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Street Roots. Sept. 25-Oct. 1,2015 News »RUG WAR, from page 5 within the ministry of the interior peonle not be having an insurgent against their own government. So I am quite ttere were deaths of American service membere m Afghanistan that would not have ^ned had it not been for the wa^ I.F.: It’s coming more from South America, along with the cocaine. The violence we see there is cartels fighting Page 7 it has in the U.S., is that most of the ^corruption is outside the U.S. 1 personally think there’s a real moral question about us insisting Mexico keep drugs illegal, while their stuff is simply supplying our market It undercuts their ctemocracy. Their citizens cannot vote and say, Hey, enough of this! Let’s stop the we^ the foreign rid that cot a?d.Our "uhtary assistance. We’ve got a big club to hang over them. That ““dercutting democracy around the world - m Afghanistan and Mexico, Central America -1 thmk is another of the big damages “used by on the U.S. mostly don’t think about Hke El b°y’ time nke El Chapo Guzmdn gets locked up, it’s K®" T^UP Within the OIWization. People are fighting each other for who’s gomg to come out on top. E.G.: Why aren’t more police officers, who violence we see in Mexican see some of the same aspects of the drug war cartels and Chicago street gangs is due to that you vese&n, in favor of ending prohibition? gang and cartel members fighting for Are they afraid they'll lose their jobs? dominance. I learned back in the 1980s in Chicago that a drop in the violence may be I.F.: Police departments are benefiting nothing to cheer about It usually meant that from the war on drugs. For example, the one larger gang had established dominance federal 1033 Program, which is the probably more dangerous, as they then Pentagon giving surplus military equipment had more muscle to extort locals to local law enforcements specifically The violence in Mexico is out of control. authorized to fight the war on drugs. And If this were happening outside suburban they added the war on terrorism more Portland or Washington, D.C., I think we’d recently, but there isn’t that much terrorism change our drug laws real fast One of the gomg on in Oregon, or anywhere else papers I wrote several years ago, on the domestically for that matter, so it’s the reason drug illegality has hung on as long as drugs. And police departments are getting equipment that I’d previously seen only in nr^ "““^^tant, ambush- protected vehicles; it’s like a tank. And what’s become of community policing, Officer Friendly? Instead, some of those pictures coming out of Ferguson, Mo - people weren’t that geared up when they ' were driving around in Afghanistan, and there s something wrong when our police are taking this “us-them” view toward the local population. There’s no excuse for this sort of equipment A lot of it is used for serving drug warrants. Instead of just quietly going up to somebody’s house, we’re gomg to knock the door down. And if you’ve read stuff by Radley Balko, the number of people injured and killed by police trying to serve drug warrants and getting the wrong house, this is contributing to police militarization and lack of trust between police and local populations. E.G.: Do you think you'll see the end of drug prohibition in your lifetime? PARTICIPATING RESTAÜRAHTS k O&9/« -. . . . . MISSISSIPPI PHU WEB 9/8.. ^>11101 NB* THORS 9/10 . . . . . 816 ASS SANDWICHES HIN 9/14 . . . . . . PACIFIC PIE COUPANT* TOES Mi . . . . . . 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