Talk about creating a specific perception to justify a desired action! Talk about muddying the waters to enable rampant militarism!! Knowing language creates our reality, how should we view this massive alteration of reality very obviously done for political purposes. One doesn’t have to read the article to understand where this is heading. Guaranteed this change will do NOTHING to address the fentanyl problem- nothing at all.
CBC
U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Monday declaring fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, a move that dramatically expands the U.S. government’s authority to fight the synthetic opioid blamed for tens of thousands of American overdose deaths each year.
The designation, unprecedented for a narcotic, signals Trump’s intent to treat fentanyl not merely as a public health crisis but as a national security threat on a par with chemical warfare.
“We’re formally classifying fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction, which is what it is,” Trump said at a White House event honouring service members tasked with helping to police the U.S. southern border with Mexico. “They’re trying to drug out our country.”
“Illicit fentanyl is closer to a chemical weapon than a narcotic,” Trump’s order said.
Democratic House Rep. Jim McGovern of Massachusetts criticized the move, referencing Trump’s pardon earlier this year of Ross Ulbricht, the founder of the Silk Road marketplace, which prosecutors alleged was used to sell more than $200 million US worth of drugs during a two-year period described at trial.
“Reminder: Trump pardoned the founder of a black market that imported fentanyl from China into the U.S.,” McGovern posted on social media.