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Newsbrief:
Drug
Warrior
Maginnis
Leaves
Family
Research
Council
10/4/02
Robert Maginnis, a leading
proponent of war against Iraq, traditional military values and the war
on drugs, announced last week that he has resigned from the arch-conservative
advocacy group the Family Research Council. Maginnis, a retired Army
lieutenant colonel, has been a ubiquitous presence on television talk shows
and source for harried newspaper reporters seeking a Neanderthal perspective
on military and drug issues.
In recent months, Maginnis
has pronounced against medical marijuana, against industrial hemp, against
Canada providing sancturary to persons fleeing US drug policy, against
the Unitarians for their progressive stand on drug policy. But he
is not just a naysayer. Maginnis is a strong supporter of US war
in Colombia. He also supports widespread drug testing in the nation's
schools.
Maginnis, who was vice president
of policy for the Family Research Council, told the Washington Times last
week that he was leaving because the council was dropping military and
anti-drug issues from its agenda. But a spokesman for the council
told DRCNet that report was "inaccurate." Council media coordinator
Bill Murray said that drug policy was "no longer in our top tier of issues,
but is something we will continue to monitor and speak out on." Murray
said the council had other spokespersons available to address drug policy,
but was unable to name one.
But Maginnis isn't going
away. "I'm clearly hoping to stay very much involved, and I'm making
rounds in the city looking for folks who are interested in these issues
from a conservative perspective," he told the Times. Maybe he should
hook up with that other unemployed drug warrior, former Clinton deputy
drug czar Bob Weiner, whose lack of a sinecure has not prevented him from
sending out press releases whenever the mood strikes.
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Issue #257, 10/4/02
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