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

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

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[Picaro1]

Not too far in the near future, I hope we look back and see how idiotic this war has been.............. I mean, real idiotic. Having a whole bunch of people making harm to others just to save them from themselves.... Does not make one bit of sense. Don't save me, don't help me. What you do is worst.

[TacticusPrime]

The government should definitely educate the public, like it has with smoking and alcohol, but criminalizing it has clearly failed. Seriously, does anyone think that the prohibition of drugs has made America safer or more prosperous?

[edavismookie25]

Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy: "The Vietnam was a mistake and should never have happened. Oh, God where did things go wrong? Now the only thing we can do is prevent this from ever happening again."

[GooglFascists]

Walter Cronkite was CFR, elitist as hell and considered most humans to be

"useful idiots"; far lesser than he was.

90% of corporate mainstream media is owned by the very entities that grow and ship massive amounts of narcotics into the U.S. for billions in profits.

Even Cronkite himself would not be allowed to do this kind of program today.

Our military is not "fighting terrorism" in Afghanistan, THEY'RE GUARDING POPPY FIELDS! Its a damned JOKE and Americans need to wake up to it.

[IloveJimiHendrix2009]

Gotta love Cronkite, the last honest real journalist.

[martiangrundy]

Holy fuck.

How nut's does that sound. Cronkite just said about Clinton. To imagine this was BEFORE two terms of fuckin Bush and his dishonest ignorant idiocy. And as crazy and upsetting as all the graphs and figures were, this was a long time ago now, and I'm pretty damn sure ALL those graphs and figures will have gotten even worse than they were in this video.

I thought perhaps Obama might possibly be a little more of a hope. It seems however he's another dishonest sell-out, and no different.

[dullsvillain]

Our economy is in shambles yet we burn tax dollars. Billions of dollars leave our shores as users pay exorbitant prices to gangs of murderers.Thousands die in or streets and in the narco states that supply us.

Send doctors not cops to a health crisis!

[peteheatb3]

@Picaro1 Doenst make sense, i agree. The key to what you say becoming reality, in my opinion, is whether or not human being's decide to become more rational, to use that frontal lobe more often. I think that depends on world events, and whether society becomes more or less stable as a result.

[John34Chase]

The modern drug war was only 10 years old in 1995, when Cronkite made this essay, 15 years ago. Very few Americans alive today can remember life before. That is why it has not ended. We have been mislead to believe the drug war keeps us safe.

My grandparents' generation ended National Prohibition after only 13 years because they could remember that life with legal alcohol was safer than life without legal alcohol.

[AresCassell]

Cronkite was right. If only people listened to him. Unfortunately I see the unjust war on drugs continuing for quite some time. That is, until we all get our heads out of our asses and do something about it.

[TCF2148]

Look at the animated graph... You can see the same pattern with every law of restriction. People will find a way around it every time.

[ISamuelII]

I thought GHWBush was suicidal when he pronounced "we should execute drug dealers" when his cia connected boys are the decades long smugglers after all.