Special Edition Kids Against Drugs Newsletter:
Empowering Kids to be Kids Against Drugs Issue #2.7
An International Warning and My Challenge To You!
Michael J. Meredith (Mick) Publisher
November 21, 2002
Dear,
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Weekly Thought:
"When we don't teach children the truth about drugs and
proclaim strong anti-drug messages in our homes and communities a terrible thing
happens. . .our kids get hooked on drugs."
Michael J. Meredith, Founder 1989
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I am launching an aggressive promotion to let the world know about my program. There are several things I am doing with the objective being to get interested adults to the web site and then get them to buy and use my unique life-saving program.
I am including here a copy of an e-mail solo ad that I am sending out to targeted lists that I can purchase or trade with totaling more than 5 million. These lists will target MLM’ers, Affiliate Joiners, Working Mom’s, Home Schoolers and general audience parents.
Next I’m including a full copy of the script of the web page they are being sent to. I invite you to read the full text. I can guarantee you a rise in your adrenaline level and a change in perspective.
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Subject Line: “Update! RE: MLM Horror Targets Children!”
World’s Largest (and secret) MLM Group Targets Every Youth for SLAVERY! Many young people are DYING everyday!
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Do You Know What the Largest MLM Organization in the World is?
I’ll give you a few clues:
- It is a worldwide billion-dollar organization.
- It has commissioned independent sales representatives in every city, large or small, metro or rural, throughout the industrialized world.
- Its representatives are required to purchase and have ample inventory on hand for immediate delivery.
- Its average representative earns thousands of dollars weekly in sales commissions.
- It sells a wide variety of popular products and has eager customers from all walks of life buying from it daily.
- It’s so powerful it can mount campaigns to change the laws in virtually every country it is in.
- It controls many government officials.
- Its influence controls much of the worldwide music, movie and entertainment industry.
- Its products are habit forming and addictive.
- Its number one target market worldwide is young people.
- The reported youngest arrested representative-making hundreds of dollars a week was only six years old.
Well, if you haven’t guessed by now the largest and most successful MLM Organization in the world is the Drug Cartel. It manufactures, distributes and supplies recreational drugs to the world marketplace. Its products have directly affected or influenced the lives of at least 90% of the world’s population. It is big, powerful and rich. It is very successful at what it does. It distributes products that are illegal almost everywhere and that literally enslave and/or destroy its customers’ lives.
Here are a few facts to think about:
- It uses big mainframe computers with highly sophisticated computer tracking programs (pure top line multilevel software) to keep track of its whole system of production, warehousing, shipping and sales.
- It uses all forms of modern transport vehicles in its production and distribution system. It even has a fleet of small submarines bringing its products to our remote beaches where they are whisked away in small trucks.
- It never holds opportunity meetings or advertises. It does all of its recruiting one-on-one in secrecy.
- It recruits young people to work the front line. If the young front line workers don’t work out, steal profits and/or product, or work phony deals, then they are often killed.
- Its customers become enslaved to it by using the products. The customers abandon families, friends and jobs. To exist, the customers lie, steal and cheat to buy more product and they become paying customers living an out of control lifestyle until the day they die.
- Its business is all cash, no credit cards, checks, trades or returns.
- It doesn’t pay taxes to any government anywhere.
- It uses its profits to fund terrorist activities worldwide.
- It appears its intent is to destroy individuals and families, to break down and control law and order.
- It uses popular, well-educated and well-financed individuals to dupe the public into accepting and legalizing its sordid and deadly products.
I could go on and on, but I think you get the picture. This whole thing is pretty scary if you think about it.
Let me ask you if you know what stops the Cartel’s work cold?
It’s when an individual refuses to use its products. I put forward the thought that if everyone stopped using these recreational drugs, then the law of supply and demand would take over. It’s a fact; as long as we are willing to purchase and use its products it will find a way to deliver. (It is big on customer service.)
The war on drugs is more than stopping foreign suppliers, more than arresting small time users and suppliers, more than bribing law enforcement and it’s more than one’s right to choose to use.
