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06 Mar 2008 01:21 pm
The Wire Gets Serious
A strong statement from the show's lead writers:
If asked to serve on a jury deliberating a violation of state or
federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence
presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended
violence are alleged, we will — to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's
manifesto against the death penalty — no longer tinker with the
machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a
government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its
poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens.
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