

Nazi drug war parallels are very relevant now that the subject has been broached by the media. Go read the thread that Marc Emery started in this Emery Extradition forum titled:

"I was wrong,I exercised bad judgement, I apologize"

http://www.cannabisculture.com/forums/showflat.php?Number=1144510



Marc Emery now says that Jews such as Irwin Cotler should not be called Nazis. Because it is too hurtful to Jews.



But Marc Emery says that concerning the drug war there are many parallels today to Nazi and fascist history. And this article I posted in this thread further proves it. Have you read the article? Have you read this quote below from the article. Canada seems ready to go the path of harsher punishments, and mandatory minimums.



Quote:

Until 1933 narcotics users had been regularly acquitted or sentenced to minor punishment on the basis of diminished culpability. After the Nazi takeover, however, the label increasingly switched to "addicted perpetrator," and the sentences became much harsher. With the introduction of the new criminal statute, it became possible to sentence an offender regardless of the fact that he or she had to be considered mentally insane due to substance dependence. This innovation was unanimously supported in the professional journals.11









The "mild mannered middle class" public (as you wrote) is not put off by the Nazi issue. If that was true, then why are there so many documentaries on the history of Nazism shown every year?



Some of the public is put off by people calling some Jews Nazis.



As long as we don't do that I don't think there will be much of a backlash. And as long as we don't make unproven claims when making comparisons between today's drug war and the Nazi drug war.



If we continue to make valid comparisons, and if we don't become shrill about it, and if we don't sound like conspiracy nuts, then it will be just one more issue in the many issues involved with the drug war.



This really fascinates me in the 2002 article:

Quote:

Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reichssicherheitsdienst (safety service) and Reichssicherheitspolizei (safety police) attempted to launch a Gemeinschaftsfremdengesetzes (law against aliens to the people). This proposal was supposed to legally codify the persecution of social fringe groups and minorities. The draft - which never became law - called for preventive detention and forced sterilization for all persons classified as asocial. It would have encompassed an estimated 2% of the total population, including those refusing to work, traitors, prostitutes, those defying race regulations, criminals, and narcotics abusers.



The main criterion for legitimating exclusion is the definition of "otherness." If there are no distinct categories like nationality or color, new definitions must be created. These new definitions are instrumental in the selection of certain human populations and in their subsequent stigmatization.







As a percentage of the population I think the USA has gone a lot farther than Nazi Germany in stigmatizing and punishing cannabis and drug users. The USA somewhat instituted Reinhard Heydrich's plans. In Texas 1% of the whole population is incarcerated! 5% is under some form of correctional supervision: jail prison probation parole!

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/texas.htm



The Nazis killed some drug users by classifying them as part of other classes that they marginalized:



Quote:

12 Law enforcement against narcotics users became more and more inhumane. This was not only manifested in users being classified as "psychopaths" and "dangerous mentally deranged criminals" (Freienstein, 1936/37, p. 214). The label "mentally disturbed person unfit for life" was also attributed to so-called "mentally disturbed criminals." So, in addition to many thousands of mentally handicapped people, substantial numbers of narcotics users and alcoholics were possibly murdered under the NS euthanasia program (Geiger, 1975, p. 50). Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf (1925/1926, p. 279).









If one takes out these deaths that Nazi Germany imposed, then what the Germans did in punishing a whole class of people, drug users, was mild (numberwise) compared to the insane drug war in the USA. I don't know how many of the regular incarcerated drug offenders died in Nazi Germany. The people classified with the "green triangles" as common criminals:

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/triangle.htm



*Nazi concentration camp badges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_concentration_camp_badges







Majority of U.S. prisoners are in due to drug war. Over 2 million inmates. Drug crimes, drug-related crimes (such as robbing to get money for drugs that are expensive because of the drug war), drug trade crimes, drug-related parole violations, etc.. USA has highest incarceration rate. The Drug-War Industrial Complex. The USA has less than 5% of the world's population, but has 25% of the world's prisoners.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/majority.htm



And the Nazi-like racism of the U.S. drug war is even more incredible:



Over 5% of adult black males (of all ages) is in prison or jail!



U.S. imprisonment charts. By race, gender, Hispanic origin, age, drug use, etc.. U.S. state by state, felony disenfranchisement (no voting rights) laws. Links to more charts elsewhere. Institutional racism of both the drug war, and of cannabis/drug reformers.

http://www.angelfire.com/rnb/y/charts5.htm







The US drug war is the underlying engine to increase incarceration for many problems. Got a problem? Then just jail someone. The US politician's answer to many problems. Blame some people, scapegoat them, and then jail them.



Reinhard Heydrich would be proud.

