Drug agents call crime boom a "success"

If this isn't proof the Bush regime lives in a topsy-turvy world where up is down, what is?

As the crime rate continues to soar, the ogres have a new excuse for it. They say the increase in crime actually shows the "success" of the failed War on Drugs. The head of a federal drug task force boasts that his agents in Atlanta have created a boom in burglaries, robberies, and car thefts as illegal drug users have to pay more for drugs. He brags that if his task force manages to break up established drug territories, it will cause a similar increase in murders as the drug gangs fight more. That too is touted as a "success."

Causing car thefts and violent crime is a "success"?

If I lived in Atlanta and became the victim of a theft or robbery, I'd be furious at Bush's drug agents. But they don't give a shit. They applaud serious crime because they think it shows they're doing their job. That's right, ladies and gentlemen: Law enforcement is actually cheering a crime increase!

If they're doing this just as an excuse to hit up the taxpayers for more funding, it's just another illustration of ongoing corruption caused by the War on Drugs. I don't see how anyone can put a happy face on a major crime boom, but the drug agents in Atlanta are doing exactly that and expecting people to fall for it. It's the only excuse they can come up with for continuing today's draconian policies. That's pretty sad.

Another War on Drugs failure? As part of the Nazism boom in the middle of this decade, Georgia passed its own form of what became federal law around the same time: The state sharply restricted the sale of over-the-counter cold and allergy medicines that contain pseudoephedrine, using the pretext that pseudoephedrine can be used to make meth. This is the modern version of the Rockefeller drug laws. In some states, parents have gone to prison just for stocking up on over-the-counter medicine for their kids. Now drug agents admit that the law has created more business for international drug cartels and increased the amount of meth.

Gee, who would have thunk that would happen? (That's sarcasm, people.) But of course they say that's a "success" too. Yeah, sure it is - because the federal government owns part of the international drug cartels! Follow the money, people, follow the money.

The next President needs to repeal this 21st century version of the Rockefeller drug laws - and order all the logs that track legitimate buyers of over-the-counter medicine to be destroyed with all haste.

(Source: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2008/03/08/Atlantavice_0309.html)