For Peter

After more than a decade of debates, hearings and lobbying the Senate has passed a bill to change the punishment for possession of crack users 100 times more heavily than powder cocaine users.

This obvious abuse of power to incarcerate the poor instead of the rich based on the kind of cocaine they employ is more criminal than the crime they punish. During the Vietnam War those married or in college had a deferment while the poor minorities were drafted into the conflict.

The government for the rich and by the rich has been unrelenting and brutal in their perverse tactics to breed more violence while sowing unrest by returning convicts back into communities where poverty pervades. The government always finds ways to make a buck out of people’s sorrow.

Cocaine like opium are natural substances indigenous to two areas in the world, Central Asia and Northern South America; Opium is used to still pain while Cocaine soothes hunger–these regions of God given substances are two focal points of war in the world along with the Middle East which came to nourish the soul.

The Torah came to the world to bring peace through law which demands compassion and retribution. Included in the Torah are the three oral traditions of Talmud–the interpretation of the law, Midrash–the story behind the law and the Zohar–the secret hidden within the story.