a) A glamorization of alcohol, which in turn increased consumption.
b) An increase in deaths due to overdoses and poisonings of non-regulated alcohol.
c) Illegal searches, seizures and shootings by police and an ever-increasing invasion into the lives of law-abiding citizens.
d) An increase in alcohol-related crime (robberies, gang warfare, drive-by shootings, etc.).
e) Organized crime's growth in our country through the profits of black-market alcohol, profits which in turn influenced corruption in almost every level of government.
f) The spending, by Congress, of over 100 million Depression-era dollars in order to enforce this prohibition.
Are we too blind to see that these same events are behind our society's rising crime rate? Examine the escalation of the War On Drugs and of crime, and you will find that the two run parallel. Simply substitute the word drugs for the word alcohol in the examples above, and no one could deny the similarities to today's headlines, with a change from millions to billions of dollars.
"Prohibition strikes a blow at the very foundation upon which our country was founded, by attempting to control a man's appetite through legislation and making crimes out of things which are not."
-----Abraham Lincoln
How many lives before you open your eyes?
REPEAL PROHIBITION!!
November 1994
© 1994-2001 kgs
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