The first one was big news for all my fellow “warons” out there. “Warons,” for those of you who don’t know is the derogatory term used by mor0ns to make fun of drug policy reformists.  Yes, prohibition is a splendid little delusion for all the pro-family anti-minority/woman/queer folks out there. Its also a splendid fat paycheck for prison industrial complex.  True story. And it’s no doubt companies like Aramark, a food service and uniform giant has likely served you food are singing the blues. In the future crack-cocaine dealers will only be dealt with 18 times harsher than soft cocaine dealers.  It saddens the heart to consider this a step forward, but the disparity was 100-1. It warms the heart to know that when our politicians have finally pushed the government coffers so far into the red that prisons remained closed due to lack of funds, that they will take a modest step back from insanity in spite of what conservative trauma traffickers and the owners of the system might think.

Those charged with crack-cocaine trafficking currently locked in a cage will stay the remainder of their sentence. Yes, though congress does agree that 100-1 sentencing ratio is severe, they simply care more about the projected dividends of their state-sponsored corporate-control device. The rape-machine is dependent on the individuals currently locked up, because with out them there wouldn’t be an excuse for the guns, the guards, the foods, the low-cost labor, the cops, the bullet proof vests, the computer systems, the iron bars placed their to keep these unwanted soles from seeing the light of day and breathing fresh air. Then there would be no excuse to charge the tax payer for any of that either.

While this issue has gotten some positive press the media remains ardently blind and silent on the real issues behind prohibition. Professionally misguided mouthpieces fumble around with the concept of black market fueled violence blaming it on many different things family’s, poverty,  thinly veiled racist theories, or if they happen to be Micheal Minor,  guns. This opinion piece encouraged me enough to write an email to the editor. We will see if the Reader has mettle enough to print it.

In the mean time lets move on to the other victory to which I was referring. Nike will pay Honduran workers for “job-training” and health care. The factories the Hondurans worked at shut down after they unionized and Nike pulled production. So to all those that picketed outside of Nike Towns, I salute you. Its also worth giving props to University of Wisconsin, which dropped their small Nike deal, and Cornell which also backed away from its dealings with Nike. To the execs and Nike, Tiger Woods, and Micheal Jordan, enjoy your expensive homes while you continue to treat workers like shit, unless you absolutely have to do the right thing.