The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won by Jacob G. Hornberger!
(2023-06-28 at 23:20:42 )

The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won by Jacob G. Hornberger!

Last night, I watched The Mule, the drug-war movie on Netflix that was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the second time I have seen the movie.

Mr. Eastwood also stars in the movie. He plays an elderly drug transporter for a drug cartel, which in drug-war parlance is called a "mule."

As with many drug-war movies, you can not help but like and sympathize with Mr. Eastwood. Every time he is close to being busted by the DEA and local law enforcement, the natural tendency is to root for Mr. Eastwood and not the cops.

Why does Mr. Eastwood risk getting caught and being sent to jail? Money!! He needs it bad. His home is being foreclosed upon and he is barely surviving. Accepting the job as a drug mule not only provides him with money, it provides him with big money, enough to save his home and live a lavish lifestyle.

The movie demonstrates why the drug war will never be won!!!

As officials crack down, they reduce the supply of drugs. The reduced supply causes prices to increase. The increase in prices and profits attract regular people who realize that they can score big and probably not get caught.

Now, I am sure that there are drug warriors who would respond, "Jacob, that is just in the movies. That sort of thing does not happen in real life."

Oh, but they would be sorely wrong, as Yerlina Lantigua Hernandez DeNova, a permanent resident of the United States, would attest. According to the website of United States Customs and Border Protection, in 2021 she was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport after arriving on a flight from the Dominican Republic. Officials found cocaine pellets in her purse and her bra. She also confessed that she had inserted such pellets in her vagina and anally.

The total weight of the cocaine seized from Ms Hernandez was 3 pounds, with an estimated street value of close to $100,000.ra Naturally, they charged her with federal narcotics-related felonies.

How many other people are doing this sort of thing? That is, of course, impossible to say. But I would estimate lots. And I would also estimate that only a small number of them ever get caught.

It is just another reason why we should end this evil, immoral, destructive, and racially bigoted government program!!

They can not win the war on drugs no matter what they do. All they end up doing is tempting regular people into the drug trade, only to have their lives destroyed with a felony prosecution, conviction, and incarceration.

I will not tell you what happens to Clint Eastwood in The Mule.

Reprinted here with permission from Mr. Jacob G. Hornberger of The Future of Freedom Foundation!! Their Libertarian Website!!