From: John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 04:17:12PM +0000, jim bell wrote:
Yes, that is a very interesting current example of such a thing. ??My question is, are the right people being killed?Is it anybody associated with drugs that is dying, or is it just such people who are merely unpopular with the police?
Yes, drug prohibition creates the black markets that creates the wildly inflated prices that attracts the narco mafias and other organized crime structures.
BTW, after I'd sent my comment, I did an "oops". I didn't mean to suggest that I approved, at all, of Duarte's policy. ("right people being killed"). Quite the opposite. I meant, within the context of that extremist policy, were the people being killed only those that the policy defined? Or were there exceptions? Jim Bell