it's not really a war, BUT WE WON IT ANYWAY! sez drug czars

I need help with a letter to the editorfor my local
paper- here's what I have so far.....



General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Drug Czar, used to urge
the media not to refer to the War on Drugs as... the
War on Drugs. It's not *really* a war, he says. A
better metaphor would be to compare the policy with
the medical struggle against cancer.

Right. Everyone knows that the way we as a society
battle cancer is by arresting and jailing millions of
people who have harmed no one; stripping away basic
Constitutional liberties; sending U.S. troops into
foreign lands to kill innocent civilians; using the
National Guard and virtually every military arm of the
federal government; instigating warrantless boat, bus,
and car searches; ordering mandatory urine tests;
utilizing asset forfeiture; virtually abolishing
financial privacy; sending black-garbed, masked, and
militarily-armed police to break into suspects' houses
in the middle of the night; bombarding the nation with
absurdly false propaganda....

Say, General, it sure sounds -- and feels like -- a
war to us.

But now he says that he has won the war on drugs.

http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0332.html

Yeah and the paper editor wont say "wow, someone is a stoner" crumple the paper up and throw it away. That would never get published the paper would get so much shit for that.

He didn't win the war on drugs here. I'm drinking caffeine, taking allergy medicine and smoking marijuana! (Oh wait, what, only one of those is a drug?) I'm on the front line and I refuse to surrender. Ready, aim, fire it up!

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Originally Posted by Smokin EnDo

Yeah and the paper editor wont say "wow, someone is a stoner" crumple the paper up and throw it away. That would never get published the paper would get so much shit for that.

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I am pretty sure they will post any opinion in the editorial section...

That's the whole point.

:smokin:

There is a war on drugs? Just don't be a jackass and you won't get caught...

:smokin:

Dear editor,

Former General Barry McCaffrey, U.S. Drug Czar, used to urge the media not to refer to the War on Drugs as... the War on Drugs.

It's not *really* a war, he said.

A better metaphor would be to compare the policy with
the medical struggle against cancer.

Right. Everyone knows that the way we as a society
battle cancer is by arresting and jailing millions of
people who have harmed no one; stripping away basic
Constitutional liberties; sending U.S. troops into
foreign lands to kill innocent civilians; using the
National Guard and virtually every military arm of the
federal government; instigating warrantless boat, bus,
and car searches; ordering mandatory urine tests;
utilizing asset forfeiture; virtually abolishing
financial privacy; sending black-garbed, masked, and
militarily-armed police to break into suspects' houses
in the middle of the night; bombarding the nation with
absurdly misleading propaganda....

Say, General, it sure sounds -- and feels like -- a
war to us.

But now he says that he has won the war on drugs?

http://www.mapinc.org/alert/0332.html

"We'd be better off if he just waged a war on cancer."