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Of course, they all excuse their actions by saying they are compelled, even against their will, to observe the rights of criminals. Although, historically, one who violated the rights of another, forfeited his own, our system has a vested interest in granting rights to predators. But have you ever considered what a right is? The term "rights" has been sanctified both religiously and civically, "God given rights", "inalienable rights", "Natural rights".

But they all say their actions are for the good of the public at large. Many in the criminal justice system even put on a show of righteous indignation at the criminal element. Even jailers complain about crowding and beg forgiveness for releasing murderous felons in the public.

So the war on drugs has two purposes. The first and the most obvious is the employment of so many things about criminal justice system.nthe second is the strengthening of the criminal justice system to counteract growing unrest.

Even Nazi Germany had its criminals, who fared better in the concentration camps, and were usually released alive, unlike those opposed to the regime. So the very police who were supposed to protect and serve were actually used to keep law-abiding citizens in line.

Communist Russia, as oppressive as it was and efficient as it's police forces seemed, had a large class of professional criminals. The criminal, if so sloppy as to force his capture, was far better treated than was the political prisoner and was released sooner.

Throughout the ages, tyrannies have used any pretext to enlarge their police forces. The public reason is to fight crime but the private reason bus to insure their safety from a population awakened to their corruption, incompetence, etc.

More police are desired by all who wish for more power over their citizens and/or fear revolution.

So they left it alone and there was no base to build criminality on. Only on our time, with a government so weakened by corruption that such a base for criminality was welcome, could an alliance between drug traffickers and government take place. Prohibition taught rational and decent folk that the attempted cure was far worse than the disease. But the powers that be remembered that prohibition not only created a new criminal element, it also created a much stronger police presence.

Over a hundred years ago, anyone could go into a pharmacy and buy raw opium or any narcotic then known. Drugs weren't a social problem. Of course, the immediate family of the addict was blighted. But no more than the immediate family of the alcoholic then and now. Drugs were cheap and legal and there was no profit in causing anyone to take them. People felt that if a weak person chose to damage his already inferior brain, it was his choice and his death was no loss. They were right.

The profitable seduction of addictive personalities has given us a class of addicts far worse than alcoholics. The misery caused by the drug trade has cost billions to industry and has endangered the lives of more noninvolved people than any criminal enterprise in history. (China has no drug problem. Both the pusher and the addict are shot).

Drugs pump about as much money into the criminal justice system as they do into the pockets of the drug dealers. The phoney war on drugs has caused a social nightmare scarcely hinted at by the prohibition of alcohol early in the 20th century. Like during prohibition, yet another and stronger set of criminals has risen.

Not too long ago an on the street interviewer had his crew focus the camera Ona drug deal going on a block away from a group of cops standing on the sidewalk socializing. He called their attention to the crime in progress and one middle-aged officer said frankly that the judge would only let them go and so made no move to do anything. The cop knew which side his bread is buttered on. Like many cops, he knows the drug dealer is, in a sense, his employer. He knows the "war on drugs" is a joke.

The tragedies he and those like him leave in their wakes is a small price to pay for job security, legal fees and high-level careers in the criminal justice system.

Consider the following:
A young man, has been arrested 93 times! Reason dictates that the young monster should have been put to sleep after his third offense proved an established habit pattern of criminality. But consider his profit to the criminal justice system. 93 arrests and who knows how many convictions? If things were to stay the same, he'd represent millions of dollars in his lifetime. He's a gold mine, except to those he robs, rapes, maims, and kills.

Those who allow them their freedom before and after whatever sentence they serve have a vested interest in their freedom to commit crimes.

The cops, prosecutors, the defense attorneys, the judges, the bailiffs, the court reporters, the bail bondsmen and the janitors all profit from crime. If criminals were even forced to serve their entire sentence, thus keeping them out of circulation for years instead of months, employees of the criminal justice system would suffer dramatically. Habitual criminals commit crimes while out on bail and especially while out in parole.

The criminal justice system, from the cop in his patrol car to the US department of Justice, millions of noncriminals make a good living off criminality. When a prison is to be built, at a cost of billions of dollars, the politicians awarding the contracts often get large rake-offs. Those supplying food, clothing, etc., to the prisoners, pay their bills because of those who prey on society. The guards and the wardens live well because society pays well to keep society's predators alive.

But without the habitual criminal to take up most of the police officer's time, most New York cops would be unemployed. Employment has become more important than public safety. And this is not simply bin New York but nationwide.

There are too many police officers who earn a weekly paycheck. These are needed to contend with the hoards of habitual criminals whose only function is to rob, rape, maim and kill.
Nearly all of these criminals have records showing their hatred for their betters. An efficient system would round them up and destroy them all. That would severely cut down the need for police officers to patrol, manage traffic, answer emergency calls and protect and serve as police officers are supposed to do.

Many billions of dollars annually are taken in by our criminal justice system and without an ever-rising crime rate, our economy would suffer.