What do you think about the war on drugs?

Question

Personally I don't think it's such a great idea to have our soldiers on drugs during a war.

Answer 1

The US imprisons more humans than any nation in history.



Prisoners are made corporate slaves in US prison industrial complex, killing free markets, disemploying US working class, and injecting US richclass owned and produced industrial products at unfair competitive price levels into world markets (as no labor costs). And to think that on top, all prison industrial operational costs are paid for by YOU, US working class (not to mention you pay for the thieving judge, court, and prosecutorial and “defense” lawyer team costs) -- just imagine the cost-free US richclass slave profits.



(To wit, developing sexual abnormalities and other human often-psychological abuses within such a disgusting US richclass operated slave system are simply symptoms of a mammoth human slavery crime.)



So -- why does the US have 23.4% of the world’s prison population -- when they have only 4.5% of the world’s population? That’s worse than scary. What’s the message in this? It’s this: US richclass oppression causes crime -- purposefully.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States



“The United States has the highest documented incarceration rate in the world at 754 persons in prison or jail per 100,000 (as of 2008)… The United States has 4.52% of the world's population and 23.4% of the world's prison population.”



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population



And on Y!A, one after another someone introduces a dilemma and then asks, “Should we throw them in prison?” Your US richclass slavers have a bunch of very well-trained masochistic publics who cannot grasp yet envision any of ten thousand effective solutions other than abuse. Why am I the only one seeing through this US richclass-abuse scam aimed at prison slavery profits?



US richclass oppression of under-classes has your publics blaming and targeting the poor for crime (very misdirected attention) -- while US richclass oppression causes the crime, and while US richclass prison industrial complex take down slave-profits galore (so much for “free markets”). It's an easy gig.



SLAVERY AND FREE MARKETS CANNOT COEXIST.



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This article starts out slowly, but ends with a bang. You can verify US richclass slave industry therein:



http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/1887.html



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Regarding capital punishment, you are aware that your US richclass legal industrial complex uses capital punishment system to thieve mega-multi-millions in working class taxpayer funds -- aren't you? Courtroom trial after trial upon appeal after appeal, soon enough they've got 50-100 judges and lawyers (far over and above the cost of imprisonment and courthouse duties besides) slithering along behind these taxpayer-cash-fodder condemned prisoners for usually decades, stealing every penny from the public that they can possibly bleed (no pun intended).



You working class go on talking about capital punishment like it's a moral issue for as long as you can draw base emotion -- but know that richclass legal industry isn't. They're raking in your blood and sweat to the tune of millions upon millions from your tax coffers.



SMART



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The death penalty as craftily orchestrated by US richclass legal industrial complex exposed:



> it costs at least $2 million in legal fees to try a single death penalty case -- nearly four times higher than comparable murder trials

> the automatic appeal process costs an average of $700,000 in legal fees (fees or rip-offs -- whichever term you prefer) -- but naturally numerous appeals will be undertaken (compounding the fees, of course)

> there are, in addition, at least $1.2 million in execution costs

> from 1973-1998, Florida alone spent $57 million on 18 executions (guess who got the cash from US working class tax coffers? If you said “US richclass legal industrial complex,” don’t expect them to offer you even a cheap cigar -- unless charging you double for it)

> the cost of a death penalty case from prosecution to execution was 11X what the case would cost if life in prison without parole was sought instead

> less than 1% of all murderers are condemned to death

> 2% of death row inmates are actually executed -- but all the above fees are STILL ripped off by US richclass legal industrial complex (plus more) even though finally there was no execution



So I was wondering -- why do US conservatives support the death penalty? LOL

Answer 2

Also, the War on Cancer, started under President Nixon and cancer rates are as high or higher than ever. The problem is that we are using the wrong metaphor- namely "war". In government language, this means that we will spend billions of our tax dollars using the same failed approach as before. No great innovations or solutions have ever come out of these "war" programs. Instead, we have large bureaucracies and government contractors feeding off tax money without any results. In turn, these government contractors keep contributing to politicians' campaigns to keep the money coming. They are rightly worried that if the problem was actually solved, they wouldn't get any more money, so it is actually against their interests to solve the problem. The more they can create a crisis mindset among the population, the more money they can get because people think that spending more money on the problem will solve it. In dealing with government, you get rewarded for failure, not for success. If there is a problem in the schools, the answer is more money for the schools, not less money as there would be in the private sector. Both dems and repubs engage in this "war" mentality. It is part of our system. So, we waste billions of dollars and achieve nothing and can't even find a way out of this situation. The military-industrial complex that President Eisenhower warned us about has taken over our government in the form of various "wars" on drugs, poverty, terrorism, cancer, etc. Too many people are making too much money not solving these problems and feeding on our tax dollars. We are just too naive to see it. Thank you for bringing up this issue.

