Can We Quit Now?

  A good guy.  A decent neighbor.  A family man.  A husband and dad.  A professional at his job.  Smart.  Passionate.  Hard-working.   Dead, and for what?  If the Drug war was going to be won, it would have been won by now.  Remember prohibition?  Chicago BECAME a the snakepit it remains today because of Prohibition making the criminals and unions rich and influential.  The Blago mess is going to topple Obama.  Mark it.  You don't think Blago and Obama can't be linked to criminal influence during prohibition in less degrees than Kevin Bacon?

  We have destroyed the Bill of Rights.  We have built a police state.  (Don't argue- I can't get on a plane with my shoes on, drive down the road without six different pieces of paper, or talk to a LEO without risk.)  We have destroyed every civil government to the south of us.  We have a nation worth of folks in prison.  We have enriched a world of criminals beyond belief.

  And every few weeks at least on guy like Senior Cpl Norman Smith is killed mucking around with idiots on the other side of a cheap door trying to get the undo-able done.  

  And I note: he's lost.  His wife lost him.  His kids lost him.  His job lost him.  The city lost him.  The guys that killed him have to be eaten by the system.  For what?  Drugs are cheaper, more potent and as popular as ever.

  Legalize this stuff, write prescriptions, open treatment centers for anyone who wants it and be done.  I'm personally disgusted by this.  I'm disgusted by politicians who won't stand up.  I'm disgusted by police and civil leaders who won't call it off.  This could be ended this year and the criminals bankrupted.

  No more good guys like Norman Smith killed for nothing.

  Update:  For anyone not convinced yet: a roving plainclothes narcotics unit kills a visitor in New Orleans.  Via Xavier, Tam and Uncle.