A Comparison between Drug Policy as Social Control

Nicolas Beltran English 101 /Ms. Jackson March 13 2012 While reading Drug Policy as Social match by Noam Chomsky and Crito by Plato I noticed a similarity between the two. People in higher power have ways of stabilizing populations. The government activity is customized to progress battalion fail and the less rose-colored are tar motored. The inequalities of the government arent dealt with but they surely do exist. Laws are strictly enforced to populations where mostly black males live and populations where crime rates are high. Not all people have to deal with the law the same way collect to social class.The government has its own way of controlling people who are thought to be dangerous. How does the government control people? The government is suitable to put fear in the hearts of people. Governments have tried to take away programs which help people who are struggling. People worry about earthly concern assistance such as welfare because they need it and the government u ses the poor populations weakness to their advantage. The government has its own way of silencing people who they feel baron be a threat to people in higher power like Socrates.Socrates from Crito had information that might have endangered the government. That is the main reason wherefore he was sentenced to prison. Both Socrates and Martin Luther King served time in jail. Neither of them were a threat to their communities. They were wise men who both were the voice of their communitys. The government seen them as dangerous so they were killed. This is why I believe the governments selected method of keeping things stabilized is unfair to the thought to be dangerous population. Countries are unfair when it comes to swelled everyone equal rights.There are people who are superior to the law. Did you notice not one sentence in Drug Policy as Social Control said anything about targeted rich or white people ? I wonder why no upper class people are existence arrested. No one is perfec t and we know the poor and dangerous arent the only people who get their hands on drugs. Many people get away with illegal transactions but they fly under the radar because they are rich. The upper class people do the same things the less fortunate populations are doing by taking and selling drugs but are less likely to be imprisoned.In Drug policy as Social Control its specifically says none of this has anything to do with drugs. The main purpose in the so called drug control is to criminalize dangerous black populations. Our country is known to give people equal rights and freedom. It isnt as it appears as you can see our country has favorites and the poor are targeted. While the upper class seems more united the government makes the poor hate each other. The way the government works the less fortunate are setup to fail.Job opportunities are decreasing and so are transaction wages. There are less support systems for the people who need them. The Percentage of poverty is increasin g while the rich get all the attention as their wealth keeps growing. In Drug Policy as Social Control it says, If we wanted to stop drug use in the United States in that locations an easy way to do it. This means that the government can prevent drugs from getting into the country but they dont because it helps them control populations by development drugs to criminalize black men.Where is the justice in this method of controlling people ? In my opinion this is a setup. These problems continue occurring in our country but there is no change. The voices of dangerous populations will continue to be controlled by the government. Hopefully one day poor and thought to be dangerous communities will not be recognized as what they are thought to be. The voices of these communities have been silenced for thousands of years, so has Jesus Christ. All these leaders have died for what they believed in.