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I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine ca
by bluepanda928752 5y ago
I hope one day we will have a Nuremberg-style trial for all those friendly chaps who orchestrated (and profited from) this pointless life-destruction machine called war on drugs
- aerostable_slug 5y agoHow does that address those who voted for many of those men and women, knowing their policies and completely agreeing with them? I am acquainted with people who firmly believe the Devil's Plant is terrible and shouldn't be legal anywhere — what then?
- bluepanda928752 5y agoI suppose we can extend the German analogy here as well, e.g. not trying to put half a country on trial might be the most reasonable option
- kstrauser 5y agoDid we have one post-Prohibition?
- bluepanda928752 5y agoIf we don't either in this case, there's always a second option of doing the same thing Israel did to those who decided not to face a trial and ran away..
- paxys 5y agoWe just had one for Purdue Pharma. Spoiler alert: absolutely nothing happened to these friendly chaps.
- heavyset_go 5y agoI know of a police chief who just retired with a $250k/year pension whose primary contribution to the community was arresting high school kids for smoking joints.
- belatw 5y agoNixon, Reagan including Nancy Bush Sr. the original instigators of the federal on drugs are all dead.