It’s a battle for an ideology that sets high standards of moral character, honesty, integrity, respect for others, love of self and others and chastity. It’s a battle for an ideology that encourages education, discovery, achievement, excellence and one that respects and encourages family and religion.
It’s leading the fight to protect us from the assault on the traditional family and its values, standards, relationships, friendships, feelings of trust, safety, security and strength afforded by living together as a family. It’s also fighting to protect us from the assault on the natural right to be a family with children to live a healthy normal life, where an individual is free to choose life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, where we can own a home, worship God and live in peace and safety.
It’s a battle to preserve and enjoy the freedom and prosperity our fathers and mothers fought and died for. In today’s world we have been blessed with advanced technology, information and discovery, varied skills and opportunities and an easy comfortable lifestyle. We have a high degree of health, a wide and varied diet, and worldwide instant communication, travel conveniences, speed and comfort.
If we allow recreational drugs to come in and make slaves and zombies of our family members then we are going to pay the ultimate price: the loss of a child, a parent and possible destruction of the family unit and ultimately the collapse of society as we know it today.
This attack on our personal family and lifestyle is closer and more likely to happen than a stranger snatching a child. It’s scarier than a sniper shooting randomly at people from a position of hiding. It is more horrible to our children and us than homicide bombers blowing themselves up in faraway crowded places. It is just as deadly and more likely to happen to our children than a thief stealing an airplane loaded with people and flying it into a tall building. (Usually the average parents of a young drug user have no idea or hint their child is using recreational drugs for more than one to two years before the use is discovered.)
The sneaky, secret recruiting of our children into a world of deceit, theft, crime and murder is among us right now. It’s in our own homes, church and every school. It’s being glamorized in the music our family members listen to and memorize. It’s in the movies and television entertainment. It’s out in the open in the neighborhoods, the parks, the malls and other places people gather. I can assure you right now, your kids and grandkids are being pressured into using recreational drugs. What are you doing about it? Have you got a plan?
Every President of the United States since President Eisenhower has encouraged parents to sit with their children and talk with them about recreational drug use. President George W. Bush is even going further by emphasizing it every time he speaks and by mounting powerful visual ads on TV, radio, in newspapers and magazines.
This Presidential encouragement is great and it’s valuable to have to raise the public awareness level, but we cannot expect the government to be the source to teach kids about recreational drugs. The drug dealers on the street are already teaching them more about drugs every minute of everyday than what the schools and TV ads are teaching now and for years to come. Who knows what is being discussed and taught about drugs in the home.
President Bush recently emphasized (and I agree with him) that it is the parents’ right, responsibility and obligation to teach their own kids about the issues involved in recreational drug use and to set a home based agenda of encouragement and support to refuse recreational drug use. He further boldly stated that parents have to do it now!
Sadly, we are living at a time when people of all ages are being desensitized by the mind-numbing humdrum of our 24-hour entertainment media. The movies and television glamorize the drug lifestyle without showing the dark side. The popular dress of the day is sleazy and revealing, leaving little to modesty.
 | We leave our children at schools where the apathetic attitudes of a large part of our educators, who fight only to protect their jobs and turf, are barely teaching and literally baby sitting them. |
| Everyday young mothers literally run out of the child care provider’s facility so they don’t have to hear their child screaming “Mommy, don’t leave me here, take me with you.” |
This chaotic lifestyle and parent example to the young child is powerful mind conditioning.
It’s teaching kids that they are on their own, that no one cares about them and that they’re not important to their parents. This mindset grows with the child into the teen and adult years. This is an example of when the old saying “action is louder than words” certainly is true.
The youthful drug peddlers know this and use this confused state of the young mind of their potential customer as an advantage to tell them they can escape all their troubles, feel good and just enjoy themselves by using their ‘magic potions’. Now-a-days the “young customer” is usually eager to at least try the drug being peddled that day and the ‘friendly’ supplier has plenty of “Free Samples” to accommodate. Everyday, hundreds if not thousands of lonely kids are trying out drugs for the first time.
