Forum: Close to Home
Topic: Viewpoints - Has the War on Drugs reduced crime?
Topic Posted by: Close To HomeDate Posted: Wed Mar 18 15:22:22 1998
Posted by: RAMSEY
Date posted: Sat Apr 4 0:06:40 1998
Subject: WHAT WAR?
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I WOULD CALL THE TERM INACCURATE. IT'S MOR LIKE "A HOPLESSLY UNDERFUNDED DUE TO LACK OF COMMITMENT, WE HAVE OUR PRIORITIES SCREWED UP MINOR ALMOST NON-EXISTENT SLOGAN BASED ALL SHOW NO GO AD CAMPAIN THAT IS SORT OF AGAINST DOPE" NANCY REAGAN DID MORE WITH JUST SAY NO.
Posted by: Henry Norton (Tonkahof@aol.com )
Organization:Kelly-Norton Programs
Date posted: Thu Apr 2 16:33:49 1998
Subject: Failure of War on Drugs
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The war on Drugs as shown in Close to Home is a big failure.Treatment is minimized while high prices of drugs encourage crime for those who continue to use.Moyers did not mention Swiss experiment for low cost and safe dispense of drugs to addicts who get tx pitch every time they go for fix.Worth a try--short of legalization.
Posted by: James
Date posted: Wed Apr 1 19:35:23 1998
Subject: War on Drugs - Won or Lost?
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The "war" on drugs never had a chance to work. It was all just an act - there are too many "groups" within the USG, States, and local arenas that have made a business out of drug control - prisons, officers, air force jets, etc., - what do you do with all these people's jobs if you make drugs legal as they should have been long ago. The "system" now wants you to forget that it coined the name "war on drugs" - now they suggest it's not proper wording - sure because it has failed even though we've thrown billions at the problem.
Drugs are a medical addiction problem just like smoking and drinking - get it into the hands of the proper folk, the treatment people not the jailers! Has anyone asked whether the serious loss of civil rights and property rights was not planned and the "drugs" were just a convient tool? The system will work to protect it's own vested interests - do not forget that - loss of rights, high employment, need to build new jails and staff them, etc - it wants to survive since theres so much money riding on it - believe me I've been in CIA meetings where DEA and others specifically asked about their "jobs" if drugs were legalized!!
Posted by:Robert G. Karol (Feedback@BobKarolRICO-INFORMANT.com/ )
Organization:racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Informant/Victim/Witness
Date posted: Tue Mar 31 20:21:23 1998
Subject: Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations informant's true experiences with federal law enforcement
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There is no War On Drugs !
The addicts are protected by the police because drugs are the most profitable business in this country, and those profits corrupt the whole system ( including law enforcement and the courts ). The police protect themselves because they have the power to abuse the authority they operate under, and there is no independent agency(s) to investigate the abuse of power or corruption resulting from the profits generated by organized crime in relation to the sale of illegal drugs.
CLICK HERE TO READ THE TRUTH ABOUT AMERICA'S "WAR ON DRUGS" ! or go to my HOMEPAGE and read the events that have taken place since 1990 after I became a R.I.C.O. Informant/Victim with federal law enforcement.
The government doesn't care about enforcing the drug laws in this country or any other laws unless there is a profit to be made. It only cares about raising tax revenues to pay for an expanding "police state" that is slowly eroding the civil rights of it's citizens by selling the tax-payer and voters a delusion about the government's committment to abolish drug use at any cost and by any means necessary.
Drug addicts are like the Jews that were in Germany before World war II. They are an excuse to build up a "police state" and destroy the civil rights of innocent citizens, in the name of fighting a war against an enemy that is made up of a class of citizens that are outcast from the rest of society.
Federal law enforcement couldn't ( wouldn't ) protect a baby from being exposed to heroin and cocaine by it's "mother" who was engaged in organized crime and racketeering..........so what makes you think that there is a "WAR ON DRUGS" ?
Posted by: Alve
Date posted: Thu Mar 26 9:32:35 1998
Subject: Effects of Prohibition
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That prohibition is the cause of much of the crime in are country, is beyond dispute. There is not much to recommend a law enforcement policy that turns $3 worth of heroin into $300 on the street. With the further result that those addicted to the drug must steal and rob to appease their addiction. Not to excuse the addicted for their behavior but law enforcement policies that forester criminal behavior must be condemned. ** Creating incentives to steal and rob to buy drugs is not the only crime-inducing effect of prohibition, perhaps not even the main one. Murder and assault are employed to protect or acquire drug-selling turf, to settle disputes among drug merchants and their customers, to steal drugs or drug money from dealers. In major cities, at least one-fourth of the killings are systemic to the drug trade. The victims of internecine drug warfare are often innocent bystanders, even infants and school-children. ** Drug prohibition also accounts for much of the proliferation of handguns. Drug dealers must enforce their own contracts and provide their own protection from predators, even "mules" who deliver drugs need weapons. Packing a gun, like fancy clothing or gold jewelry, has become a status symbol among many adolescents. In such an atmosphere, other youngsters carry guns for--they hope--protection.