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Originally Posted by mickthinks
I think he is being careful to answer the question as simply as possible, giving the will of newspaper editors as the proximate cause of the prohibitive laws, and only suggesting we make the necessary connection ourselves between the manufacturers of consensus and the interests of the powerful.
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Even if that's the case, I still find that a strange tack to take. He introduces the notion that it's a badge of honor for newspaper editors in the last paragraph and without any evidence, which is not only leaving that connection unsaid, it's proposing a different motivation altogether which could then obscure that connection.
Also, as Ari said, the article already talks about the drug war's role in oppressing ethnic minorities and the alcohol lobby's opposition to cannabis legalization, etc. so it's not like he hadn't already made those connections.
It was overall a good article and I obviously agree with him in general, but I just found that part strange.