Well not exactly all the drug users, only the casual ones. If you are dressed up in a suit or even better an evening dress or a tuxedo I guess you will be let off the hook. Say isn’t that the way it works already? Yes it is. The well off go to rehab the poor go to jail.
In any case let us take a look at what Daryl “kill the casual drug users” Gates has to say.
EL PASO — Sometimes controversial and always outspoken, former Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates said Thursday that casual drug users in the U.S. are at the root of the violence in Juarez and should be shot.
Gates was in El Paso to speak at a ceremony for graduating peace officers.
Gates, who led the Los Angeles Police Department from 1978 to 1992, also predicted that the violence in Juarez would spill over into El Paso and that law enforcement agencies on the U.S. side should be prepared.
“I don’t think the people in the United States are grasping what a serious problem it is. Mexico has lost more people in a very short period of time than those lost in Iraq or Afghanistan,” he said.
“I think, you know, I have such a low opinion of the people in the United States who continue to use drugs. They are really responsible for what’s happening in Mexico — they really are. We go along every day. We don’t take that responsibility that we ought to assume. Somebody asked me one time about casual drug users, I said they ought to take them out and shoot them.”
I propose an alternative solution requiring a lot less killing: suppose we just shoot the prohibition enforcers and let drug stores sell drugs.
Now there is a very novel idea. Drug stores selling drugs. Who ever thought of that idea was a genius. Well smarter than Daryl Gates anyway. In any case I think a little compromise is in order. Say we let drug stores sell drugs and let prohibition enforces find other work. Maybe they could be trained to track down murders, burglars, and General Motors executives.
Cross Posted at Power and Control
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8 responses to “First We Kill All The Drug Users”
Daryl Gates should be placed under arrest immediately for making such a threatening comment ON RECORD!!! This nut is a 100% certified danger to the general public!!! Who the F#cK is HE???
Who the F#cK is HE???
I think he was born 25 years too late and in the wrong country.
These pigs need to be held to account. They are operating and acting way beyond the bounds of The Constitution! They are operating ILLEGALLY in this Country! Where the hell is the outrage? Where is the Patriotism???
What a maroon.
Of course, if no one in the U.S. or anywhere else used drugs, the cartels would go out of business, but… you wanna bet on that happening?
I agree that Daryl Gates is crazy, he is taking this way too far. Killing casual drug users is not the correct punishment, not to mention against the constitution. Even so, I think that the drug dealers should be prioritized over casual drug “users.”
R Pohlman,
It won’t do the trick. Dealers of any consequence have a 1 in 7 chance of dying on the job already. Increasing that to 1 in 5 is probably not enough discouragement to change much.
I suggest that going back to a drugs are legal regime is the answer. Like we had before 1914 for opiates and cocaine. Like we had before 1937 for marijuana.
It will not fix the drug problem. It will fix the drugs + crime problem.
What a fascinating concept. Cops actually fighting violent crime instead of working in municipal finance. Taxation without representation? Thank a cop today.
Los Angeles Police Chief Daryl Gates is obviously an idiot or imbecile at best if he made that comment.
There are many factors for the crime in Mexico & America. Once again it all comes back to money & greed. (Didn’t Mexico’s former Drug Czar just get indicted on corruption charges…. you bet he did!) and let’s not pretend our countrys not corrupt. We wrote the book on corruption.