Letters to the Editor
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I hate to bring this up again but I'm going to
People in law enforcement care deeply about their own jobs. I can see why it's so upsetting to see prosecutors fired for apparently political reasons.
Whenever law enforcement jobs are at risk, we always see some big emotional campaign to save them.
I'm still trying figure out how the DOJ under Janet Reno managed to find two Libertarians who were growing medical marijuana in secret in Beverly Hills but couldn't manage to find six Democrats who were selling it openly in West Hollywood.
In other words -- yes there is a problem with politics in the DOJ, but the problem goes a lot deeper than a few prosectors losing their jobs.
The whole federal justice system is fucked up, and I think the War on Drugs is a big part of it.
This is the most incarcerated country in the world. We have so many people locked up in this country, we can't even afford to keep them according to normal standards of human rights any more.
But please, let's keep obsessing about these poor highly paid law enforcement officials losing their precious high profile jobs.
Think of all the dangerous drug kingpins they could have put in prison by now.
The War on Drugs could have been WON by now, if only those poor federal prosecutors hadn't been fired.
The outrage, oh the outrage!