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Just Want Liberty
URL: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05/n1085/a12.htmlNewshawk: Empower Activists http://www.mapinc.org/donate.htm
Pubdate: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 JUST WANT LIBERTY
Source: McCook Daily Gazette (NE)
Copyright: 2005 McCook Daily Gazette
Contact:
editor@mccookgazette.com
Website: http://www.mccookgazette.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/3822
Author: Chris Buors
Referenced: http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v05.n1061.a02.html
Dear Editor,
I am one of the "legalization lobbyists" letter writer Owen McPhillips
rails against.
I am not paid. This is a labor of love for me because I am interested in
liberty for all no matter where they live on the planet.
I am a Canadian. With my cannabis criminal record I will never be able to
cross the border and visit McCook. American support of drug prohibition
has these types of profound ramifications all over the world.
Americans with cannabis records are welcome tourists in Canada.
Obviously, Mr. McPhilips does not speak for all Rural Nebraskans.
The "bill of goods" that "legalizers" want to sell is that
the repeal of drug prohibition is just as important today as the repeal of
alcohol prohibition was in 1933, for the same reasons. The policy does
more harm than good.
Desperation is not what motivates people like myself to want my side of the
story told.
I am a victim of the drug war. I lost everything I had in life to the
parasites of drug prohibition.
The victims of the Christian Crusaders, The Spanish Inquisitors and other
scapegoat persecutions similar to the war on drugs did not have the opportunity
to address their persecutors. I do and I simply do not want to see what
happened to me to happen to any other human being.
Jail, a destroyed career with the railroad and forever living in poverty is the
price I will pay for America's support of the immoral drug war.
All over what was the natural right to self-medicate less than 100 years ago.
Americans need to end the world-wide destruction of lives caused by the war on (
some ) drugs. That means every person in every nook and cranny in America
must become aware of the magnitude of the harm and ill will the drug prohibition
policy America supports causes.
CHRIS BUORS
Winnipeg Manitoba
Canada
