How we lost the 'War on Drugs'

[Hazzard]

http://wms.scripps.com/knoxville/siler/siler.mp3

Warning this is very disturbing.

'When Tennessee law enforcement officials showed up at the home of Lester Siler, who they suspected of drug use, they asked Lester's wife and son to leave. They didn't know that Lester's wife had turned on a tape recorder in the kitchen. When Lester exercised his constitutional right not to sign a consent to search his house, these officers spent the next two hours torturing him. They beat him with bats and guns, held loaded guns to his head, threatened to shoot him, dunked his head in the toilet, burned him with lighters, attached his testicles to a battery charger, threatened to cut off his fingers, and threatened to "go get" his wife and take his child away from him. Then they arrested him for "evading arrest". It wasn't until the wife's recording made it to the FBI that all hell broke loose. And go figure, even though these officers have been convicted in federal court, not one national media outlet gave this story the coverage it deserved. But that's okay. At the time, reporters were busy decrying the immorality of Janet Jackson's Superbowl nipple! These are the same "journalists" who refused to cover the United States Government's secretive medical marijuana program.

I'm warning you now, this is the most disturbing recording I've ever heard in my life. But people need to know about this. Our war on drugs is a failure, and the national media is following a code of silence on related humans rights abuses.

The link at the top will open the actual audio recording of the torture (some people have to copy and paste the link into thir browser to activate the link). And a web search for "Lester Siler" will give you access to further local and blog coverage of this story.'

[Martin Conner]

Like most issues the solution is education.

ALL drugs need to be legitimised and humanity must learn about their application in society. Prohibition is wrong, it only creates huge fiscal profits and gives us marvellous individuals like Al Capone and his cohorts.

Humans will always experiment, this must be acknowledged in order to monitor the evolution of human paradigm. Prohibition encourages dangerous chemistry, vicious behaviour and violent dismay.

While our pastimes are hidden we will never advance out of this Hades. Drugs are like the microscope to the biologist, or the telescope to the astronomer. They allow the individual to examine life from a perspective they would not otherwise have discovered.

Apparently, Francis Crick was tripping on LSD when he figured out some of the key elements to DNA. And I heard Gates was of his head when he came up with the code to launch the Windows GUI from the DOS prompt.

Personally, I don’t necessarily encourage nor do I dissuade the use of psychotropic investigation. However, it bodes well to consider that these compounds are tools. And as such should be applied accordingly and respected for what they can achieve.

The issue for me is more about the freedom to choose. Now we have the Internet it is relatively simple to research most everything. To be forewarned is forearmed. If people could experiment in an atmosphere of acceptance, it could reduce the likelihood of discovering cadavers curled into a ball in the corner of a disused factory with a vein full of Ajax and a rusty needle hanging out their arm.

[Hazzard]

What happens when the police play gangster though?

[Martin Conner]

The police will do whatever the government tells them to do. In an ideal world, there would be no police. Think about how much of the crime committed today is a result of the capitalist paradigm.

While humanity is restricted, and effectively imprisoned by the current fiscal model, the species will continue to suffer.

There is the ideas and technology available that can supply the entire planet with sustenance. However, capitalism will not broadcast this to the world.

[Licenced2chill]

Jeez,thats sickening.To protect and serve eh?
I have a theory that when Governments behave violently or cruelly,it rubs off on society.I think that we all subconsciously at least,look up to those in power.If the government is opressive,the police find it easier to be.The police who did this should be put in a secure hospital,for life.