Reply #12: I understand Walter's Psychology, the same as Vietnam and other, no win, costly foolish endeavors.

[Uncle Joe]

"To say that all the things that have been done in the war on drugs haven't made any difference is ridiculous," Walters said. "It destroys everything we've done. It's saying all the people involved in law enforcment, treatment and prevention have been wasting their time. It's saying all these people's work is misguided."

No one wanted to believe so many people died in vain, so that war dragged out far longer than it needed to.

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As for Nixon, the largest and most vocal group of people opposing Vietnam were the Hippies, that's what got under his skin.

In 1970, hippies were smoking pot and dropping acid. Soldiers were coming home from Vietnam hooked on heroin. Embattled President Richard M. Nixon seized on a new war he thought he could win.

"This nation faces a major crisis in terms of the increasing use of drugs, particularly among our young people," Nixon said as he signed the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act. The following year, he said: "Public enemy No. 1 in the United States is drug abuse. In order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new, all-out offensive."

So how do you pay the hippies back?

You demean, diminish and disenfranchise them from government. Nixon couldn't beat the Vietnamese, so he surreptitiously waged war against the American People. If he truly wanted to wage war against drug abuse, he would have drastically increased funding for education, medical research and treatment. Criminalizing can only lead to disenfranchisement of the people and alienation to-wards their government, along with destruction of the family unit which creates an adverse dynamic influencing the following generations to more drug abuse.

Nixon was a paranoid, powermac suffering from chronic self-victim-hood and he cared no more about true justice for the American People than he did his own subordinates. The so called "War on Drugs" and the Watergate Cover-up sprang from the same poisonous well.

When Ronald Reagan came along and said "Government is the problem" that rang true with many people because Nixon before him helped make it a problem and then Reagan in turn would make it even worse.

Thanks for the thread, notesdev.