The Secret Is out: the phony war on drugs

WHEN LBJ BECAME PRESIDENT, his greatest desire, like most shrewd politicians, was to be all things to all people. Social welfare programs for the liberals, war for the conservatives. And, by golly, he gave us all of the above. He told the joint chiefs of staff "if y'all want a big ole war, I'll sho give yuns one(texas twang).

And he sho did. Those of us to whom he gave this big ole war later ran him out of office for his trouble, because he forgot to win  his big ole war, but, what the hell? He tried. But at least Viet nam sucked up a great number of poor urban blacks and po southern white trash, and used them as cannon fodder.

Nixon came to office promising to end the war, and he did it, though much later than we had hoped. He also ended the draft. This created a small problem: what to do about the poor thetto blacks now? You can't just leave 'em on the street, forming gangs, dealing drugs....wait!...that's it!

And thus was born nixon's war on drugs, which is ongoing today. One out of nine african - americans is in prison, mostly for drug related offenses. Whitie boy walks, black man goes to prison. Check it out. You'll see. The war on drugs is a war on poor black people.

One state after another is coming to its senses and legalizing marijuana, which I thought would have happened by 1980, and should have.  the pernicious, phony  war on drugs is finally coming to an end, in utter defeat for america, like the viet nam war did forty years ago.

We never should have tried to fight either. They both contributed mightily to our current bankruptcy, and the drug war has resulted in a huge percentage of the population being imprisoned, again mostly for drug related "crimes" (aka capitalism)... a bigger percentage than any other nation on earth, including china, iran, north korea; all nations  which we americans are supposedly more "civilized" than.

but at least we are pulling out, withdrawing from the war on drugs, just like we did in viet nam. Another thing they have in common: we will never, ever admit to ourselves, or to others, that we lost either, when in fact, my fellow americans, my fellow citizens of earth, america lost both. Now the secret is out...