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5/22/2003

Drug War Issues

Drug War Issues

NtheDrgWar at Liberty For All - Online Magazine

In what has become a War on People and on the Bill of Rights, millions of nonviolent high school and college kids have had their lives shattered by prison sentences that are not at all proportional to their "crimes". Ironically, many of these "criminals" were caught doing the very things that politicians have been accused of, and even admitted, doing. In the 2000 presidential campaign, both Bush and Gore decreed that the punishment for doing what many believe they themselves did, should be a minimum of 10 years in prison. As the former LP Presidential candidate Harry Browne wanted to ask both Bush and Gore, "Would your lives had been better had you spent 10 years in a federal prison for your youthful indiscretions?"