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Men Overwhelmingly Imprisoned in the Drug War
posted by Adam on Thursday August 30, @03:00PM
from the inequality/double-standards dept.
Inequality According to the the drug war prison facts just being a man makes you more likely to be imprisoned. While that's hardly news to most of you, the gender ratio will be. Based on my calculations, there are 15-16 men in prison for every woman on the charge of drug offences. If some of you thought the drug war was a war on men, albeit an undeclared one, the sad fact is you could well be right. On a side note, the site has a special section on women but not on men. Care for some activism, anyone? dmcvay@drugwarfacts.org

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Ratio? (Score:1)
by cheddah on Thursday August 30, @03:27PM EST (#1)
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What is the difference in incarcerations compared to the number of arrests in regard to gender? (the ratio)

 
Tactics of the DEA and other Law Enforcement (Score:1)
by DanCurry on Thursday August 30, @05:48PM EST (#2)
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The Tactics of the DEA and other Law Enforcement Agencies is to get the women to testify against the man under threat of conspiracy charges. Even in cases where the man may be innocent and the woman is the guilty party, this is the preffered method for securing a conviction and getting their quotas. This is another reason why prison populations are dominated men, not becase they commit more crimes.

This usually results in another woman on welfare because they seize all the family assets. It's all part of the plan.

Dan Curry
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drug war (Score:1)
by remarksman on Friday August 31, @01:26AM EST (#3)
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the current drug war in america was originally a cultural war (anslinger, et al.) against inner city "dark types," but in the last three decades has been employed as a weapon to intimidate and stunt incipient liberations of american masculinity

the war on drugs, like the war on sex, is a war on freedom -- that is, male freedom

at the same time in history that women became "liberated" and were elevated to moral and social supremacy, american men were shunted en masse to the prisons, gutters and graveyards

it's the mass unacknowledged spiritual wound of modern american society

the war between the sexes is over, boys. we lost. women got their way. they always do. now the question is, what do we want to make of ourselves?

ray remark
Re:drug war (Score:1)
by DanCurry on Saturday September 01, @11:26PM EST (#4)
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I beg to differ. I believe woman have dominated Western Culture for quite some time, not just the last 30 years.

For example, do you really think prohibition was a male creation? It eventually became a tool to generate revenue for an ever growing Government machine, but was clearly born out of the desire of housewives and the wives of men in high places to control their husbands who tend to drink, party, frequently use the services of sex care providers (Prositutes if you will) and spend much time away from home.

Men typically are content with comfort but many woman get bored with it and must find something to complain about. Turmoil is is a womans game and they have mastered it as a tool of deception. I believe that we could easily find examples throughout history that confirm this.

Many other acts of violence can clearly be linked to activities of women. For example. In the first fifty years of the twentith centry, this Country was plaqued with race riots which were multiplied when the Media Maggots (newspapers then) used these events to enrage whites. Many of the incidents that sparked the media blitz and then the riots were claims of white women that she was raped by a black man after she was caught by her husband out late and obviously meeting with her lover.

Though I believe you are correct about the last thirty years, I feel that it goes much deeper and has been present in our culture a very long time. As far as the culture war, I think it's better refered to as the Class War which is still going on today.

The war on freedom is right on the money and started immediately after the first lawyer was appointed to office after the Constitution was signed. It's been all down hill since. It began a rapid decay when the ABA (American Bar Association) was created.

That's my interpetation and not meant to slam you or your opinion. I just had to give my two cents worth. :-)

Dan Curry
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Re:drug war (Score:1)
by remarksman on Sunday September 02, @02:22AM EST (#5)
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no, this hardly constitutes a slam by any terms i'm used to -- you wouldn't believe what i usually get ... no offense taken whatsoever

i do not see where we differ -- indeed women, in a state of mass hysteria not unlike what we're seeing today, drove the temperance movement and intitiated prohibition, with all its occult evils

as far as women dominating western culture for more than the past thrity years, again we agree ... western culture is an outgrowth of incipient male ego/consciousness (what we now call masculinity) and is exteriorized in "patriarchal" forms of social organization ... but men do not run western culture ... that is a great illusion

with the possible exceptions of certain city-states during classical greece, especially during the rule of solon, men have never dominated any major civilization ... men imagine, build, defend and maintain civilizations, but women are civilization

j. campbell said it best: "woman is life, man is the servant of life"

women have always ruled, as the archaeological, mythological, iconographic, folk, and depth psychological record shows readily

despite appearances women rule still, especially in the modern west

the question, as always: now who will men be?

ray remark
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