Why the "War on Drugs" is bad

Yet anothe reason why I'm glad I don't live in America. The local police act like a bunch of jackbooted thugs and conduct an armed drugs raid on a high school, apparently with full support of the school administrator. The raid terrorised more than a thousand school pupils and found no drugs.

So there were allegations of drug dealing at the school? Surely there are more effective ways of dealing with this than lashing out in a way that terrorises guilty and innocent alike.

Heads deserve to roll over this.

My experiences of (much milder) collective punishments at School never left me with any greater respect for authority, or even anger at the miscreants that provoked the punishments. All that was left was a burning sense of injustice, and a belief that the teacher in question was a fascist idiot.

The only good it did was to teach me that collective punishment is always wrong, whether it's carried out by some frustrated Welsh economics teacher, or by Ariel Sharon.