An open letter to the law enforcement officials

I don't hate you. Many people have been personally hurt, lost loved ones or other pertinent characters in their lives to you. You aren't rich, you are desperate in some senses, you can't miss a paycheck, you cannot risk it for yourself or your family even if you wish to defect to us. We have little material means to offer you even if you did. We are just names and faces, we come and go but you will remain. We almost aren't real, you are though, you will remain a constant to you but our lives matter to almost no degree. Many of us will go away to the American Siberia. Some of us will die young. You won't though.

You must impress the boss, you must pursue us to all extents you are capable of with every means you have available. Just as we will defend ourselves against your attacks with all defenses we posses. Your industry does not have the funding it needs, you must solicit funds from us. We are always in excess, some of us, others eat their ideology and few other foods.

Please continue. We are nothing without you, although in childrens' textbooks some years from now, you will be the villain. Not us. These drugs do not harm, you are inflicting harm to protect yourselves and your families, the same way all great evils have done since the dawn of humanity. The more you learn, the less you care and the more entrenched you are in your activities. I can't dissuaded you, or even offer substantial reason to stop. But I don't want you to.

By the very nature of economics, drugs are only valuable because they are scarce and vended in rarity. If they were legal, and easily available, there would be no profit, and no person of any logic or reason would sell any, for every hobbyist and ideologue would out compete every cash starved individual out of the market. Fortunately for this community, you slaughter them in a very regular culling. Perhaps I too many be among them, perhaps not.

You know what must be done. My words are as meaningless as my life, but PM me if you want to talk


Comments


[46 Points] I_hate_this_website:

Okay


[21 Points] brassmail:

By the very nature of economics, drugs are only valuable because they are scarce and vended in rarity. If they were legal, and easily available, there would be no profit

Not really. There are plenty of 'legal and available' drugs that cost a hell of a lot more than any illegal ones. Weed is even legal in my state and it costs as much as it ever has.


[13 Points] cggreene2:

This is the cringiest thing I have ever read


[8 Points] TheHipHopHippy:

Is the American Siberia Alaska? Because i am with that. If its Legalization and taxation that pleases the man and lets me smoke weed freely then call me an uncle tom. Others well call me a sheep. I'm just trying to get high not start a revolution. If the man just wants 10% and I get high quality and never get ripped of I might press that donate $2 dollar button on my tax returns next time and for once say i am proud to be an American.


[5 Points] MrCrappy57:

I agree with the OP, but I'd like to make some additional points.

1) "Just doing our jobs" is no defense. Nuremberg settled that once and for all. There are many LE officers who are speaking out against prohibition (there is even an organization- LEAP). I know folks in LE and they are genuinely good people but they ARE engaged in prosecuting an evil system.

2) There's no one group at fault. It's not an Alex Jones conspiracy thing. It's just the system. Adults (especially OLD adults) have money and they love to vote. They worry about their kids and grandkids and society and their irrational fears are stoked by the muckraking media that doesn't give a shit about the truth- only getting people to watch. So they 'gin up sensation stories about "the latest party drug that is killing your kids" or "it's called THE DARKNET and your children can purchase a machine gun or hitman with click of a mouse" and people demand action.

3) The government, like most entities, must feed and grow or it risks death. Therefore they make more rules, exercise more control, take in more money. They don't give a shit about drugs it's about fear, power, money, control

4) I believe the right to peacefully put a substance into your body (or a q-tip in your ear or a dildo up your ass) is a fundamental human right. We need a civil rights movement to oppose the tyranny in government. Follow the lessons of King, Gandhi, HD Thoreau.

5) I am not one of those America-hater types. I love this country and the ideals we are supposed to stand for, but I'm afraid, as Orwell foresaw, we are slouching towards tyranny.

I'm so ashamed of my country right now for so many things. The thing is, when I get out and talk to folks, this country is filled with basically good well-meaning people. I mean, we are better than this. We need to live up to our ideals of freedom. It's liberty or death. That's what it's always been and always will be.

Best wishes to my friends in the community.


[3 Points] None:

fuck LE idc about their situation I CHOOSE to stay ignorant


[4 Points] Osricthebastard:

Honestly I just see it all as part of the game we play. We choose to indulge in black market goods and LE has a responsibility to stop us.

The game has casualties. Nobody entered into the game ignorant of the risks.

The good news is that after decades of being on the losing side of the game, we are slowly gaining footing. Maybe one day we can look back and say we won the game.


[3 Points] Duderino420:

Nice letter man...Life is a double bladed sword


[3 Points] escapefromdigg:

If you don't want the drug war to end because you profit from it, you're at least as bad as them. You know that, right?


[3 Points] None:

I got your point, even if everyone else here is too cool to agree. Fuck. Hipster crowd eh?


[3 Points] None:

"PM me if you want to talk"

Christ when you sober up and come back to reddit you'll shit your pants if a PM from a troubled LEO is sitting in your inbox.


[3 Points] brettlange:

This is dope.


[2 Points] bennyking3:

nice diatribe, bro. deep stuff


[2 Points] PhilCassidy1:

I get where you're coming from. I really hope the good ones realize in their heads how stupid it all is to be fighting and having so much violence occur as a result. The really ignorant ones believe the drugs are bad and that they need to turn these people's lives around like making them turn to religion or something. Albeit, some addicts are so terrible, namely extreme stimulant addicts like with methamphetamine, that they really do need to be dealt with harshly at least in the beginning stages of cessation of the drug.


[2 Points] deftware:

took me a minute to see where you were going with this. But I approve. Ultimately, LE is an unsustainable business model. There aren't enough tax dollars to fund the abolishment of 'crime'. The more laws they make, the more 'crime' there is, because more actions become classified as criminal. Thus, more money must be spent to 'enforce' the law, because there is more 'crime'.

Law enforcement, in its current idealistic form, is not economically viable. It's the equivalent of waging wars in the middle east. It's just a black hole, with no solution. I believe in protecting the people from harm, but I do not believe in restricting the freedom of people to do to themselves as they please.

I believe that there is LE that sees DNMs as this dark seedy underbelly of pure evil with reckless abandon for the rest of the civilized world. They make DNMs out to be evil so they don't feel like they are wasting their lives.

WE GOT THOSE BADGUYZ, HIGH FIVE!

Like suddenly the world is full of evil people. When, really, it's more like a party over in the DNM world, where denizens can be themselves, meet new connects, find new customers, all without having to deal with the dangers of street life.

I always have a sadness when I hear someone from law enforcement say something like "yea, it's just weed, but you had it, and it's against the law!"

Like the law is some inherently perfect thing that bestows upon them a divine responsibility as a LE official. If the law was so great and perfect, why did people just vote to reduce drug possession to a misdemeanor in California? Why are they voting to legalize MaryJane? Why didn't prohibition work?

The reality is that the law is just another business, ripping off the government with its snake oil.


[2 Points] myloflo:

One thing I hate about the drug subculture is ostentatious people like you.


[0 Points] piginsults:

Everyone knows and no one cares


[0 Points] DicksWillBeFucked:

Beautiful