Studies show that the main reason kids try drugs is peer pressure.
Basically, the kid has three options: Say “No” and walk away; Say “No” and hang around to be asked again and again; Say “Sure, Let’s Do It!” Is your kid equipped to respond to and resist this kind of pressure?
Well, if all the President’s men, the Clergy, Law Enforcement and Educators are telling us that it’s the Parents’ responsibility to teach their kids about drugs and sit and talk with them about drugs, the real questions are: “What’s A Parent To Do?” and “If I do have something to say, will all this effort really work to keep my kid off recreational drugs?”
The answers are: “Plenty and Yes, but you have to be organized with a plan of action to do it with the desired long lasting impact.”
The government has prepared thousands of pages of excellent, worthwhile information that are available to the public. This information includes research papers, studies by various groups and agencies, reports from staff to administrators, court documents, police, DEA and FBI reports and of course all of the studies done by several non-profit groups who were funded by various government grants. I suppose the government expects average parents to sit down at the computer and use it to research this information and then explain it to their kids. That will take a lot of dedication, time and effort from the concerned parent.
Well, I’m here to tell you that I have already done that and have used what I learned, to write the perfect plan of action parents could use to become both informed and organized. With this plan they can discuss with their own kids recreational drug use and teach them the straight facts about drugs and what they really do to the body. Then they can put an effective and powerful plan of action in place so the kids will know why and how to choose to be drug-free.
I call this plan the “Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan”. With years of research and more than four years in the making, I have been able to put together this premiere program for parents to actually do some fantastic parenting. I can assure you there is nothing else like it. Using this action plan will prepare you so you can “Take A Stand” to protect your kids from recreational drugs.
Let me do a little bragging here: the Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan is a clear, concise action plan that’s easy-to-use and understand. It’s the perfect way to become informed, organized and prepared. It’s a thoughtful new way to communicate with kids about recreational drug use. It’s a powerful new way to prepare the whole family to turn away from drugs. It’s the best family plan available to prevent recreational drug use.
The “Plan” is illustrated throughout and contains more than152 pages of carefully written text. This includes parent orientation, instructions, forms, resource information and seven action and information packed discussion outlines and script. I have also included the complete, updated and expanded original Identi-Child personal ID Kit.
The “Plan” is full of illustrations to make it easier to understand and use. It includes certificates of recognition, a drug-free pledge and signs with anti-drug messages.
The “Plan” comes complete with tab dividers to make it easy to keep track and sort all of the lessons, resources and the Identi-Child ID Kit. A 3 ring binder is included making the program easy-to-use and store additional information you may find from personal study and research.
The “Plan” is the premiere tool of communication to open a fair and balanced discussion between parent and child about the serious issue of recreational drug use. Its use acts like a “third person” at the table because it is the expert and the parent is using and referring to it. The Child doesn’t discount the validity of the information that is coming from Mom or Dad. It lessens, if not eliminates, the “Oh, it’s only mom” attitude so many children have today.
The “Plan” is a buddy system. This fun, easy-to-do format establishes guidelines for each family member to follow in case of “what if”.
The “Plan” is a teaching system. It involves the participation of everyone present. It guides the discussion; it suggests topics for research and reporting, contains visual aids, parent orientation and instructions, and suggests activities during and after the family discussions. It involves the whole family in planning, discussing and follow-up. This makes sense because the informed and trained family member receives information from school, church and other places as reinforcement of what they already practice at home.
The “Plan” guides parents in setting up an information and prevention techniques wall of defense around their homes and families. Families set up a barrier of protection that becomes stronger every time they sit down in family discussion and study this powerful life-saving information.
Using the “Plan” makes sound financial sense. The time and money invested in purchasing, studying and implementing the “Plan” into the family lifestyle can prevent astronomical costs that would be incurred by the family from addiction to recreational drugs by a family member. For example: Do you know what the ticket for a DUI costs in most states? You can add legal fees, court costs, treatment costs and damages if it was the result of an auto accident. In addition, there is possible jail time; loss of employment and if it was a young college student there is the possible loss of scholarship funding.
