WEREN'T WE GONNA STOP THIS THREAD, GANG???
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Nitterauer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 2:53 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: RE: Violent education
Just to clear things up - I did NOT write the quoted text. It was quoted
from another source. I wholeheartedly agree with any and all efforts to
thwart drug use. Usually the ones who don't are the ones using them...
Jim
-----Original Message-----
From: John Allred [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2001 4:14 PM
To: CF-Community
Subject: Re: Violent education
Jim Nitterauer wrote:
>
> America has spent billions and billions of its tax payers money in a
futile
> and ineffectual War On Drugs becase a group of housewives got scared when
> their kids were doing pot, and wanted the **government** to do something
> about it.
>
Agreed that this so-called war has been ineffectual. But I disagree on
its origins. Among many other possible causes, it was a governmental
reaction to the anti-Vietnam War teens, the hippies, the
flower-children. But government and law enforcement learned very quickly
that their war on drugs was lucrative. If they say crime is bad and they
need more tax dollars, they usually get it. How else could you justify
the increase in the number of law enforcement officers per capita in
rural areas of the country? Where it used to take a Sheriff and one or
two deputies to maintain order, you now find a Sheriff and 15-20
deputies.
And did you know that, in many jurisdictions, thanks to the new,
tougher, drug laws, all the police have to do is arrest you on suspicion
of a drug-related crime and they can seize whatever property they claim
was used in the commission of the crime, like houses or cars? In many
cases, you have no recourse to get this property back, at least, not
without spending thousands of dollars to go to court. After the auction,
the police use the proceeds to go out and buy more weapons and
surveillance equipment. It's practically free money. Hell. It's an
industry of its own.
And we wonder why kids often lack respect for adults. Granted a few of
them may be morons, who resort to guns to solve problems, but most of
them are not as stupid as our various law enforcement officials would
like to believe.
Yeah, morals may be bad these days, but, IMNSHO, government has run
amok.
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