Candidate: Release drug war prisoners

The Network Against Prohibition’s Millner candidate has called on other candidates in this Saturday’s Northern Territory election to commit to the immediate release of all non-violent drug offenders from the Territory’s jails.

Rob Inder-Smith said: “The NAP rejects the police-state approach of the two major parties.

“We want to see an end to drug prohibition and a moratorium on the building of any more prisons.

“We are also opposed to zero-tolerance policing of young people. This is a knee-jerk reaction and, like drug prohibition, will almost certainly cause more harm than it is supposed to prevent.

“The criminologists’ motto is ‘zero tolerance equals zero sense’.

“Young people are already alienated from our society.”

The NAP is running five candidates for the NT Legislative Assembly, three of whom are vying for marginal seats.

Rob can be telephoned on (08) 8985 6334 or the NAP team on 0415 16 2525.

Alternatively you can look at the 2005 Election campaign page on the NAP website: http://www.napnt.org/election2005.html