Nov. 10, 2025 Editor, The News-Gazette: Recent seizures of illegal drugs and drug dealers in the Caribbean has been criticized in some quarters by persons lamenting the death of “poor hapless fishermen” riding the dope boats toward America. These “fishermen” are being paid $500 a day, or more, to maneuver drug boats northward. Each of these “fishermen” is fully aware the cargo is illegal drugs, because real fishing fishermen don’t get paid that kind of money to “fish.”
Fast forward: Drug dealing is the world’s most lucrative “business” because the “customer” is addicted and must have his “fix,” guaranteeing the dope dealer a constant and fully secure occupation ... as long as he can avoid the cops. A lot of people are drug dealers because it is not only easy money but it substitutes for a real job that might not only support a family but could contribute to the betterment of the social fabric while avoiding the problem of brain-soaked, addicted ne’er do wells living under a plastic canvas on the streets of San Francisco or New York or maybe Lexington.
America didn’t have a significant problem with illegal drugs until around the late 1960s, but looking back over history, the Rand Society in England (1923), a Marxist movement bent on spreading “communism” over the world, first suggested they get youth interested in: sex, drugs, loud music and sports. The society declared that these pursuits would support, over time, the society’s efforts to “overthrow” the capitalist economic system that undergirds individual freedom in classical constitutional republics.
Selling dope to Americans is an activity the Trump administration seeks to extinguish. Lots of people may not like DJT, but this activity, wiping out the dope trade, is a good pursuit ... by any rational standard. DON HENKE Goshen
