If Congress Is Safe From the War on Drugs, Why Not Everyone Else?
by: John Nichols at The Nation
...Why, in general, is there a rush to penalize Americans who are in need far more aggressively than Radel, a former television reporter who was elected to Congress last year with the backing of Tea Party groups that have made it a priority to promote crackdowns on recipients of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits.
Radel’s penalty for an admitted purchase of cocaine from an undercover agent will be a year of supervised probation.
He will not lose his job, or the benefits that will allow him to overcome his disease. He even suggests that he wants to “continue to serve.”
Radel seems to be experiencing a truce in the Drug War.
Shouldn’t people who are not members of Congress have the same chance?
... read the article at: The Nation
