[Skybird]

One must ask whether it is about drugs in the first at all these days. It seems it is about increasing the flow of slave workers into the work camps where their working power is used to make profits for private businesses. To reach that, draconian penalties are called out for drug abuses so minor that they do not justify years or life in prison.

It is as if one does surgery on patient snot needing surgery at all, to tune the financial balances of the hospital. Could be that there comes a solidarity lottery for winning a free surgery session comes next next where even healthy people must participate in order to generate income for hospitals.

The dangerous step beyond the red line is when prisoners in prisons must not work to generate the money spend for their food, clothing, electricity and prison maintenance costs (I am all for that!), but could be leased as slave workers to private people and businesses. It is here where I do not see major differences anymore between this system, and KZ workers in the third Reich, in a system where it was common that the Wehrmacht or the industry asked in a KZ whether they could deliver more workers for this, more workers to there, and the security apparatus making sure that the supply in KZ prisoners was such that it could meet these business interests. The dorr for abuse of such a system is wide open in the US, and obviously the abuse already is immense, and is growing.

It also has as a consequence, that policework'S focus - as the documentary illustrates - shifts from criminal investigation to catching easy fish: to collect financial boni (kind of head bounties) and to keep the growing number of prisons full of "workers".

Something goes dramatically wrong with that system there. What'S next? Enforced organ donor, maybe? Wait, in China they already have that.

If one sees all this together, and keeps in mind that racism against ethnic groups via criminalization of previously legal drug consummation serves a purpose that has nothing to do with fighting drugs, then it is easy to conclude that if the system would not be about the claimed war on drugs, then it would be about something else. This war is about something very different than just drugs.