http://dunwalke.com/8_Dillon_Investment_in_Cornell.htm

and here:

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/03/corrupting-every-level-of-government/

So what did the billions spend, the millions incarcerated, and the thousands dead buy us, exactly?

The war on drugs isn’t about providing YOU with anything.

The bailouts aren’t about bailing YOU out.

The war on terror isn’t about making YOU safe.

See a trend?

It was the story of an American in Berlin circa 1938, as the drums of war began. Seriously, if I visited the USA today, that play is the lense through which I would view your once great country. Just swap Muslims (& pot smokers) for the Jews in the story…

And another thing; it always amazed me how the Jews in Nazi Germany LET the Holocaust happen. They were in a state of disbelief, I guess, that their very own Government would suspend its very morality. Oh sure, the Warsaw Ghetto uprising happened but German Jews stood passively in lines to climb on to those dreadful death camp trains.

It seems to me that US citizens are having their very own boiling frog moment…

Exactly what “we” (the government, its “private” partners, and its badgelicking sycophants) meant to gain by it all along: power.

Sounds an awful lot like an execution to me.

The police not only placed the lives of the people residing within the home and surrounding neighborhood in danger with their poor lack of judgement and extreme depraved indifference to life they also placed their own lives in danger.

And for what?

Some marijuana. A young mans life was taken for absolutely no cause and his killer is likely to get off scotfree.

Why couldn’t the police act in a professional manner and simply wait for someone to exit/enter the home and then serve the warrant without the need/use of violence?

–The Police (funding, overtime, and unbridled power over the public)
–The Prosecutors (Power, Power, and still more Power to wreck peoples lives)
–Jailors (it provides lots of jobs guarding weed smokers: 24 x 7 x 365)
–The Jail and Prison Construction Industry (The Toughest of the Tough-On-Crime Construction Cartel)
–The liquor industry (keeps out the competition)
–The Rx drug industry (same as liquor industry)
–Mexican Drug Lords
–Drug Mules
–Drug Dealers
–The Manufacturer of “Baggies”.

Here’s the cite in today’s Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/pat-robertson-marijuana-should-be-treated-like-alcohol-says-war-on-drugs-has-failed/2012/03/08/gIQARikHzR_story.html

Barney Frank. Politician — and comedian!

Or, IOW, The Simpsons were right yet again. “Don’t blame me – I voted for Kodos!”

The fix is in, the signs are everywhere. The GOP never once tried to undo the national ponzi scheme back when it was still small enough to kill. The infamous HUAC was started on the Democrats’ watch. Kennedy & LBJ got us into Vietnam, and Nixon cranked it to 11. The GOP – as usual – never tried to kill LBJ’s burgeoning welfare state, perhaps seeing its useful possibilities. Neither party has or will ever make any serious attempt to control the borders – except against US citizens trying to sneak a bottle of cheap booze back into the country. The 9-11 comedy show, unchallenged by both parties. The Iraq/Afghan/Gitmo adventure hour, loudly blasted by the dems, (after they voted for it, of course), but left in place when they took the reins. The hated Obamacare’s first pre-installment payment of a mere $500 billion or so came up after the GOP had retaken the house in ’10 – and they signed the check without so much as a whimper of complaint. Most importantly, the federal budget, and its powers, increases year after year, regular like clockwork – and both parties see this as right and proper.

Kabuki theater 101.

We are right to call out Obama on his actions on behalf of the drug war, something on which Dems notably fail to do. The DEMS cannot claim to be for kindler gentler government when they allow, and fund, excesses of the police state.

However, I also note that the GOP failed to call out the numerous cases of drug war death like this, yet claim to be the party of individual liberty, property rights, and defending ourselves against big govt. The GOP of Newt Gingrich and John Boehner say nothing about the daily slaughter, yet tried to crucify Clinton and Reno for government over-reaction with David Koresh and Ruby Ridge. They hate unions, except for the police union.

I call a pox on both their houses.