"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." ~ H.L. Mencken
New Generation of 'Disappeared' Brings Anguish to Streets of Rio
"Rio de Janeiro is a city of missing people. Since police records began in 1993, more than 10,000 people have vanished without trace here, while human rights activists say many more disappearances have gone unreported. Recent reports in the Brazilian press suggested that at least 7,000 of these cases were related to killings carried out by drug traffickers, death squads and corrupt police officers." Where are the anti-war crowds on this one? This nonsensical "War on Drugs" has produced an incredible rate of casualties worldwide...far more than the equally nonsensical "War on Terror."
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