Pfizer withdraws drugs from being used in executions

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"Why is that?" You might ask. We launched the "wars" on drugs and crime during the Nixon administration, at a time when groups were agitating for changes to what was happening in our society (e.g. the hippies) and in our ghettoes (e.g. the Black Panthers), which Nixon took as a Major Threat To Western Civilization™, as he saw it.

You know, I always asked myself why everything in the USA is turned into a war. Let me give some personal history here. My grand uncle built up the first republican army, formed a socialist militia in the first republic, was one of the leading figures of socialism between the wars, accordingly commanded and fought in the civil war of 1934, fled to Czechoslovakia and when the Spanish civil war broke out, became a republican general there. Yet he emmigrated to the USA, a lifelong socialist, not to the Soviet Union. He felt more at home there.

Something went very much in the wrong direction during the Cold War. Somewhere along the way, the US has developed an Orwellian culture of militarizing society. And this culture is frightening me too to a certain degree, since it very much reminds me of our own past.