posted on Nov, 7 2007 @ 11:09 AM
Here is the bottom line: The people that make long term decidions that impact society in real ways: In the laws and customs of the people, are not
about to let things progres by themselves, willy nilly and unaffected by them. No way. Here are the facts:
The real rulers decided long ago that a certain system would work, and it does. They create a PERMENENT UNDERCLASS of millions of people. In the old
days of welfare, many gross injustices were done and many outrages reported in abuses of the system, prompting outrage from the politicians and then
onto the peoples radar. There was a vast reliance on inner city dwellers for food stamps and cash welfare payments, which often were mismanaged or
used for purposes other than intended. This was not lack of foresight by any means, this was all planned.
Then, in a few years, the laws changed to ' Workfare ' type schemes that were supposed to dramitcally reduce the welfare rolls and discourage the '
Cadillac Mom's ' with food stamps from being an innue any more. But, there are no new jobs to replace the welfare checks that stopped, so poverty
was assured and a newly expanded class of people were created that were without means of support and nop jobs to go to..no transportation outside of
major cities, manufacturing jobs goping where?
To Mexico and Idnia and China, anywhere but here. This is all planned, of course. Nafta, and cafta, and the rest all planned out and passed no
matter who was President or what party leaders said..as usual. So, no jobs and no checks equals what? CRIME!! thats what. Despondent people will
consume more and heavier substances to try and alleviate stress and trauma and hopelessness, as humans will do. Kids become drug dealers and lookouts
because it is an available and lucrative income, if one frought with risks, for sure.
So, we have a destitute and hopeless population with inadequate services and health care, no support other than charities, massive hoomelessness and
inadequate housing, schools bursting at the seams..all a riope situation for CONTROL. All that crime must be dealt with, and that costs a lot and
employs many millions of people. Drugs will ALWAYS be sought after, as long as the human condition remains a miserable and meager existence for
many..also many people enjoy the recreational use of substances and if used in moderation by adults, there can be NO LOGICAL argument made against
legalizing and controlling the market, like with tobacco and alcohol.
Prohibition is ALWAYS doomed to fail, and for good reasons: Crimes are events that cause harm or other negative impact on someone else and are
undeserev and unjustified by any means. We all know what is repugnant to the average mind and conscience, we all know when we have been harmed..but in
the world of drugs, we tend to abandon all logic and rationality and instead keep repeating the old mantra: Just say no, just say no..ad nauseum. It
has never worked and will never work. Where there is a desire, there will be a market. Where there is a market, there are either controls that insure
compliance with sensible parameters, such as age and ability to manage and sobriety, etc.
Right now the dealers are not asking for ID and they are not obliged to sell a clean and real product. It is a system fraught with dangers of every
kind, and makes no sense. We do not see the liquor store owners shooting it out for street corners, do we? If drugs were taken away from the cops and
courts and instead placed in the medical lexicon again and made a medical issue, we would see crime drop drmaticaly all over the world. The market
could make a profit, a great profit, and charge only a fraction of what is being gotten now. If someone had to have some drug or commit a crime to get
the money for it, in a real system he could go to a clinic and under supervised conditions get his fix and go on his way not bothering anyone.
That approach is being used in Europe to a degree and the initial results are all positive: A somewhat older chronic junkie population committs most
of the offenses reported related to drug crime, such as burglaries, etc.If a person does not have to steal to get his medicine, then that makes sense,
yes? A cheap dose saves a lot of hassles for all concerned, and saves BILLIONS in tax dollars now wasted on chasing people and arresting and jailing
them only to have them get out and go right back to their previous conduct unchanged. 80-90 % of all substance users have NO PROBLEM with their drug
use: it is always the 1-5 % of hardcore users and addicts that make a bad name for substance use, just like an obnoxious drunk makes drinkers look
bad..if one judges by example, that is.
But the people in power have built vast industries in prisons all over the nation that make profits: The inmates are paid almost nothing and the
profits are great for the owners and bosses. They need a steady and ASSURED stream of inmates to work in their mills and factories on the prison
grounds. If they were to legalize and REGULATE all drugs, starting first with the most logical, cannabis, followed by others in order with their
potential for abuse, until finally a system exists that allows adults who wish to alter their realities privately and without bothering anyone else to
obtain virtually any substance available and cost effective.
But that would mean so many less cops needed, and guards at prisons, and all the food suppliers and associated industries, not to mention the big
corporations that have placed vast resources into these prison work places that the entire system would have to change. You can imaghine how thrilled
all the cops and guards unions would be..what a laugh. The money that is generated from the most petty bust is staggering: For one joint today it
could cost you for " Bail, attorney, transportation, document preps, court costs, fines, and possibly jail time as well. They are profiting from this
madness and that means you cannot touch it!!
They KNOW it makes no sense. They KNOW that it contravenes all Constitutional intent. They KNOW that the system is corrupt and degrades the justice
system with inequity and waste. But it makes them MONEY and that is enough.Rather than change the profits to the sellers and manufacturers of the
newly legalized and regulated markets and its associated necessities, they are content to keep the money where it is, thats the bottom line. Why upset
the money flow and change the whole thing when they have a neat and tidy operation goping now? Social justice..doing the right thing.? Please!! Thats
in the old way of thinking, the reality based crowd believes that stuff!! Amazing, isn't it?
Anyway,as long as prison industries makes money for the players at the top, they must have repressive and stupid laws to keep the cells full and the
line moving! What makes sense to us does not make sense to someone making money off of the system, and they are in charge, so we lose for now.More and
more laws, more and mnore bodies for the prison industries, more and more profits for the few..thats our future here in the goold old USA. Prisons are
the newest growth industry!! For real!! What does that tell us? That we are allosing ourselves to be rounded up and herded into cells because we
choose to think and act in ways that the bosses forbid without reason or logic or scientific merit, all to fill the cells.
Of course the decriminalization of all drugs over a period of time and in highly structured ways will both solve the crime problems associated with
PROHIBITION and the issue of freedom for citizens: Any adult American ought to be able to self medicate and use anything he or she desires to, as long
as they affect no one else negatively. There are ways to help those who end up having a problem with drugs, and that is medical treatment ONLY:
Arresting and jailing addicts and people with problems is barbaric and stupid and totally NOT justifiable at all.