What’s behind the drug headlines?

To the Editor;

Ciudad Juarez is the murder capital of Mexico. Credit the Pope for his recent visit there. He is a courageous man, however he misplaces blame for the violence and kidnapping there. Resident priests must also fear for their lives should they speak out against the drug cartels. The indirect blame is the need Americans have for illegal drugs.

Throughout the course of history, businessmen have been the informal diplomats between nations. Between us and Mexico the exchange rate is two pesos to the dollar. This means that our drug dealers have flooded Mexico’s cartels with monies exceeding the coffers of the government. So we indirectly are subverting entire governments in central and south America. A “diplomacy” which sows weeds of sorrow; resentment and hate.

This is what the Pope sorely needs to target with his public statements; our drug epidemic and the dealers and mules who gain enormous profits therefrom.

The finger needs to be pointed at those who fail to seek out (research) the causes of drug addictions to eradicate them. Science calls a hunch an hypothesis. Here are some of them: 1) the analysis of farm soils treated chemically, artificial fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides. Hormone treated livestock feeds…samples from organic farm soils alive with microorganisms which naturally form a symbiosis with plants. 2) the health of laboratory grown mice fed on corporate commercial foods compared to those fed foods organically grown. A comparative study of their affinity to drugs. 3) a statistical analysis of families with working mothers as compared to those unbroken with a woman homemaker. The addiction rates.

Thoreau and Lincoln were ahead of their time. “Countless thousands hack at the leaves of vices to one who strikes at the root.” Vices can now infiltrate the home at electronic speeds. Expressways connect city centers across the nation with every town road and street.

A free nation presupposes the ability to govern ourselves; the need to pass measures and laws to win the failing war on drugs. Perhaps Lincoln said it all. “No one is poor who had a godly mother.” His was a step-mother who deserves as much a place in American history.

Russell Vesecky,
homesteader
Harmony