Comments on: The Drug War Turns 100 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:04:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Watercloset http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15478 Watercloset Wed, 07 Mar 2007 08:19:20 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15478 LOL. Well, the drug war at the expense of the taxpayers does enrich a few. How much does it cost the taxpayer to put someone in prison for a couple ounces of pot? Here, where I live, it is $209 a day and the cops are really out to get them. It balances the budget and they get their quotas. LOL. Well, the drug war at the expense of the taxpayers does enrich a few. How much does it cost the taxpayer to put someone in prison for a couple ounces of pot? Here, where I live, it is $209 a day and the cops are really out to get them. It balances the budget and they get their quotas.

]]> By: Watercloset http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15476 Watercloset Wed, 07 Mar 2007 07:55:53 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15476 Well, maybe if we are either too broke to carry it on any further or that the masses finally have had enough and rise up to beat it. That's the only way it is going to happen; they said that reconstruction would never be beaten and, after almost a century, it was because we finally rose up. Well, maybe if we are either too broke to carry it on any further or that the masses finally have had enough and rise up to beat it. That’s the only way it is going to happen; they said that reconstruction would never be beaten and, after almost a century, it was because we finally rose up.

]]> By: Duality Rules http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15347 Duality Rules Tue, 06 Mar 2007 20:55:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2007/03/06/the-drug-war-turns-100/#comment-15347 How can you say drug prohibition has failed? It has been extremely successful, enriching the winners who the current status quo benefits. Answer me this: with hundreds of billions of dollars in profits (drug money, drug-interdiction money, and penitentiary expenditures) why would the powers that be allow a change in the status quo? Similarly with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: "big mistake" say some (rather innocently tender hearted in my opinion.) How is it a mistake, if those who pulled it off are being enriched to tune of hundreds of billions of dollars? To understand the forces behind the status quo, I would suggest you read "Narcodollars for Beginners" by C. A. Fitts at http://drugwar.com . http://www.drugwar.com/fittsnarco1.shtm Many other articles by Fitts and others at http://www.drugwar.com/howmoneyworks.shtm For the basic economics of war, examine "War is a Racket" by Smedley Butler. Older, but still relevant today. http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm So all of you griping, "When will all this nonsense stop?" listen up: it will stop when there is no longer money to be made. It would be wonderful if we all could organize and change society. In general it doesn't work this way. We work at jobs for 40 hours a week, and _maybe_ organize with our friends and neighbors to change society for a few hours on weekends. Answer me this: does the 40-hour employer, and the businesses where you spend your piddling salary on ... do they support the status quo, generally, or are they attempting to change the world, to bring about some kind of popululist or anarchist revolution? I wish I were wrong, and all the hand-wringing and scandal-outing might be some help, but I question whether (regardless of any MLK'ish charisma and zeal I might have) the anti-drug pro-war status quo of the last hundred years will change. How can you say drug prohibition has failed? It has been extremely successful, enriching the winners who the current status quo benefits. Answer me this: with hundreds of billions of dollars in profits (drug money, drug-interdiction money, and penitentiary expenditures) why would the powers that be allow a change in the status quo?

Similarly with the Iraq and Afghanistan wars: “big mistake” say some (rather innocently tender hearted in my opinion.) How is it a mistake, if those who pulled it off are being enriched to tune of hundreds of billions of dollars?

To understand the forces behind the status quo, I would suggest you read “Narcodollars for Beginners” by C. A. Fitts at http://drugwar.com .

http://www.drugwar.com/fittsnarco1.shtm

Many other articles by Fitts and others
at http://www.drugwar.com/howmoneyworks.shtm

For the basic economics of war, examine “War is a Racket” by Smedley Butler. Older, but still relevant today.

http://www.lexrex.com/enlightened/articles/warisaracket.htm

So all of you griping, “When will all this nonsense stop?” listen up: it will stop when there is no longer money to be made. It would be wonderful if we all could organize and change society. In general it doesn’t work this way. We work at jobs for 40 hours a week, and _maybe_ organize with our friends and neighbors to change society for a few hours on weekends. Answer me this: does the 40-hour employer, and the businesses where you spend your piddling salary on … do they support the status quo, generally, or are they attempting to change the world, to bring about some kind of popululist or anarchist revolution?

I wish I were wrong, and all the hand-wringing and scandal-outing might be some help, but I question whether (regardless of any MLK’ish charisma and zeal I might have) the anti-drug pro-war status quo of the last hundred years will change.

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