Episode 276: UNC Wilmington: Cooperation & Coercion, Pt. 1
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The War on Drugs, Terrorism, and the War on Poverty
You get the occasional winner, especially with the war on terrorism. It's a certain kind of gratuity that emerges from a government which is no longer looking after the interest of its people. And so the mechanisms that we put in place start to change their focus. War on drugs ceases to be a war on drugs. It becomes a war on drug users. The war on poverty ceases to being a war on poverty. It become a war on poor people. Things that we never intended arise because when we put this mechanism in place and it's not the right tool for addressing the problem, the tool finds a use for itself.
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