re: #91 HappyWarrior

I. I don’t think the Mafia and other syndicates of the 1920’s would have taken off the way they did if alcohol hadn’t been made illegal.

As I recall, Prohibition essentially created our Mafia scene in the 1920’s. It was one of the most-blatantly-violated laws of all time. And it’s not even speculation to state that our war on drugs has been exactly as hypocritical.

It’s all about creating a web of easily-violated laws that can be used to selectively damage the lives of anyone getting in the way of the authoritarians who set this system up. It’s deliberate and it’s garbage.