Reply #67: Leave the constitution alone by passing laws that gut it. [View All]

[Spider Jerusalem]

Way to go.

No-knock searches, asset forfeiture, et cetera...we have laws allowing these that basically make the Fourth Amendment meaningless, and it's thanks to the pointless and stupid War on Some Drugs.

And to say that racism wasn't a motivating factor in the passage of drug laws is to ignore historical fact. Apparently you've not heard of the yellow-journalism hysteria of William Randolph Hearst and others...stories about evil "Chinamen" using opium to lure young American girls into "white slavery"; about "reefer-crazed" and "cocaine-maddened" "buck Negroes" raping young white women and committing terrible crimes under the influence of these drugs...make no mistake, racism played a VERY large part in formulation of this country's drug laws.