Wake up, dummy. Talk s cheap. Remarkably, some of them are our friends. Yes, we have put our friends in positions of power, trusting that their years of dedication to the rights of the poor, the importance of the bill of rights, the need for equal handed justice that these track records they had established would assure us that they would not fall prey to the intoxication of power and become well-mannered monsters. No such luck.
Power is a heady thing.
In this war on drugs the new enforcers commit the same futile, brutal war crimes against us as did their predecessors. They take the homes of harmless pot growers, leaving their children homeless, impoverished, and without hope, while those convicted serve mandatory minimum sentences so long that any hope of maintaining contact with family or even with our society is barren. They prosecute sick people who shun addictive pharmaceutical drugs and use pot to get normal, rather then to get high. They prosecute the brave citizens who dare to provide this medicine to the sick. I m sorry, they tell us, but it s still illegal and these are our orders.