US NEIGHBORS, SAY NO TO US DRUG MADNESS

Enzo Di Matteo's piece on Plan Colombia, the plan to turn the drug war from
figurative to literal warfare (NOW, May 11-17), was very informative and
ominous. This incredible development is moving fast, and public opinion
here in the U.S. is being carefully managed. Sensible people pray the plan
is stopped.

Citizens of other countries have no idea just how bad the oppression has
become here in the erstwhile Land of the Free. How could a country with
over 2 million of its citizens imprisoned claim anything to do with
freedom? The truth is, it can't. The drug war has been ruining the tenets
of personal freedom by degrees for years, but the results are becoming
dramatic.

America's neighbours would do well to just say no to Washington's threats
when the time comes for common-sense drug law reforms in their own
sovereign lands. Good luck.

Dave Michon, Spooner, Wisconsin