A Wee Bit of the Old Ultraviolence
Jul 22nd, 2006 by Brian A. Thomas
Just a quick comment on how our government spends more on finding and jailing non-violent drug offenders than on violent offenders.
What makes a murdering rapist safer to have on the street then a drug user? What kind of twisted logic is that? Yet this is the very logic the government applies to the situation.
The current and previous administrations each greatly increased the drug war and tax payer spending on it. So great is the cost now that they no longer report, that is hide, a great deal of the costs.
The money the US makes by selling illegal drugs goes to covert operations that they can keep off the books, not to the drug war itself… and if you don’t think the CIA, NSA and the rest are not involved in selling illegal drugs to generate extra money you are a fool. It isn’t a conspiracy theory, they have been caught several times, admitted it to congress even. You can be sure they still are doing it for the same reasons as before. If drugs were legal, they wouldn’t be able to make nearly as much selling those drugs. Meanwhile you would put an end to almost all drug related violence meaning an end to inflated police budgets and the overcrowded jail problem resulting in few new jails being built… of course they could apply all the effort they put into fighting non-violent drug users and put it into people who do violent crime. God forbid they actually protect us. The “Protect and Serve” motto, obviously doesn’t apply to protecting and serving the public, but their own self interest.
