WAR ON DRUGS A MANIPULATIVE RUSE

Editor:

Re: "Elley pans pot plan", Sept. 24

If we ban drugs because they're harmful, wouldn't we ban alcohol and
tobacco?

No, the war on drugs is nothing less than a Hitler-like, cynical,
manipulative ruse to distract attention away from government failures in
other areas and to entertain the white and the non-poor by persecuting the
non-white and the poor.

You see, the cops can choose whom to arrest, whose doors to bust through
with guns drawn.

When I hear comments like those from MP Reed Elley, I wonder why the
government doesn't come right out and emulate Hitler even more closely by
making it a crime to be poor or non-white. I believe the votes are there
amongst our elected representatives.

Alan Randell
Victoria