DRUG WAR JUST A SHAM

Truth to tell, the drug police, politicians, officials, media and civilians
(secretly) don't list victory as an objective in their expensive and
oppressive trillion-dollar war. When they do spout their "zero
tolerance/total victory" rhetoric, how many of your readers actually
believe them?

Just remember that the drug czars' jobs depend on perpetual prosecution-but
never on victory. Politicians depend on the drug war and its rhetoric to
scare up votes (by scaring voters). The politicians also rely on the drug
war to sustain their constituent industries and institutions that depend on
the economics of prohibition in order to make generous profits and campaign
contributions.

Remember what H.L. Mencken said: "The whole aim of practical politics is to
keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by
menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

Myron Von Hollingsworth

Fort Worth, Texas