Roar Mikalsen - HUMAN RISING - radiofri..

Craig Reinarman, professor i sosiologi og lovgivningsstudier beskriver
utviklingen slik:
“Under the banner of the war on drugs, a kind of creeping totalitarianism tramples
more human rights and civil liberties each year. Tens of millions of citizens — most of
whom have never used drugs and all of whom are supposed to be presumed innocent
— are subjected to supervised urine tests to get jobs and then to keep jobs. Hundreds
of thousands more are searched in their homes or, on the basis of racist ‘trafficker
profiles,’ on freeways and at airports. Houses, cars, and businesses are seized by the
state on the slimmest of suspicions alone. And U.S. school children have been
bombarded with more antidrug propaganda than any generation in history.” 88
Ingenting av dette ville borgerne ha godtatt om det ikke var for
narkotikaforbudet. Den moralske panikken det bunner i har gjort både borgere
og offentlige tjenestemenn blinde for all fornuft, og folk flest har ikke selv et
tilstrekkelig oversiktsbilde til å se hvor det bærer på vei. Walter Block og Megan
Cussen utdyper tilstandsbildet ytterligere:
“Are we being hysterical in categorizing present drug law as a form of servitude? No,
our drug laws amount to partial slavery. We must all question the practices of
roadblocks, strip-searches, urine tests, locker searches, and money laundering laws.
Philosophically speaking, drug prohibition severely threatens our civil liberties and is
inconsistent with the anti-slavery philosophy and the founding documents of the
United States. The legalization of drugs would give a basic civil liberty back to U.S.
citizens, by granting them control over their own bodies.” 89
Eric Sterling er er en tidligere forbudstilhenger som heldigvis innså hvor
farlig forbudslinjen var for samfunnet. Han var på 1980-tallet, som politiker, en
varm forsvarer av strengere straffer og økte fullmakter, men jobber i dag for
fornyelse av det bestående. Som leder av The Criminal Justice Policy foundation
beskrev han narkotikalovgivningens ødeleggende effekt på samfunnet slik,
under et foredrag i the Colorado Bar Association:
“Essentially the legal basis for the war on drugs depends on the assumption of total
power by the Congress and the Federal government to regulate the most intimate
aspects of our lives, the very dreams that we have. And the propaganda arm of the war
on drugs has been successful in persuading us to unwittingly surrender this vital power
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