Times Change, Propaganda Stays the Same

[trog]

If you use drugs, you're helping the terrorists. Back in the day, you were helping someone else...

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[trog]

The other funny thing is that even as there's a War on Drugs in the US, American soldiers are guarding Afghan farmers' poppi fields so they don't get ruined in the violence.

[laviemoderne]

They also do convoy escorts to guard opium shipments.

[kip_w]

Crying "Heroin!" while busting pot users seems to be a strategy that's worked for them for over a half century.

I guess they need to do it because (a) the pot inevitably forces its users to go on to those harder drugs, and (b) they never can find much of those harder drugs anywhere.

[laviemoderne]

wait, isn't that a white guy wearing eyeliner dressed up as a chinese dude?
opium = china
no?

ah, propaganda.

[artkouros]

Technically, China was a Japanese colony at the time (previously it would have been British opium).

But he looks fabulous.

[artkouros]

The one thing I agree about with my Libertarian brethren - we should be able to buy opium in the corner drugstore, like we could 100 years ago.

[hittokiri_korru]

I think there is some hidden racism here. The whole thing involves a "jap" with tentacles (like the rape monster), taking over a innocent white girl....

[sable_twilight]

Hidden racism?
The anti-drug movement in the United States has a long history of blatant racism. Have you not noticed the push to legalize marijuana seems to coincided with how it has become a drug of choice for white people?

[david_deacon]

I'll take "SMUGGLED JAP DOPE" for 500, Alex.