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Another Death Notch for Drug Warriors

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 2024
Here were Hessian skulls as thick as a bombshell. Poor fellows! They were left unburied in a foreign land. They had, perhaps, as near and dear friends to lament their sad destiny as the Americans who lay buried near them. But they should have kept at home; we should then never have gone after them to kill them in their own country. But, the reader will say, they were forced to come and be killed here, forced by their rulers who have absolute power of life and death over their subjects. Well then, reader, bless a kind Providence that has made such a distinction between your condition and theirs. And be careful, too, that you do not allow yourself ever to be brought to such an abject, servile and debased condition.
– Joseph Martin, Continental Soldier

HORNBERGER’S BLOG
January 10, 2024
Another Death Notch for Drug Warriors
I haven’t seen The Iron Claw but it certainly looks like a good movie. It receives 88% and 94% ratings on Rotten Tomatoes. The movie is about the von Erich brothers, who became famous in the world of professional wrestling in the 1980s. As I was reading a review of the movie, I discovered that U.S. drug warriors were …
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