the CIA -- the world s largest narcotrafficking gang -- to obtain enormous revenues for funding black ops and death squads around the world. --- they don't need to traffic drugs ... there are plenty of extorted politicians in DC willing to give the CIA what they want.
On Mar 12, 5:55 pm, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > March 12, 2013Training Your Kid to be a Snitch (Against You)15 Benefits of > the War on Drugsby KEVIN CARSON > With American drug use levels essentially the same as -- and levels of > drug-related violence either the same as or lower than -- those in countries > like the Netherlands with liberal drug laws, public support for the War on > Drugs appears to be faltering. This was most recently evidenced in the > victory of major drug decriminalization initiatives in Colorado and > Washington. Some misguided commentators go so far as to say the Drug War is a > failure. > Here, to set the record straight, are fifteen ways in which it is a > resounding success: > 1. It has surrounded the Fourth Amendment s search and seizure restrictions, > and similar provisions in state constitutions, with so many good faith, > reasonable suspicion and reasonable expectation of privacy loopholes as to > turn them into toilet paper for all intents and purposes. > 2. In so doing, it has set precedents that can be applied to a wide range of > other missions, like the War on Terror. > 3. It has turned drug stores and banks into arms of the state that constantly > inform on their customers. > 4. Via programs like DARE, it has turned kids into drug informants who > monitor their parents for the authorities. > 5. As a result of the way DARE interacts with other things like Zero > Tolerance policies and warrantless inspections by drug-sniffing dogs, the > Drug War has conditioned children to believe the policeman is their friend, > and to view snitching as admirable behavior, and to instinctively look for an > authority figure to report to the second they see anything the least bit > eccentric or anomalous. > 6. Via civil forfeiture, it has enabled the state to create a lucrative > racket in property stolen from citizens never charged, let alone convicted, > of a crime. Best of all, even possessing large amounts of cash, while > technically not a crime, can be treated as evidence of intent to commit a > crime -- saving the state the trouble of having to convert all that stolen > tangible property into liquid form. > 7. It has enabled local police forces to undergo military training, create > paramilitary SWAT teams that operate just like the U.S. military in an > occupied enemy country, get billions of dollars worth of surplus military > weaponry, and wear really cool black uniforms just like the SS. > 8. Between the wars on the urban drug trade and rural meth labs, it has > brought under constant harassment and surveillance two of the demographic > groups in our country -- inner city blacks and rural poor whites -- least > socialized to accept orders from authority either in the workplace or > political system, and vital components of any potential movement for freedom > and social justice. > 9.In addition, it brings those who actually fall into the clutches of the > criminal justice system into a years-long cycle of direct control through > imprisonment and parole. > 10. By disenfranchising convicted felons, it restricts participation in the > state s democratic processes to only citizens who are predisposed to respect > the state s authority. > 11. In conjunction with shows like Law and Order and COPS, it conditions the > middle class citizenry to accept police authoritarianism and lawlessness as > necessary to protect them against the terrifying threat of people voluntarily > ingesting substances into their own bodies. > 12. Through if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear rhetoric, it > conditions the public to assume the surveillance state means well and that > only evildoers object to ubiquitous surveillance. > 13. In conjunction with endless military adventures overseas and soldiers > defend our freedoms rhetoric, it conditions the public to worship authority > figures in uniform, and predisposes them to cheerfully accept future > augmentations of military and police authority without a peep of protest. > 14. It creates enormously lucrative opportunities for the large banks -- one > of the most important real constituencies of the American government -- to > launder money from drug trafficking. > 15. Thanks to major drug production centers like the Golden Triangle of > Southeast Asia, the opium industry in Afghanistan, and the cocaine industry > in South America, it enables the CIA -- the world s largest narcotrafficking > gang -- to obtain enormous revenues for funding black ops and death squads > around the world. This network of clandestine intelligence agencies, > narcotraffickers and death squads, by the way, is the other major real > constituency of the American government. > The Drug War would indeed be a failure if its real function was to reduce > drug consumption or drug-related violence. But the success or failure of > state policies is rightly judged by the extent to which they promote the > interests served by the state. The Drug War is a failure only if the state > exists to serve > you.http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/03/12/15-benefits-of-the-war-on-drugs/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=15-benefits-of-the-war-on-drugs -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "PoliticalForum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
