One Trillion Dollars spent over a period of 40 years! Exactly how does a country fight a war against inanimate objects? The War on drugs has failed to achieve a single objective over the span of 40 years! Money belonging to the citizens of the United States deliberately squandered by the very people entrusted to govern the affairs of our country! Nixon's, war on drugs accomplished nothing but to destroy the lives of Americans and allow criminals enterprises to flourish and create vast organized Black Market networks for trafficking drugs, weapons and young women for prostitution. The war on drugs seems to me to be an illusion! It is used to divert attention from the real objective. The real objective of the war on drugs is to allow the governing bodies to exert greater control over the citizens. It gave the governing bodies an excuse to curtail our constitutional rights in the name of public safety and national security.
Over 30,000 Mexican Citizens slaughtered! Michele Leonhart, the now confirmed head of the DEA, claims that body count is proof that we are winning! Ms. Leonhart, how many more slaughtered Mexican Citizens will signal that the war against drugs has been won? Eventually Mexico is going to either change their policies to try to protect their citizens or run out of citizens to protect.
Aid, money & weapons given to foreign governments, by the US to supposedly help fight the war on drugs, is often handed off to powerful local Drug Lords so that whoever is in power at the time can keep control over the people of his country and present and a presumably honest yet albeit harried leader to the world. So, why has the US Government, knowingly, been financing the very Black Market trades that they claim to be fighting?
When is enough, enough? When will the American People stand up to the Governing bodies, Federal, State and Local, and demand that the politicians acknowledge our Constitutional rights and stop taking them away! When will we as American Citizens tell the federal government to stop wasting our money on their pet projects and what they personally want! Unless we stand up and unite to tell the governing bodies to submit to the will of the people and not the secret agenda's of special interest groups and corrupt politicians! Our government has taken the liberty of adopting policies that allow cruel and unusual treatment of our fellow citizens. This is especially true in the cases of people that choose to use Cannabis. A person that uses Cannabis can be incarcerated longer than persons convicted of taking another life can. The Punishment is supposed to fit the crime! Why is a plant, that god put on this planet for mankind to use, against the law when it has been proven to have more than a few uses as medicine? Hemp is prohibited also simply because it contains a trace amount of THC and is from the same family as Cannabis.
Our current President, Barak Obama, has taken a new approach for the same old tired policies of previous administrations. He uses the newest of technologies to reach the citizens of the United States! The State of the Union Address was broadcast via television networks and over the internet via "live-streaming." The entire world has access to "live-streaming" speeches and interviews. A couple of days after the State of the Union Address, President Obama participated in an interview on Youtube to "answer the questions of the people!"
The questions were posted on a forum where people could vote for the best questions. The top 100 ranked questions concerned ending the drug war, Legalizing Cannabis and several variations all this amounted to the citizens crying out, "We the people want change!" Out of the entire interview, President Obama commented on the top question. The number one (1) ranked question, submitted my a member of L.E.A.P., was concerning current failed drug policies, the failed war on drugs and the extreme waste involved in fighting the war on drugs. The president did not answer the question he commented on the question stating that "it was a topic that could be debated."
Now in fairness, President Obama was supposed to be answering questions that fell under certain categories. Categories carefully selected, to allow the President, to avoid the one single topic that Americans have been trying to get the politicians to change for years, the US policy on drugs.
The great thing about the internet is that anyone with access was able to view that interview. That means the fact that the President of the United States ignored the very people responsible for his ascension to the White House. He just blew them off like dust on the mantle of a fireplace. I haven't seen much of the reaction from other US Citizens. I expected more of an uproar after Obama's response. President Obama may have said the subject is debatable. He did not say that "he" would be the one to debate the subject. He already has access to all the statistics for the past 40 years. What is left to debate? He knows the same thing that the citizens know about the failed war on drugs. He also knows everything the citizens have never been told about the war on drugs. Surely, by now he knows how the citizens feel about all the wasted money and destroyed lives.
It's almost as if, like a young child pretending that if they don't open their eyes, you can't see them. In this case, so long as the governing bodies refuse to listen to the people, they can continue wasting tax money on the war on drugs. So long as the governing bodies deny stripping us of our Constitutional rights, they can continue doing what ever they want.
I feel that there is only one remaining question to be answered! How much more Bull Shit are we the people going to endure from the government? Isn't it time that "WE THE PEOPLE" finally stand up and tell these selfish politicians to stop wasting our tax money on the failed war on drugs, Stop the pet projects, ear-marks and pork-barrel add-ons to necessary appropriations Bills. Federal funds should be used for federal needs! Most importantly, Stop ruining the lives of our fellow citizens! Stop destroying entire families in the name of national security!
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