US ends ‘war on drugs’ now let’s just end war
Editor’s Note: What a farce!! Anyone with a brain knows that our government has benefitted from the drug trade, not only does it keep our economy going but certain intel agencies fly this scourge into the states. Please don’t forget about Iran Contra, Noreiga or the head of the NYSE meeting the head of the FARC rebels to discuss their ‘investment’. War is a racket and these people profit from our misery. –Michael Vail
President Barack Obama’s drugs adviser Gil Kerlikowske held a series of meetings yesterday with Drugs Minister Pat Carey, Garda Commissioner Fachtna Murphy and Department of Justice secretary general Sean Aylward.
The former police chief said the US had formally ended its much heralded – and hugely expensive – “war on drugs”.
“We’ve talked about a ‘war on drugs’ for 40 years, since President Nixon. I ended the war,” said Mr Kerlikowske, director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP).
The Obama administration is increasing its budget for demand reduction by 6.5%, bringing it to $5.6 billion (€4.5bn). But the US is still spending $15.5bn on supply reduction.
Mr Kerlikowske said internationally, the US was focusing less on crop eradication in Afghanistan and Columbia.
He said the aim in Afghanistan was now on encouraging farmers to grow alternative crops.
Why not just buy the Afghan poppies and turn it into perfectly legitimate morphine for American hospitals?
If I may be allowed to fantasize fior a moment, I imagine a future when we have no more wars of any kind. A future where all of the military REFUSE to fight. And since all wars are instituted by governments anyway, let us allow the government members to go fight each other personally and directly, for any future wars that they want to have. Shoot each other, hand to hand combat, pilotless drones — whatever they want — but only against each other, and not populations. That is my fantasy, and I’m a disabled Vietnam-era non-combat veteran.
“Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly and wickedness of the government may engage itself? Under what concealment has this power lain hidden, which now for the first time comes forth, with a tremendous and baleful aspect, to trample down and destroy the dearest right of personal liberty? Who will show me any Constitutional injunction which makes it the duty of the American people to surrender everything valuable in life, and even life, itself, whenever the purposes of an ambitious and mischievous government may require it?” – Daniel Webster, Speech in the House of Representatives, January 14, 1814