Senseless Death

The 22-year old son of a good friend of mine was murdered last week, supposedly while he was attempting to purchase some marijuana on the black market in an unsavory neighborhood on the western shore of Mobile Bay. The young man was engaged in no rights-violating activity of any sort. The supposed prohibition he was participating in was a crime unknown at common law and not an activity subject to the enumerated powers of Congress nor the traditional police powers of the state of Alabama (where this murder took place). The nasty and immoral business known as the War on Drugs has again taken its toll.

This little cartoon, called A Drug War Carol, gives some of the history of how the centralizing influence of the federal government forces the Drug War on us and corrupts our country.