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.
Impotent to solve this self-induced problem, the State attacks not only drugs themselves but information about drugs. It hopes to outlaw Internet sites dealing with drugs, links to sites addressing drugs or related material, and even discussions about the drug issue. 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. Our armed forces are recruited to guard our borders, board ships and shoot down planes in international territory, and act to enforce domestic laws and to hell with any posse comitatus principles.