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a War On Thugs is what’s desperately lacking and overdue.
Nice video there DR. Q
The war on drugs is just another wealth transfer program for the parasitic class to use against the productive class. Reducing drug use has nothing to do with it. Its all about increasing state power. All those bodies are just more “collateral damage.”
Good stuff.
I worked in a SOUTHCOM component for several years. SOUTHCOM is the regional U.S. military command with responsiblity for South America and most of Central America and the Carribbean. When I began the job, I was adamantly opposed to the legalization of drugs and was shocked when a veteran colonel mentioned in an off-hand manner that he supported the legalization of drugs. He then explained that I would come to agree the longer I worked drug-war related activities. He was right. My job wasn’t in the anti-drug operation area, but since that is such a major part of the SOUTHCOM job, I couldn’t help but work on the periphery from time to time. After a few years, it just began to seem pointless. There are ships, aircraft and troops from many, many nations all performing coordinated activities to interdict drug supplies from flowing into the U.S. The cost is astronomical and utterly useless. Here’s how I know that. I was working in JIATF-SOUTH and met a guy working in assessments. This is a quality control group which has the responsiblity for assessing how well the organization runs its activities. I asked him how he assessed the success of our anti-drug operations and he replied that they buy drugs on the streets of south Florida to spot check prices. I asked how we were doing and he said that drug prices have been in steady decline for the past twenty years. In other words, more drugs are getting into Florida today than twenty years ago. So much more that guys selling it have been forced to continuously lower their prices. If that’s true, then the whole game is a pointless failure. At that moment, I became pro-legalization. The colonel was right. Work long enough in the drug war and you will one day realize it is stupid. By the way. I still haven’t used any illicit drugs. That’s just not something I’m interested in, but I figure it’s a lot like beer. Some people will be alcolohics, but the rest of us just drink it watching the game on Sunday and there’s nothing wrong with that.