Subject: Fwd: Don Silberger : [LPNY ACTIVISTS] drug bust on Springtown Road Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 15:17:33 -0500 To: lpny_discussion From: Bob Armstrong Excellent letter , Don . --- Original Message --- From: "Don Silberger" To: =A0=A0 Cc: =A0 Sent: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 03:15:59 -0500 Subject: [LPNY ACTIVISTS] drug bust on Springtown Road >=A0Letters to the Editor >=A0New Paltz Times >=A018 March 2004 > >=A0=A0I am outraged at the adulating publicity given to a grievous= event; >=A0namely, at that bust which was perpetrated by the Newburgh and >=A0the New Paltz Police on Springtown Road. >=A0=A0Theirs was a pointless and destructive attack on an individual= who, >=A0for all we were told, might well be an undeceiving, and= friendly good >=A0neighbor to those with whom he interacted, and not a criminal= at all. > >=A0=A0The purported justification for most such assaults on citizens= by >=A0the police is that drugs are an evil which must be controlled.= =A0But a >=A0government cannot effectively regulate and control a commodity= it >=A0prohibits. =A0It can only send out its minions to prey on the= populace, >=A0under the cover of what is touted as law, but pseudo law, law= which >=A0flies at the throat of the fundamental law of our land, our= Bill of Rights. >=A0=A0Is it not the proper function of our public servants, our= police, to >=A0serve and protect the peaceful public, rather than to terrorize= those >=A0who pay for the service, and to rob them of their possessions= family >=A0and liberty? >=A0=A0Is it not only a police-state tyranny that mandates and gloats= over >=A0this sort of attack? >=A0=A0What motivates a journalist to extoll such a brutal= usurpation? >=A0=A0What sort of country is it in which this fraudulent travesty= against >=A0reason, common sense, and constitutional restraint persists for= ninety >=A0years, having never anything good to show for itself? >=A0=A0What variety of cowed sychophants do we have seeking high= office >=A0and never seriously to question this persisting and spreading= rot in >=A0our constitutional republic? >=A0=A0I contend that the drug war is an evil inconsistent with= freedom. =A0 It >=A0has long been far more destructive to the lives of our citizens= than any >=A0illegal drugs have ever been. >=A0=A0I seize this outrageous occasion to announce that I will be= seeking >=A0the nomination of my party -- the Libertarian Party -- for the= United >=A0States Senate. >=A0=A0If I should secure that nomination this April in Manhattan,= and thus >=A0become the LPNY opponent of Senator Charles Schumer and of >=A0What's His Face, the Senator's Republican opponent, then I= shall put >=A0the termination of the drug war -- in its vicious, ineffectual,= stupid, and >=A0corrupting entirety -- at the center of my campaign. >=A0=A0=A0It is time for some real free speech in this country, which= imprisons >=A0a larger absolute number of its citizens -- more than two= million -- and >=A0a larger percentage of its citizens than does any other country= on earth. >=A0=A0=A0If you share my disgust and my outrage then you will be able= to >=A0speak through me if the Libertarian Party of New York ordains= me as >=A0its reeferendum in the flesh. =A0You can vote clearly and= directly against >=A0this tyrrany if you will give your support, and grant your= vote, to me. > >=A0=A0Donald Silberger, Ph.D. >=A0=A044 Church Street >=A0=A0New Paltz, NY 12561 > >=A0=A0Chair, Hudson Valley Libertarians >=A0=A01998 LPNY Candidate for Lieutenant Governor --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com -- 212-285-1864 Libertarian Presidential Candidates =A0:= http://CoSy.com/Liberty.htm