Letter to the Editor in the Oakland Press:

 

One of the most encouraging features of the Ron Paul campaign for President is his insistence on the United States Constitution.  Remember that document?  Basically, the Bill of Rights states: a) if a right of the people is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, the people are assumed to have that right (9th Amendment) and b) if a government power is not specified in the Constitution, the government does not have that power (10th Amendment).

A short article in your Thursday edition states that a Michigan statutory Domestic Cannabis Eradication and Suppression Program was unsuccessful in that the number of plants seized in 2007 was more than twice what was seized in 2006.  This government operation is so maliciously silly as to defy words; how could any conscious, conscientious human individual take any part in it? 

So what I’d like to know is how many law enforcement officers understand that forcing some people to obey other people’s preferences on drugs is a) a prima facie moral crime against humanity (masquerading as a well-meaning policy developed by morons) and b) violates the US Constitution, a sacred text they are sworn to uphold.

As a Ron Paul supporter, a patriot, and a human being, I urge my fellow Americans—including good cops and public-spirited government officials everywhere—to stand up for the Constitution: “just say no” to the $trillion war of aggression on Iraq and to the $multitrillion war of aggression on drug choice.  Freedom was the original idea; think it, feel it, live it.

 

Brian Wright