NP--Salon article on Feds and Anti-Drug Network Programming

[Seb Thirlway]

From: Richard Romeo <richardromeo at hotmail.com>


>Hi all--
>
>Check out today's Salon feature article on the Federal
government's
>involvement in network tv programming of shows with an anti-drug
theme.
>Who said Vineland isn't still relevant?
>
>www.salon.com
>
>Rich
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Very interesting - I found a link to the November Coalition,
where I found this quoted (disapprovingly) by a senior US Court
of Appeal judge:

"The Congress finds that legalization of illegal drugs, on the
Federal or state level, is an unconscionable surrender in a war
in which, for the future of our country and the lives of our
children, there can be no substitute for total victory."
§ 5011 of the Anti-Drug Abuse Act.
http://www.november.org

Scary as f**k.

This is not a play, not a film, not a Henry V-style speech on an
ancient battlefield or in the trenches: this is the actual text
of a US law as drafted by Congress.  Do I want to visit that
country, however great I found Americans when I last went?
This war fever is now spreading to Britain.  We now have our own
"drug czar".  Where do I move?  back to my native Holland
perhaps.



seb