Let me tell You which is the reason why the Transnational Radical Party has been and is fighting against the death penalty.

The reason is not just humanitarian, it is not just the will to avoid persons, citizens of some state to be killed through and after a decision-making process involving dozend and often hundreds people. Not just that; that is not enough.

As you probably know the Transnational Radical Party has been of crucial importance in reaching the very important stage reached during the UN Human Rights Commission, last March. There, a Resolution calling every UN member States for a moratorium of executions was approved.

But why? Why we were, have been and are so active in such a field?

A state, a juridical system cannot kill a person, cannot kill a member of its community, because the laws, the juridical system is a contract, is and are the text of an agreement. Well, no agreement can bring to the planned death of one of the contractors.

Immagine a building, which ownership is shared among those who live there. The assembly of the owners can decide limitations to the right of property for some of the owners; but in no case they can decide, or vote, to take away the property right of one of the owners. They cannot do so. Just because it cannot happen without breaking the inner value of the contract on the basis of which they share the ownership of the building.

You affirm our fight against the death penalty to be in contradiction to our political proposal to legalize drugs and alchool.

No contradiction at all.

Look at the issue starting from looking at the reason why we figt against the death penalty...

If the state is something serving individuals, something created in order to help, to share expenses..., if the state is so, how can the state decide what an individual can drink, smoke, eat? It cannot; if not in case in which some behavior is dangerous for other persons, or jeopardize them.

I do think the reason why is the same.

You see, drugs are shit. They do exist, and there is no way to make them less dangerous or not dangerous at all, if not while putting them under a legal control: legalizing them.

What are called drugs in some parts of the world, are not considered drugs somewhere else.

What is clear is that everywhere alchool or drugs are forbidden by law, illigal markets are growing up, and criminality sees a constant increasing of its financial income.

It is not advisable to let criminal organizations to manage markets and traffics...

Legalize means switching-on the light on markets which are fully in the dirty hands of criminals; and it means not to leave citizens, youngsters or not, in the hands of criminal organizations. States should play different roles.

Historically, every prohibitionnist policy has constantly helped criminals to earn a lot of money, and it has always increased the number of drugs or alchool addicts, at least because they have no way to find their drugs - including alchool - but asking criminal organizations. Falling into their own dirty hands.

You see, religions are very important. Believers have to be respected in their beliefs, and in their rituality. Each individual has to have the right to believe whatever and whomever they want.

Induists do not eat beef because of religious reasons. The indian state does not forbid citizens to eat beef. Eating or not beef or pork meat is a decision which belongs to each individual: there cannot be any state deciding what citizens can eat or not.

Induists really believe - and I fully respect their right to believe so - that eating beef is bad, dangerous both for the health and for the soul. Others really believe alchool to be vad, dangerous. It is not so different.

What makes the difference is when a state decide to impose religious duties transforming them into legal duties, which have to be respected even by those who are not believers.

Please, just immagine a summit among big bosses of the illegal drug market: would they decide to support or finance organizations operating for or against legalization? Think over about it, please. And the same can be said about those country in which alchool is forbidden.

Paolo Pietrosanti

Transnational Radical Party