RAISING THEIR IRE FROM AFAR

Editor, The Record:

Letter writer Larry Bennett ought to consider what constitutes "traditional thinking" because Alan Randell's proposal is the traditional self responsibility thinking of Jeffersonian classic liberalism which traces its roots back to Aristotle.

To be more specific, the war on ( some ) drugs is all about the work habits of other cultures.

Opium-smoking Chinese people were congregating in Vancouver after doing the back-breaking work of building this nation's railroad.  Whiskey-drinking hung-over white union members had a tough time keeping up with the "coolies."

Canada's first drug law, the Opium Narcotic Act of 1908, was born of a race riot in 1907 in Vancouver over the issue.

Thirty thousand Chinese were deported from Canada over that piece of racist legislation from which prescription rights were born.  The work habits of the South American coca leaf chewers is legendary too.

It is only when the white missionary medicine men arrive does there start to be problems in these most ancient of cultures.  The fact that America has bullied the world into the drug war and destroyed the traditional cultures of peoples all over the world ought to be viewed from an inverse to see just how exactly perverted the drug war is.

One of the deadliest substances is tobacco.  The Americans are the world's largest exporters.  What if China decided that the way to rid themselves of the plague of tobacco addiction was to spray the fields of North and South Carolina? That is precisely what Americans do to the Columbians.

Asserting that something is immoral does not make it so.  My measure of morality uses temperance, prudence, justice and fortitude, which are the four cardinal virtues of St.  Thomas Aquinas.

The drug war does not measure up to a single one.  In fact I would suggest that the harm Americans have inflicted on other cultures by wanting to live in a regimented worldwide drug-free Utopia is vainglory defined.  It is the Americans who live in a Sinful State and deliver a culture of death everywhere they go.

Talk about misguided moral righteousness run amok!

Chris Buors, Libertarian Party of Manitoba