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Running with the torture loving DEA

by Ballard Quass, the Drug War Philosopher

November 7, 2019




Welcome back to the DEA Lounge!




I want to thank our public servants here for taking time out to join us. I know you've got a busy schedule, locking up liberals, so any time you can spare--





What did I say?



Hey, listen, I understand. By locking up liberals, you keep the Drug Warrior conservatives in power and thus maintain your crucial jobs of quashing dissent in America and limiting human consciousness.



No, seriously. I suppose the Drug War was bound to happen eventually on planet earth.


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It had to happen at the precise moment in human history when capitalism and modern transportation coincided with a new awareness of the psychoactive power of plants.

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We could either greet this alignment of forces rationally or not, and guess which choice we made?

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Suddenly, Chicken Little politicians were screaming: "Oh, me gosh, we have to outlaw plants!"



Wrong.

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Earth to politicians: you should have outlawed the profit motive when it comes to those psychoactive plants, not the plants themselves.

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I guess they had to scapegoat plants, though, since the alternative was to question the all-powerful god of capitalism 1 .

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The result? They thereby created such a violent world that we had to invent a whole new movie genre to accommodate all the bullets and bodies: namely, the Drug War movie.


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I hate to call such politicians morons, but if the dunce cap fits...

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"Gee, what happened? We outlawed plants and a bunch of violence ensued. Who would have thunk it?"

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Answer: anyone with half a brain.

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Don't you love those Drug War movies 2 3 4 ? Those movies where the DEA "heroes" laugh at the US Constitution and willfully employ torture and murder to achieve their goal of outlawing Mother Nature? Ah, yes, good old American values: torture and murder.

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Check out Running with the Devil, a DEA propaganda film starring Laurence Fishburne and Nicolas Cage.

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Along with Leslie Bibb as the torture-loving DEA agent.

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You know, if the Drug War is Christian, as many fundamentalists maintain, then I must have missed something in Sunday School.

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I missed the part where Jesus told his followers to place suspects in bikini briefs, suspend them by a metal chain, and then threaten to drill holes in their abdomen with a power tool, as Leslie Bibb threatens to do to the so-called "Snitch" in Running with the Devil.

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Oops, I forgot to mention: SPOILER ALERT!

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Speaking of spoilers, you ever notice that the Drug War spoils democracy!

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I just looked up the movie, Running with the Devil, on so-called Common Sense Media.

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Common Sense? More like Common Nonsense.

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They pan the movie for its nudity and four-letter words...

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...but they have absolutely NOTHING to say about the movie's glorification of governmental fascism5.

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Common Sense Media is like: Watch out, parents. There are some very naughty words, indeed, in this movie! Land's sakes! Aside from that, though, it's just a good-natured romp extolling the wonders of fascism! So enjoy!

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My name is Ballard Quass and I'll be here until they outlaw freedom of speech6, which won't be long considering that our government has already had the metaphysical chutzpah to outlaw mere plants!





Notes:

1: What the drug war tells us about American capitalism (up)
2: Glenn Close but no cigar (up)
3: Blast-off for Planet Hypocrisy! (up)
4: Drug War Quotes in TV and Movies (up)
5: Glorifying Beneficial Drug Use (up)
6: Speak now or forever hold your peace about drug prohibition (up)


Drug War Movies




Hollywood supports the war on drugs by refusing to show wise use while always depicting drug use in the worst possible light. Like all media, they refuse to show beneficial use -- and if they're not depicting drugs as dangerous dead-ends, they're at least showing use to be frivolous and dangerous. The producers kowtow to drug warrior sensibilities.

  • Running with the torture loving DEA





  • Ten Tweets

    against the hateful war on US




    Researchers insult our intelligence when they tell us that drugs like MDMA and opium and laughing gas have not been proven to work. Everyone knows they work. That's precisely why drug warriors hate them.

    Folks like Sabet accuse folks like myself of ignoring the "facts." No, it is Sabet who is ignoring the facts -- facts about dangerous horses and free climbing. He's also ignoring all the downsides of prohibition, whose laws lead to the election of tyrants.

    "When two men who have been in an aggressive mood toward each other take part in the ritual, one is able to say to the other, 'Come, let us drink, for there is something between us.' " re: the Mayan use of the balche drink in Encyc of Psych Plants, by Ratsch & Hofmann

    The drug war tells us that certain drugs have no potential uses and then turns that into a self-fulfilling prophecy by outlawing these drugs. This is insanely anti-scientific and anti-progress. We should never give up on looking for positive uses for ANY substance.

    Uruguay wants to re-legalize psilocybin mushrooms -- but only for use in a psychiatrist's office. So let me get this straight: psychiatrists are the new privileged shaman? It's a mushroom, for God's sake. Just re-legalize the damn thing and stop treating us like children.

    All drugs have potential positive uses for somebody, at some dose, in some circumstance, alone or in combination. To decide in advance that a drug is completely useless is an offense to reason and to human liberty.

    Drug prohibition is the perfect racist crime. It brought gunfire to inner cities, yet those who seek to end the gunfire pretend that drug prohibition has nothing to do with it.

    The Drug War brought guns to the "hoods," thereby incentivizing violence in the name of enormous profits. Any site featuring victims of gun violence should therefore be rebranded as a site featuring victims of the drug war.

    Even fans of sacred medicine have been brainwashed to believe that we do not know if such drugs "really" work: they want microscopic proof. But that's a western bias, used strategically by drug warriors to make the psychotropic drug approval process as glacial as possible.

    The DEA has done everything it can to keep Americans clueless about opium and poppies. The agency is a disgrace to a country that claims to value knowledge and freedom of information.


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