Russell McMahon wrote:

[Rant trigger]

> 3.    This will set legal precedence for future seizures making drug 
> related arrests easier.

[Rant]

"Drug arrests"... The "war on drugs" is not a war on drugs. People who make
"drug arrests" don't do drug arrests. What they do is driving the price of
desired substances up into the stratosphere, where of course then the big
money can be made and possibly more weapons sold than to the army. (And
differently than most army weapons, these do get used. Daily.) Countries
like Colombia, cities like Rio de Janeiro are partially owned by the drug
money that is created exclusively by the "war on drugs" aka "the biggest
scam invented yet to fund illegal activities". 

It is almost impossible to believe that the increased education and
recovery efforts that may be necessary to deal with relatively freely
available "drugs" (as if alcohol and nicotine and all the others weren't
drugs...) could be more expensive than the "war on drugs". They would
definitely be less intrusive. Of course, the money would be spent on
different people and for peaceful purposes rather than on another "war",
and that might be the real problem why things are as they are. The ones
making their cut now (both the "legal" ones and the illegal ones with good
connections to the pseudo-legal ones) don't want this to happen.

The "war" effects of this war are much more hidden in relatively "neat"
countries. But they are still present; you just have to look a bit closer.
IMO the issue here is not whether or not this was drug money; the issue is
that the brain wash is at such an advanced stage that when the word "drug"
gets used, the blinds fall down and nothing else matters anymore. Like the
medieval "demon hunts"; the differences are only incidental and not in
substance.


[No "rant end" follows here; I'm presented on a daily base with the effects
of that war. No end in sight. The effects are not that much in reducing the
exposure to dangerous substances; they are much more in giving criminal
groups tremendous financial resources and make participating in them a
financially very attractive career for anybody who hasn't really a good
shot in a very unequal society. The only thing you may have to do to get a
foot in the door is to kill your first "target" at the age of 12. This
sounds like more than it is, because at that age probably two of your older
siblings have been killed already, so you're used to "that sort of thing".
If this sounds cynical, then because that may be necessary to see this day
after day and still having to listen to the marvelous "war on drugs"
stories.]

Gerhard

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