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Proposed Resolution #6
for the U.S. Congress
and the Legislatures of
the Several States:
Drugs and Crime
In
order to address the
relationship between
drugs and crime, and to
seek a restoration of
civil order in this
regard, we acknowledge
the following truths as
a general,
representative and
overwhelming pattern:
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It is the absence of
responsible fathers
which does the
greatest evil to
growing boys and
girls, and this evil
has disproportionate
affect on the ghettos
and its minority
populations,
especially among black
Americans. A
responsible father is
a man who is committed
to fidelity in
marriage with one
woman, and does
everything in his
power to love and
honor his wife. He is
thus a model for his
children, so that they
may also attain
healthy marriages. And
even when a marriage
breaks down or was
never in place, a
responsible father
still does everything
in his power to love,
provide for and be a
model for
his children.
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With such a breakdown
in the historic family
unit, many boys become
functionally
fatherless, and
without a father to
socialize them
properly, they seek
ersatz "families,"
which those outside
the ghettos call
“gangs.”
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Coupled with high
unemployment in the
ghettos, fatherless
boys have idle time
and limited
possibilities to earn
money. Idleness leads
to the pursuit of
pleasure in wrong and
escapist ways such as
sexual promiscuity and
getting high on
alcohol and drugs. A
cycle of despair is
created which feeds on
itself. And fatherless
girls become the
sexual adjuncts to
promiscuous and
abusive boys.
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Drug dependency is the
result for many, and
the market for illegal
drugs produces an
underground economy
where gangs stake out
various “turfs” they
control in the selling
of drugs. To protect
their turfs, they
obtain guns (usually
illegally), and when
turf wars occur,
shootings, maimings
and deaths result. In
order for drug addicts
to gain the money to
purchase illegal
drugs, prostitution
and stealing
multiplies, the crime
cycle grows and
reaches into the
suburbs as well. But
those in the suburbs
have greater resources
to avoid many
consequences which the
poor cannot.
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Because specific drugs
are illegal or
state-controlled, an
international black
market flourishes,
driving up the price
for such drugs, and in
the process crime
multiplies further in
order to sustain and
protect this black
market.
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Because of these root
causes and the
interfacing and
co-dependent cycles,
about one-half of the
U.S. prison population
is incarcerated on
drug charges or
related crimes. Not
only does this cost
taxpayers greatly in
terms of law
enforcement, but the
social and spiritual
costs are very high as
so many U.S. citizens
are rendered
unproductive, and
unable to contribute
to the common good.
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Thus, it is the poor
and certain minorities
who suffer
disproportionately in
this cycle, and
justice cries out for
a remedy to this
escalating evil.
Accordingly, we
affirm the following
starting points in
public policy, necessary
to begin redressing the
problem of drugs and
crime
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The support of the
historic family unit,
rooted in heterosexual
faithful monogamous
marriage and the
raising of children,
is the best deterrent
to drug abuse and
crime, and the best
place for the healing
of the drug and crime
wounded.
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As determined by due
process of law,
specific drugs may be
defined as illegal,
but with the maximum
penalty being a
misdemeanor.
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All persons who use
illegal drugs shall
accept accountability
for the consequences
of their choices, and
they shall in no way
deprive others of
life, liberty or
property.
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