Yes, indeed, a criminally stupid war on drugs.
Intelligent analysts have said this for many years. Milton Friedman wrote on this subject, fearing for the loss of basic freedoms in America with police crashing down doors and waving deadly weapons around in people’s homes on mere suspicion or the tips of others wishing "to get" someone.
But the intelligent analysts’ efforts have been all to no purpose.
Why?
Look at the stomach-turning television shows of a few years back, shows like 'Cops,' showing the clearest police brutality and disregard for human rights. These shows were actually very popular.
Consider the incarceration rate in the United States, the highest in the advanced world by far, although that clearly has not impacted the United States’ claims to the highest murder and violent crime rates in the advanced world.
The United States, with its obsessive/compulsive personality disorder, knows no other way of doing things.
The template for the war on drugs has been applied yet again to the mindless war on terror. Of course, you cannot have a war on methods or beliefs and, of course, the use of terror to strike back for injustices is as old as civilization, but those elemental facts do not in any way affect America's current great crusade.
Oh, and we must not forget the decades-long war against godless communism in which the U.S squandered something on the order of 3 trillion dollars and countless lives in other countries, all while building the careers back home of monsters like J. Edgar Hoover.
Hoover broke every rule of decency and human rights and democratic values, yet his name remains in big metal letters on the FBI building in Washington.
What other land speaks at the highest level about democracy and human rights while sending B-52s to carpet-bomb some vaguely threatening people abroad? Who else sends money and warehouses-full of armaments to an abusive state like Israel which uses them to kill children and women while enforcing apartheid and ethnic-cleansing?
But Israel, like the U.S., is a democracy, isn’t it? One, moreover, surrounded by evil too, just the way the U.S. sees itself in the world.
You cannot hope to change America’s insane war on drugs without changing an entire underlying way of thinking, full of lurid delusions, a quite insane way of thinking, actually.
EVERYONE KNOWS BUSH TOOK COCAINE YET THIS SAME SELF-RIGHTEOUS CREATURE NEVER GAVE A PARDON TO THE MANY OFFENDERS FILLING TEXAS'S DEATH ROW AND ITS PRISONS
