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Drug War Victims Are Multiplying

Take a look at this picture. I love my country, but not what some people have done to it. We're now the most militarized, most violent, and country the most proportionately imprisoned, all due to the failed drug war in my view. As the Onion headline read, the drug war is over: the drugs won. They'll always win. Like Iraq, this war is simply creating causalities after causalties, all while failing to even strike at the intended goal of deterring drug use or symbolically striking at it. The only thing the drug war has achieved is the deaths of countless civilians at the hands of its government or at the hands of drug dealers fighting over turf like the gangsters of alcohol prohibition.What is this war doing in terms of reducing crime? Lets ignore the endemic corruption that many police officers decry due to the drug war...continue to full post

Full post as published by Defending Those People on December 11, 2006 (boomark / email).