AP: Drug War Is A Failure

Ask any liberty activist their opinion of the drug war and they will tell you what I have been focusing my Free Keene blogging around: The “Drug War” is a disaster and it is causing crime everywhere.

In this breaking article the Associated Press is reporting what many of us in the liberty movement have been yelling for years.

Just a few years later, a young Barack Obama was one of those young users, a teenager smoking pot and trying “a little blow when you could afford it,” as he wrote in “Dreams From My Father.” When asked during his campaign if he had inhaled the pot, he replied: “That was the point.”

So why persist with costly programs that don’t work?

Who knows.  Someone ask the NH Police Chief’s Association which shows up to shoot down every effort activists make here in New Hampshire to get rid of this horrible mess.

Horrific Drug Prohibition Violence In Keene

Peter Brigham said he had a lot of time to think with his nose pressed to his carpet, arms and legs duct taped together, watching two men rifle through his belongings Tuesday night.

They woke me up, and told me to lie face down on the bed, and I won’t get hurt,” Brigham recalled. “I followed instructions best I could.” The robbers, clad in black masks, were armed, one with a pistol, the other a baseball bat. The men were wearing camouflage pants and hooded sweatshirts, Brigham said.

“”They duct taped my hands together and then my feet and then locked them together, kind of like hog-tying,” Brigham said.

And why was this innocent man victimized?

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New Hampshire’s Latest Victims of Drug Prohibition

If law enforcement went to the legislature and spoke the truth about what was happening in their respective communities the politicians would have no choice but to end this nightmare that is victimizing so many innocent people.

For a profession comprised of people who claim to be so “tough,” it is quite ironic how intellectually scared and timid individual police officers are.  If they (you reading this) were not scared, they (you) would have to courage to stand up and help stop this horror which is causing people to be victimized every day.

These newly newly minted victims can thank New Hampshire’s failure of a drug war for their plight:

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Understanding Freedom

Jason Osborne of Sakal/CAI, a huge supporter of liberty related media, took some time to help “Tea Party-ers” understand the real problem with the world today.

This amazing speech is something that I think everyone should watch:

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