March 29, 2005
Overheard at Starbucks
"The 'war on drugs' started in the 1960's?"
-"Well Nixon gave it a real shot-in-the-arm."
"So if after 35 years and billions of tax-dollars spent and millions of people jailed there's still illegal drugs to be had...doesn't that suggest that today's drug dealers would have to be connected...friends and family of cops, politicians and law enforcement bureaucrats?"
--"The successful ones anyway."
-"No there's just an endless succession of drug-crazed free-lancers, small-timers and dupes of foreign cartels which American law enforcement on all levels has been prevented by international treaties and leaky borders from stopping."
"Then the US Military's involved too?"
-"Have you ever heard of drug-sniffing dogs inside a bank vault?"
--"I luv the '80's! 'I would do anything ...for love, but I won't do that.'"