Think about this: “When a person thinks about kids and drugs they should think about keeping them from using recreational drugs. If they don’t then they need to be thinking about getting treatment, covering legal expenses and dealing with an addiction lifestyle for the rest of the child’s life.”
I believe that with real parental support and understanding of the recreational drug issue, even the youngest child would be able to resist ‘peer pressure’ and eagerly avoid drug use like the plague. Using the “Plan” instructs and guides each family member to accomplish that important personal life-saving skill.
I can assure everyone that the Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan is the best common sense way for most families to learn about and then prevent the use of recreational drugs today!
You might think that with everything this plan can do for you and your family that it is going to cost an arm and a leg. Educational lesson plans and teaching aids are sold in individual packets so they can have moderate individual prices to spread the ‘real’ price of the whole package out.
Other educational programs structured like mine, are selling on the Internet for anywhere from $249.00 and up to thousands of dollars. Just ask the “Home Schoolers” how much they pay for the programs they use. Probably the most famous educational program is “Hooked on Phonics” and it sells for four hundred dollars and more, depending on where you buy it and what package you buy.
I’ve been advised by marketing experts to sell my Family Action Training Plan as a back end product for $299. They say I should write a quick e-book to sell for $29 using it to sell the “Plan” for the $299. To be honest with you I have given this approach a lot of serious consideration.
Well, I’ve got great news! I’ve included everything needed to go through the whole program in one easy-to-use package to keep the price down, way down, for your family. The complete “Plan” is priced at $79.95 plus $7.95 shipping and handling. That’s everything your family needs to learn and then be able to teach about recreational drugs. You then need to put in the time and the effort.
We’ve all heard the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Well, drug prevention is not a quick fix thing one can do but it sure is worth it. You can’t take a pill to keep it from happening to you or your family. Real, effective and powerful drug prevention takes commitment, time, love, support and sacrifice coupled with a well-written action plan. Again, I can assure you that the “Kids Against Drugs Family Action Training Plan” is the best common sense way for most families to learn about and then prevent the use of recreational drugs today! And it’s only $79.95 per family plus $7.95 shipping and handling.
Well, let me get on to what I have in mind and to the reason I wrote this letter. I’ve got the program to stop kids using recreational drugs. Now how should I distribute it?
For more than twenty years I have struggled with this question. Yes I have gone to schools, churches and youth groups. The most common response has been, “why don’t you give it away?” Or, “this is great but I think you should give it to us.”
Well, I believe in the power of Free Enterprise. It’s a powerful system for product and/or service distribution. It pays it’s own way and if profitable pays taxes. It provides jobs and keeps people off of welfare. It’s the reason the United States and other industrial nations continue to prosper in spite of all opposition and liberal schemes out to destroy it. It’s the gateway for this type of program to get into the hands of concerned citizens who want to use it.
I haven’t taken any public grants, loans or other type of government help to put this together and I’ve got several years of my life tied up in this program. It has taken a lot of time, hard work and money pulling it all together. I think that it’s only fair that anyone who receives the “Plan” and uses it should pay for it. All educational publishers charge for their books and programs, “Hooked On Phonics” charges for its program and so should I.
The second consideration was that I wanted this to get into the hands of people who would use it. After all it won’t do any good to anyone sitting on some bookshelf somewhere in some one’s office or in a warehouse. People who get something for free don’t appreciate what they have and most of the time they never ever use it. For example, when was the last time you read a book that someone gave to you as a gift?
The third consideration was that I want this to be used in the home. I believe this is one of those things that parents should set the pace, establish the ground rules and set the plan of action for the child. A well-prepared child is more self-reliant than one who has little or no preparation. When that preparation takes place in the home by loving and caring parents with mutual support from family members then the information learned in public places can be handled as supportive of what they already know and use or as information that should be disregarded.
