US drug policy -> maintains the class divide
From a comment on slashdot - I'm not American, but this sounds quite plausible to me:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/11/27/1343243/lsd-microdosing-gaining-popu... " If you're a $100k/yr engineer (Score:4, Insightful) by rsilvergun (571051) on Friday November 27, 2015 @10:52AM (#51013395) such things don't apply. In America we have a multi-tiered justice system. It's pretty well documented. Wealthy and educated people get treatment programs, while poor (and let's face it, black) people get jail. It's because what we're really using our drug policy for is to keep the poors in check. Think of it this way. If your poor chances are you or one of your friends is using drugs to cope with poverty. Now, our drug laws, in particular our asset forfeiture laws are basically guilt by association. Combine that with juries that are inherently conservative (since you generally have to be well off to be able to afford to server on a jury for any length of time). So when poor people show up in wealthy neighborhoods they not only stick out like a swore thumb, but odds are good the cops can bust them for the drugs at least one of them is carrying. This keeps poor people out of wealthy school districts and parks, and lets the wealthy enjoy their (much, much better) public services. Basically, our drug policy is central to maintaining our class divide... "
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:46:16 +0000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
From a comment on slashdot - I'm not American, but this sounds quite plausible to me:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/11/27/1343243/lsd-microdosing-gaining-popu... " If you're a $100k/yr engineer (Score:4, Insightful) by rsilvergun (571051) on Friday November 27, 2015 @10:52AM (#51013395) such things don't apply. In America we have a multi-tiered justice system. It's pretty well documented. Wealthy and educated people get treatment programs, while poor (and let's face it, black) people get jail. It's because what we're really using our drug policy for is to keep the poors in check.
Feeding the medical and pharmaceutical mafia is another key objective - and purpose - of the government. In a free market, a kilo of a 'natural'(comes from a plant, it's quite green) stimulant like cocaine would cost, say, $100, whereas in the current fascist system, $100 buys you a few pills of the latest patented garbage sold by pfizer and pushed by the narc-cunts known as 'medical doctors'. Think of it this way.
If your poor chances are you or one of your friends is using drugs to cope with poverty. Now, our drug laws, in particular our asset forfeiture laws are basically guilt by association. Combine that with juries that are inherently conservative (since you generally have to be well off to be able to afford to server on a jury for any length of time).
So when poor people show up in wealthy neighborhoods they not only stick out like a swore thumb, but odds are good the cops can bust them for the drugs at least one of them is carrying. This keeps poor people out of wealthy school districts and parks, and lets the wealthy enjoy their (much, much better) public services.
Basically, our drug policy is central to maintaining our class divide... "
On Sun, 2015-11-29 at 02:26 -0300, juan wrote:
On Sat, 28 Nov 2015 23:46:16 +0000 Zenaan Harkness <zen@freedbms.net> wrote:
From a comment on slashdot - I'm not American, but this sounds quite plausible to me:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/11/27/1343243/lsd-microdosing-gaining-popu... " If you're a $100k/yr engineer (Score:4, Insightful) by rsilvergun (571051) on Friday November 27, 2015 @10:52AM (#51013395) such things don't apply. In America we have a multi-tiered justice system. It's pretty well documented. Wealthy and educated people get treatment programs, while poor (and let's face it, black) people get jail. It's because what we're really using our drug policy for is to keep the poors in check.
Feeding the medical and pharmaceutical mafia is another key objective - and purpose - of the government.
In a free market, a kilo of a 'natural'(comes from a plant, it's quite green) stimulant like cocaine would cost, say, $100, whereas in the current fascist system, $100 buys you a few pills of the latest patented garbage sold by pfizer and pushed by the narc-cunts known as 'medical doctors'.
Think of it this way.
If your poor chances are you or one of your friends is using drugs to cope with poverty. Now, our drug laws, in particular our asset forfeiture laws are basically guilt by association. Combine that with juries that are inherently conservative (since you generally have to be well off to be able to afford to server on a jury for any length of time).
So when poor people show up in wealthy neighborhoods they not only stick out like a swore thumb, but odds are good the cops can bust them for the drugs at least one of them is carrying. This keeps poor people out of wealthy school districts and parks, and lets the wealthy enjoy their (much, much better) public services.
Basically, our drug policy is central to maintaining our class divide... "
US drug laws, the ridiculous sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums, the blatantly racist enforcement (and extra-judicial killings), and the resulting American gulag (highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world) are just a little twist on slavery, which "ended" during the Civil War.... John
On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:07:07 -0400 John Newman <jnn@synfin.org> wrote:
US drug laws, the ridiculous sentencing guidelines and mandatory minimums, the blatantly racist enforcement (and extra-judicial killings), and the resulting American gulag (highest per-capita incarceration rate in the world) are just a little twist on slavery, which "ended" during the Civil War....
Exactly right. And according to the establishment, such legal system is the non-plus-ultra of 'liberal' 'democracy' and grounded on 'inalienable' 'human' 'rights'.
John
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