what they want is to have
watchers on every block: Snitches in every home, children ratting out their
parents, and parents sending their children to jail. All in the name of
stopping trade in goods that people want. Is this the kind of country we
want to live in? Czarist Russia? Could this be the reason the head man for
the program in America is called the Drug Czar?

It corrupts government at every level.

The biggest supporters of this corruption are the corrupt newspapers in
America who could find the truth with as little effort as an Internet
search on the real dangers of drugs versus the real dangers of prohibition.
Any honest reporter could tell you that of the two problems, the corruption
of prohibition is by far the much greater of the two problems.

Those of you who know me know I have my differences with Frank and Jeff on
the matter of the current war and the best way to organize America's
economic affairs, but in this matter, they have hit the bull's eye.

Thanks, Jeff. Thanks, Frank.

Vote no on the jail referendum. Vote no on expanding the American gulag.

Note:
M. L. Simon is an industrial controls designer and Free Market Green.
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