Fox Says U.S. Needs to Debate Legalized Drugs Not Fight the War on Drugs
February 19, 2010 by Mary Selby-Theosebes
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How does legalizing evil stem the tide? As we have seen with the slippery slope of pornography and obscenity in the recent Iowa “Minor Stripgate”, there is nothing redeeming in legalized evil, it only opens the door for the proponents of immorality to push their agenda, hoping the world will give up the fight and succumb.
How does a former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, have any right to teach America about what we must do to help solve a drug war, when his own administration was complicit in the problem of Mexico?
I have been to Tijuana, Mexico and the blight which the government has done nothing to solve is devastating. Driving from beautiful San Diego, California into a third world nation is shocking and the children caught in the middle of this corruption dis-heartening, but legalizing something that destroys souls is not the answer to a moral problem. Fox urged the United States to continue helping fight drug-related crime and violence in his country. “It’s a shared responsibility and a shared problem,” he said.
This is a shared problem, because the drugs are smuggled into our country and destroy lives here, but making it legal only validates the evil and destruction, it doesn’t stamp it out.
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According to the U.S. Boarder Patrol.com “The violence is so bad that Tijuana’s citizens have held mass protests in public squares and street marches packed with thousands all to call attention to their plight.”
We take a stand against violence and immorality in America, we don’t legalize it so that it is no longer “illegal” and therefore not a problem. The logic of Fox to legalize drugs in order to stem the wave of violence makes as much sense as the the judge who ruled that children can dance at a strip club. This is what the world is coming to if we do not stand against it. It may seem easier to turn a blind eye and deaf ear and let life just roll on by, but the end result is the death of our society. We too will be Tijuana-ized if we follow the foolish ramblings of Vicente Fox.
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The same arguments were made about Demon Rum. That Prohibition was repealed after only twelve years of bloodshed. The current Prohibition has lasted much longer because its violence has been outsourced to parts of the U.S. empire – it is much easier to look down one’s nose at Tijuana than it is to hear tommy guns in Chicago.
By taking the evilness of drugs as an article of faith, one is relieved of any need to be reasonable. It is best to restrict one’s faith to one’s deity and to apply logic to the commonweal.
The financial and human costs of this Prohibition are staggering, far greater than they are under legalization. There is an even greater cost being borne by the societies on both sides of the border because vice will corrupt governments first of all. It was Oliver North’s patriotic duty to buy and sell cocaine for Ronald “Just Say No” Reagan, and one must assume that every president since has benefited from similar services.
Incidentally, Mexico was never part of the Third World. Even when it was underdeveloped, it was never in danger of falling within the USSR’s sphere of influence. Mexico has always been squarely in the First World and it has been classed as a developed nation ever since the presidency of Salinas de Gortari.