Monday, December 15, 2008

End the War on Drugs

I guess I'll never be a liberal as defined by the American media (and, in my experience, most commenters, bloggers, etc). When moved to comment on the issues of the day, I trend towards the conservative side. Not to follow an agenda, however; that's simply the way I usually roll when inspired to react.

So anyway, here's a reminder to folks that us bad guys -- conservatives, Republicans, and the Wall Street Journal -- can actually be on the right side of things now and then, with this hair-raising lead:
Of all the casualties claimed by the U.S. "war on drugs" in Latin America, perhaps none so fully captures its senselessness and injustice as the 2001 CIA-directed killing of Christian missionary Veronica Bowers and her daughter Charity in Peru. -- WSJ, 12/14/08
More from us Kool-Aid® guzzling haters on the subject here: Let's End Drug Prohibition.

4 comments:

AJ said...

Good article.

Sal said...

Flavor-Aid.

*sigh*

You're singing the song I've been singing for years.

Don said...

You and me and George Schultz. What's interesting is the comments to the WSJ articles, presumably made by WSJ readers and thus relatively conservative people, is over 90% in favor of repeal. Yet few politicians can stand out on this issue. I guess they fear the power of mass ridicule driven by misinformation.

I know to say Kool-Aid is to misquote someone somewhere but it's what everyone says.

asha said...

Screw sides. The prohibition doesn't work. It's that simple. Remove the profit motive and POOF... the "drug world" collapses like the house of cards it is.

Anyway, good article. Thanks for the link.