This book is a near miss that still deserves to be read, though the author is repetitive and his reasoning is flawed. he describes the creeping dismantling of democracy in all its variants through the collusion, if not conspiracy, of politicans, drug traffickers and the banking industry. He cites interesting cases but strays off on tangents and reaches conclusions that could just as easily be reversed with a slightly different perspective. Clearly he has an agenda and refuses to seriously consider subtlety or nuance, dismissing such attempts as "counterculture" or misguided liberalism. Though there is no argument with regard to the very real dangers that the money of the drug business poses to national governments evrywhere, he decides to strike out at hippies, anti-war protestors, the CIA and George Soros, who he obviously equates to the AntiChrist.There remains to be written a book with this topic that is not judgemental and avoids aimless redundancies. Still, having said all this, Johnson did get me thinking about these issues, and even made me appreciate some of the arguments against decriminalization. Though I don't agree with much of his analysis, he poses interesting viewpoints that everyone should be aware of.
