Reply #17: I used to agree

[Asgaya Dihi]

There was a time when I felt the exact same way, wasn't too long ago really. I ran into someone a while back that changed my mind, or at least my approach. A guy named Jack Cole claims to be responsible for locking up at least 1,000 young people since the start of the drug war, at first he didn't know better then when he started to have doubts the orders and the adrenaline of the hunt kept him going for a while longer. He'll tell you himself these days how wrong what he did was.

The thing is that at some point somebody did get through to him, now that same guy is one of the strongest forces fighting against the drug war and the same type of damage that he used to cause. Someone somewhere at some point got through to him and convinced him that we were as human as he was and didn't deserve what was happening.

Yeah, some don't deserve that badge no matter what, but an awful lot of them do try to do the right thing and either don't know better or just don't know what else to do in a screwed up system. We need to make friends with them and show them who they are really going after, not keep them firm enemies with name calling. It's not easy and doesn't seem fair sometimes, but when they are the guys with the power then we're the ones who need to be more reasonable and reach them, not the other way around. The ones we can reach will do us a lot of good sometimes.