Drug Fact 2

Our criminal justice system had been developed over the centuries to balance the rights of the accused with the rights of the wronged. The system worked well when there were wronged parties to start the investigation process. This changed with the drug war.

Selling and using drugs are consensual activities. Just as with heresy before the Inquisition, there is not a wronged party to involve law enforcement. Under the prevailing rules prosecuting drug users was difficult.

The police, who before were restrained from participation in crime, provocation of crime, and snooping where nothing was amiss, had to be unshackled and unshackled they have become. This has predominantly occurred in three areas – constitutional interpretation by the courts, the use of informants, and street justice.

Drug War “Tool”	Inquisition Equivalent
The “rubber stamping” of warrants based on anonymous tips, combined with knocking no longer being necessary in home raids.	No warrant necessary, although the Inquisition almost never pursued anonymous tips.
Mandatory Minimum Sentences	No mitigation allowed for age, sickness, or dependents.
Non-prosecution of police who kill or injure innocent civilians.	Suspects who died from torture were “killed by the devil.”
Entrapment	Entrapment
RICO Conspiracy Laws, No-Fault Eviction Laws, Landlord Culpability Laws	Merely associating with heretics is criminal.
Forfeiture Laws that give property of suspects to police.	Inquisitors seized property of accused.
Informants receive money or a lighter sentence.	Informants received a portion of the accused’s property.