The War on Drugs and the Smoking Gun

[soundforbjt]

http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/27/americans-consume-almost-all-of-the-global-opioid-supply.html


We're a nation of addicts.

 

[pauldun170]

The drug trade itself is violent precisely because it is an underground, illegal trade. In legal businesses, if one person or company say, screws over another person or company in a deal, the offending party gets sued. He doesn't get a Colombian neck tie. And it isn't just drug dealers killing other drug dealers. Innocents get get caught in the cross-hairs as well.

 

[Moonbeam]

To me the point to take away from this is the evil use of cunning to destroy a political enemy. This is what Satanic means and the practitioners were conservatives. The notion of the devil was created to refer to those whose moral beliefs have a certitude about them where the ends justify the means. It is what some refer to as grasping for the One Ring. It is a corruption that is universally tempting. It appears to be so effective that even liberals are starting to turn to it.

 

[Azuma Hazuki]

No, the Devil is [s(h)'t'n] in various Semitic languages: Satan, Shaitan, etc., meaning "to be an adversary," especially in terms of levelling false legal accusations. The Koine gloss is "diabolos," from dia (across) + ballein ("to hurl," as in "ballistic"), i.e., "mudslinger."

And you know what? Between Yahweh and Satan, Satan comes off as much the better person of the two in the Abrahamic texts. He only killed a few people, and only because Yahweh told him to (Job's family). And why did Yahweh tell him to? To win a bet. An omniscient God made a bet with one of its creations.