You are actually much, much worse than a murderer, but that is the bare minimum of what you are if you support this heinous criminal act.
Today marks the 40th anniversary of the worst thing to ever happen to the planet, the War on Drugs.
As chance would have it, I was walking past the television on which my Mexican fiance was flipping channels when I saw that the Mexican Government had captured “El Brad Pitt” – a supposed drug trafficker.
There is only one thing I ever find funny with these raids in Mexico – and it is the nicknames of the narco-traffickers. They “caught” El Barbie in Acapulco about a year ago, setting off gang violence that still to this day has not stopped in this once great city (it still is great – 99.9% of the problems is far, far away from the main tourist areas of Acapulco – but its reputation has been greatly sullied).
And yesterday, they caught a man who looks nothing like Brad Pitt and had a twenty minute press conference proudly announcing their catch. Skip to the 15 minute mark of this Government propaganda video and decide who you think looks like they are the criminals in this photo opp.
Good job, Mexican Government! Everyone in the world will stop doing marijuana and cocaine now, surely! That should be the end of it!
Far from it, this will only set off another spate of violence as people fight over El Brad Pitt's highly lucrative business venture. A business venture which is even more lucrative because it is not subject to taxation – it is amazing how quickly money adds up when the government does not take half of everything you make.
The War on Drugs has been ongoing for 40 years now with 0% results – actually, worse than 0%, drug usage has only increased – and has killed hundreds of thousands of people, imprisoned millions more and has turned much of the world into a police state. As of May 28, 2011, 50.8 percent of the US Federal prison inmate population was incarcerated for drug-related offenses. The financial cost of catching, prosecuting, and jailing all these drug offenders is enormous and unquantifiable. Some have thrown around the figure of $1 trillion but that doesn't take into account all the opportunity costs incurred.
If you support the War on Drugs, you support using force (all those guys in the black masks with machine guns) to force people to not do victimless things that you don't like – like marijuana – or you will kill them or put them in a cage.
If you support that you are despicable and responsible for heinous crimes against humanity.
Nancy Reagan should be hung for this – and not just for her bad acting.
There is nothing wrong with just saying no, Nancy. But being forced to say no or be jailed or shot, now you are the criminal.
How much longer must people be killed, imprisoned and accosted for the simple act of providing free-willed people with the ‘drug' of their choice? Marijuana and cocaine aren't even drugs – that is the funny part. They are just plants.
Drugs? Like Adderall? Prozac? Now, those are incredibly dangerous drugs. Those are fine.
Marijuana is responsible for 0 deaths per year. Alcohol kills 100,000+ in the US. Cigarettes, much more than that.
Whether you want to smoke marijuana or do cocaine is your choice. When you use government to FORCE others not to, you are a criminal – and in the case of the War on Drugs, you are responsible for untold amount of death, destruction and trillions wasted gunning down peaceful people.
The following video does a nice job of showing the attacks that you, as proponent of the War on Drugs, take out on innocent people every minute of every day around the world.
