I consider your continued support for the war on drugs makes you a major sponsor and supporter of crime on America's streets, the cartel anarchy in Mexico and the chaos and instability caused by well funded stateless terrorist groups, especially the Taliban.

It is the black market economy, created and continued by the prohibition economics of the drug war, that gives gangsters, cartels and terrorist armies the financial ability to wreak havoc on the world. You support the drug war policy that keeps that black market in place and that makes you responsible for the horrific violence that these groups of people inflict on the world.

In September of 2006 Foreign policy and Afghanistan expert Barnett R. Rubin Told your Foreign Relations Committee, "The international drug control regime, which criminalizes narcotics, does not reduce drug use, but it does produce huge profits for criminals and the armed groups and corrupt officials who protect them. Our drug policy grants huge subsidies to our enemies."

I agree 100% with DR. Rubin. Your continued support for the war on drugs, I believe, amounts to an act of treason against the United States of America because you are giving America's sworn enemies financial "aid" and tactical "comfort".

According to the Oct. 2007 report to the U.S. Army War College Strategic Studies Institute titled "Opium and Afghanistan: Reassessing U.S. Counternarcotics Strategy", analyst John R. Glaze found that "..an estimated 70 percent of the Taliban's income now comes from protection money and the sale of opium."

Ending the government prohibition against medical regulation of the hard drug markets would weaken America's sworn enemy, the Taliban, without firing a shot or sending more troops to Afghanistan. You, Senator, 'just say no'.

Not only are you providing our enemies with financial aid but you are giving alQaida tactical asymmetric weapons that you know for fact are targeting American children and yet you continue to sponsor this treason. As the World Trade Center and Pentagon still smoldered Sen. YOU told reporters, "That's part of their revenge on the world," Kerry said. "Get as many people drugged out and screwed up as you can."

Your assertion was based, I am sure, on both intelligence and open source reports like this 1998 Indian Times story titled "Heroin in the Holy War".

"The crop will be opium and the farmer will be Osama bin Laden, the most wanted terrorist in the world. Bin Laden, accused by the United States of bombing two of their embassies in East Africa this summer and a string of other attacks, sees heroin as a powerful new weapon in his war against the West, capable of wreaking social havoc while generating huge profits, according to sources in eastern Afghanistan and in Pakistan."

You know that our enemies are targeting our children and you continue to give them the weapon. That is treason against the United States of America.

In December 2002 Congressman Dan Burton asserted in a House Government Reform Committee hearing "Over seventy percent of all crime is drug-related." Most of that crime is black market activity that would disappear if the United States Congress were to regulate the criminal activity out of the distribution of intoxicant drugs. Instead of addicts and drug dealers with a vested interest in growing their market by selling drugs to new generations of children Congress could regulate responsible adult supervision of the distribution. You Senator, 'just say no'.

The cop killing illegal guns on American streets that inflict so much pain and suffering are so cheap and easy to get, by all criminals, because the demand for guns by drug gangs to self-ragulate, empower and enforce their black market position, subsidizes the proliferation. Any criminal seeking to escalate their criminality with lethal force can get a cheap high powered weapon because there is a huge demand for such weapons by the drug gangsters. Regulate this drug gang demand out of the distribution of intoxicant drugs and the supply would recede following the reduced demand. The guns would become less available and more expensive. Our streets would become more safe. You, Senator Kerry, 'just say no'.

The drug war policy that you support, Senator Kerry, is "creating chaos and instability" and you know it.

The 2004 Congressional Research Service report, "Illicit Drugs and the Terrorist Threat: Causal Links and Implications for Domestic Drug Control Policy", enumerated five specific ways that the illegality of drugs supports terrorism.

"The international traffic in illicit drugs contributes to terrorist risk through at least five mechanisms: supplying cash, creating chaos and instability, supporting corruption, providing "cover" and sustaining common infrastructures for illicit activity, and competing for law enforcement and intelligence attention. Of these, cash and chaos are likely to be the two most important."

Insanely, that same report concluded:

"American drug policy is not, and should not be, driven entirely, or even primarily, by the need to reduce the contribution of drug abuse to our vulnerability to terrorist action. There are too many other goals to be served by the drug abuse control effort."

What goals can conceivably be more important that reducing "our vulnerability to terrorist action"? We certainly are NOT protecting children from drugs by leaving sales in the hands of users, abusers, addicts and gangsters. We could put drug sales in the hands of responsible regulated adult supervision but you and the congress 'just says no'. It is an insult to the intelligence of the American people to say that you are protecting children with the current policy.

The mess on the Mexican border is simply a natural outgrowth of the war on drugs anarchy that you sponsor Senator Kerry. According to a 2003 United Nations retail drug market estimate global demand for intoxicant drugs is valued at $320-billion a year. The U.S. demand, according to the U.N. is 44% of that market or $141-billion a year. It is no wonder that entire industries are dedicated to circumventing our best border security efforts. And multi-billion dollar cartels are enticed into this business. You give them this black market opportunity with your support of the drug war prohibition policy.

You, Senator Kerry, are proliferating drugs, crime, terrorism and anarchy with the current drug war policy. I will not be happy until the day that you, Senator John F. Kerry, are indicted for treason against the United States of America.

Authoritarians like you Senator are why I left trhe Democratic Party in 1996 and became an Independent voter.


Very Sincerely,