Drug Warriors & Thier Prey : From Police Power to Police State (Record no. 3258)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
Printed Price RS.1631.73
ISBN 9780275950422
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency RRU
Language of cataloging English
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title Eng.
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Class No. 363.450973
Item number LAW
100 ## - FIRST AUTHOR (IF A PERSON)
9 (RLIN) 5167
Name of author Miller, Richard Lawrence
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Drug Warriors & Thier Prey : From Police Power to Police State
Statement of responsibility Richard Lawrence Mller
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Praeger Publishers
Place of publication, distribution, etc. 1996
Date of publication, distribution, etc. London
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
No. of pages 255p.
Other physical details 24.05 x 16.33 x 2.57 cm
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America's drug war with passion seldom encountered in scholarly writing. Miller presents numerous examples of drug law enforcement gone amok, as police and courts threaten the happiness, property, and even lives of victims―some of whom are never charged with a drug crime, let alone convicted of one. Miller not only argues that criminal justice zealots are harming the democracy they are sworn to protect, but that authoritarians unfriendly to democracy are stoking public fear in order to convince citizens to relinquish traditional legal rights. Those are the very rights that thwart implementation of an agenda of social control through government power. Miller contends that an imaginary drug crisis has been manufactured by authoritarians in order to mask their war on democracy. He not only examines numerous civil rights sacrificed in the name of drugs, but demonstrates how their loss harms ordinary Americans in their everyday lives. Showing how the war on drug users fits into a destruction process that can lead to mass murder, Miller calls for an end to the war before it proceeds deeper into the destruction process.<br/><br/>This is a book for anyone who wonders about the value of civil liberties, and for anyone who wonders why people seek to destroy their neighbors. Using voluminous examples of drug law enforcement victimizing blameless people, this book demonstrates how the loss of civil liberties in the name of drugs threatens law-abiding Americans at work and at home.
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Subject heading Drug control
9 (RLIN) 5168
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Subject heading United States
9 (RLIN) 189
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Subject heading Drug addicts--Government policy
9 (RLIN) 5170
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