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> I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus. William S. Burroughs, "Drugstore
by mouse_ 2y ago
> I predict in the near future right-wingers will use drug hysteria as a pretext to set up an international police apparatus.
William S. Burroughs, "Drugstore Cowboy" (1989)
- actionfromafar 2y agoEven he couldn't have imagined it (fentanyl-Trump) being used as a pre-text for trade tariffs with Canada.
- metalman 2y agodont know about anybody else, but what I see on the mean streets is an ongoing drug epidemic, caused by people wanting to get high, and the conflicting enforcement of some laws but not others. The absolute proof that "they" are all in on it, is the simple fact that the profits from illegal drug sales, runs into hundreds of billions of dollars, and the only way to move that kind of money, is through the international banking system.And move it does. The same banking system that wont let me, or you, move more than a couple of thousand dollars around at a time, and records everything, somehow is completly incpapable of tracking sums in the billion plus range.
- actionfromafar 2y agoSure. That does not imply that Canada is flooding the US borders with fentanyl. But that is the Trump reason for tariffs with Canada.