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BANKRUPTED our States & Federal Government?
And practically NO 1 on the business or cable news channels OR in the LAMEstreamCORPORATEmedia.
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Vincardog
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supraTruth
(496 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)We spend $60 billion a year -not including regular leo expenditures and costs of incarceration, mind you- to throw cancer grannies and jamband fans in prison cells for being caught smoking a joint.
Dissolve the DEA? Fuck yes.
TheKentuckian
(25,035 posts)and puts you at odds with the establishment.
supraTruth
(496 posts)WTF?
pscot
(21,024 posts)supraTruth
(496 posts)Selatius
(20,441 posts)You think the major shareholders on the board of directors of these major news networks don't have a diversified portfolio of stocks in companies across the economic spectrum up to and including stocks in private prison companies?
The only way they could be defeated is if people owned their own news outlets, but the simple fact of the matter has been and will continue to be that freedom of the press belongs to those who own one. The people never did.
Romulox
(25,960 posts)Fumesucker
(45,851 posts)A lot of us simply cannot imagine a world in which "drugs" are not illegal, the drug war has gone on longer now than the great majority of us have been alive and we have absorbed the attitudes and assumptions of that policy into ourselves at a level very similar to that of religion.
You might as well go to a devout Muslim nation and talk about making alcohol legal, the reaction would be very similar, just discussing it would make you socially unacceptable in a lot of circles, even circles where illicit alcohol use was common.
Initech
(100,129 posts)And as such it falls in line with our media. We really need to end the drug war.
EFerrari
(163,986 posts)We should just call it what it is, the war on black Americans.
supraTruth
(496 posts)States can NO longer support their colleges because their $ are being WASTED ON PRISONS & PRISONERS!
TEENS CONtinue to be turned into PRISONERS in MASSIVE NUMBERS!
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)But you need to lay off the CAPS LOCK, sir.
Everything in moderation.
supraTruth
(496 posts)Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)It may not have the effect you intend, though.