GOVERNMENT, MEDIA'S WAR ON DRUGS ATTACKS INNOCENTS

Regarding the article, "Meth lab seizures on rise in North Carolina,"
(AC-T, July 22): This is hate propaganda intended to make us fear and/or
despise those who use one of the few harmful recreational drugs the state
has declared illegal. If the purpose of our drug laws were to protect us
from harmful drugs, wouldn't we have prohibited alcohol and tobacco too?

Let's face facts here. These laws were implemented for one reason and one
reason only: to persuade the majority to support a brutal government pogrom
designed to persecute a totally innocent minority. Fortunately for the
politicians, the media are eager to lend their support by encouraging us to
despise, or at least to be unsympathetic to, the minority under attack. No
need for government coercion here. As to why the media support a brutal
government pogrom like our drug laws, I can only surmise that tragedy,
suffering and war sell more newspapers and lead to higher TV ratings than
happiness, contentment and peace. Was there ever a greater gift to the
modern nation state to help it ride roughshod over the rights of its
citizens than the mass media? I think not. You really can fool nearly all
of the people, all of the time.

Alan Randell, Victoria, British Columbia