Posted by Malcolm William Kyle on August 13, 19103 at 08:49:02:
Dear Sir or Madam
We like so many others like us, are exasperated by the ignorance and lack of compion shown by the so called Drug Warriors who, whilst claiming to have our best interests in mind, are as we see it,actually the very people responsible for turning a large number of our inner citys into war zones, criminalizing large numbers of our young people and ruining race-relations by their targeting of ethnic minorities. We are moved and humbled by the fine work of brave and selfless volunteers engaged on our behalf in organizations like Human Rights And The Drug War; The November Coalition, The Media Awareness Project, Teachers Against Prohibition, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and even entire Church Organizations who have risen up, in opposition to this insane War on ourselfs and on our fellow Human-beings,and we are especially alarmed and disgusted at reports of terminaly-ill Americans, being violently hoisted from their sickbeds at gunpoint because they feel they need marijuana to alliviate their suffering, Surely the only criminal activity here, is being comitted by the people wearing the masks, whom, ironicly are "Public Servants sworn to protect the innocent". And who can be more innocent than a suffering or dying person
WE feel we can not stand by any longer, bearing witness to such barberous scenes of cruelty and must now do everything within our power, to support by all means possible the above mentioned organizations and all others like them, in ending, what will one day surely be seen as one of our worst chapters of history.
Lastly, on a brighter note, we both feel that the grotesqueness of the present situation may be a sign that things are about to change.There are many more people now than ever, who understand what`s going on and are willing to speak out against the atrocities of the War on "Some" Drugs. This gives us hope that our daughter may get the chance to grow up in a world which is not lacking in either love nor compion and one that makes a lot more sense than the present.
God Bless !
Malcolm, Ellen & Kyra Kyle. Hemsterhuis straat, The Hague, Holland. Tel 0031614929214
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Editorial: Prohibition Contributed to 1929 Stock Crash - Repeal Helped Economy
BBSNews - 2003-08-06 -- By Malcolm W. Kyle. It has been said that moralizing divides Americans into a righteous US: Shaping America's beliefs, laws and attitudes - and a malevolent THEM: Equal-rights campaigners, Gays, Medical Marijuana-Advocates, and anybody else who dare to think for themselves. Colonial Puritans flogged, pilloried and hanged nonconformists such as Quakers. They were also seized by witch mania. In the late 1800s, when Anthony Comstock enforced laws against "vice" and jailed hundreds of Americans for petty sins, Margaret Sanger found herself imprisoned eight times just for advocating birth control.
Detroit police inspecting equipment found in a clandestine underground brewery. Photo National Archives. Today, growing marijuana is considered "manufacturing" a dangerous intoxicant. Same premise for ity and same outcome. Huge profits for the cartels created solely from Prohibition II, the sequel. And heartache for millions of individuals created by making human foibles by legislating the morality de jur.
Later, the Temperance-movement, epitomized by saloon-smashing Carry Nation, pulled America into Prohibition (1919-1933) which became a tumultuous period of booze-smuggling that created organized crime on such a scale that some would resonably argue Prohibition possibly caused The wall Street Crash of 1929. Yes folks, the CRASH happened during PROHIBITION. Matters just got worse from there on in. Then in March 1933 came Franklin D. Roosevelt, whose presidential campaign received huge corporate backing, mainly from people who didn't need much convincing as to where the problem lay and on the understanding that he would end Prohibition immediately on taking office. This the good man did, throwing in the New-Deal (farming and mortgage subsidies, minimum wage etc) in at the same time for good measure. Alas, these days, only the latter is remembered and subsequently receives all the credit whereas without the Repeal of Prohibition I, it`s difficut to imagine how any improvement of the situation could have at all been possible.
Many people, even those in law-enforcement (visit www.leap.cc), now recognise that Drug Prohibition, just like it`s counterpart of the twenties, causes large scale crime, violence, widespread corruption of public officials and is furthermore having a severe negative effect on race-relations. But what about the effect on the economy? Let's take a little look. The War on Some-Drugs, according to the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), is costing the American taxpayer a grand total of $160 billion. On top of that, the world wide drug-driven black-market economy (mostly in the hands of criminals and ruthless terrorists) is estimated by the United Nations to be somewhere in the region of $400 billion.
One cannot begin to imagine what kind of nefarious effect all of this must be having on the economy both in America and world-wide or what terrible fate may await us, as the situation and conditions caused by drug prohibition gradually and surely worsen. We may not even have much time left to avert a disaster of such proportion as to make the Great-Depression which followed the crash of 1929 seem fairly benign in comparison. Mustn't we therefor do what we`ve falsely been made to believe we shouldn't? Return to all citizens their God-given right to alter their state of conciousness, by whatsoever means they themselves see fit, be it by animal, vegetable, chemical or otherwise. If, through our own fault, we fail to achieve this noble and neccessary aim, what scant right, will we have to complain about the terrible conditions in which we ourselves will eventually have to subsist?
Of these misguided vengeful neo-puritans who are in any position of authority or power, we must strive by peaceful and democratic means to remove or demand of them, that they realize the gravity of the present situation, put aside their perverse and unattainable dream of a drug free planet and, before we all go down the pan with them, END THE WAR ON DRUGS!
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The preceding editorial was provided to BBSNews by Malcolm W. Kyle, a reader from The Hague, Holland.
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