MORAL ACTIONS COME FROM EXERCISING FREEDOM OF CHOICE

Thank you for printing Louis Silverstein's Aug. 12 letter on the war on
drugs. I pray for the day when everyone knows the truth about drugs and the
laws against them.

Every self-conscious personality has the right to experiment as a matter of
personal experience in order to learn the facts and truths of life because
there is no substitute for personal experience.

All of the laws against drugs are far worse on society than the use of any
or all of the drugs. You cannot legislate morality. None of the laws against
all of the crimes on all of the books has brought or will bring an end to
crime because everything is a matter of choice at base level and you never
know for sure how a person is going to choose. You and your exercise of your
God-given power and freedom to choose the moral rather than the immoral is
what keeps you from doing anything "wrong."

The drug laws are all part of a criminal tax scam that charges you for not
using your freedom and power to choose. The legislative slavemasters give
themselves the power to tax everyone to get the money they need for the
budget that pays them and their police-state associates in the executive,
legislative and judicial branches of state and federal government. What a
racket!

James D. Kimmel

Wailuku