Re: The War on Drugs is a War against the Minorities and the Poor - agree or disagree
Mike
I have seen people write well articulated articles, position papers on lifting the ban on recreational drugs. Very compelling.
In your case, your posts are absolute rubbish. No foundation, poor arguments and unable to detect flow of logic. If you want to see a lift on prohibition, don't post anymore. You remind me os the some of the clowns in opposition such as Harbans Singh and company.
Ok, since you are well versed in prohibition economics and the black market, you should know what I'm talking about.
In the drug black market, you have (1) the raw drug farmers, (2) the drug brokers, (3) the drug manufacturers, (4) the drug mule and finally (5) the drug consumers.
Majorities who are drug warriors, aka pro-prohibitionist, many would like to see the "drug lord", aka (2) the drug brokers, be taken out as they are the "real bad guys" here. But these people are usually very well hidden and usually when a drug lord is arrested, it is not a big blow to the drug market as another drug lord will take his/her place.
Which leaves (1), (3), (4) and (5). And look at who makes up these people.
For (1) the drug growers, these people are always just poor farmers living in the remote area controlled by the drug lords like the golden triangle, Afganistan or Colombia. And these farmers are always desperate because their only source of income is to grow these drugs. They literally have no choice but to grow the drugs or they will starve to death. They can't grow anything else that will get them enough money to survive.
For (3) and (4), drug manufacturing factories are always located in poorer countries like Mexico and Myanmar. The drug brokers employ only the poor or uneducated people to be the drug manufacturers and mules because these are always the people who are desprate for money.
And finally (5) the drug consumers. This is where it gets interesting. Drug consumers can virtually be anyone who have been exposed or understands about drugs. The higher educated people, like the ASEAN deligates mentioned earlier, usually prefer mild drugs like Cannabis, MDMA, LSD or mild doses of meth. They are careful not to reveal their addiction and usually have the power to cover everything up if they have been found. Some goes on drug tours into countries like Amsterdam or Thailand just to try things out.
The rest are made up of vulnerable people, people who are easily influenced like the youth, the school drop out, the unemployed, the "gang" members, etc. Just like how most people started to smoke, are usually influenced by peer pressure to try out drugs and more often than not, they are lured into hard drugs rather than recreational drugs because of their lack of knowledge. And these group of people are always minority groups in any society, it doesn't have to be racial minority but a minority group non the less. In Singapore, its the Malays, in America, it is the African american and hispanics.
I am not saying that the Singapore government intentionally attack Malays, but the original war on drugs commission by Presiden Nixon was designed to supress the african american community. We just copy and paste the american's war on drugs and the same effects happens here.
And if you want to do personal attacks, please be reminded that I did not create this report. This is report made by Al Jazeera
http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryus2012/2012/08/2012823103039675592.html
I just realize that what ever is happening in Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Singapore is an amost exact mirror image of what is happening in Colombia, Mexico and the United States.
