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DRUG WAR RACISM & THE '60S

I want to talk again about racism, the drug war, and a little history.

As a child of the sixties I can still remember the American situation in
that era. Thinking back over our recent history I'm compelled to think
about why so many Americans (including myself) were seduced by communist
propaganda. What problems in America seemed so bad and intractable that it
seemed like a change in the form of government was the only way to redress
the grievances?

In a word, racism. It turns out that Bull Connor and George Wallace were
the Viet Cong's most potent recruiters. The sickness of racism pervaded the
country and was especially strong in the States of the old Confederacy. By
the time we got a serious handle on this problem American morale was shot
and we lost the war in America after winning it on the battle field.

In short immoral conditions in America's treatment of some of its citizens
ruined American morale. Americans had lost faith in America.

Von Clauzwitz in his famous treatise on war has stated that the moral
factors in war are three times as potent as the material factors. The Viet
Nam war proved this contention in spades. America though vastly more potent
on the battle field was made to leave the field because of its moral failings.

And so we come to the battle field today against Islamic fascists.

What today is America's biggest moral weakness? Why are so many formerly
Christian Blacks leaving the Christian religion and joining Islam? In a
word racism.

What is the biggest supporter of racism in America today? Drug prohibition.

Drug prohibition is the excuse for putting roughly 1/3 of all marriage age
black men in the criminal justice system. The prison system is the most
potent recruiting tool of Black Islam. Just ask the ghost of Malcom X. Drug
prohibition is destroying the black social structure in America. Just as
the racism of the 60s made communism attractive so does the racist drug war
of today make hate whitey radical Islam so attractive to the black
community and hate America so popular among college age kids today. Islam
promises an end to racism if it becomes triumphant. I suspect that like
communism the promises of Islamic fascists will prove to be in the end false.

The question we have to ask today is it worth it to lose another war to
find out if Islam's promise of peace without racism are true or false. Is
it worth it to have the kids in college, so aware of America's failings,
again in the enemy camp because of those so evident failings? Wouldn't it
be much easier to end racist prohibition and thereby get America on the
correct moral footing so necessary to win a protracted war?

If we are to win the war against fascism we need to end racial fascism in
America. End drug prohibition.

This weeks saying: The drug laws are to covert racism what the Jim Crow
laws were to overt racism. Enabling legislation.

Don't forget to ask a politician:

Do you support drug prohibition because it finances criminals at home or
because it finances terrorists abroad?

Send a post card (no letters please), or e-mail to this weeks politician:

Speaker of the House J. Dennis Hastert U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515

speaker@mail.house.gov

M.L. Simon is an industrial controls designer and independent political
activist