“If you can look at the little court cases chipping away at our rights over the past sixty years and not see how that gradient is created you’re blind.”
Many of the cases that chipped away at our rights were the result of the drug war - asset seizure, no-knock raids, the Raich case which all but destroyed the Tenth Amendment.
The drug war has been a failed disaster.
“The drug war has been a failed disaster.”
It has been a pox upon the Republic. As you said, it is the basis for many of the laws the American people find repugnant.
Including the prohibitionists.
The Raich case being the most egregious.
A couple growing SIX plants under doctor’s recommendation, doctors who testified at their trial, and for all kinds of nasty ailments most people are lucky not to suffer.
While I’m sure they are now getting their pot illegally according to the Feds, if not, the Feds condemned them to a life of suffering.
Whomever the US Attorney is that brought this case, I hope one day he will find HIS relief at the end of a rope.
There's a difference between abuse of our rights based on our personal behaviors and abuse of our rights based on our personal beliefs.
Of course, some people can only see how reactions to dope, prostitution, and all sorts of perverse sex or porno are an abuse, not the more fundamental shifts that make those abuses possible.
Sort of like some people can see the how out of control drug addiction is but can't see how a US war in the Golden Triangle and a US war in the Golden Crescent coincide with the two large most recent waves of increased drug addiction in the US. It doesn't fit their narrative so it can't possibly be related.
The "Drug War" is the PR face of a larger war that doesn't have much to do with drugs.