From benign to slowly twist to war!

"Mass incarceration" of the vulnerable, weak, and neglected among us is an even  more destructive killer than the "weapons of mass destruction" which never existed in Iraq. Doubtless, tens of thousands have now been killed, and millions of lives have now been impaired by the consequences of such a "benign neglect" policy--a Nixon-era political stratagem of H. R. Halderman--to withhold financial resources for post-1968 reconstruction of riot-torn black communities, from black people, and from urban areas. To "let them twist slowly in the wind," the evocative phrase of John Ehrlichmann, another Nixon operative, which suggests lynching, was vivified, stepped up dramatically, in the 1980 Reagan-era "War on Drugs," that most wanton waster of human potential, whose implements are poverty, guns, drugs and family dissolution!