I wonder if anyone's got Gore Vidal's email address? ----- Original Message ----- From: Claudia K White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, August 18, 2000 7:58 AM Subject: [STOPNATO] Gore Vidal: The Eternal Drug War 6 Million In US Jails & Prisons STOP NATO: �NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM --------- Forwarded Message --------- DATE: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 23:54:45 From: Rick Rozoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iht.com/IHT/TODAY/FRI/ED/edop.2.html International Herald Tribune Paris, Friday, August 18, 2000 The Eternal Drug War by Gore Vidal It was just the 1 percent who own the country, including the media, that were obsessed by Clinton's sex life. The public certainly didn't care - they gave Clinton a 60-70 percent popularity rating during the impeachment proceedings. [Most people] have their own way of calculating things. And they don't like politicians, and they really dislike the media. So, they steer clear of elections and don't vote. Any fool can see there is a disparity between what the people think and what they are supposed to think. ... As long ago as 1970 I argued that unless we turned the drug issue over to the doctors instead of the police, we would end up having an extraordinary mess on our hands. The war on drugs is a stand-in for the war against the implacable, monolithic and godless communism. It is a diversion aimed, like the perpetuation of the Cold War, to get dollars into the hands of the military and the police. It will never be won, but it will never be abandoned. In America today there are 6 million people in prison or correction. That is barbarous. Will the governing class not be content until half the population is in prison, and the other half are working to keep an eye on them? - Gore Vidal, the novelist, in an interview distributed by the Los Angeles Times Syndicate. --------- End Forwarded Message --------- xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Claudia White~Main Line News~Human & Civil Rights Campaign Internationale' Free Mumia Abu Jamal~Free All Political Prisoners~End the Drug War!Stop the US Bombing of Vieques & Global Genocide of Indigenous Peoples. Web Read complete archives@ http://www.angelfire.com/ut/Angel1 Voice Mail #801-220-0127 ext. 0010 xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo Pray for the Dine'h and traditional Hopi at Big Mountain, AZ, USA. http://members.xoom.com/senaa/HomePage.html xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox Angelfire for your free web-based e-mail. http://www.angelfire.com ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
