In Today, Wednesday's Bangkok Post Postbag, this article. Seems word is getting around. Matthew Prohibition has a poor track record It is obvious that DEAland's corrupt drug war drives the corrupt drug policies of many countries around the world, including all of Latin and South America, whose corrupt leaders like to pretend that they are sovereign and independent with regard to their corrupt drug policies. The institution that makes drugs and dealers dangerous and violent is the drug war. It is prohibition that allows these "dangerous" dealers to exist in the first place. After all, the government has declared war on them, their black market businesses and their black market goods. If the government wants a war, it sure has got one. One thing is going to separate the dealers from their huge black market profits-and it isn't the government's war; it is decriminalisation, legalisation, regulation and an end to the government's domestic war on citizens. Drug dealers, warlords, kingpins and guerrillas fear only one thing. They don't fear the DEA, CIA, FBI, any other law enforcement or politicians or armies because they either already own them or have them outgunned. The one thing they fear is legalisation and regulation. Truth to tell, governments rarely list victory as an objective in their expensive and oppressive trillion dollar wars. When they do spout their "zero tolerance/total victory" rhetoric, how many of your readers actually believe them? How many actually believe that this year's multi-billion dollar drug war budget will be the one that will achieve total victory after decades of billion dollar budgets have totally failed?Maybe the corrupt politicians and media are required to adhere to the party line of prohibition because law enforcement, customs, the prison and military industrial complex, the drug testing industry, the "drug treatment" industry, the INS, the CIA, the FBI, the DEA, the politicians themselves, et al, can't live without the budget justification, not to mention the invisible profits, bribery, corruption and forfeiture benefits that prohibition affords them. The drug war also promotes, justifies and perpetuates racist enforcement policies and is diminishing many freedoms and liberties that are supposed to be inalienable according to the US constitution and bill of rights. Myron Von Hollingsworth Texas -------------------------- eGroups Sponsor -------------------------~-~> <FONT COLOR="#000099">eGroups eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! </FONT><A HREF="http://click.egroups.com/1/9698/0/_/475667/_/976721287/"><B>Click Here!</B></A> ---------------------------------------------------------------------_->
