FK>      During the Ray-Gun administration, someone suggested that all
 FK>  right-thinking Americans should volunteer, rather than hang back
 FK>  and wait for a test to be demanded. Piss in a jar and send it to
 FK>  the White House! Called it the "Drop-A-Zipper-for-The-Gipper"
 FK>  campaign. Maybe this idea should be revived as "Wizz for Willie" ?
  
     Although Clinton has been pretty useless as a leader on the issue of 
drug law reform, there is some truth to the Republican charge that Big Bill 
hasn't used the bully pulpit to promote intolerance and encourage "snitch on 
your neighbor" campaigns.  I entertain the remote hope that lame-duck Bill 
will find it in his soul to broach the subject in the next couple of years.  
After all, he doesn't have to face the voters again.  Gore would hate it, and 
even Hillary, if she has any aspirations for the presidency.  On the other 
hand, perhaps Bill would discover a silent (near) majority out there who 
clearly sees that prohibition is just as stupid today as it was in the 1920s. 
 And although the Repubs would holler that here was another clear proof of 
the President's closet liberalism, the fact is that there have been more 
prominent Republicans calling for consideration of drug law reform than there 
have been Democrats.  A few years ago on Larry King, Mario Cuomo took note of 
this fact, concluding that here was proof that Republicans care more about 
dollars than people's lives (rebutting the argument that the drug war was a 
waste of money.)  Of course, Cuomo must have been living in a cocoon if he 
believed that prohibition is not extremely harmful to persons.
    So, though my hope is remote, and the likely Democratic repudiation   of 
such a proposal seems likely, the continuing evils of the drug war just may 
reach the consciences of some of our less jaded politicians.  Hope springs 
eternal!
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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