Analysis by Kyle A. Lohmeier
As the proprietor of a blog that strives to keep abreast of the more salient news stories of the day, I of course feel nearly obligated to write something about George Soros’ ongoing efforts to fund a race war inside the United States; but I’ve decided that the Internet is already awash in coverage of the Charlotte riots and there’s not much I’m likely to be able to add to it from central Ohio. And besides, it’s not often I encounter yet another reason why the drug war should come to an immediate end.
In a way, of course, the drug war is related to the shooting death of Keith Lamont Scott as it is efforts to enforce America’s absurd drug laws that bring cops into contact with black people with sufficient frequency to make these sorts of shootings nearly inevitable. If cops were tasked with fighting real crime, they’d spend a lot less time bothering black people, or white people; all people, really, would benefit from cops having a lot less to do.
Taking drugs out of the arena of the “black market” and bringing them into the light of day would also have numerous other benefits, of course. It would strangle the Mexican cartels to death financially, and in short order. As the cartels suffer and have to scale back, other sorts of criminality associated with the drug trade would disappear as well, including a sort of criminality one doesn’t often associate with it – slavery.
According to the Associated Press, two women were charged yesterday with holding four men, all brothers, as slave laborers at an illicit marijuana farm in northern California.
“The arrested women, Guadalupe Sierra Arellano, 43, and Medarda Urbieta, 44, were charged with human trafficking, kidnapping, battery with serious bodily injury, terrorist threats, and drug charges. They were detained by federal immigration officials and their lawyers declined comment Wednesday,” reads a portion of the Associated Press piece.
The victims reportedly had black eyes and bruises and claimed to have been beaten during their six-month captivity. They told officers they fled after overhearing that they were to be killed after the marijuana was harvested. In raiding the operation, police destroyed 23,000 plants and seized guns and cash.
It is only because marijuana is illegal that it is profitable for cartels and other organizations to set up illicit growing operations as they are inherently risky endeavors. With that sort of risk already in play, and that sort of money on the line – the seized plants have a value estimated at $60 million, according to the AP – that those involved would be willing to risk other criminal acts to protect and run the operation goes without saying. After all, what’s a little slavery when you’re already running a multi-million-dollar criminal enterprise under the noses of California law enforcement?
Of course, slavery is an actual violent crime, whereas agriculture isn’t any sort of real crime at all, but according to the letter of the law growing a specific plant is as illegal as holding another human in bondage against their will. Ending the drug war now would eliminate these sorts of grow operations, which would end the real criminality attendant to their existence.
Likewise, as I’ve mentioned many times previously, ending the drug war would also reduce the contact between cops and young black males, which would then automatically reduce the frequency with which young black males get shot by cops. Reducing the frequency with which young black males get shot by cops would reduce the frequency with which George Soros could pay young black males to burn down major US cities. If fewer major US cities are put to the torch by young black males, people inclined to go to Donald Trump rallies wouldn’t have so much “cause” to dislike young black males and we might actually get a dialogue started here.
Nah, all that makes too much sense. So, count on the USA to stick to business as usual and just hope no white cops in your town shoot a black guy to death – and in the meantime, start looking for outfits made of Nomex. Auto racing fire suits are an obvious choice; maybe we should all just dress like The Stig.
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