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corn for example characterises Johann's withdrawal
would be in danger if they announced their presence.
---- Illegal drugs are a great benefit to drug dealers. The Drug War is a great benefit for perpetuating and expanding corrupt Governmental power. # "Smoke and Mirrors---The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure" # By Dan Baum, ISBN 0-316-08412-3, 1997 # # The War on Drugs made the criminal justice system one of the top growth # industries during the eighties and nineties. # # Police jobs at all levels of government swelled by 36 percent and prison # jobs by 86 percent during the Reagan years alone, while overall government # employment rose by only 16 percent. Federal prosecutors doubled under Bush. # For those in the enforcement trades, the War on Drugs was boom time. # # For everybody else, the period was marked by a commensurate increase in # police intrusion. There are rarely victims or witnesses in drug crimes. # # Drug use usually takes place in private, and drug dealing occurs between # a willing seller and a willing buyer. # # So to wage the Drugs War an expanding army of police had to use ever more # wiretaps, dog sniffs, snitches, warrantless searches, surveillance, and # undercover operations. # # The administration elected on a promise to remove government from people's # lives had turned the country---in one law professor's phrase---into a # |
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