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"Hence, this so-called "Drug War" really isn't, in effect, a war at all." bd
| President LBJ's "War on Poverty" wasn't really a "war", in the martial sense.
It was a "war" in name only.
But that was enough.
For though it was not fought with bullets, guns, paramilitary troops, wiretaps, property searches, & pre-dawn raids; calling it a "war" served as a semantic rallying point. It provided focus to the national effort.
But the War on Drugs is not a "war" by semantics alone.
For the War on Drugs IS waged with bullets, guns, paramilitary troops, wiretaps, property searches, & pre-dawn raids. Over a million citizens have been taken prisoner since this Drug War began; and hundreds of thousands of them are still being held.
The War on Drugs is a real War. Quote: |
"This "Drug War" is, in actuality, the protection racket, so to speak, for an illegal and dangerous industry." bd
| United States government is in actuality a protection racket.
In the 18th Century, U.S. government was founded to guard our Liberties.
In the 21st, U.S. government infringes & usurps more of our Liberties than all of the other governments of the world, COMBINED!!
Some "protection". Quote:
war (wôr) noun
1.a. A state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. b. The period of such conflict. c. The techniques and procedures of war; military science.
2.a. A condition of active antagonism or contention: a war of words; a price war. b. A concerted effort or campaign to combat or put an end to something considered injurious: the war against acid rain.
verb, intransitive
warred, warring, wars
1.To wage or carry on warfare.
2.To be in a state of hostility or rivalry; contend.
- idiom.
at war
In an active state of conflict or contention.
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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