Why are there so few of US willing to talk about how much RAYgun ESCALATED Drug War has

[supraTruth]

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BANKRUPTED our States & Federal Government?

And practically NO 1 on the business or cable news channels OR in the LAMEstreamCORPORATEmedia.

[Vincardog]

4. I support an EO dissolving the DEA

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[supraTruth]

5. So U LIKE BANKRUPTED states & MASSIVE PRISON POPULATIONS?

[Warren DeMontague]

13. I do.

We spend $60 billion a year -not including regular leo expenditures and costs of incarceration, mind you- to throw cancer grannies and jamband fans in prison cells for being caught smoking a joint.

Dissolve the DEA? Fuck yes.

[TheKentuckian]

2. It makes it tough to spin it as a relatively unimportant side issue

and puts you at odds with the establishment.

[supraTruth]

3. Even discussion on THIS BOARD goes NO where for long.

WTF?

[pscot]

8. What's your plan?

[supraTruth]

10. FIGHT HARDER to get the LAMEstreamCORPORATEmedia to START REPORTING IT!

[Selatius]

17. They'll never do that. They own shares in private prisons that make a profit.

You think the major shareholders on the board of directors of these major news networks don't have a diversified portfolio of stocks in companies across the economic spectrum up to and including stocks in private prison companies?

The only way they could be defeated is if people owned their own news outlets, but the simple fact of the matter has been and will continue to be that freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. The people never did.

[Romulox]

6. It's this administration's Drug War, now. nt

[Fumesucker]

7. It's a failure of imagination to some extent..

A lot of us simply cannot imagine a world in which "drugs" are not illegal, the drug war has gone on longer now than the great majority of us have been alive and we have absorbed the attitudes and assumptions of that policy into ourselves at a level very similar to that of religion.

You might as well go to a devout Muslim nation and talk about making alcohol legal, the reaction would be very similar, just discussing it would make you socially unacceptable in a lot of circles, even circles where illicit alcohol use was common.

[Initech]

9. Because the assholes who profit off the drug war (prison corporations, etc) are buying government influence.

And as such it falls in line with our media. We really need to end the drug war.

[EFerrari]

11. And reshaping voting districts.

We should just call it what it is, the war on black Americans.

[supraTruth]

12. But where the HELL is the DAMN LAMEstreamCORPORATEmedia? This WAR HURTS EVERY1!

States can NO longer support their colleges because their $ are being WASTED ON PRISONS & PRISONERS!

TEENS CONtinue to be turned into PRISONERS in MASSIVE NUMBERS!

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I agree with you that the drug war is idiotic and needs to end

But you need to lay off the CAPS LOCK, sir.

Everything in moderation.

[supraTruth]

15. Grew up w/it in the comics & Subject HEADLINES in the newspapers, & I see NOTHING wrong w/it!

ESPECIALLY WHEN PASSION IS INVOLVED!

[Warren DeMontague]

16. Okay

It may not have the effect you intend, though.