[Peace-discuss] Fwd: My response submitted to the NG related to a response to my letter of 3/5/16

[Karen Aram]

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> LEN GINGERICH’s letter of 3/9/17, suggesting the “undocumented” are crossing the borders of Arizona from Mexico to distribute illegal drugs to US communities, is as usual, targeting the  “usual suspects,” that being the poor, and  those unable to defend themselves. Associating the “undocumented” with drug dealers and criminals is a form of cruel, vilification used to victimize those we wish to dispose of. 
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> If we seriously wish to eradicate the drug problems in the US we need to target those really responsible for the distribution, and their corporate masters. We need to end the drug wars  and treat drug addiction as the health issue that it is, as was done successfully in Portugal. We need to stop the incarcerations and close down many, if not most of the prisons across the nation.
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> US government involvement in the drug trade is well known as stated in the April 2016 Harpers article “Legalize It All” by Dan Baum,  White Out, in Counterpunch by Jeffrey St. Clair, Alfred McCoy’s: “The Politic’s of Heroin in Southeast Asia,” 1974. And, of course the Iran Contra Affair, see  page 41 of the December 1988 Kerry report to the US Senate.