Botched SWAT raids
Filed Under (Crime, Tyranny at home) by Don C on 17-03-2008
How is it when rights and freedoms are being usurped from the people in the name of safety and security the mantra is always, “Well, if it saves just one life it’s worth it.” But when it is the right of the police state to continue with their botched SWAT para-military raids enforcing the failed War on Drugs an innocent life here or there is not that big a deal?
I bet for a tenth of the cost I could come up with a better, more effective drug policy than the War on Drugs zero tolerance bullshit with which we are now saddled. And half of that amount would go into my pocket for being so smart. If we can damn near eliminate one of the most addictive substances known to mankind, nicotine, in a single generation with nothing but public disapproval and admonishment, then I see no reason why the same can not work for other addictive substances.
One reason why I think the decriminalization path is rejected out of hand is because the distinction between those who without the drug addiction have opportunity and those who don’t will be painfully evident to the social do-gooders. Better to point at the drugs as the failure point than to point at the true source of failure: Seventy years of failed social policy. For example, if you successfully take both a college grad and a poor slum dweller off heroine, the college grad has a real chance to make something of what’s left of his life whereas the slum dweller is still in the slum where the heroine still looks pretty good.
In the name of equality, it is fair then to throw them both in jail.
