A Sad Anniversary
January 16, 2014
95 years ago today, the ratification of the 18th Amendment to the Constitution occurred when the 36th state voted to curtail freedom. I have been asked when cops in America first began their downward slope. Perhaps from the beginning, I don’t know. But I do know that enforcing Prohibition because it was “the law” gave them a big push in the wrong direction. I explain here how the 18th Amendment relates to the war on drugs.
Laurence M. Vance [send him mail] writes from central Florida. He is the author of The Free Society; War, Christianity, and the State: Essays on the Follies of Christian Militarism; War, Empire, and the Military: Essays on the Follies of War and U.S. Foreign Policy; King James, His Bible, and Its Translators, and many other books. His newest book is The U.S. Proxy War in Ukraine.
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