re: #55 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Which isn’t actually how they got the vehicles. They got them in two ways: as part of the bullshit ‘war on drugs’ which does nothing but harvest crops of drug dealers and gangsters, not in the least bit addressing the circumstances they germinate from. Or they get them from part of the bullshit ‘war on terror’. The government handed out huge money for anti-terrorism shit after 9/11, and it wasn’t spent wisely. It wasn’t even allowed to be spent, most of the time, on stuff like increased manpower, it had to buy something, training or vehicles, right then.

The militarization of the police was not because of the wingnuts.

Please explain why you think the “war on drugs” is “bullshit”? And what “circumstances” do you think drug dealers and gangsters come from? Aside from the myth that drug traffickers and dealers are somehow from the lower classes who have no other choices in life, quite the opposite is more often true. It always takes money to make money. If you want to make an argument that the govt itself uses tax dollars to “set up” drug deals or buy them in sting operations, that’s an entirely different matter.

There are plenty of opportunists out there who would make huge profits from legalizing all sorts of banned substances as we are seeing from the legalization of pot. Get ready for the marijuana millionaires.