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by Nicolette Naxalite
"Fundamentalist" Muslims aside,
there's nothing more likely to manipulate public opinion, whip up
social hysteria and sell newspapers than the mass media's horror
stories of the drug scourge.
Everyday we are confronted with
'real life' stories of sickly eyed, syringe wielding, granny rolling
junkies; tracksuit clad, ram raiding, blunt toking potheads and
underweight, cocaine-addled superstars losing it in public.
The War on Drugs (W.O.D) is nothing
more than a cleverly disguised profit generating exercise, utilized by
Propagandists and Moralists in a bid to alienate and coopt our diverse
communities using history's oldest military tactic, divide and conquer.
Public fear generated by the War On
Drugs serves well in its purpose to perpetuate racist stereotypes (Black = Crack...
...Asian = Smack) and reinforce the ridiculous notion that we need
the police to "protect" us.
Drug users are relegated as being
morally deficient people who don't deserve the same rights and respect
as their stereotypically 'honest and clean living'
counterparts.
Despite violating one of
capitalism's fundamental mantras,'Freedom of choice' (especially
where our own bodies are concerned) WOD/Zero Tolerance/Prohibition
ideals seem to mistakably assume that our societies, neither like, nor
want drugs. Despite the overwhelming evidence that humanity has had a
penchant for altered states of consciousness for eons.
The WOD dictates we live under
occupation conditions, with the ever present, very real threat of
latex-fisted Robo Cops randomly kicking down our doors, rifling through
our personal effects, monitoring our phone lines, searching and beating
us on the street, covertly infiltrating our social circles,
confiscating our possessions, restricting our freedom of movement,
incarcerating and murdering us. All for our own good of
course.
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