Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "AG Barr on the Trump administration's initiative to combat crime" video.

  1. Anti-cop sentiment flows from the War on Drugs. There are literally millions of otherwise law-abiding citizens who want to PARTY using substances a bunch of moralizers don't want them to have! It's Prohibition, staring us plain in the face, with all the organized crime entailed with PROVIDING the prohibited substance(s). MILLIONS smoke marijuana in states where it remains illegal. We have laws that make criminals of huge swathes of society, and we wonder why the public doesn't feel comfortable around police. Also, the War on Drugs puts police in temptation's path, PERPETUALLY. There's big money changing hands, big money being confiscated, and big-money DRUGS being confiscated. There's an entire corrections industry making BANK off incarcerated drug offenders. There are police budgets and salaries that are built up to FIGHT drugs. And, as our friend Robert Mueller could once attest, the intelligence agencies can be weaponized against drug dealers, using tools designed to fight TERROR. And it comes as no surprise when we see such use of those tools becoming so commonplace, that those tools got used to spy on presidential campaigns. But that's another topic, I suppose. End the War on Drugs, and 90% of the public-police hostility goes away.
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  2. My first "cops are bad" experience came the first time I smoked weed as a teenager. All of a sudden that bubble-gum machine on the top of a car struck fear. This was back in the '70s.
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