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 Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 9:44 am Post subject: Action Alert! John Walters does the Drug Czar Dance |
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JOHN WALTERS DOES THE DRUG CZAR DANCE
PLEASE COPY AND DISTRIBUTE DrugSense FOCUS Alert #327 - Friday, 17 March 2006
Federal Drug Czar John Walters mustered together one of his semi-annual OPED efforts at a national level with Thursday's publication in The Wall Street Journal. His ire was obviously stimulated by a Feb 22 WSJ opinion piece penned by Deputy Editor for International Affairs George Melloan which contained a lengthy list of provocative criticisms of the modern day Prohibition - the War on Drugs.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n229/a09.html?302768
Additionally, the WSJ ran three strong Letters to the Editor on Mar 2 endorsing Melloan's observations, penned by a regular citizen and also two retired police officers with long experience fighting the futile and ineffectual drug war.
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n287/a05.html?302768
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n287/a07.html?302768
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v06/n287/a08.html?302768
In a one-man rebuttal to all of the above smart messages, Walters scoffs at a "regulated" system of drug distribution, citing problems related to the accepted system of production and distribution used for pharmaceutical drugs. And of course he lumps all illicit drugs under one descriptive umbrella - "...inherently dangerous, corrupting and incompatible with health and freedom", again implying that "legal" drugs are by their nature non-dangerous, non-corrupting and compatible with health and freedom.
He ignores that our most commonly abused drugs - alcohol, tobacco and narcotic pharmaceuticals - are not left to street dealers, but are instead licensed and regulated.
And finally he trumpets supposed recent successes in Afghanistan and Colombia as evidence that the drug war is working. This despite other released reports from his own Office of National Drug Control Policy just the past month which show that illegal drug trafficking remains at consistent and constant levels both domestically and internationally.
In short, Mr. Walters is doing the Drug Czar Dance we've come to expect from the ONDCP. Tell us how great it's all going, while any American citizen can look around their community and see that illicit drugs are readily available and that all of the production and distribution is left in control of unregulated, unlicensed drug dealers and too often - criminal gangs.
Please consider writing a succinct Letter to the Editor (200 words or less is best) and sending it to the Wall Street Journal this weekend.
Thanks for your effort and support.
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