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The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 28, 2023
Once we start from this idea, accepted by all our political theorists [that] “The motive force of society is the government”; once men consider themselves as sentient, but passive, incapable of improving themselves morally or materially by their own intelligence and energy, and reduced to expecting everything from the law; in a word, when they admit that their relation to the state is that of a flock of sheep to the shepherd, it is clear that the responsibility of the government is immense. Good and evil, virtue and vice, equality and inequality, wealth and poverty, all proceed from it. It is entrusted with everything, it undertakes everything, it does everything; hence, it is responsible for everything.
– Frederic Bastiat, “The Law” [1850]

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June 28, 2023

The Mule Shows Why the Drug War Will Never Be Won
I watched The Mule, the drug-war movie on Netflix that was produced and directed by Clint Eastwood. It was the second time I’ve seen the movie. 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.” …
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