Answer 3

Make drugs legal and dismantle their cartels. Eliminate the profiteering from drug traffic..But of course the wealthy need their slaves. And now this. Prisoners being pardon.



Governor Barbour freeing murderers into the streets of the US shows what happens when too much power is delegated to the states. Governors set themselves as kings. And that is what the new GOP candidates want, to give more powers to the state over the well being and security of our citizens. These pardons not only risk the security of the citizens of Mississippi but of the whole US since they can move and change identities. The GOP base does not even know their own leadership.

Answer 4

'Since Ronald Reagan launched his war full scale war on drugs, the results have been pretty much the same. Some examples:



- the U.S. per capita spending on schools increased 32%. The per capita spending on prisons grew 189%



- California built 21 prisons since then but just one college.



- From 1985 to 1998, the number of deaths per 100,000 for drug-induced causes almost doubled. In other words, having a drug war proved twice as deadly as not having one. (2)'





'By the 25th anniversary $4 trillion dollars had been spent on the war on drugs with a record expansion of prison and jail systems.'



http://pushedleft.blogspot.com/2012/01/harper-government-on-wrong-side-of-drug.html

Answer 5

Lost before it was declared, as prohibition was.

It creates money/jobs for criminals, and the plethora of ever-increasing government agencies (and their obscene budgets) to quell them.

A "money-pit", where politicians can hide theft for personal enrichment easily in the never audited/kept books on confiscations, hush money, "look the other way" (pay-offs) fees.

Wars are the best place to sell drugs.

Pirates - Rum

Kamikaze - Sake

Vietnam - Pot

Wall Street - Coke

Schools - Riddlin

China - Opium wars

Romans - Wine

Answer 6

It's unnecessary death, billions of government money spent that could be used elsewhere, and it's causing the southern US to become infiltrated with crime members.



Stopping all that doesn't justify doing marijuana, meth, etc. however.





It's all our fault (the people that buy those drugs), the people dumb enough to waste our time and money on that crap.. the people dumb and selfish enough to waste other peoples money and lives on what is for most Americans, a selfish whim from which we gain nothing and from which others lose everything.



If I were on drugs and just stopped to think for two seconds, I would be ashamed to think about the TRUE price in money and blood of those drugs.

Answer 7

Oops ;) there's a war? well, sometimes we forget in this neck of the woods...



as long as they keep pot illegal they always have a racket and a reason to investigate your whole life.



agree, soldiers need to stay sober to survive



frisbee is fun after a brownie or two =)

Answer 8

I'd say it's going about as well as the war on poverty.



Since both became major issues with the advent of LBJ's "Great Society" in 1965 the government has shoveled trillions in taxpayer money at both problems with little to show for it.

Answer 9

We've been giving our fighter pilots (when in action) speed since the 70s.

That's much more conducive to high performance than the traditional alcohol.

Answer 10

There is no war on drugs.If there were drug companies, the largest supplier of drugs to the American people, would be out of business.

Answer 11

LOL...yeah, even THAT would be a more effective use of tax dollars than the current system

Answer 12

Over-privileged white boys snort coke without the possibility of prosecution, underprivileged minorities face life in prison and seizure of property for a joint. It's a scam.

Answer 13

http://www.minyanville.com/businessmarkets/articles/wall-street-cocaine-bernie-madoff-fridays/10/27/2009/id/25132





" Suk Da Glass Dik, My Freind "....!





Brrrrrrp....!

Answer 14

Its backed by big pharma, and it's all a joke.

Answer 15

Hahaha

Shut up.

Answer 16

It was a failure before it even started historically

Answer 17

Send the drug addicts and dealers to conflict zones and watch what develops.

Answer 18

They should start a war on drug smugglers. Instead Obama gives high powered weapons to drug smugglers in stupid operations like Fast and Furious.