"In Russia, pet shoots you."

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 3:02 PM, G Money <gm0n3...@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> No, this is one very awful and unfortunate incident in a country of 300+
> Million people. I'm not supporting the drug war in it's current
> state....but
> don't think that cops barging into houses and shooting the family pet is
> anywhere near a common occurrence.
>
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 12:37 PM, Vivec <gel21...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/05/this-is-your-war-on-drugs/56380/
> >
> > This is the neverending War on Drugs, the precursor to the neverending
> War
> > on Terror.
> >
> > "This is our nation's drug enforcement in a nutshell.  We started out by
> > banning the things.  And people kept taking them.  So we made the
> > punishments more draconian.  But people kept selling them.  So we pushed
> > the
> > markets deep into black market territory, and got the predictable
> violence
> > .
> > . . and then we upped our game, turning drug squads into
> quasi-paramilitary
> > raiders.  Somewhere along the way, we got so focused on enforcing the law
> > that we lost sight of the purpose of the law, which is to make life in
> > America *better*."
> >
> > All so someone can't smoke some grass,or snort some powder and get high
> > like
> > people have done for centuries.
> >
> >
> >
>
> 

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