Delusional statement of the week award
Occasionally Parade magazine can be very interesting. This week we learn an amazing fact: the drug war will soon be won. I sometimes wonder if there is a class in journalism school, where you learn to keep a straight face while your interviewee says something as stupid as this:
“We’ll eventually break the backs of the cartels, but the violence on both sides of the border will not end until that point.”
- Garrison Courtney, chief spokesman for US Drug Enforcement Administration
No you won’t, Garrison. Black-market violence gains power from the illegality of its object.
In the same issue, we learn that Barbie, the plastic doll with big boobs, made $3.3bn last year. Susan Meisner, 44, a real person and port-of-entry inspector in Lenore, Idaho, made $30k. Doesn’t that make you feel safer?
It’s amazing. First, we apply the metaphor “war” to things, then become hell-bent on “winning.”
All drugs should be legalized. Not “decriminalized,” legalized. The illegality of drugs is a much bigger problem than the drugs themselves could ever be.
There are so many powerful interests dependent for that power on drug illegality, that this madness will probably never end.
It’s amazing attempting to talk to republicans on this matter. It’s not just become an obligation for whatever personal reasons, but is a moral issue. So legalizing or decriminalizing is going to be very difficult.
I am beyond confused trying to figure out that point of view.
I wish it was just Republicans. Joe Biden is all over the War On Drugs.
The drug war has eroded some liberties and protections, too.