Sanity vs Insanity
My upcoming debate is entitled “War on Drugs”, but it really isn’t so much about drugs as it is about failed public policy. The media and much of the country is up in arms about our failure to achieve our objectives in Iraq, but why is that same media silent on the war that has been waged for forty years against our own citizens? Where is the concern over the trillion dollars wasted on obviously failed policy since 1970? Why are there no people marching in the streets over innocent Americans killed routinely as the police consistently escalate their tactics in order to gain an advantage in a conflict where the goals can never be met? Why do we silently sit by while the very essence of our country, our constitution, is diluted to the point that its sacred guarantees of civil liberty are made practically meaningless? In the name of protecting our young we ruin their lives with criminal records for possession of marijuana; does that even make sense?
