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Krissy Barrett, AFP Commissioner and |
Just don't mention prohibition. That's a given, it seems.
Her "solutions" are to "educate people about the dangers of illicit drugs" as if this will stop people wanting to have a good time. It's a return to Nancy Reagan's failed "Just say no" campaign.
And in the hallowed tradition of idiocy – doing the same thing over and again while expecting different results – Barrett's other "solution" is to create a task force which will go to Columbia to quell its $10 bn per year drug trade. Appropriately it is named "IJIT" – international joint investigations team. Barrett laments the murderous daily street shootings in south-west Sydney and blames it on the demand for drugs, apparently unaware of the direct parallels with alcohol prohibition in the 1930s which featured tommy-gun battles in the streets between rival bootleg gangs.
Barrett also ignores the dangers of legal alcohol, opioids and tobacco, where a similar attempt at prohibition via steep tax hikes has resulted in another bootleg trade involving regular arson attacks on businesses.
Only an 'eejit' would believe in this nonsense but hey, the police do very well out of fighting drugs prohibition which brings them large budgets, easy arrests and great paths to promotions.
Just don't mention prohibition.
Meanwhile I think Barrett (pictured} needs educating about human nature and making up laughable acronyms. I also wonder if Ms Barrett has weighed up the opportunity costs of drug enforcement in Columbia vs pressing domestic concerns such as, erm, terrorism. https://
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