The DEA drags 9-11 victims through their mud

This disgusting, deceitful and irresponsible exhibit called Target America: Traffickers, Terrorists and You has been around since September 10, 2002. Cruelly exploiting the victims of 9-11 in an attempt to justify their prohibition profiteering, the DEA is promoting the concept, (and I remind you, using your tax dollars to do it), that their newly invented group called "narco-terrorists" is responsible.

Using the innocent souls who lost their lives to an actual act of terrorism that our government failed to stop or even detect, to justify the expenditure of 40 billion dollars on the failed war on some drugs is beneath contemptible. Our government spent their time and resources primarily focused on drug interdiction and although they still failed to stop the bulk of the drugs from entering the country prior to 9-11, they at least did stop some activity. They spent almost nothing on terrorism. Had they spent those resources on detecting terrorist activity, they might have prevented 9-11 from occurring.

This is not to say that terrorists don't make money on trafficking, especially now that Afghanistan - home base of Osama bin laden - has become a major heroin producing country again under our "protection." There are reports that the Taliban is indeed financing it's resurgence with funds derived from the black market in drugs. This is simply another reason to legalize and remove the profit factor from the business, not to escalate the current failed policies that merely serve to drive the prices (and of course their profits) up.

Meanwhile, if the DEA was actually serious about this so-called narco-terrorism, why is that they are spending all their time and funding to pursue medical marijuana patients? As Jeralyn at TalkLeft points out ''There have been more arrests for medical marijuana cultivation and distribution since September 11, than there have been for any acts of terrorism in California.' "

Skip this despicable display if it comes to your town and check out the Marijuana Policy's Project's counter-campaign, Target America: The DEA and You instead. For more commentary on this see TalkLeft, DrugWarRant and D'Alliance's posts on the subject.