The Drug Czar’s blog, Pushing Back, links aprovingly to a story in the Record Searchlight of Redding, California:
The nation’s top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their “reefer blindness” and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public’s health and safety, as well as to the environment.
John P. Walters, President Bush’s drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn’t hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the “Operation Alesia” marijuana-eradication effort.
In those comments, Drug Czar John Walters once again raises the eternal dilemma about politicians: Is he stupid? Or does he think we’re stupid?
The criminals who grow marijuana illegally may commit violent acts to protect their fields, but what’s this “mass casualties” bullshit? Has that ever happened?
Perhaps Walters is talking about foreign terrorists sneaking over our borders through the same channels used by the drug trade. Well, has that ever happened?
And if that’s what he’s worried about, why are they eradicating marijuana in California? Growing pot in the United States reduces the amount that has to be brought across the border. By destroying domestic crops, the Shasta County Sheriff’s office is increasing traffic across our borders, giving terrorists more opportunites to sneak across.
Frankly, when it comes to domestic terrorism, I’m a lot more worried about the people responsible for these killings than about pot growers.
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