Writers on this page and elsewhere long have exposed the U.S. War on Drugs for what it is: a fraud that has killed or destroyed many more people than ever have been injured or killed by illegal drugs themselves. This war has empowered the state and has led to the modern phenomenon of the government home invasion, better known as the "raid," which not only is a death sentence to innocents, but kills liberty itself.
The intersection of the Drug War, police-led home invasions, and race has made for the worst assaults on human liberty in this history of this country. We can speak of the millions of people either in prison, arrested, or having served time in prison for drug offenses, the illegal drug-fueled gang wars in cities that make daily life unbearable for law-abiding citizens.
After a while, unfortunately, the numbers overwhelm us and make us numb. As Josef Stalin once said (in a cynical self-statement about his use of mass murder), "One death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic." This article is about a single death and another life destroyed as the Drug War, a police home invasion, and the politics of race have come together in a very bad way to effectively end the life of a young black man. It also is about the very real fraud that prosecutors perpetrate almost daily in their quest to fill prisons, many times
Death, the Drug War, and Corey Maye
Death, the Drug War, and Corey Maye
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