by John Worthington

Created on: March 07, 2008

Our country has been engaged in a war on drugs that has diverted tax dollars from other more important needs,and has created a criminal justice snowball. The reason we have fallen for this prohibition is that there are enough people that associate taking drugs as a loss,and that it is our moral duty to prevent this loss.

Trying to stop all the losses has been a futile endeavor that would be like the manager of a sports team trying to win every game. Everyone knows you can't win every game. You learn to take a loss in stride and try and do better next game.The moral puritans simply can not live with a loss. They try to do the impossible and win every game.

The black market has been making money for years off of the moral puritan's overzealous pursuit of moral purity. The process has played itself out for years and years.
The puritans push for prohibition of some social activity the moral purists despise and the cycle is started. Black market investors make riches, and the law enforcement budgets snowball into huge budget portions of our government spending.

The puritans can't live with a loss and are quick to dispatch the G-man to stop the moral sins of America, much to the delight of black market investors that can capitalize on the moral puritan's policies.

The G-man takes advantage of the moral puritans over zealous policy to intrude into our private lives. The G-man now has all but erased many of the protections that used to be in place before the wars on drugs and terror.Posse comitatus used to prevent our military from being used in local police actions. Now the military can take advantage of homeland security, to fly over drug suspects houses with forward looking infra red devices that take an X- ray vision of our private life at home.

The moral puritan does not mind these random snapshots of our private lives or the loss of protection from the military actions against American citizens. They are wearing blinders that only allow them to see their moral puritan vision of sugar plums.The moral puritans seem to be oblivious to all the losses they create trying to stop the losses they despise. The moral puritans have failed to see that they are trying to stop a loss with another loss.

At some point the moral puritans need to; realize their math does not add up, snap out of their blind pursuit of moral purity, and see the actual sticker price of their moral crusade.

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