From: [j--c--k] at [via.net] (Joe Zychik)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs
Subject: Confessions of a Pot Head
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 04:54:42 GMT

The Soviet Union was ruled by a handful of despots and bureaucrats.
Only 1/% of the population belonged to the Communist Party. The
party stayed in power as long as the other 99% of the people
allowed it to.

The Civil Rights movement started when Rosa Parks refused to sit
in the back of the bus.

Ghandi, without firing a shot or leading troops into battle,
brought the British Empire to its knees.

Meet Ashley Clements. Ashley has been a pot head for the last 25
years. He just e-mailed every Congress Person on the net and
invited them to arrest him for smoking pot. It's not a prank. He
means it and he's ready to go to jail.

The war on drugs is a colossal unjust, evil, insane failure. So
was segregation, communism, and British subjugation of the people
of India. The war on drugs will end. Some prefer to end it by
offering studies and waiting years for Congress to debate it.
Others know better.

The Bill of Rights is not footnoted. Nor was it approved by the
government. No bureaucracy submitted a cost/benefit analysis to
justify it. It hurt a lot of feelings.

The war on drugs is a war on dignity and freedom. It humiliates
the dignity to control your own body and imprisons your freedom
to act on a personal, nonviolent decision. Freedom and dignity
will not be resurrected by getting down on bended knee and asking
pinhead bureaucrats and sleazy politicians, "Oh please let me do
this."

According to Senator Bill Bradley, 25,000,000 people in the US
use illicit drugs. There are a lot more drug users than there are
cops, judges and wardens. If one percent of them (250,000) stood
up and said, "OK you oppressive, racist assholes, arrest me" the
war on drugs would end a lot quicker. Ask Rosa Parks. 

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