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The drug laws are Jim Crow laws, version 2.0 (now with added resiliency!) They were created for exactly the same racist reasons. The laws are evil, and those
by Crito 13y ago
The drug laws are Jim Crow laws, version 2.0 (now with added resiliency!) They were created for exactly the same racist reasons. The laws are evil, and those who voluntarily sign on to enforce them are evil.
The DEA isn't staffed by people who were drafted, they all chose to involve themselves. Each individual member of the DEA is free to refuse to participate, but they instead choose to participate. We can and should judge them for that.
- chc 13y agoI think you're letting your outrage overcome your sense, because this has very little to do with what I was talking about.
- Crito 13y agoIt has everything to do with what you are talking about. You said: "Because if it's just the current laws that are problematic, then it is indeed the laws that are the problem, not the agency." But it isn't just the laws that are problematic. The agency itself is problematic (being a construct that exists only because of the problematic laws), and the people who voluntarily work for the agency deserve every ounce of criticism that they get. There is no sense in which the agency is not problematic, both it as an abstract concept and it as a collection of free individuals are part of the problem. Neither the agency nor the people that comprise are blameless just because they did not write the laws.