John Sinclair: What war (on drugs) has wrought

[marmar]

from the Detroit Metro Times:




What war has wrought
The War on Drugs: When the solution is worse than the problem

By John Sinclair
Published: April 27, 2011


The cover story by News Editor Curt Guyette in last week's Metro Times turned the spotlight on a particularly odious episode in the annals of the local law enforcement community, spelling out the terms of an unholy collusion between a paid narcotics informer and the Inkster Police Department, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office and a Wayne County circuit court judge to use perjured testimony in their zealous effort to convict an accused drug smuggler fingered by the snitch.

Everything about this case stinks, but the worst part is that the extensive illegal conduct by these local minions of the War on Drugs perfectly exemplifies the methodology of persecution practiced throughout the contemporary law enforcement industry.

Only the most nave, cynical or deluded among us can subscribe to the pervasive mythology of drug police, prosecutors and judges as fearless warriors valiantly fighting a depraved horde of heartless pushers and evil dope fiends whose anti-social pursuit of self-gratification by getting high threatens to destroy the American way of life and everything it stands for.

The War on Drugs has served primarily to construct a police state apparatus basically unchecked in its pursuit of power and control over elements of our society deemed undesirable and detrimental to the economic and cultural forces that shape and direct our national life. ............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/mmj/what-war-has-wrought-1.1137845

[DCKit]

1. K&R nt

[Uncle Joe]

2. Kicked and recommended for ending the draconian, dysfunctional insanity

known as the "War on Drugs."

Thanks for the thread, marmar.