Letters to the Editor
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prunes
The real question is: why would you think for even a second that the never-ending war on drugs and the never-ending war on terror won't wind up being the exact same program, operationally if not officially?
I've been pointing out ever since I started posting on this blog that the war on terror is simply the the war on drugs on meth ;-)
People get upset with me when I point that out though, I get called things like "arrogant" because I saw this coming about twenty years ago and have the temerity to say so.
Frankly I'm tired of hearing about how wiretapping and all is so anti freedom from people who really don't give a fuck about the freedom of *others* only their own freedoms.
"Oh, (eyeroll) Aychy is on about how America is the largest cager of human beings on the planet again".. (yawn)
I had an interesting experience yesterday, a long conversation with a middle class black couple a few years my junior.. They were shocked when an old white dude told them that one in three black men in the US will go to prison in their lifetimes. They didn't know that and they were almost as shocked when I told them that one in every hundred Americans is in prison.