The Wire's War on the Drug War - TIME
- added March 6, 2008
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- marcozarco
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From the writers of The Wire -- which IMHO, is the best damn show on TV!
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- marcozarco
- 7 months ago
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Hey Marco Zarco!
I haven't seen much of The Wire on TV but, I have been working on a Current TV show with the Sound of Young America's Jessie Thorn, who just interviewed The Wire's Bubbles and Bunk: Andre Royo and Wendell Pierce.
Listen to what they got to say about the show, I'm sure you'll find it interesting.
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- ThomasGreen
- 7 months ago
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Thanks for the pointer.
I went to Andre Royo's myspace page http://www.myspace.com/andreroyo) to find
a "Property of Bubbles" t-shirt, but unfortunately
they're all sold out :(-
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- marcozarco
- 7 months ago
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I'm bummed to have missed this show. Where have I been for the past 5 years?
I'm intrigued by your mention of jury nullification as it pertains to the drug war, and my follow up question is, how can you justify the other effects that would arise from acquitting all cases related to non-violent drug offenses? To implement this kind of non-violent act in a way that would get the attention of our administration, it would have to be massive. I like thinking big.
And I dig a mass movement of the people, but in the time it would take to get people to understand, to act, and to get the attention of our government, wouldn't the drug dealers of our society make a hard push to get into new markets (possibly vulnerable school-aged kids - I'm a teacher so they're my first thought), knowing there would be no consequences? Wouldn't this affect be disastrous? A new generation consumed by the drug war?
But likely these kids will enter the drug war on their own anyway - so many of them do, on the user and dealer side - and perhaps the long term effects are more important than the short term. At any rate, I think we are in great need of some long term visionaries.
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To all those who havent see The Wire: you're missing out! I agree marco it's an amazing show. (It's OK msl, you can do the trendy thing these days and watch an entire season in a weekend on DVD!)
And it's actually interesting that the show talks about these real issues (and for teachers in the house there's a major public school component to the show).
I think the main point of the Anti-War on Drugs message is that We are Losing The War. Similar to the military action in Iraq, it is questionable if military/police activity will really help the situation when the underlying causes that support the drugs and violence aren't being addressed, just suppressed. If you put the money that is being funneled into fighting drug dealers to other causes, what could you achieve? -
BTW, another cool article on The Wire -- this one watching the show with "street figures" and getting their opinions on the shows authenticity and meaning. Looking back, they got some of the predictions kind of right, but not mostly...
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