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. 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 ___________________________ Title ** End of text from cdp:justice.usa ** ********************************************************************** This material came from PeaceNet, a non-profit progressive networking service. For more information, send a message to [peacenet info] at [igc.apc.org] ********************************************************************** -You Again!