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- kemp34, on 01/08/2009, -3/+127In business, when ***** is going wrong, rational managers perform what is known as a "root cause analysis" in order to properly address the issue. Apparently, government does not work this way. In this case, a cursory root cause analysis says that the US War on Drugs prohibition creating the "bootlegging" black market with related insane profits is what causes the organized crime seeking out the profits to go on killing sprees that terrorize the peace-loving. Rather than addressing the root cause and cleaning up this mess once and for all, the ignorant and/or corrupt federal government apparatus appears hell bent on instead pouring fuel on the fire it started and maintains at a constant inferno. It is axiomatic to state: prohibition = organized crime.
- strafefire, on 01/08/2009, -5/+83I hate to state the obvious, but there wouldn't be a drug war if drugs were legalized.
Just sayin' - JenniferInMO, on 01/09/2009, -3/+55Read how the War on Drugs failed long ago: http://digg.com/politics/How_America_Lost_the_War_ ...
It isn't about keeping the flow of drugs off the streets, it is about using military and military-type tactics within the US and on foreign soil. It is one, big, expensive excuse for secret wars. - macinit1138, on 01/09/2009, -4/+55We should all know by now that the war on drugs was never, ever meant to be won. Just like the war on terror is never meant to be won. So much blatant, but successful propaganda engineered by our government(s) who we were carefully programmed from youth to believe were on the side of it's people and controlled by it's people. The only war our government is successfully winning is the war against it's people's remaining freedoms. Think about it, when was the last time the people of this country were informed honestly or accurately of domestic or foreign affairs by the available media outlets? If we don't get honest information, we can't hope to keep our government in check. I think that's the idea.
- sheeplescareme, on 01/09/2009, -7/+43the war on drugs™ is nothing more than a war on people and freedom.
- DankNugzPlz, on 01/09/2009, -3/+36Sounds amazingly similar to the rise in violence caused by the prohibition of alcohol...guess we'll never learn from our mistakes.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+25Time for more failed policies and wasted money.
- syndustry, on 01/09/2009, -0/+24well said
- MaverickSmooth, on 01/09/2009, -2/+26The war on drugs is a business. The DEA gets tens of billions a year to keep fighting this "war". If they ever completed the job then there would be no more work to do, and no more funding.
- seventhc, on 01/09/2009, -0/+23It would be great if the US Government was actually "for the people and by the people" but it's quite obvious that most people want the war on drugs to end but the Govt isn't listening to the people.
Our government is such a piece of *****. - govsucks, on 01/09/2009, -2/+23Oh no, the price of weed will go up five bucks!
Why don't you try to uphold your constitutional responsibilities first and defend our nations borders.
Government pricks do everything BUT their job. Government sucks - tgc1, on 01/09/2009, -0/+19"I'm going to tell you what you can and can't do with your body, and by god you're going to listen or i'll throw you in a cell for the rest of your life!" Yup, smell that freedom.
Also, the "War on Drugs" does not work. At all. In any way shape or form. Just like prohibition. There will always and forever be people who do what they want with their own bodies and feel justified in doing so. And in my way of viewing things, I say, all the power to them. After all, there's nothing stopping a person from drinking bleach or any other house hold item that could potentially kill themselves with. If people want to take that chance, in dealing with these drugs... I say go for it. It's none of my ***** business what you do with your own body.
IMO, all drugs should be legalized. It would create a new market for it and get them refined properly in labs and such. The crime aspect associated with drugs would drop overnight. The street value would decline and a large part of the criminal element would die as well. Take the money out of drugs and you take drugs off the street. It's that simple. Again, i'm more concerned with people spreading things like AIDS and other diseases by sharing needles, and sucking dick in a back alley for their fix. Or getting into prostitution because they can't afford their habit.
Drugs are expensive because they are risky to transport / import. Again, that causes the above to take place. It would also save tax payers a ***** ton of money by getting rid of the litigation and jail related issues surrounding Drugs and their use. - sirron811, on 01/09/2009, -1/+20Another Bush appointee making wonderful decisions and acting responsibly with available resources (sarcasm)... We will continue to lose traction and money in the "War on Drugs" until we wake up, decriminalize and regulate/tax drugs just as we do alcohol and tobacco in the US. It also doesn't help that Mexico's economy is virtually non-existent, in large part to Mexico's people having been taken advantage of with free trade agreements. If NAFTA was a success than immigration wouldn't be a problem and the drug war might be gaining traction - but if there are no viable jobs to be had then people turn to border jumping and smuggling.
