Walter Cronkite & America's Disastrous Drug War Pt 2 of 6

This almost makes me ashamed to call myself an American. We pride ourselves on the ideas of freedom and justice yet we as a society have let this ridiculous situation go on for decades. What a hypocricy! We have packed our prisons with non violent drug offender yet let violent offenders such as child molesters out in less time. It's fucking pathetic.

Even if you support the "war on drugs" you've got to admit that most sentences are outrageous! I don't care if you are holding 10 Kilo's of Heroin that's no reason to sentence a person to 20 years in prison. If a person doesn't "learn their lesson" in 2 or 3 years they ain't gonna learn...
"War on Drugs" is ALL about the money. Prison overcrowding and inhumane conditions are caused by lengthy sentences. We could reduce prison populations by 1/2 and not let a single dangerous person out...

I have always hated a thick Manhatten accent.

Drug users represent the new minority underclass. The ruling-class chose them specifically because they do not come from any specific race or religion, so therefore they cannot use race or religion to accuse the government of prejudice and discrimination. When drug users try to accuse officers or agents of prejudice and discrimation, they get laughed out of court. The ruling-class likes it that way. The war on drugs is a war on poor people.

I love Cronkite

This is fucking ridiculous.

How come I never heard of this show before? It's clearly from the mid-nineties, when speaking out against the Drug War was far less common, and it features the most respected journalist in the country. It should've attracted a lot of publicity. Which network was this from?

(The late) Walter Cronkite did a series of those "Cronkite Report" specials for the Discovery Channel in the mid-'90s.

And I did parenthesize "the late" because Cronkite is no longer with us now; he died last night.

Damn rockefallers...

holy crap! fifteen years?!