Who Is The Greatest Thief?
November 27, 2017
The U.S. government, of course. “U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers working at the El Paso port of entry seized 88.6 pounds of marijuana last Thursday — in just one car.” The seizure was just one of 21 seizures in that single week in the El Paso area in which the feds seized 1,638 pounds of marijuana in 16 drug busts and 37.5 pounds of cocaine in another five drug busts.
The fact that the feds just seized drugs is of no consequence. Property is property. A willing seller was taking property to willing buyers. No drugs should be illegal. And if all drugs were legal in the United States, people from Mexico wouldn’t be trying to smuggle drugs across the border. Truly, the war on drugs is a war on freedom.
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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