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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:35 AM Original message |
The Drug War requires inner city fear of the police (drug war = tool of poverty) |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's really ironic how Americans can easily see that alcohol Prohibition lead to violence.. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. It's racism, obviously. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:52 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. I'm not so sure.. |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-16-10 04:46 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. You can see the effects of propaganda even here, if someone makes what someone else considers an |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:53 AM Response to Reply #3 |
7. I think it's more than that |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:45 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. imho, i think i can prove that inner city violence is fueled by the drug war |
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timtom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:54 AM Response to Reply #4 |
8. Operant notion being, of course, "drug WAR" |
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HillbillyBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:59 AM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Just a speculative observation |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:18 AM Original message |
you are correct.. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:18 AM Response to Reply #10 |
13. But pot has been a middle to upper class white drug for forty plus years now.. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:20 AM Response to Reply #13 |
14. but rich (white) people don't do the time.. |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:24 AM Response to Reply #14 |
15. I don't think Obama was rich or white at the time he was doing drugs.. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:29 AM Response to Reply #15 |
17. You are right - he was not |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
2. K&R |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
5. For many years now I have had at least one student every year who has a parent in prison |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 08:57 AM Response to Reply #5 |
9. Who do the kids believe, you or their lying eyes? |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:08 AM Response to Reply #9 |
11. How could trusting cops end up badly for them? |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:16 AM Response to Reply #11 |
12. I guess you haven't read any of the "never talk to cops" threads? |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:27 AM Response to Reply #11 |
16. the unregulated economy makes the cops a tool of the gangs |
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proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:39 AM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I agree but we need to change that |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:45 AM Response to Reply #19 |
20. until we end the drug war it is unrealistic to think that those |
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Fumesucker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 10:31 AM Response to Reply #19 |
21. The drug war will never end.. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #21 |
24. you are correct fumesucker |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 09:30 AM Response to Original message |
18. K&R |
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Bennyboy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 10:39 AM Response to Original message |
22. My own personal story.... |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:27 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. thanks for the reply |
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ipaint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:13 AM Response to Original message |
23. Follow the money. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Feb-16-10 04:33 PM Response to Reply #23 |
28. + |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 11:24 AM Response to Original message |
25. Pretty good summation, K&R. |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-15-10 04:15 PM Response to Reply #25 |
27. thanks for the reply |
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