Treat the root cause of an issue rather than the symptoms in order to make progress. The American Way seems to revolve around handling problems the other direction however, because there seems to be more profit to be made in treating symptoms and allowing the root cause to perpetuate. - CalltoSanity, on 01/09/2009, -0/+18The cartels are already paying some of the Mexican police and soldiers off. What makes people think they won't pay off some of our soldiers. The government doesn't pay as well as the cartels do.
- grungegbunny, on 01/09/2009, -2/+20Lets end the war on drugs so no one has to die from its violence.
- ORBAT, on 01/09/2009, -1/+19Even though it is usually simpler to assume that the government (of just about any country) is merely stupid, I'd wager that there's a very good reason for continuing the "war on drugs". It may not actually make any sense, but there's still a reason behind all this. More likely than not, they're just continuing the old "drugs are bad, mmkay" tradition instead of bothering to recheck their facts and admit that they have been wrong all these years.
It's not good politics to admit that you're wrong. - Sillywombat, on 01/09/2009, -0/+17Shouldn't we replace the word "surge" with "invade"?
I mean, crossing the borders with military? - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+15Good heavens! Now if only there was some way to prevent this war on drugs AND help the economy at the same time... Hmmmmm......
- ajv570, on 01/09/2009, -0/+14Why can't people just admit this is one 'war' we will NEVER be able to win
- MrSteamTank, on 01/09/2009, -0/+14I definitely agree. And the easiest way to address the societal problems that drugs do cause(addictions and the like) just implement a sin tax that solely covers the rehab and addiction problems related to said drug. I have this nasty feeling I'm going to get dugg down for suggesting a tax. 8P
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+14Don't you get it?
Legalize drugs! Just as Alcohol and Tobacco. Sell them in controlled stores, ehem... like pharmacies sell drugs as well.
TAX the drugs, just like Tobacco and Alcohol. Use that money to finance anti-drug programs.
Taking drugs is a personal decision, people will continue doing it legal or not. As long as there is a demand, there will be an offer, and as long as there is a profit worth killing to get it, countries like Colombia and Mexico will continue suffering because of the US war on drugs.
In my opinion, there has to be interests involved, and I mean Alcohol and Tobacco. If people could smoke a Joint instead of drinking wine and smoking, the profits of this two industries would be severely hit. But it is just what I suppose, not that I know something you don't.
In the meanwhile, only in 2008 Mexico had more than 5000 casualties (army, police, civilians, politicians). That is more than the US casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan up to day (4,678) since the beginning of both wars.
Stop the violence, legalize drugs! - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -3/+15I've worked for the gov for a long time, trust me it's merely stupid....
- Rndm_Tngnt, on 01/09/2009, -0/+11Right, but generally in scary evil "Corporate America", the beheadings are metaphorical in nature.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -0/+11Drugs have been with us since the beginning of times, and they will remain til the end of times. You can't destroy a person's craving for them, nor a person's interest or curiosity. Your plan would literally, never work.
- floorman56, on 01/09/2009, -1/+11So what laws is Obama gonna change?
Yea that's what I thought - skatoolaki, on 01/09/2009, -0/+9"Do you really want to make it possible for everyone to be on drugs? Your senator? Your childrens' bus driver? Your police?"
Sadly, luckyscs, the "war on drugs" doesn't make it impossible for senators, bus drivers, police, or anyone else to be on drugs. Those who want to be, will; regardless of whether or not it's illegal. - shylove, on 01/09/2009, -0/+8War is a failed paradigm for solving problems so why are people always so quick to jump on the bandwagon. Wars are meant for destruction and it seems we are more interested in seeing exciting gun battles and big explosion than we are to see careful and consideration building of solutions such as decriminalization and treatment and real education instead of scary horror stories. We don't need a war of the worlds because the world we have is based almost entirely on war.
