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In reply to the discussion: so what exactly happened with Obama and congress today? [View all]Uncle Joe
(58,480 posts)I would wager our nation has spent/wasted far more on the so called War on Drugs in treasure, blood, energy and resources than Iraq and Afghanistan combined and what's the result?
Nothing but disaster on multiple levels.
Now we have an industry that profits from imprisoning the American People, and what pray tell do you believe the for profit prison industry spends it's money on?
Lobbying Congress for more democracy? A more compassionate society?
Logic dictates their money and persuasion is spent on encouraging more draconian lock-em up and throw away the key laws. More prisoners = more profit, plain and simple.
Believe it or not the federal government is not always on the right of the issues, voting rights certainly didn't get much shrift in 2000.
The First Amendment was totally trashed by the federal government during the Cold War, "Are you now or have you ever been a Communist?"