It boils down to people who feel a need to impose themselves on others and tell them how to live their lives. Whether a crime is victimless is irrelevant. They cannot or will not leave people alone. You think it’s bad now, wait until direct stimulation of the brain’s pleasure centers via nanotech implants becomes possible. Implants with no lasting effects apart from psychological addiction. Social conservatives will completely lose it. “God” didn’t intend for us to do these things something or other.
The War on Drugs is a scam and big business for the US govt. It’s a marketed product just like the ‘War on Terror’. Through the propaganda machines the sheeple are told the ‘War’ is there to help, when it’s exactly the opposite. Under the guise of a ‘Drug War’, the CIA work with drug/war lords to control the drug traffic into the US and distribute it. The Afghanistan war is about drugs as well. Their largest export? Opium. I suspect the high rates of imprisonment are just a bonus for them. They get to make more money and keep the proles down.
Will it ever change? As long as the elites want to do it, they will.
We Americans vote in politicians who promise to say no to drugs and fight gun control. These politicians then ban drugs and start the war on drugs.
We Americans then buy our drugs illegally at huge markups, and huge profits to the cartels.
The Cartels then use all the money they made from us to buy assault weapons that We Americans so badly want legal, and then take them back to Mexico.
The Cartels then use these weapons to fight their government and their competition.
The Drugs stay illegal, condemned, readily available, and stably priced.
We Americans are so horrified by the drug problem we vote in more politicians who promise to win the War on Drugs.
And then We Americans think the problem is that there are too many illegal aliens coming in to look for jobs…
That whole US guns fueling mexican violence thing is only half true. Uncle Sam gives shitloads of free M16s to the Mexican government. The mexican government is hopelessly corrupt and their crooked cops sell those free m16s and other full auto hardware to the drug traffickers.
It boils down to people who feel a need to impose themselves on others and tell them how to live their lives. Whether a crime is victimless is irrelevant. They cannot or will not leave people alone. You think it’s bad now, wait until direct stimulation of the brain’s pleasure centers via nanotech implants becomes possible. Implants with no lasting effects apart from psychological addiction. Social conservatives will completely lose it. “God” didn’t intend for us to do these things something or other.
Well, you have to ask what is “required” for people to accept the American Condition?
Well, apparently the highest prison rate in the world is required. Of course, that was before the Great Recession started.
I laughed at one oldster and said they can’t crank it up enough to keep the lid on at this point.
And no, no they can’t.
The prison rate required for “Acceptance” is more than they can do right now.
The War on Drugs is a scam and big business for the US govt. It’s a marketed product just like the ‘War on Terror’. Through the propaganda machines the sheeple are told the ‘War’ is there to help, when it’s exactly the opposite. Under the guise of a ‘Drug War’, the CIA work with drug/war lords to control the drug traffic into the US and distribute it. The Afghanistan war is about drugs as well. Their largest export? Opium. I suspect the high rates of imprisonment are just a bonus for them. They get to make more money and keep the proles down.
Will it ever change? As long as the elites want to do it, they will.
We Americans vote in politicians who promise to say no to drugs and fight gun control. These politicians then ban drugs and start the war on drugs.
We Americans then buy our drugs illegally at huge markups, and huge profits to the cartels.
The Cartels then use all the money they made from us to buy assault weapons that We Americans so badly want legal, and then take them back to Mexico.
The Cartels then use these weapons to fight their government and their competition.
The Drugs stay illegal, condemned, readily available, and stably priced.
We Americans are so horrified by the drug problem we vote in more politicians who promise to win the War on Drugs.
And then We Americans think the problem is that there are too many illegal aliens coming in to look for jobs…
That whole US guns fueling mexican violence thing is only half true. Uncle Sam gives shitloads of free M16s to the Mexican government. The mexican government is hopelessly corrupt and their crooked cops sell those free m16s and other full auto hardware to the drug traffickers.
Question for you DA, have you ever done acid?