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Anonymous Coward User ID: 603603 United States 01/29/2009 03:17 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Narcs Cheer! Stimulus Bill To Fund "War On Drugs"...Would Give Byrne Grant Program $3 Billion Over Three Years more proof that these pieces of rancid feces that run this country are just doing whatever the fuck they want, regardless of what the voters want. If you people who care about the future of this country (I don't, I'm just here to undo karma) actually wanted to change things, you'd go into the house with fully automatic weapons and take your country back. order is better then chaos, which is why all the corrupt parasites on top of the current system must die, the mexican border must be sealed, drugs must be decriminalized, with cops/military allowed to be sent into the ghettos to cleanse. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 603603 United States 01/29/2009 03:18 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Narcs Cheer! Stimulus Bill To Fund "War On Drugs"...Would Give Byrne Grant Program $3 Billion Over Three Years TPTB are actually descending us into chaos, in order to establish even more order, although order on the law abiding. Only order on the criminals need be established, and they are also the criminals. |
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User ID: 603632 Canada 01/29/2009 04:40 PM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Re: Narcs Cheer! Stimulus Bill To Fund "War On Drugs"...Would Give Byrne Grant Program $3 Billion Over Three Years Good! At least some of the money is being well-spent. Quoting: Guns n' GodTip: do basic research before the knee-jerk opinion; the "war on drugs" is an industry and has been since Nixon: Economic Consequences of the War on Drugs Compiled by Anonymous, Drug Policy Alliance. 2002. How much does the drug war cost American taxpayers? $40 billion per year and climbing. In 2000, the National Drug Control budget exceeds $18 billion(1) and the states will spend upwards of $20 billion more.(2) This is a dramatic increase since 1980, when federal spending was roughly $1 billion and state spending just a few times that.(3) Between FY1991 and FY2000 more than $140 billion(4) has been spent at the federal level to curtail drug abuse, yet drugs remain cheap, easy to obtain and with higher purity levels than before the war on drugs was initiated. What competes with the drug war for budget money? Education. Because prisons and universities generally occupy the portion of a state's budget that is neither mandated by federal requirements nor driven by population, they often must "fight it out" for funding. As state governments sink millions into corrections to house America's exploding population of incarcerated drug law violators - now nearly 500,000 nationally(5) - education loses. * From 1987 to 1998 state spending on corrections increased by 30% while spending on higher education decreased by 18.2%.(6) * State prison budgets are growing twice as fast as spending on public colleges and universities.(7) By the government's own standards, are we winning the drug war? No. Despite the exponential growth in spending on the drug war, illicit drugs are cheaper and purer than they were two decades ago,(8) and continue to be readily available. In addition, according to White House estimates, 57% of Americans in need of drug treatment do not receive it, in spite of its proven cost effectiveness in reducing drug use.(9) * Between 1981 and 1998, the price of heroin and cocaine dropped sharply while their levels of purity rose.(10) * According to a 1999 survey by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, drugs continue to be widely available to America's high school students. Almost 90% of twelfth graders participating in the survey said that marijuana was "very easy" or "fairly easy" to get, over 47% said cocaine was "very easy" or "fairly easy" to get and more than 32% said that heroin was "very easy" or "fairly easy" to get.(11) What has been proven to be the most cost effective method of decreasing drug abuse and related societal costs? Treatment. * A study by the RAND Drug Policy Research Center found that treatment is 10 times more cost effective than interdiction in reducing the use of cocaine in the United States.(12) * The same study found that every additional dollar invested in substance abuse treatment saves taxpayers more than $7 in societal costs, and that additional domestic law enforcement costs 15 times as much as treatment to achieve the same reduction in societal costs.(13) Who really profits from drug prohibition? Organized Crime. According to the United Nations, drug trafficking is a $400 billion per year industry, equaling 8% of the world's trade.(14) By empowering organized criminals with enormous profits, prohibition stimulates violence, corrupts governments at all levels, and erodes community order. Arms manufacturers, the prison industry, and other special interest groups. * Anti-drug aid to other nations often comes in the form of military assistance. This year's National Drug Control Budget, for example, includes $452 million to provide Blackhawk helicopters to the Colombian military to fight coca cultivation.(15) Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., the exclusive manufacturer of the helicopters, lobbied heavily in favor of an escalation of aid to Colombia.(16) * With the overall prison population at roughly 2 million, nearly 500,000 of whom are drug law violators,(17) federal and state governments have been forced to build an ever increasing number of prisons to house what former drug czar Barry McCaffrey has called "America's internal gulag."(18) * Drug testing is a lucrative industry with a strong interest in perpetuating drug war hysteria. It is estimated that the United States spends $1 billion annually to drug test about 20 million of our workers,(19) in spite of research demonstrating the high cost and low effectiveness of this assault on American privacy.(20) Corrupt Law Enforcement. * A 1998 report by the General Accounting Office notes: …several studies and investigations of drug-related police corruption found on-duty police officers engaged in serious criminal activities such as (1) conducting unconstitutional searches and seizures; (2) stealing money and/or drugs from drug dealers; (3) selling stolen drugs; (4) protecting drug operations; (5) providing false testimony; and (6) submitting false crime reports. * The same study found that on average, half of all police officers convicted as a result of FBI-led corruption cases between 1993 and 1997 were convicted for drug-related offenses.(21) [link to www.drugpolicy.org] [link to www.google.com] I thought I'd beat the inevitibility of death to death just a little bit. |