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DrCSwartz 08/01/2009 03:31 PM Report
My fondest hope is that the billions spent in Iraq and Afghanistan will produce lessons on controlling terrorism in our own country.
Imagine the anguish of a mother who worries that her child will be shot on the way home from school.
Imagine the hell of a prison system run by gangs.
Every citizen in our country deserves to be free of gangs and drug wars and organized crime. We must take back our own country.
If we can learn how to begin to achieve that in our current wars, perhaps it will have been money well spent.
REMant 07/30/2009 05:44 PM Report
Having individual agencies was not responsible for the lack of communication, and forcing them into one agency is not likely going to improve it.
tartufe 07/30/2009 04:44 PM Report
Damn that was good cello.
cello10 07/30/2009 02:34 PM Report
Despite the promise of "Change We Can Believe In" we are getting business as usual with the so-called "War on Drugs", which simply further aggravates our Federal deficit problems. Another problem with the "War on Drugs" is that it requires governments to wage war on their own people. The great lesson of prohibition was that prohibiting recreational substances substantially increased their cost in the marketplace, making it financially lucrative for organized crime to meet an unmet demand. Yet the same conservatives that advocate free market economics also fail to recognize this one simple point. We have not learned the lesson of prohibition because the FDA - and its all too cozy relationship with the pharmaceutical industry - creates government pressure to criminalize recreational substances. The pharmaceutical industry wants all of us to buy their overpriced, proprietary drugs. Any substances outside of their marketing control threaten their profit structure. Noble Prize winner Linus Pauling once coined the term "Ortho Molecular Medicine": "Ortho" meaning right angle or right, and "Molecular" meaning molecule. Hence "Ortho Molecular Medicine" means "Medicine using the Right Molecules". As the alternative health and medicine fields slowly advance - they also are persecuted by the FDA and "Big Pharma" - synthetic drugs that work against the body's chemistry are becoming increasingly obsolete as a means for treatng disease. Further, as State budgets continue to spill red ink, the cost of incarcerating recreational drug users far outweighs the costs of drug treatment and rehabilitation. The secret to "Just say no to drugs" its to first "Just say no to pharmaceuticals and Big Pharma".
tartufe 07/30/2009 01:45 PM Report
Paradoxically (of sorts), if we were to stop acting like an arrogant empire abroad (Iraq and Af-Pak, et al), we just might come (a little) closer to being (a little) safer at home.