I’m posting this for the Nashua High South chapter of Young Americans for Liberty and Students for Sensible Drug Policy. This upcoming Wednesday we are holding a candlelight vigil at City Hall in Nashua. It’s right across the street from where the Nashua Weekly Liberty Discourse meets and where the Liberty Forum 420 celebration is going to be held. It would be nice to get as many libertarians there as possible to attend.

The Facebook event is here.

On Sunday morning, 2010-01-31, we learned of an another horror in Mexico’s drug war.

Fourteen young people were murdered among twenty-five shot at a party celebrating their high school soccer team victory and one student’s birthday. More here.

In any other time and any other place, this would be unbelievable. In any other time and any other place, the world would be riveted to “on the scene” accounts of this outrage.

In other times and other places—school shootings in the U.S., Scotland, Germany—when students are shot, there are demands for policy change to protect them, to address underlying issues, and the related commerce.

But these days, for the students of Mexico, there remains a stunning silence. It is as though the world accepts as normal the bloodshed of the innocent high school students because the bloodshed of the failing war on drugs is normal. This is not normal!

SSDP says this is too much blood.

This is where we come in. On Thursday, 2010-03-04, the Nashua High South chapter of SSDP and the Young Americans for Liberty will be hosting a candlelight vigil at City Hall. However, we can not do this alone, which is why we need all of you to invite as many people as you can to this event. The more people we get the better our chances are of being heard! Together we can take a stand and tell the world that we will not stand for this violence any longer!

Taken from a post on the Free Keene forum.