Here we are a tiny jewel of precious life called Earth clinging to the warmth of our only begotten Sun and all we can think of to do is go around trying to stamp it out!!! - UWSA, on 01/09/2009, -3/+11Weren't we told that NAFTA would solve this problem. time to secure the borders. Get rid of NAFTA. Quit giving money to the Mexican government which belongs to the cartels. But we have to have that cheap labor so we can have cheap goods and huge corporate profits.
Maybe the cartels will start raiding the factories down there. They have plenty of money and look at all of the goods they could get for free. Just seal the border and let the problem in Mexico solve itself. - Mujokan, on 01/09/2009, -1/+9Yeah, that'd work... What's your Iraq strategy?
- WilliamDavis, on 01/09/2009, -1/+9Drugs... They're such a boogie man.
- wigren, on 01/09/2009, -1/+9Which is why we should legalize drugs and let people make honest money off it. Prohibition creates and sustains black markets.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+9 Drug laws are there to keep the underprivileged in there place. When the laws went into effect in the 1930's, it was thought only immigrants, minorities and impoverished used marajauna and opiates. The idea is to take the vote away from these people, and insure the status quo for sheeple who toe the line. Is all this violence and undermining of personal freedom worth it to protect people from themselves?
- DangerCollie, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7Why are you getting dugg down for that? If the fear is people would sit around all day doing drugs instead of working, then tax the living crap out of legal drug sales and use the money to pay for rehab.
I just don't get the mentality that thinks they can regulate people getting high. It's not ever going to work. Never has, never will. And what do you care as long as you don't have to support their habit or share the road with them? - dasheel, on 01/09/2009, -5/+12What a bunch of *****. Chertoff, and Bush Co. can't be gone soon enough.
- DrVic, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7Please stop using the word "surge"
- BotchaMcCoola, on 01/09/2009, -0/+7These drug warriors/price supporters make a good standby for the MIC. I bet their mouths are watering over the Afghanistan drug business already.
- tsopranos, on 01/10/2009, -0/+6Some higher ups have come to their senses...
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition [LEAP]
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php - BohicaTwentyTwo, on 01/09/2009, -1/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Task_Force_Nort ...
Joint Task Force North (JTF North), formerly Joint Task Force Six (JTF-6), is a multi-service operation by the United States Department of Defense for counterdrug and anti-terrorist operations. JTF-North is headquartered at Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas. United States Northern Command is the controlling Unified Combatant Command. - skatoolaki, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5We usually don't, unfortunately.
- syndustry, on 01/09/2009, -0/+5that's exactly what the post directly above you, posted almost 4 hours before you, says.
- sodade, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4You mean the price of mexican ditch weed will go up five bucks. The only people who actually smoke that crap are the dregs and high school kids.
- kemp34, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4It's not up to the government to create "norms" that is the job of the free people.
- inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5That may be a solution to some problems, but I do not believe this is one of them.
Ever wonder what creates a black market?.. - inactive, on 01/10/2009, -0/+4This article would have been more fun if they'd adopted the word "rush" instead of "surge".
In all seriousness, this "'Drug War" scam has got to go. - tgc1, on 01/09/2009, -0/+4The price of weed would plummet. Because everyone would be growing it themselves!
- dom7p, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5Ohhh PALEEEASE! They are full of cow dung! Mr. Chertoff and the rest of those baffoons in Washington make my head hurt! They are not going to do anything meaningful to help America otherwise they would have done it by now. So, no thanks!!
- cle2105, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5I work for a firm that does consulting work for government agencies. Getting them to change protocol is like trying to give a bloodhound a bath or a 5 year-old his cough medicine, they just don't want to do it and make it a pain in the ass. In short, I agree with CrazyZ above
- skatoolaki, on 01/09/2009, -1/+5I'm with CrazyZ on this one as well. I've been in government close to ten years and change is anathema to a government worker and the bane of existence to government agencies.
The only reason they continue with their win-less "war" - besides hating change and/or refusing to admit they made a mistake - is that someone is turning a profit. I firmly believe that our government, or some corrupt section of it/people in it, are complicit in making a profit off of the smuggling and sale of drugs. - inactive, on 01/09/2009, -1/+4It's possible to be evil & stupid at the same time, though. I'd say the drugwar qualifies as example #1.
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