American Government Provides Support For Criminal Gang Growth Worldwide.

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Saving Mexico:
To weaken the cartels, some argue the U.S. should legalize marijuana, let cocaine pass through the Caribbean and take the profit motive out of the drug trade

Richard Nixon, who quit as president of the United States to avoid being convicted for criminal activity, evidently didn't endorse all criminal activity. Just some criminal activity. Some of the criminal activity he didn't approve of was recreational drug usage. You know, victimless crimes. Like drinking alcohol was a crime during the prohibition years.

So back in the early 1970s Richard Nixon decided to declare war on drugs. After all, what better way is there to instantly create millions of criminals and thus a need for an organization to fight them. As a promoter of big government, and as an opponent of individual civil rights, the war on drugs has been a big success. The government has grown substantially to fight the recreational use of drugs. A new government agency was created with excessive powers to oppress the citizens. After 40 years, and $1 trillion, the flow of illegal drugs into the United States has increased. However, it has increased the number of recreational drug users in the United States, and has helped create a lawless atmosphere because of the excessive and arbitrary enforcement of the laws.

Like all government projects, the war on drugs has been an absolute and complete failure. But the war on drugs has also provided other unexpected (to anyone NOT a government employee) fringe benefits. It has provided work for idiots and jackbooted thugs who if not working for the government might otherwise have to resort to a life of crime. It has provided a framework for the federal government to grow in size, and violate the rights that citizens used to have. It has also provided incentive for the creation and growth of criminal enterprises (drug cartels) to grow in size to the point where they can threaten legitimate governments in other countries. And of course it provides bribe money to American politicians to keep this losing war on drug continuing long after any sane person would admit it doesn't work.

Who says crime doesn't pay? In Mexico, more than 450,000 people are employed by the drug cartels. The drug business generates more than $20 billion in revenue. The only larger businesses in Mexico are the oil industry and the automobile industry. And if you read Forbes magazine looking at the top billionaires, Mexican drug lord Joaquin "Shorty" Guzman is number 401 on the list of the most wealthy men on the planet.

So the next time any government official says we need to get tough on crime, tell them the only crimes worth fighting are the crimes committed by the politicians in Washington D.C. (District of Criminals) every time they pass a new law.