Newsgroups: alt.drugs
From: You again! <[n--t--e] at [nobody.com]>
Subject: Save Our Children / End the War on Drugs.
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 94 18:41:28 GMT
How to End the Drug War
A fresh wind is blowing in the war against Americans (the "Drug War").
Prominent Americans--including George Schultz (Secretary of
State in the Reagan administration), the mayors and police
chiefs of the three largest Bay Area cities, and hundreds
of other public officeholders, physicians, judges, and
religious leaders--are adding their signatures to a national
resolution calling for objective fact-finding and
decisionmaking on the Drug War by an independent commission.
Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders has publically suggested
studying alternatives to drug prohibition.
After decades of dismal failure (including the Reagan-Bush
escalation), the futility of prohibition has become too
embarrassingly obvious to cover up.
These breakthroughs have made the cause of drug peace more WINNABLE
than it has been in a long time. And we can do it with only a small
outlay of time and effort if we maximize our effectiveness.
STRATEGY IS DOING THE RIGHT THING AT THE RIGHT TIME.
Even those politicians in sympathy with the TENS OF MILLIONS of
Americans who want to end this war are afraid to try, given the
atmosphere of hysterical prohibitionist rhetoric and disinformation.
So our strategy must start with getting that commission convened! How?
Send a copy of the resolution (text included at the end of
this posting) with your signature to the president*, your
your congressional representative, and your senators, every
month. Use repeal stamps** for maximum impact.
Get any biggies you know (MDs, judges, mayors, councilmembers,
other officeholders, political party officeholders, editors,
broadcasters, corporate execs) or groups you are a member of
to endorse and sign the resolution. Send signed copies
(especially "big name" signers) to Judge Gray (address given
below) for archiving.
* If only 5,000 Americans mail signed copies of the resolution addressed
to the president once a month, it will amount to over ONE TENTH of the
total volume of citizens' mail!
** To aid our efforts we have created our "END THE DRUG WAR/SAVE OUR
CHILDREN" stamps after the successful Alcohol Repeal Stamps of the
1930s. They are like oversize postage stamps and go on the front of the
envelope just below the return address. They are available in sheets of
30 for $5, 3 sheets for $10, from:
Save Our Liberties (415)964-3655
187 Acalanes Drive, #14
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Remember, psychology is everything. Imagine the psychological impact
of sacks full of mail with ONE ENVELOPE IN TEN having a big, purple-pink
repeal stamp on the front! This way, Clinton will finally get the
message that doing the right thing is politically profitable.
* * *
Some related ideas:
1. Congressman Don Edwards of California has introduced
HR3100, which would implement the Hoover Resolution. When
mailing in your signed resolution, you can add a cover letter
specifically endorsing this bill.
2. Introduce your local government officials to the
Hoover Resolution. As they are the ones whose jail budgets
and crime rate stats get messed up by the Drug War (while the
Beltway crowd pontificates) they make good signatory prospects.
3. Get some postage stamps, repeal stamps, envelopes,
photocopies of the Hoover Resolution (below), and four friends.
In less than an hour, each of you can sign, fold, stuff, address
to the White House, and stamp 12 copies apiece. You are now all
set for a year; it will only take 5 SECONDS A MONTH to grab a
pre-fab and put it with the outgoing mail. Remember: 1000 such
groups of 5, mailing once a month, will produce a seeming
avalanche in the White House mailroom. Keep it up "for the
duration;" let them feel the pressure build.
4. Writing to newspapers etc. in support of Surgeon General
Elders's call for objective study will, by rewarding her, appeal
to the opportunism of her peers.
5. Eric Harlow, who runs Save Our Liberties, is also
working on a "National Coalition Against Prohibition." Contact
him for his ideas on coordinating activities.
6. Repeal Stamp resellers are invited. Raise funds for
your local drug peace group.
* * *
Mailing addresses:
President William Clinton
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
The Hon. Barbara Boxer
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Hon. Diane Feinstein
U.S. Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Hon. <name>
House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20510
Save Our Liberties
187 Acalanes Drive #14
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
(415)964-3655
The source of "repeal stamps" and networking/activism in
northern California.
Judge James P. Gray
Orange County Superior Court
700 Civic Center Drive West
Santa Ana, CA 92701
* * *
RESOLUTION FOR PEACE
by the
COALITION FOR NATIONAL DRUG POLICY CHANGE
(Signed at the Hoover Institute, Stanford, California)
WHEREAS, the overall situation regarding the
use of drugs in our society and the crime and
misery that accompanies it has continued to
deteriorate for several decades; and
WHEREAS, our society has continued to attempt,
at enormous financial cost and loss of civil
liberties, to resolve drug problems through the
criminal justice system, with the accompanying
increases of prisons and numbers of inmates; and
WHEREAS, the huge untaxed revenues generated
by the illicit drug trade are undermining
legitimate governments world-wide; and
WHEREAS, the present system has spawned a
cycle of hostility by the incarceration of
disproportionate numbers of African-Americans,
Hispanics, and other minority groups; and
WHEREAS, the number of people who have
contracted AIDS, hepatitis, and other diseases from
contaminated hypodermic needles is epidemic under
our present system; and
WHEREAS, in our society's zeal to pursue our
criminal approach, legitimate medical uses for the
relief of pain and suffering of patients have been
suppressed.
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that our society must
recognize drug use and abuse as the medical and
social problems that they are and that they must be
treated with medical and social solutions; and
FURTHER BE IT RESOLVED that an objective
commission be immediately empowered by the
President and by Congress to recommend revisions of
the drug laws of these United States in order to
reduce the harm our current policies are causing.
___________________________
Signature
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Title
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