Topher Morrison
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On June 17th, 1971 President Richard Nixon declared the War on Drugs, since that time our country as well as our neighbors have suffered, not from the use of drugs, but from the fact they are an artificially rare, unprotected and extremely valuable commodity. Imagine the world of the late 50s and early 60s before the wars began, it was a different world by every measurement. In 2011 are we as a nation safer, freer or happier because of the War on Drugs?
The Occupy Wall Street movement has many facets, much of it is misguided, naive and offers no solutions other than benighted calls for more democracy and regulation, however, as we all know there is much the mainstream media (MSM) doesn't cover. At Occupy Phoenix we found people from every corner of the political spectrum as we have documented and in this segment we'll show a sharp contrast between both ends of what is increasingly being viewed as our false political paradigm.
The left and the right apparently agree on one thing in the Occupy movement - End the War on Drugs. Apparently big banks can't Just Say No, violence rages on both sides of the boarder, but evidently it has subdued Northern Mexico into fearful submission. At Occupy Phoenix we got a taste of what people were thinking when it came to America's lost war.
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The Occupy Wall Street movement has many facets, much of it is misguided, naive and offers no solutions other than benighted calls for more democracy and regulation, however, as we all know there is much the mainstream media (MSM) doesn't cover. At Occupy Phoenix we found people from every corner of the political spectrum as we have documented and in this segment we'll show a sharp contrast between both ends of what is increasingly being viewed as our false political paradigm.
The left and the right apparently agree on one thing in the Occupy movement - End the War on Drugs. Apparently big banks can't Just Say No, violence rages on both sides of the boarder, but evidently it has subdued Northern Mexico into fearful submission. At Occupy Phoenix we got a taste of what people were thinking when it came to America's lost war.
This country is much different since the 1960s. We have more crime, the most people incarcerated as a percentage of our population on the planet and a bountiful cornucopia of exotic drugs. The corruption one faces at the hands of a joint of marijuana is nothing compared to the market distortions caused by the billions upon billions of dollars and lives wasted in the War on Drugs. The Obama administration may have stopped using the phrase because they feel its "counterproductive", but it's still illegal and we're no closer to ending it.
