If you want to see how the Drug War has Nazified daily life in the western world, just watch a few episodes of the Canadian comedy-drama "Republic of Doyle" from the early 2010s1. The otherwise uber-tolerant protagonist, Jake Doyle, becomes Torquemada himself when it comes to drugs and he does not care who knows it. Jake refers to drug dealers as "garbage" and "turds" and even "scrot bags." And this in St. John's, Newfoundland, of all places, a town that is located in the "back of beyond," at least in the parochial minds of American homebodies such as myself. Nor does Jake limit the expression of his Christian Science disdain to mere words. In one episode, he throws a mesh wire basket over the head of a suspected drug dealer and starts beating said basket with a pub spigot in order to elicit testimony from his apparently satanic quarry. (This imaginative grilling technique reminds me of the scene in "Running with the Devil2," when the DEA agent strips a drug suspect to his Speedos and hoists him by a meat hook in order to find out where he had acquired his supply of the plant medicine that the original residents of Peru considered to be divine.)
Does nobody see what's going on here? The Drug War has normalized Nazism in the west! This is what happens to citizens who live in a country in which they are propagandized since birth in the imperialist drug-hating religion of Christian Science, above all by the media's ruthless censorship of all positive reports of drug use. (Would Jake have brought out the waste basket if the guy had been accused of robbery or murder? Of course not. Jake only feels compelled to become anti-democratic and hateful in response to Christian Science heretics. How dare they deal in the kinds of substances that have inspired entire religions!)
Of course, Jake is by no means alone in his self-satisfied Hitlerian antics when it comes to so-called drugs. In the 2021 movie "The Runner3," a white detective refers to an amiable Black teenage drug dealer as a "waste of space." Yes, a "waste of space." Imagine if you had been judged definitively, once and for all, based on your own potential missteps as a young person. But then the Drug War is all about zero tolerance: zero tolerance for common sense and compassion -- and, of course, zero tolerance for the use of substances whose informed use has inspired entire religions.
Spoiler alert: The teenager in the aforementioned movie is later killed by a massively irresponsible SWAT raid on a high-school dance. That will teach the kid, right? And guess what? The detective who led that raid receives an award from his employers for having done so! An award!
I repeat: does no one see what's going on here viz the Nazification of the west?! We defeated Nazi Germany, only to turn around and use the Nazi-style propaganda of Joseph Goebbels to make westerners hate minorities and the poor.
More recently, the movie "Smile 24" began with the vigilante killing of a drug dealer whose crew had been inadvertently responsible for the death of an innocent bystander in a drive-by shooting. The gunmen rides his moral high horse right into the camp of the enemy and begins firing at will. Of course, the self-satisfied vigilante never stopped to think that drug prohibition created gun violence 5 out of whole cloth by establishing immensely remunerative markets for peddling godsend medicines -- medicines that xenophobic and racist politicians had outlawed in violation of common sense and the time-honored rights of human beings to the plants and fungi that grow at their very feet. If he felt called upon to kill anybody, it should have been the xenophobic and racist politicians who created drug prohibition in the first place, for they had no excuse. They knew perfectly well that liquor prohibition brought machine-gun-fire to America's erstwhile tranquil streets. They knew that drug prohibition would cause enormous violence and lure the pure and disenfranchised into drug dealing. Why did they proceed? It's like Gordon Liddy said: Nixon knew that he could not arrest people for being black, but he could arrest them for using and selling drugs. All one needed to do was to outlaw the sorts of drugs that the pharmacologically challenged Caucasian tipplers in the White House were generally happy to do without.
I ask again: does nobody see what's going on here? The idiotic and hugely counterproductive policy of drug prohibition has Nazified the west!
Not convinced? Read Drug Warriors and Their Prey by Richard Lawrence Miller to learn more6.
In the meantime, consider the following depressing excerpts from Miller's brave but all-too-rare expose of the Drug War's Nazification of the west:
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"Rev. Accelyne Williams, a slender 75-year-old man, spent his final moments doubled over, vomiting, his hands bound behind his back with a tight strip of plastic, totally confused about what was happening to him. ... He had literally been scared to death by shouting, storming anti-drug troops. No drugs were found."
"Regarding a forfeiture against 80 Pennsylvania acres, FBI and drug agents openly boasted that they 'couldn't wait to use the defendant's property for deer hunting and other social activities."
"If government can seize property having no link with drug use, why must seizures be limited to drug users? Why not take property from persons who abstain from illicit drug use? In fact, Drug Warriors have established legal principles allowing government to do exactly that."
"When seizing an automobile under civil forfeiture statutes, prosecutors need only demonstrate its use in transporting an illicit drug. The amount of drug is irrelevant, as is an innocent owner's lack of knowledge that the car was used in this way."
This is not legislative excess in the name of a good cause: this is Drug War Nazism! The least that we westerners can do is to acknowledge that fact. As a first step in doing so, we should send a clear message to our television and movie producers everywhere, demanding that they cease and desist when it comes to creating Drug War agitprop that teaches us to hate our fellow human beings.
In response to a tweet that "some drugs cannot be used wisely for recreational purposes": The problem is, most people draw such conclusions based on general impressions inspired by a media that demonizes drugs. In reality, it's hard to imagine a drug that cannot theoretically be used wisely for recreation at some dose, in some context.
Two weeks ago, a guy told me that most psychiatrists believe ECT is great. I thought he was joking! I've since come to realize that he was telling the truth: that is just how screwed up the healthcare system is today thanks to drug war ideology and purblind materialism.
The best harm-reduction strategy is to re-legalize drugs.
When folks die in horse-related accidents, we need to be asking: who sold the victim the horse? We've got to crack down on folks who peddle this junk -- and ban books like Black Beauty that glamorize horse use.
This is why the foes of suicide are doing absolutely nothing to get laughing gas into the hands of those who could benefit from it. Laughing is subjective after all. In the western tradition, we need a "REAL" cure to depression.
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.
In the 2015 movie "No Escape," the only place that was safe from anti-American hysteria was an opium den. How ironic that the U.S. forced Iran to outlaw opium.
Big Pharma drugs have wrought disaster when used in psychotherapy, but it does not follow that the depressed should become Christian Scientists. The use of outlawed drugs can obviate the need for shock therapy.
Any self-respecting mycologist should denounce the criminalization of mushrooms.
Proof that materialism is wrong is "in the pudding." It is why scientists are not calling for the use of laughing gas and MDMA by the suicidal. Because they refuse to recognize anything that's obvious. They want their cures to be demonstrated under a microscope.
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