Abt. Klassenkampf - heute: im Fumoir


In diesem kurzen O-Ton spricht Noam Chomsky über die Geschichte der Kriminalisierung von Marihuana. Er stellt darin die These auf eines Zusammenhangs zwischen der Klassenzugehörigkeit der Mehrheit der Konsumenten einer Droge und ihrem legalen Status. Ab Minute 4 zitiert er den erst vor wenigen Tagen verstorbenen Juristen Charles Whitebread. Dieser soll 1995 in einem Vortrag, den Chomsky offensichtlich gehört hat, vorhergesagt haben, dass bis in 10 Jahren Tabak illegal werden würde. Den Vortrag gibt's hier.

Whitebread argumentiert in etwa so: Ausgangssituation in den 70er Jahren: Rauchen ist in allen Schichten relativ weit verbreitet. In welcher Klasse geht das Rauchen in den folgenden Jahrzehnten zurück? Bei den besser Ausgebildeten. Und wenn diese kommende Elite als Nichtraucher das Ruder übernimmt, dann wird sie sich von den "rauchenden Arbeitern" bedroht fühlen. Und die Antwort auf diese Bedrohung wird eine juristische sein. Ein Verbot. In den Worten Whitebreads:
You know the Federal Government has been spending a lot of money since 1968 trying to persuade us not to smoke. And, indeed, the absolute numbers on smoking have declined very little. But, you know who has quit smoking, don't you? In gigantic numbers? The college-educated, that's who. (...) Who are they? Tomorrow's what? Movers and kickers, that's who. Tomorrow's movers and kickers don't smoke. Who does smoke? Oh, you know who smokes out of all proportion to their numbers in the society -- it is the people standing in your criminal courtrooms, that's who. Who are they? Tomorrow's moved and kicked, that's who. And, there it is friends, once it divides between the movers and kickers and the moved and kicked it is all over and it will be all over very shortly. It starts with "You know, they shouldn't smoke, they are killing themselves." Then it turns, as it has -- you see the ads out here -- "They shouldn't smoke, they are killing us." And pretty soon, that class division will happen, we will have the legislatures full of tomorrow's movers and kickers and they are going to say just what they are going to say any time now. "You know, this has just gotta stop, and we got an answer for it." We are going to have a criminal statute that forbids the manufacture, sale, or possession of tobacco cigarettes, or tobacco products period. (...) One day -- when's it gonna happen, ten years, fifteen? -- some legislator will get up and, just as though it had never been said before, "You know we gotta solve this smoking problem and I got a solution -- a criminal prohibition against the manufacture, sale, or possession of tobacco cigarettes." And then you know what happens. Then everybody who did want a cigarette here today, if there is anyone here who smokes, you are going to have to hide in the bathroom. And cigarettes are no longer going to be three dollars a pack, they are going to be three dollars a piece. And who's going to sell them to you? Who will always sell them to you? The people who will sell you anything -- organized crime. (...) If we get together here in the year 2005, I will bet you that it is as likely as not that the possession of marijuana may not be criminal in this state. But the manufacture, sale, and possession of tobacco will be, and why? Because we love this idea of prohibitions, we can't live without them. They are our very favorite thing because we know how to solve difficult, social, economic, and medical problems -- a new criminal law with harsher penalties in every category for everybody.
Soviel zum Thema Rauchverbote.

Mein erster Kuss...

- d. h. der erste ernsthafte - war rauchig. Seither bin ich hoffnungslos konditioniert. Strube Zeiten stehen an.

Abgesehen davon sehe ich in Bezug auf Basel eine kleine Schwäche der Argumentation da oben. Soviel ich weiss, haben wir wenige Vermögende, aber sehr viel Linksorientierte (korreliert manchmal in der SP, aber selten im Wahlvolk) in town. Wie also ist das Abstimmungsergebnis zu erklären? Hätte es nicht umgekehrt ausfallen müssen?

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