It's an industry. No way is the government going to dismantle a prohibition that employs thousands in law enforcement and incarceration. Get rid of the WOD, and a substantial bulk of entire federal, state, and local LEO employment would become excess.
There are going to be innocent casualties no matter which way the policy is set.
It's an industry. No way is the government going to dismantle a prohibition that employs thousands in law enforcement and incarceration. Get rid of the WOD, and a substantial bulk of entire federal, state, and local LEO employment would become excess.
Exactly correct.
Government has turned the WOD into a lucrative industry, which enables them to hire tens of thousands more government employees, expanding the courts, probation departments, prisons, etc, etc... It's also given government more control, and enabled government to slowly evolved civilian police departments into paramilitary organizations to be used against the people.
We're supposed to be Americans, not the enemy of the police. People have always had drug and alcohol problems and should be given help if they ask for it and need it. Instead of police raids and throwing hundreds of thousands of Americans into cages for substance abuse and seizing their assets.
Furthermore, the WOD is a *huge* factor in creating thousands of violent organized gangs, who themselves have made a violent and very lucrative living off selling the drugs which were made illegal.
The WOD is a lose lose for ALL, expect government and organized gangs.
you are so right.
The hypocrisy of “saving the chillun’” and being morally in the right is what is so galling!
Jail is a HUGE industry. A thousand man jail can generate $300 million per year.
Any FR citizens out there please listen. If your county is trying to build a 1,000+ man jail in your county, don't let them do it. Within 10 years, most of your 25 yr old young men will be in that jail, with Uncle Steve as a Union Corrections Officer.
This is what happened in Hamilton, Ohio. Wonderful, Mayberry sort of place that transformed after the Sherrifs got their jobs at the jail.