On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:04:19 -0700 (PDT), M_P <m_p@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
wrote:
>http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/Content?oid=3D411739
>
>By Dale Gieringer
>This article was published on 08.23.07.
>
>While California tries to legalize medical marijuana, the war on pot
>rages on. Helicopters comb the forests for illegal gardens, drug
>squads raid suburban pot houses, and residents grapple with street
>dealers. Meanwhile, the United States is paying Mexico to combat
>violent marijuana-dealing gangs.
Hey ... there's tons of PROFIT in fighting the 'drug war'.
Outright profit and kickbacks for corrupt officials, profit
for those who make all that drug-war-fighting stuff, profit
for govt/police budgets, profit for the for-profit prisons ...
and then there are the POLITICAL profits ranging from
suckering-in the soccermom vote to justifying messing in other
nations politics to substituting for those old "black op"
schemes for paying off friendly dictators and generals
(Reagans original reason) to being a great way to keep
minorities under the jackboot and much much more.
And you think they're gonna END the 'drug war' ??? No, no ...
they'll just continue to ESCALATE it. So long as it PAYS,
it plays. If you're trying to reason your way out of it
then you're heading in the wrong direction entirely.
Follow the MONEY, follow the PROFITS.
|
