Conversely, each and every citizen should have a basic expectation of WHAT THEY ARE ENTITLED TO RECEIVE from our nation. A full description of such rights is a much deeper and complex discussion better left for another time. However, there must be certain minimums. On this point, my article entitled: Plutocracy Ignores Purpose presents the following quote:
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said, --Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men." I assert that every single person has a purpose. No one is insignificant.
As such, each citizen has the right to expect his society to treat him or her as having inherent purpose and value. No one should be treated as insignificant. No one should be treated as a throwaway.
Redefining Citizenship
Such a redefinition of citizenship--as an obligation to strive to become your best coupled with an entitlement to have that effort supported--would end the war on drugs. This ethic of significance would make such a war obsolete.
[1] The New Jim Crow at 97.
[i] Professor Holly Hills, PHD 2008 National Drug Court Conference Presentation Materials
[ii] Reebye, Moretti, and Lessard 1995; Rounds-Bryant, Kristiansen and Hubbard, 1999.
[iii] Roberts and Corcoran, 2005.
[iv] See research National Association of Drug Court Professionals at: http://www.nadcp.org/learn/drug-courts-work-0.
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