US drug policy -> maintains the class divide

[juan]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2016 11:07:07 -0400
John Newman <jnn at 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
>