Candlelight Vigil for Drug War Victims

Young Americans for Liberty (YAL) and Students for a Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP) hold a candlelight vigil at City Hall in Nashua, New Hampshire.

From their own description:

On Sunday morning, January 31st, we learned of an another horror in Mexico's drug war.

Fourteen young people were murdered among 25 shot at a party celebrating their high school soccer team victory and one student's birthday.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-fg-mexico-shooting1-2010feb01...

In any other time and any other place, this would be unbelievable. In any other time and any other place, the world would be riveted to "on the scene" accounts of this outrage.

In other times and other places -- school shootings in the U.S., Scotland, Germany -- when students are shot, there are demands for policy change to protect them, to address underlying issues, and the related commerce.

But these days, for the students of Mexico, there remains a stunning silence. It is as though the world accepts as normal the bloodshed of the innocent high school students because the bloodshed of the failing war on drugs is normal. This is not normal!

SSDP says this is too much blood.

This is where we come in. On Thursday, March 4th the Nashua High South Chapter of SSDP and The Young Americans for Liberty will be hosting a Candlelight Vigil at City Hall. However we can not do this alone, which is why we need all of you to invite as many people as you can to this event. The more people we get the better our chances are of being heard! Together we can take a stand and tell the world that we will not stand for this violence any longer!

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[VALsacount2]

Fuck drugs! Drugs will fuck you!

[AnarchyInYourHead]

@VALsacount2

Brilliantly said.

[kennyfreakinrocks]

Replace 'drugs' with 'police and you're dead on...

The only problem I have with this rally is that I have a huge pet peeve with people reading lifelessly from pieces of paper in lieu of giving a speech.

[AnarchyInYourHead]

@kennyfreakinrocks

Cut him some slack. How many speeches were you giving, outside of class that is, when you were in high school? I'm glad he's got the guts to plan something meaningful like this and go out and actually do it when most kids are trying to figure out how to cup some boob. He'll get better.

[Ruben2290]

Thank you. 

[oscare76]

thank you so much in the name of mexico, thank you so much

[ThaGodWeCreate]

most people who use drugs are only criminals because they use drugs...

[zezt]

RIGHT ON! I deeply respect this!

[PoliticalTerror]

I would like to humbly add that we should remember the hundreds and thousands of people that are locked up in the United States and all of the world for little more than engaging in unpopular commerce. As long as there is a market for drugs market will always win over any amount of prohibition.

[lordmetroid]

I wish it was so eaasy to get a good fuck, sadly it is not.

[VALsacount2]

Funny how the chocolate man comes, and everyone thinks the war is over.

[kennyfreakinrocks]

I didn't mean that to come off as some kind of run-of-the-mill baseless trolling that we get enough of, but more of a constructive criticism; like I said, it's a pet peeve of mine -not a deal breaker or something to be ashamed about. There are people who give speeches every day that do the same thing; it just makes everything seem forced and ingenuous.

It does take alot of guts, both to give any kind of speech and to publicly support something controversial, and I'll give him that hands down.

[DeraJa]

war also does that.

[VALsacount2]

Since I come from Texas I've never heard someone struggle so much with spanish names. Any tips for moving to NH.

[VALsacount2]

Agree with you on both the police, and the speech.