Does Mommy really want to make Daddy end this war?

As if I needed a reminder of how much the Culture War sucks, M. Simon’s post did it for me.

I have been saying for quite some time that the Democrats would be using marijuana prohibition as a pivot in at least the next two elections given that the Republican base is avowedly prohibitionist. I expected the Democrats to start in on the issue this summer. They must be hurting badly because they have started six months earlier than I expected.

Ugh.

Problem is, Obama may be a completely incompetent president, but he is as shrewd as they come where it comes to campaigning. Seriously, I think he is a campaign savant. He knows which way the wind blows, and how to harness the power of that wind. (And parenthetically, while you don’t have to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, old Barack Obama is very simpatico with the weathermen. So much so, that he might as well be one.)

It’s a real drag that this crass opportunist has been presented with such a golden opportunity, but he has. Never mind that the drug war is bigger than ever, responsible for more deaths than ever, violates more human rights and constitutional rights than ever, the guy who is presiding over all of it will still manage to position himself as an opponent of what he is presiding over, and the mean-spirited Republicans as the primary proponents of it.

For their part, many Republicans will have a kneejerk anti-Obama spasm in response, and it would not surprise me to see some of them lapse into full scale, gung-ho, red meat, vintage drug war reenactment mode, gnashing their teeth, bashing “hippies,” and all the rest of that loathsome culture war shit.  After all, these types tend to see their sainted hero Ronald Reagan as launching it, and the commie pinko Obama cultural Marxists as trying to lead us into defeat so that they can finish the country off by sapping the strength of the youth. Freedom be damned.

Frankly, the whole thing wants to make me vomit. (Perhaps I should say “makes me want to vomit.” Perhaps not.)

Never mind that the war on drugs is a perfect model for a war on privacy, especially financial privacy. Nothing could possibly have given the now militarized police a better excuse to do just about anything they want to just about anyone.

In a typical recent case, a clueless citizen simply gave some money to a homeless man, and it triggered the usual police response:

Police in Houston, Texas handcuffed, detained and searched the vehicle of an innocent man for over an hour this week, all because he gave change to a homeless person. According to Houston’s Channel 2 News, police wrongfully accused Greg Snider of giving drugs to the man who approached him and asked for change.

Snider said that he was pulling out of a parking deck and talking on his cell phone when a homeless man asked if he could spare any change. Snider rolled down his window, gave the man 75 cents and drove away.

Minutes later, a Houston police cruiser appeared in his rear-view mirror, blue lights blazing. He pulled over and was astonished to find himself face-to-face with a violently agitated officer.

“He’s screaming. He’s yelling. He’s telling me to get out of the car. He’s telling me to put my hands on the hood,” Snider recounted. “They’re like, ‘We saw you downtown. We saw what you did.’ And I was like, ‘Are you kidding me? I gave a homeless man 75 cents.’”

By today’s standards, that’s nothing. The man is lucky he wasn’t carted off to a hospital for medical invasion of all of his orifices.

I’d call it fascism, but the term is overused, and the traditional fascists really didn’t obsess over what people put into their bodies the way their modern counterparts do.

Interestingly, as the police become ever more obsessed with invading privacy, so the citizens are becoming ever more obsessed with ways of keeping what little privacy they still have.

I worry that it is too late to ever hope to end this awful experiment in totalitarianism that is called the drug war.

As Hillary herself admitted (obviously in an unguarded moment), we can’t legalize drugs because there is too much money involved.  She needs money too.

So they will probably keep the drug war going while pretending to oppose it, and with any luck, successfully blame it on the Rs.


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2 responses to “Does Mommy really want to make Daddy end this war?”

  1. Simon Avatar

    Thanks! And what a brilliant post.

  2. Veeshir Avatar

    The worst part about the War on Drugs is that legalizing drugs won’t make all those SWAT teams and MRAPs go away.

    Seriously, I think he is a campaign savant. He knows which way the wind blows,

    See, I don’t think he’s all that good.

    It’s easy when you can blatantly and obviously lie while siccing the gov’t on your opponents and the media attacks people for pointing out you’re lying and ignores the official intimidation so it never happened.

    Look! Bridgegate!