Sorry Race, but with over 16 years of law enforcement under my belt you are dead wrong.
The WOD has increased government authority via erosion of the 4th and 5th amendments; increased government spending; militarized law enforcement; caused overcrowding in prisons (which increases government spending) and engendered a distrust between law enforcement officers and the citizens they serve.
It’s a failure, plain and simple. And an unconstitutional one at that.
Guess I should also have mentioned that your position, criminalizing what a person decides to put in their body, strikes to the core of whether one supports individual liberty or government control.
Oh, and I should also mention that the WOD is not working from a social perspective either.
So why would a “conservative” support such a policy failure that is only successful at increasing taxes, increasing government spending and government authority?
we’ll let those prisoners live in your house and do drugs instead
make you happy?
He has his point. The "war on murder," "war on robbery" and even the "war on rape" did nothing of the kind. The worst offshoot from crackdowns on those crimes was false accusations. I'm not trying to minimize the hurt that false accusations cause, but miscarriages of justice don't warp the system as a whole.