On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 3:18 PM, Jerry Milo Johnson <[email protected]>wrote:
> "Caused by the war on drugs" is far, far, far different than "a HUGE > majority of the people incarcerated should not be." > > Violence and theft, regardless of the cause, is still violence and theft. I agree that each person should be held accountable for their own actions. Undoing the War on Drugs will also not magically make everything better overnight. However, there are a huge number of people incarcerated who, without the War on Drugs, would not be. To me, this translates to "they should never have been put into the situation that created their crime" hergo, "they should not be incarcerated". I say this is a very abstract sense. If someone steals a car to buy drugs, they should be locked up. Period. However, I also believe that without the War on Drugs they very well may not have stolen that car in the first place - because they would not have been put into that situation due to the high cost of the drugs. Undoing this wil take a ton of time, but if you look at the incarceration hockey stick, it's not flattening out yet. How much higher does it have to go? How much more tax money needs to go to warehousing drug users? How much more crime will be bred by these people who are being retrained into criminals while in prison? It's so obvious to me that the War on Drugs is a complete an utter failure. The only question is now to fix it. -Cameron ... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:349896 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
