alt Hacker NewsEverybody thinks the War on Drugs is about "keeping people safe". It never was, it was always about manufacturing a tool to oppress "others".
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convolvatron • yesterday at 11:17 PM
from that lens it was almost necessary to invent a pretense since people got all huffy about overt oppression at the end of Jim Crow.
You can add The War On Terror to that list.
Where do think US police get all their fun toys to play with?
"How 9/11 helped to militarize American law enforcement": https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-9-11-helped-to-milita...