The Other War - HUMAN EVENTS

This article from HE's Guns & Patriots email newsletter by Oliver North provides some very good data and insights on out ongoing border control problem.

I think Col. North is wrong about the solution, however. Rather than clamping ever-tighter on financial transactions, drug legalization will gut the entire crime syndicate operation overnight. We'll still need to spend some police resources on keeping drugs away from children, but they are getting them now.

On the other side of the balance we have jobs for Americans producing drugs consumed by Americans instead of all that money going overseas. Legalization would also cut into the corruption of government officials, especially in law enforcement, both here and in the countries where drugs are produced and shipped.

Drug policy has no warrant in the US Constitution and its time we dusted off that old piece of paper and started taking it seriously again. Given the perilous state of federal government finances, curtailing government to only those functions specifically authorized in the Constitution is about the only way we have any hope of restoring fiscal sanity.