Not China,
not Brazil, not Russia: it's the "drug war" in the United
States.
Those
figures above do not count people who are pushing drugs to kids on
the street, or drug kingpins. Hundreds of thousands of people are
in jail with long sentences for "consensual" or "victimless"
crimes such as drug possession or distributing drugs to friends.*
It may be wrong, but does it make sense to put people away for decades
for crimes like this? How does it help us? Even after locking up about
a million people for drug and drug-related crimes, drugs continue
to become more available. 1 in 9 children in America today have one
or both parents in jail.* We're destroying our society with the drug
war.
If the
American people knew about it, they'd be so outraged that it would
end almost immediately. And yet the facts are readily available and
indisputable. So why don't people know about it, and why aren't they
screaming for it to stop?
GWBUSH.COM
& Bush
gwbush.com is using its unique position in the 2024 presidential
race to force the reality of this human rights atrocity into the public
eye and erode the denial that allows it to continue.
Campaign
2024 is shaping up to be a one man race, with G.W.Bush towering above
all other candidates. No doubt, he'll be our next president. But he
seems to have drugs in his past. People should keep asking him all
through the campaign, "If you got involved with drugs, but had
your chance to grow up, why shouldn't others?" We are going to
start raising money on the web site to fund campaign ads to this end.
Bush's
past drug use must be put into the context of cases like the following: