45 reasons why you as a law enforcement officer want to end the war on drugs.
INDEX
REASON #1: Because you did not become a law enforcement officer to
arrest people for victimless crimes like drug possession.
REASON #2: Because the people who really belong in jail are the corrupt politicans
who run this country.
REASON #3: Because if all the law enforcement resources that are now wasted
prosecuting the war on drugs were used against real crime, we could clean up
this country.
REASON #4: Because you are tired of seeing police officers corrupted by
policies that exist only because drugs are illegal.
REASON #5: Because you do not want to work for corrupt narcotics agencies.
REASON #6: Because the war on drugs has created disrespect for the law among many
Americans.
REASON #7: Because you do not like the idea of D.A.R.E. programs turning
children into Gestapo/KGB style informers.
REASON #8: Because the biggest threat to society is not drugs but an out of control
government.
REASON #9: Because you question the motivations of politicians like
Bill Bennett, Newt Gingrich, and Bill Clinton who never spent a day
in uniform yet want to fight a war using other peoples' lives.
REASON #10: Because you do not want to betray your oath of
office by participating in unconstitutional activities
like profile searches, drug testing, and no knock searches.
REASON #11: Because asset forfeiture is theft and you did not become a law
enforcement officer to become a thief.
REASON #12: Because drug testing is a degrading invasion of your privacy.
REASON #13: Because you do not want to have to lie on your background investigation about that joint you smoked back in high school.
REASON #14: Because you would like to try illegal drugs but are afraid to do
so due to legal penalties.
REASON #15: Because due to the lack of needle exchange programs, AIDS is spreading
and you too may be infected.
REASON #16: Because you have friends or family members who use drugs and
you do not want to see them go to jail.
REASON #17: Because you have friends in law enforcement who use drugs and
you want to get them into rehab without destroying their careers.
REASON #18: Because you use drugs and you want to keep your career in law enforcement.
REASON #19: Because you do not use drugs but a false positive on a drug test
can destroy your career.
REASON #20: Because you are dealing drugs right now and if drugs were legal,
you could make a heck of a lot more money knowing what you know.
REASON #21: Because if drugs were legal, you could have some really neat parties
with all those pot heads you used to hang out with.
REASON #22: Because alcohol is a drug also, and if the drug prohibitionists get their
way, sooner or later they will shut down your favorite cop bar.
REASON #23: Because you are concerned that one day someone will frame you by planting drugs on you.
REASON #24: Because you are tired of the lies you have to tell in order to
rationalize the war on drugs.
REASON #25: Because it is insane to give people decade long mandatory prison sentences
for illegal drug possession while real criminals walk the streets.
REASON #26: Because you are a minority officer and you can see that minorities
get disproportionate sentences for drug possession.
REASON #27: Because you come from a working class background and can see that
what is really undermining this country are policies like
corporate downsizing while drugs are being used as a scapegoat.
REASON #28: Because you are a conservative and the war on drugs is nothing more
than a big government federal welfare program.
REASON #29: Because you are tired of putting up with the hysteria and pious
hypocrisy that constitute anti-drug public meetings.
REASON #30: Because you are tired of the lies being told by the Partnership for a Drug
Free America.
REASON #31: Because you do not want to work with terrorist organizations like the
Drug Enforcement Administration.
REASON #32: Because you are in the Drug Enforcement Administration and you
want to stop being a terrorist.
REASON #33: Because you are sickened by the killing of innocent citizens like Donald Scott
by drug enforcement task forces.
REASON #34: Because you have a friend or relative who is sick and could benefit
from medical marijuana.
REASON #35: Because you did not become a law enforcement officer to serve as
a security guard for the pharmaceutical corporations that are
profiting from the suppression of alternative medications.
REASON #36: Because you can see how the police of other countries are being
used as cannon fodder in the war on drugs and you do not want to have that happen to your
own agency.
REASON #37: Because you do not want to see your kids drafted to fight
and die in drug producing countries like Colombia in the name of the
war on drugs.
REASON #38: Because you know that the war on drugs can never be won and there
is nothing more insane than participating in a no-win war.
REASON #39: Because the war on drugs is being used as a precedent for a war
against the right to bear arms.
REASON #40: Because popular opposition to the war on drugs is fueling the militia
movement and even more people shooting at law enforcement.
REASON #41: Because you know that the real criminals are the politicians who
are exploiting the mass hysteria over drugs to cement their own
power.
REASON #42: Because you are tired of being part of an assault on the
freedoms and liberties of the American people.
REASON #43: Because it feels good to stand up and say "no" to the people at
the top.
REASON #44: Because you want future generations to remember you as someone
who stood up for freedom.
REASON #45: Because America is supposed to be the freest country that ever existed
and that war on drugs is a betrayal of that promise.
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