Shock Treatment. In an aptly titled column, "Sympathy for the Devil", the Post's Andrea Peyser advocates coddling drug pushers. She recounts the tale of an 18-year-old girl who "attempt[ed] to turn her Greenwich Village dorm into a small-time drug supermarket" offering "cocaine, marijuana and hallucinogens". This poor, misguided thing was raised in "ritzy Rumson, N.J." and "dealt drugs to fit in and be popular .... To be down with the cool kids." Peyser says "This girl needs help, not further humiliation." No, she needs to be killed, for pushing death.
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I know Rumson. It is three towns from where I grew up, and is "ritzy" indeed, filled with huge houses that could properly be called "mansions". Bruce Sprinsteen had a mansion there for a while. This female drug-pusher was not some hopeless black kid from the projects who saw no way out but selling drugs. She had every advantage and CHOSE to sell extremely dangerous and destructive chemicals that can destroy lives, suddenly or over an extended time.
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Cocaine is no trivial "high". It has killed thousands of people and ruined tens of thousands of lives. Marijuana isn't really harmless either. Ask any of the one-time kids who dropped out of high school, high on "pot", then spent decades in dead-end jobs during the daytime and zonked out at nite.
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After all the deaths of prominent people from drugs - John Belushi, River Phoenix, Len Bias, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Chris Farley, and on, and on - the youth culture still thinks it's "cool" to use drugs! Let's shake them awake, out of their drug-induced lethargy and delusion, by making an example of this spoiled, rich "brat". Kill her. (Responsive to "Sympathy for the Devil", New York Post, May 22, 2004)
- posted by L. Craig Schoonmaker @ 11:28 AM