'DRUG WAR' LIES

For the most part, citizens of this country are fairly intelligent individuals.

Unfortunately, when viewed as a group, we are nothing more than P.T.
Barnum poster children.

Government propaganda that is probably largely accepted by the poster
children states that citizens of this country who purchase illegal
drugs are financing terrorism.

The federal government fails to admit that its "drug war" is the very
reason these drugs are so incredibly valuable in the first place.

Even though the above facts are noteworthy, they tend to camouflage
the even more sinister motives of the drug war.

Due entirely to U.S. government manipulation, our country's economy
has tragically become one that is largely service-based.

An economy that is as top-heavy as this one in services cannot
possibly stand on its own two feet.

Our government's ill-advised drug war is the reason that countless
billions of black-market dollars stimulate what otherwise would be a
very shaky economy.

We currently have more money generating prohibition in the United
States than at any time in history. Prohibition creates the black
market in superpower countries, just as it does in the Third World.

Welcome to the government-sponsored circus.

DENNIS WOLTZ
Mary Esther