Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove, Eclipsing N.S.A.’s (2013)
The Drug War seems so out of control and Orwellian at this point, that I unfortunately can&#x27;t think of any way to stop it, as long as the general public thinks that it&#x27;s somewhere in the range of &quot;overbearing but necessary&quot; to &quot;annoying and probably evil but doesn&#x27;t really affect me&quot;.<p>I&#x27;m excited by the chinks in the armor that have come with marijuana legalization&#x2F;decriminalization, and I think once that spreads across much of the US, some of the Drug War will have lost its teeth, but I don&#x27;t imagine it will make a large dent the surveillance industry.<p>Now that we have built the infrastructure, conceived of parallel construction, etc there will always be a shadowy enemy lurking in our midst that we need to turn it on. Its kinda like having a giant military-industrial complex. You really can&#x27;t sustain it without war, yet it has its own momentum and seeks to sustain itself, so it makes war more likely.