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1 total messages Started by francois.grieu Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:34
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Author: francois.grieu
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2007 00:34
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be allowed
in drug searches unless the police knew that neither they nor the evidence
would be in danger if they announced their presence. 

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Illegal drugs are a great benefit to drug dealers.

The Drug War is a great benefit for perpetuating
and expanding corrupt Governmental power.

#   "Smoke and Mirrors---The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure"
#   By Dan Baum, ISBN 0-316-08412-3, 1997
#   
#   The War on Drugs made the criminal justice system one of the top growth
#   industries during the eighties and nineties.
#   
#   Police jobs at all levels of government swelled by 36 percent and prison
#   jobs by 86 percent during the Reagan years alone, while overall government
#   employment rose by only 16 percent. Federal prosecutors doubled under Bush.
#   For those in the enforcement trades, the War on Drugs was boom time.
#   
#   For everybody else, the period was marked by a commensurate increase in
#   police intrusion. There are rarely victims or witnesses in drug crimes.
#   
#   Drug use usually takes place in private, and drug dealing occurs between
#   a willing seller and a willing buyer.
#   
#   So to wage the Drugs War an expanding army of police had to use ever more
#   
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