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:The first thing David Lammy (MP for London-Tottenham, where the incident took place) wants us to understand is the blameless ease with which a child who goes home to an empty council estate flat because his mum can’t afford childcare while she’s at work, can become a gang member. All it takes is a gift of new trainers, he says, for which in return the child is soon asked to carry a little package round the corner, and before long, the 12-year-old is earning more in one week than his parents make in a year. The white middle-class market for cocaine is booming, Lammy says, citing reports by Interpol and Europol, and he has seen for himself how easy it is to service because dealers in Tottenham have shown him. “People are ordering drugs on WhatsApp, Snapchat. It’s easy.” One young constituent was caught selling cocaine in Aberdeen: dealers in London now operate what are known as “county lines”, supplying cocaine to every region of the country. Do middle- class customers safe in neighbourhoods far away from Tottenham’s turf wars have blood on their hands? For a moment he pauses. - | :The first thing David Lammy (MP for London-Tottenham, where the incident took place) wants us to understand is the blameless ease with which a child who goes home to an empty council estate flat because his mum can’t afford childcare while she’s at work, can become a gang member. All it takes is a gift of new trainers, he says, for which in return the child is soon asked to carry a little package round the corner, and before long, the 12-year-old is earning more in one week than his parents make in a year. The white middle-class market for cocaine is booming, Lammy says, citing reports by Interpol and Europol, and he has seen for himself how easy it is to service because dealers in Tottenham have shown him. “People are ordering drugs on WhatsApp, Snapchat. It’s easy.” One young constituent was caught selling cocaine in Aberdeen: dealers in London now operate what are known as “county lines”, supplying cocaine to every region of the country. Do middle- class customers safe in neighbourhoods far away from Tottenham’s turf wars have blood on their hands? For a moment he pauses. - | ||
The argument runs as follows: drug use is against the law, it creates the market, the violence, and therefore, it is responsible. All users are responsible. - They are the REAL culprits. Someone who does blame drug users for drug related killings is Captain Nascimento, protagonist of the movie Tropa de Elite (28'-34'; 1:46:00). Without drug users there would be no market, no violent competition for markets, no violence between gangs and police. | The argument runs as follows: drug use is against the law, it creates the market, the violence, and therefore, it is responsible. All users are responsible. - They are the REAL culprits. Someone who does blame drug users for drug related killings is Captain Nascimento, protagonist of the movie Tropa de Elite (28'-34'; 1:46:00). Without drug users there would be no market, no violent competition for markets, no violence between gangs and police. From this perspective, drug users are a conditio sine qua non of killings and even of police violence from killing to torture (Tropa de Elite). | ||
But can that really be correct? Adam and Eve are a conditio sine qua non for every human cruelty ever since. Without them, human cruelty would not exist. Are they guilty of Bernie Madoff's crimes? | |||
What about student protesters during the Arab Spring? They were a conditio sine qua non for the state's reactions including civil wars and bombings. Were they behaving irresponsibly? | |||
The question of rights enters here. If they have a democratic right or a natural right to protest against their governments then causality does not mean criminal responsibility for acts that have been committed by others later with the more immediate effects. | |||
But what if they have a right to use drugs? (Douglas Husak). In that case, the law would have to allow drug use and drug commerce. How would that affect violence? | But what if they have a right to use drugs? (Douglas Husak). In that case, the law would have to allow drug use and drug commerce. How would that affect violence? | ||