New Study Finds That Mass Surveillance Stifles Dissenting Opinions

[StatusNil]

The war on drugs started with LBJ. Specifically it started in 1964 with the Law Enforcement Assistance Act, in 1965 with the Drug Abuse Control Amendments, and in 1968 when Johnson folded the disparate anti-drug task forces into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs under Justice. Did Nixon escalate by flipping that into it's own agency, sure, but pretending he started anything is the worst kind of revisionism.

Eh, I would argue for the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914. Of course, the United States was a driving force behind the 1912 Hague International Opium Convention. Oh, and apparently the conference of the International Opium Commission in Shanghai in 1909.

Yes, I once took a class in "social deviancy". The professor struck me as someone with an impressive amount of experience in the matter of drugs.

 

[irish286]

Any authority over you with a differing opinion has the ability to cause problems for you and punish you for daring to question their ideals. I've had professors fail me because I expressed views they vehemently disagreed with. Behavior like this from authority naturally makes people keep quiet. Why do you think there is virtually no research trying to disprove man made climate change? Anyone who tries instantly gets ousted.