Kerlikowske lies about Oregon meth labs

When you accept a job to be a control freak, I guess we shouldn't be surprised when you live down to expectations.

Gil Kerlikowske - drug czar for the Obama administration - is conducting an electrifying world tour of the state of Oregon.

The main purpose of this fact-finding mission seems to be to spread one of the drug warriors' biggest lies of the past few years. Namely, Kerlikowske praised Oregon for being the only state to defy federal law by requiring a prescription to buy pseudoephedrine allergy drugs.

Kerlikowske falsely claimed that Oregon's law reduced the prevalence of meth labs. That is an outright lie - one that can be debunked by even a cursory Internet search.

But who's surprised at Gil Kerlikowske lying and getting away with it? The very job of drug czar is to be a control freak. The post was conceived by the Reagan regime for that purpose. The aim of creating the drug czar post wasn't to improve the American people's lives but to regiment their personal conduct.

Contrary to popular belief, Kerlikowske never supported legalizing marijuana. When he was Seattle police chief, he even fought against a measure that would have made busting people for marijuana possession a lower priority. Kerlikowske was also responsible for the illegal arrests of labor leaders and other peaceful activists during the WTO conference.

When you're a drug warrior, lying to advance the failed War on Drugs goes with the territory. The only way you can excuse the drug war is by lying.

If I was President, and if there was one major government post I had to eliminate, drug czar would be it. We can't afford to keep squandering taxpayer dollars on an office whose goal is to control private conduct, while big banks have almost no regulation whatsoever.

(Source: http://news.opb.org/article/6548-obamaq-drug-czar-touring-oregon-treatment-centers)