War on drugs doomed to failure
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting a different result.
According to Americans Against the War on Drugs (AAWD), the U.S. has spent more than one trillion dollars on the War on Drugs during the past thirty years without achieving even a small reduction in drug trafficking or drug abuse. Traffickers have continued success, now garnering around four hundred billion dollars per year. Drugs on the street are of higher quality and are more plentiful than ever before. And in the past decade, the use of illegal drugs by junior high kids in the U.S. has increased by three hundred percent. How then can you categorize the War on Drugs as anything but total insanity? (more…)
Saturday, March 31st, 2001Mom, the flag, apple pie, and violence
There is no way to peace. Peace is the way.
Children have never been good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.
Violence in America. It permeates our society as our movies, our TV shows, our video games, our music and, frequently, our sports reflect. In comparisons with other industrialized nations, the U.S. maintains an immense lead in such categories as homicide and suicide rates for males fifteen to twenty-four years of age. Why do you think this is so? If such acts of violence were inherently part of who humans are, wouldn’t more folks from around the world be shooting first and asking questions later? (more…)
Saturday, March 3rd, 2001
