And then it was over.
The guns finally stand spent, exhausted from decades of never ending war prosecuted with contempt by a State furious its workforce weren’t conforming to the needs of capitalist wage slavery.
Drugs alter perception and can leave some impotent for work from addiction. The State hates critics and non-productive units and free thinking that might undermine the accepted norms is to be burnt like witches in the town square.
The enormity of what the Government just passed into law with the Misuse of Drugs Amendment Bill which now demands all Police consider the drug possession and use a health issue rather than a criminal one is an enormous admission of failure by the State in its War on Drugs persecution.
The lives that have been destroyed because we criminalised drugs rather than saw them as a health issue must run into the hundreds of thousands. Decades of worthless, meaningless and infinitely damaging social policy based on fear and control have been quietly ended with all the humiliation of the US losing Vietnam.
I raise a salute to all those NZers who suffered at the hands of this cruel social policy and am sorry that there will be no apology given to you or acknowledgement that you should never have had to be treated like that in the first place.
Let’s remember the real victims of this War on Drugs as the State lumbers defeated and shamed from the battlefield they created.
In 2016 drugs and alcohol contributed to 80 fatal crashes in NZ.
In the same year 9 people died in gun related homicide here.
The left: “safety first -guns are bad, lets confiscate them from the jaw abiding (criminals are responsible for 99 percent of crimes), but decriminalize drugs.”??
For the record I’m not against freeing up drug law, all freedoms come with some sort of cost to society, life would be excruciatingly bland if we were wrapped in cotton wool for our own safety all our lives.
I am dead against rank hypocrisy though.
peter dunny was instrumental in legalising synthetics
Yes – he has caused a lot of pain and misery – and his sanctimony only rubs salt into the wounds.
Yes and lets not forget the grinding inequality fostered by decades of toadying to big business and Socialism for the 1% that led to ordinary people feeling such despair that drugs were in many instances their only release. Lets not forget too that some of those drugs are legal and taxed to death. Nothing like making money off of one kind of human misery whilst persecuting another.
Opoids and mind altering drugs are a luxury vice for the wealthy but when the poor do it, we send the cops in. Time for that rank hypocrisy to end.
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