After all this and many other considerations I have identified my target market as being middle class parents, both couples and single, who are working and away from the home most of the time. Their kids are the one’s who are at home alone a great deal of the time listening to the loud music, watching the MTV shows, teen oriented movies and generally being exposed to the constant message of “its all right to use drugs, use profanity, have sex, be rude to parents and other personally degrading behavior”. Their kids are the most vulnerable to the peer pressure from their drug using friends.
I further divide this target market into a smaller group of parents who are willing to spend money on this type of program and then use it in the home. They also would not be afraid of sharing the “Plan” with other parents and certainly receive compensation for doing so. It didn’t take long for me to come to the conclusion that people who were involved in various MLM programs fit this specific parameter.
Did you know Multi-level marketing is the most powerful and successful form of commerce ever. It incorporates “word-of-mouth advertising”, “personal motivation” and “one-on-one contact” plus the incentive of “direct commissions” and “passive income” into one convenient package. It has adapted to the use of personal computers and desktop publishing in maintaining one’s home business. Today it also embraces the “power of the Internet” for rapid communication, advertising and recruiting. Its networks can successfully and rapidly distribute any kind of product or program. Its participants can earn substantial incomes.
The Drug Cartel understands the power and strength that MLM has and has been very successful using the system to spread drugs through out the world. With this system they are targeting your kids everyday.
So I got to thinking “wouldn’t it be great to use the same system to counter act the effects of the drug pushers?” A system that takes drug prevention straight to the people and puts it into the hands of those who would use it with the result being “well informed families who are choosing to have a drug-free lifestyle”. This is why I am introducing the “Kids Against Drugs Campaign For Drug-Free Families” to those people who are involved in MLM programs. MLM people can make this happen and very fast.
The “KAD Campaign For Drug-Free Families” uses the basic essentials of MLM, Network Marketing and other person-to-person types of marketing to spread this great anti-drug program across the nation and around the world. I have incorporated a sophisticated two-tier affiliate program attached to a top-level shopping cart to keep track of all of this.
I am launching with targeted broadcast e-mail to let MLM’ers know about this and encourage the MLM’ers to join, get their own “Family Action Training Plan”. They then can use the Internet to tell their friends about it and encourage them to get their own “Plan”. If this works the way I am envisioning it, it should spread very fast and the best thing is that it pays its own way and gets into the homes of those who will use it. All this for $79.95 per family.
Now there is an opportunity for MLM to make history and to literally save the lives of millions of children for many years to come.
I am launching the “Kids Against Drugs Campaign For Drug-Free Families” and I’m challenging MLM’ers everywhere to join us and help spread the word. It’s easy, fun and worthwhile. It easily pays its own way and does not compete or interfere with any MLM Company with which you may be affiliated.
With this great program MLM’er parents have the opportunity to Take A Stand Against the onslaught of recreational drugs into their homes and communities and to protect their children against this life-threatening danger being imposed upon them. I challenge you to join me in this great cause TODAY! I’m sure you’ll be glad you did.
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Pretty interesting isn’t it? If this works the way I think it will it won’t be long before we have thousands of people using the Family Action Training Plan in their homes and showing their kids how to choose to be Drug-Free. If you haven’t got your copy I would urge you to do so now. It is really worth it for a whole lot of reasons including your child’s future.
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20 years ago I took on the challenge to find and do something about stopping recreational drug-use. I have learned much along the way. It has been exciting and a challenge. I ask you to join me in the Campaign For Drug-Free Families and become a Parent Against Drugs? Will you share this great program with your family, especially your kids? I believe the best protection from personable drug-pushing terrorists is a well-prepared Kid Against Drugs. Being part of the Kids Against Drugs Campaign For Drug-Free Families will give you the tools and support to your kid to be a Kid Against Drugs.
Thank you for subscribing and I welcome you. I promise I will use every tool and my total effort to make this e-zine a valuable and informative publication.
Sincerely,
Michael J. Meredith, Publisher.
America’s Drug Prevention Network, Inc.
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