We’re all drug lords now
Bowers is a common enough name that when I read the news reports about the Christian missionary plane being shot down, I wrote “American missionary family saved from fate worse than death” for the Walkerville Weekly Reader and assumed nothing would come of it. And officially, pretty much nothing has. The CIA covered their asses and some politicians even came out in support of shooting down civilian aircraft.
But I did hear about it again a year later from an unlikely source: my parents’ next door neighbor who has been a family friend for almost as long as I can remember and who led our Boy Scout troop back when I was a teenager. The missionary family that was shot down was his brother’s family.
Some day, so many people will have been killed by prohibition that everyone will know someone who clearly died only because of the drug war and not because of drugs. Will we still support the drug war when that day arrives?
- CIA Lied About Missionary Plane Shot Down Over Peru
- “CIA Inspector General John Helgerson has issued a blistering report finding that the CIA repeatedly lied and covered up details about the intercept program, about the downing of Bowers’ plane, and about other incidents that never made the news.”
- American missionary family saved from fate worse than death
- “Infant killing saved child from fate worse than death, say Republican drug war supporters.”
More prohibition
- The Great Illusion: An Informal History of Prohibition
- Herbert Asbury’s book has to rank as one of the greatest arguments ever written against the drug war; this book about alcohol prohibition chronicles and forecasts all of the problems with modern prohibition that we see today.
- Cannabis Britannica
- Subtitled “Empire, Trade, and Prohibition”, this is an in-depth history of how prohibition came about in Britain, and ends up describing how marijuana prohibition came to the forefront of international attempts to ban opium.
- Has welfare failed us?
- Has welfare failed us, or have we overwhelmed the welfare system through other policies that encourage dependance and discourage economic development?
- Another victim of prohibition
- “Chalk it up as collateral damage, and add Hoffman’s name to that of Isaac Singletary and Anthony Diotaiuto, three deaths of non-violent, non-threatening Floridians in just the last few years, thanks to the drug war.”
- Will prohibition destroy the Iraq turnaround?
- World prohibition threatens to turn the Iraq turnaround back towards violence and gang warfare.
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