The biggest threat to our rights is not Al Queda, or so argues McQ at QandO. He writes:

Presently an estimated $40 billion is spent on the War on Drugs annually and the result is dead grandmothers and prisons bursting with non-violent drug users, while the obscene profits Friedman notes continue of flow virtually unabated to the drug lords. If there are those among us who judge Iraq a debacle and a failure, what in the world is the War on Drugs if not infinitely worse in that regard?

Isn’t it about time we seriously reconsidered this abject failure of a policy and gross violation of our civil rights and come up with a sane policy to address drugs within our society? My guess is if we’d honestly and forthrightly address the problem as we have with alcohol, we’d find a way to ameliorate the problem, tremendously cut the crime related to drugs and again free our police to “protect and serve” against real crime instead of increasingly engaging in activities which end up violating citizen’s rights.