Some people are singled out because the State covets their wealth and sees phony drug charges as a means to steal their goods and use that money and property to boost its own power and budgets. Dealers push drugs on children, recruiting them into their organizations, knowing that as juveniles they will receive more lenient sentences if caught. The State creates mandatory drug sentences for drug offenses, filling our jails with nonviolent offenders and releasing murderers, rapists, and robbers to make room for this new brand of felon. More jails are built, expenses mount, and people who are merely engaged in peaceful and voluntary conduct are demonized, threatened with execution, and torn from their families. Simultaneously, they want to deny law-abiding citizens access to effective encryption software and technology.
Privacy becomes a quaint relic of days gone by.
As drugs flow into our country, the State turns our borders into armed camps. The line between our police and our military is blurred to near obliteration. From the other side, our police forces are militarized, given helicopters, military weapons, and SWAT training replete with black uniforms, flak jackets, and helmets. Seriously ill people who need marijuana to tolerate chemotherapy and to keep down their medicine are denied its usage despite referendums approving such practices. Freedom shrinks, the State grows.