The end of the drug war; what's next for government expansion?

[Ex_Nihil0]

As the drug war draws to a close over the next several years, the infrastructure and work force that has executed this war won't simply go away because government never shrinks.  Rather then disband Federal Bureau of Prohibition, it shifted those resources to the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, which was the archetype for the DEA we all know and love today.

With the rise of secularism and atheism, and the relative unpopularity of government restrictions on personal freedoms, the manpower and infrastructure of the DEA would seem to have no place to go.  But as we all know, the Government tends to only grow and almost never shrink.  Those resources have got to go somewhere, but where would that be?

Will the government wage a new war on online piracy?  The physical hardware of the DEA would not do a very good job of that, plus, so many people fileshare such a move would cause significant backlash.  Maybe the government will go on some other moral crusade, such as attacking prostitution.  I don't think that will happen, either, because too many senators would get into trouble and most people don't care that much anyway.  Plus, there simply aren't enough prostitutes to make it worth the while of the prison management and construction lobby.  No, the US government will be looking for a new target that will remain a perpetual problem in order to feed the endless corporate hunger for prisoners.

After some careful thought, I figured out the perfect "scourge" the US government will target next that will provided a nearly endless supply of arrests that very few US citizens will care about.  What is this new scourge, you say?  Well then, get ready for the War on Illegal Immigration!  One of the biggest complaints by the government over illegal immigration is how it doesn't have enough resources to arrest, deport or incarcerate the millions of illegals working in this country right now.  Once the resources of the DEA have become freed, they will be channeled to this new effort. 

Now here is why I think this:

1) Illegal aliens are not US citizens, so those with the privilege of citizenship won't care all that much because non-citizens will have the default status of being lesser humans.
2) There is a nearly endless supply of illegal immigrants that flow across the border, making it easy to fill up or prisons and pad the wallets of prison management companies. 
3) Groups like La Raza make excellent and abundant fodder for anti-Mexican propaganda, especially when there loony rhetoric and terrorist-like bandannas covering there fare are caught on film. 
4) It has come to light that the prison lobby was behind the new anti-immigration law in Arizona all along.  I think the prison companies see that its the beginning of the end for the Drug War and have already begun a long term plan to ensure a new revenue stream to replace the old.

Mark my words today and lets see in about a decade that I am right.

-FlowCell

[VectorM]

Bah and again, it's all the fault of the prison management companies and the government that enables them to do so is perfectly innocent.

I am noticing a double standard when it comes to situations like this and the way leftist want to handle drugs.

Now, a lot of them do support drug prohibition, but a lot of those who don't, seem to support the "Punish the provider, heal the buyer" system. The drug dealer gets thrown in jail and the druggie gets send to be rehabilitated. Not a choice as far as I know, so it might as well be the old system if you ask me.

But when it comes to the relation between government and corporations, they reverse the logic - they want to punish the buyer (the corporation) and not the provider (the government).

Consistency isn't the statist's strong point it seems.

[MrBogosity]

"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

[Gumba Masta]

Of course this practices creates real ones once in a while. And we all know how that ends, giving how "effective" politicians are at countering real threats.