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Is this irony or what? For decades drug-legalizers have been told that we shouldn’t be single issue voters, that there were BIG ISSUES to be considered. Now all of those BIG ISSUES have coalesced in the greatest policy defeat for the U.S. since the Vietnam War.
Racially-biased drug laws made it possible for Bush to steal Florida in the election, and his gang in turn exported American prison guards and police methods to Iraq. As in America, Iraqis were arrested because of the color of their skin, and held in substandard prisons by morally-challenged guards.
As a result, the ‘Made in America’ brand will inspire considerable revulsion from a lot of people for years to come. An absolutely huge market, stretching from North Africa to the Phillipines, will pay a little extra to avoid our brand. And this may be the least of our problems.
The hollowness of American military might lies exposed. The price of maintaining a ‘volunteer’ army just went up. Bush’s good friend, Putin, laughs discretely in his sleeve while Chechen rebels head for Iraq. And everyone beyond our borders shares this fervent dream, that we may bankrupt ourselves, like the Russians did, and remove ourselves from their lives.
For want of a spine, a drug policy was lost. For want of a drug policy, an election was lost. For want of an election, an Empire was lost. And all for want of a spine.....
