from WhatReallyHappened.Com

Just for your consideration. The so-called "WAR ON DRUGS" is lost. That's not an opinion, it's a fact. I believe it was George Santayana who once said that, "Those who fail to understand the past, are doomed to repeat it". This country tried to legislate morality with prohibition, which of course failed miserably. The result of this catastrophic failure gave rise to organized crime in the US, or at the very least, provided the social canvas upon which organized crime would flourish. When prohibition was repealed, different "products" were simply dropped into these underground distribution networks resulting in stellar profits, the likes of which, had never been seen.

The governments' response was characteristically inappropriate and as the "heat" came down on organized crime, street prices went up, and so did profits. The government then responded with more laws, prisons, judges and law enforcement and once again, street prices went up and so did profits. The US government fueled and fanned the flames of the "drug problem" by treating it as a crime instead of a social issue.

At this point, if drugs were made "legal" the resulting loss in terms of jobs in the US would wreak economic havoc and cause a deep(er)depression. Fully one third of the US Military is involved in the drug war to some extent, the entire DEA bureaucracy, one third of the FBI, nearly the entire US Customs bureaucracy, with the exception of a mere token number of agents devoted to tracking, arresting and prosecuting child pornographers. Border Patrol has a dual mission, alien and drug interdiction. The infamous IRS, ATF and US Marshals Office, along with every every single Intelligence agency in the US, all have significant roles in the drug war. How about the State and Federal prison systems? How many of those incarcerated are for drug crimes alone and how many guards, social workers, parole and probation officers make their house and car payments with state and federal money because of the "WAR ON DRUGS" What about lawyers and judges? You know, those guys that influence our lives by passing and upholding laws and taking campaign contributions from the big Pharmaceutical corporations. Is anyone so naïve as to believe that lawyers, judges, cops, etc... want drugs to be made legal? They would then be restricted to ambulance chasing or perhaps be forced to go to medical school and get a productive job.

Obviously there is an overwhelming tide of illegal drugs coming into the US despite the well documented and funded interdiction efforts. It should therefore be no surprise to anyone that the US Government itself is involved in bringing drugs into the US while at the same time funding efforts to stop the flow. Don't believe me? Google Freeway Ricky Ross.

BTW, Afghanistan is now producing more raw opium than ever before.

* "Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." --Albert Einstein.

and one more:

"None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free." Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe German dramatist, novelist, poet, & scientist (1749 - 1832)

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