by Francis Palmieri

Created on: February 08, 2008

Many years ago there was a television program about the Vice Squad in Miami Florida. The two main characters in the Miami Vice world consisted of Don Johnson, known as Crockett and his partner Tubbs who every week fought the winless war of drug suppliers and the stooges that were hooked. No matter how many lower echelon arrests were made, the war waged against the public flourished.

It was in th Final edition of Miami Vice that the whole truth of the matter was revealed. After many years of running in circles to solve the problem: their lives were in danger and the realization that in many cases that they worked under those with the power to yield life or death. Realizing that it was impossible to solve the problem as long as those responsible for the drugs worked inside the law enforcement or political structure.

The term War on Drugs is nothing more than a misnomer without a beginning, or an end. It is nothing more than a sham operation to convince the population that action is being taken to halt the suicides, murders, prostitution and many other acts that are contrary to better public health. The Power of Money has too much influence who have found untold wealth co-operating with those that care not for life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.

Drug lord's have open gates on the Mexican Border as the Border Control Guards are arrested and jailed for doing their job: while those that are guilty are released, only to import more illicit drugs upon our children. As wrong as Attorney Generals continue to procecute innocent students for a rape without their reasonable doubt being injected as in North Carolina, what hope have we? The Texas border control gaurds also have been denighed theirresonable doubt as they were convicted and sent to prison on the word of the drug smuggler.

This is the bone chilling truth that there is no more efficient and ethical way to reduce drug abuse when those who control the network remain in positions of power. As was evident to Crockett and Tubbs, it is better to walk away and live than to fight the concealed enemy; who would end their exsistence in order to protect their ability to remain out of sight.

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