POLITICAL ACTIVISM, JOCKO'S STYLE

BOB "Boot" Schuh, erstwhile owner of the erstwhile Jocko's bar, is
serving a 19-year drug sentence in a federal prison in Milan, Mich.

Schuh has begun sending out correspondence under the letterhead of
The November Coalition, a Washington state-based nonprofit
organization that finds nothing at all to admire about the
government's war on drugs. "The drug war does not reduce drug use,"
the group's Web site notes. "Choosing to wage a 'war' on drugs
stimulates a violent, underground economy which would collapse if
drug prohibition ended."

The November Coalition is made up of drug prisoners, their friends
and families. Schuh's March 19 letter - co-signed with another
prisoner, Glenn Early - cautions against adoption of a proposed U.S.
Senate bill authored by Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Orrin Hatch of
Utah, the so-called Drug Sentencing Reform Act. "Real reform of the
failed War on Drugs would be the elimination of unreasonably harsh
sentences for nonviolent drug offenders," Schuh and Early write.

[Unrealated sections of the column are not

-- MAP Posted]



-- MAP Posted-by: Josh