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Source:   Waco Tribune-Herald<br>
PUB Date: January 18, 1998 <br>
Contact:  letters@mail.iamerica.net <p>

Martha Byrd [Letters, Jan. 12] seems to have fallen for the red 
herring that NAFTA is to blame for US drug problems.  In her bid 
to overturn NAFTA she states that "no amount of money lost ... is 
worth one single young life." 
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One might ask Ms. Byrd, "what about the life of Esequiel Hernandez, 
an innocent 18-year-old, mistakenly shot and killed by US Marines on 
a drug patrol?"  Or what about the countless innocent inner-city 
youths killed every year in the crossfire of gangs warring over 
drug turf?  Are these lives less valuable than those of the
youths who dabble in drugs and lose?
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Rather than scapegoating NAFTA, let's place the blame where it belongs:
on a drug policy where drug dealers, drug warriors and prison builders
profit from a never-ending game, subsidized by American tax dollars and
American lives.
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Craig Schroer<br>
Austin


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