The Last to Die

"We don't measure the blood we've drawn anymore;
"we just stack the bodies outside the door.

"Who'll be the last to die for a mistake,
"the last to die for a mistake,
"whose blood will spill, whose heart will break,
"who'll be the last to die ... for a mistake."

Bruce Springsteen, "Last to Die"  (Magic, Columbia, 2007)


Take it from someone whose only ingestion of any illegal drug was an involuntary "contact high" at a Megadeth concert: the "war on drugs" is not about junkies and pushers, and it never was.

And the widespread public indifference to its abuses could only have inexorably led to abuses in areas that affect "normal people".  (If you only follow one of these links, follow that one, because, as usual, Billy Beck said it much better than I can right now.)

"First they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did not speak up."