Prohibition and the Drug War

I believe it was Confuscius that said, “A society of prohibitions becomes a society of vices”, or something similar. The more we fight against something we don’t like but doesn’t actually harm us, the more widespread this behavior becomes.

The drug war continues because it is the easiest and most expeditious means to institute the military style policing and political-governmental policies that facilitate the police state.

That is, the drug war is an easy excuse and ready means to wage war on the American public.

If not for the War on Drugs, the United States government could not justify its incarceration rate, its military policing and corrections investments, its spy tactics, and its outright attacks on individual privacy and autonomy. It could not justify its use of our public education systems as indoctrination systems for good-little-citizen behavior, its court systems for excusing official lies while punishing the innocent.

http://chaosmotor.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/prohibition-and-the-drug-war/