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Question: What is causing Illinois politicians to squirm?

    ANSWER: a $2 million wager that they don't have a spine. The Chicago Sun-Times even ran a letter to the editor about it!

    The Honorable Peter Fitzgerald
    United States Senate
    Washington, D.C. 20510
    July 28th, 2000

    Dear Senator Fitzgerald,

    I am writing to inform you of a wager I have offered to all the Illinois congressmen and senators. I have enclosed a letter I sent to all the major newspapers in the Chicago area. It is fairly self-explanatory.

    I implore that you look past your personal prejudices about certain drugs and do the right thing. Do the Constitutional thing. Do the thing that will save thousands of lives now lost because of the failed War on Drugs. You must introduce legislation to repeal the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, order the disbanding of the Drug Enforcement Agency and eliminate Barry McCaffery's job as drug czar. You must end the insane War on Drugs. It is a war on the American people.

    You have the power to save billions of dollars, thousands of lives, get dangerous guns off the streets by cutting off the funds, and free hundreds of thousands of Americans who are wasting away in prison for eating or smoking something you didn't like. You can also uphold your oath to the U.S. Constitution by admitting the War on Drugs in unconstitutional. At least they understood that much back on January 16th, 1919 when they went through the proper channels and passed a Constitutional amendment to prohibit alcohol. They got smart not many years after that and gave it up. It's time for you and the Illinois delegation to get smart. Follow the lead of Bobby Rush and be brave enough to suggest that maybe re-legalization is an idea whose time has come.

    Sincerely,
    Matt Beauchamp
    Chairman, Libertarian Party of Chicago

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