Some people seem to want to vote for Kerry in hopes he will make change. If your one of those people, you better think again. From Kerry's web site;

"Keep Drugs Out Of Our Communities
John Kerry and John Edwards will aggressively target drug traffickers and dealers and provide funding for coordinated regional efforts aimed at cracking down on drug trafficking. They will also adequately fund drug prevention and treatment, including innovative approaches to requiring treatment for offenders like drug courts."

I'm sorry, but re-education camps sound just as bad, or worse, then jail to me. "Aggressively" doesn't exactly sound like he plans to ease up on the drug war at all. If you include in the 100,000 more cops he say's he wants to put on the streets of the US, then it don't look to good on the front lines if Kerry gets in office.

The Toxic Career of Rand Beers
Kerry's Drug War Zealot
By SEAN DONAHUE

"When Rand Beers quit his job as counter-terrorism advisor to President Bush, and signed up with John Kerry's presidential campaign, he quickly became a hero to Democratic Party loyalists and the "Anybody but Bush" crowd. But Beers, who has become Kerry's top national security advisor and would likely serve as National Security Advisor or Secretary of State in a Kerry administration, has a dark history. Under Presidents Clinton and Bush, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, and was one of the chief architects of and apologists for the United States' cruel policies in Colombia.

Beers was most closely associated with the disastrous aerial crop fumigation program the U.S. introduced in southern Colombia. The State Department hired DynCorp, a private military contractor, to fly crop dusters at high altitudes over the rainforests of southern Colombia, spraying a chemical cocktail that includes a stronger version of Monsanto's popular and controversial herbicide, Round-Up, over suspected coca fields. Beers was the public face of the fumigation program, defending and advocating for it in Congressional hearings and in the media."

More here
http://www.counterpunch.org/donahue01262004.html

And here
Here is my take on the war on drugs. John Kerry
http://mysite.verizon.net/aahpat/2kerrtake.htm

More here
http://www.usatoday.com/news/politic...rryprofile.htm

"As relations improved between the United States and the Soviet Union under Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, Kerry advocated deep cuts in military programs. He called for cutting $500 million from the "Star Wars" missile defense system and directing the funds to the war on drugs. He also proposed using military bases slated for closing as detention centers for first-time drug offenders."

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Libertarian Toker Reviewed by Libertarian Toker on . Kerry and the drug war Some people seem to want to vote for Kerry in hopes he will make change. If your one of those people, you better think again. From Kerry's web site; "Keep Drugs Out Of Our Communities John Kerry and John Edwards will aggressively target drug traffickers and dealers and provide funding for coordinated regional efforts aimed at cracking down on drug trafficking. They will also adequately fund drug prevention and treatment, including innovative approaches to requiring treatment for offenders Rating: 5