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Zatch
06-09-2011, 03:13 PM
The Wire' creator hits out at Attorney General

Monday, June 6 2011, 5:32am EDT

By Morgan Jeffery, TV Reporter

The creator of HBO drama The Wire has hit out at recent remarks made by US Attorney General Eric Holder.

Holder recently urged David Simon and co-producer Ed Burns to produce a sixth season of the acclaimed series, which ended in 2008.

However, in an email to The Times, Simon angrily criticized the US government for its "misguided" war on drugs.

"The Attorney-General's kind remarks are noted and appreciated," he wrote. "I've spoken to Ed Burns and we are prepared to go to work on season six of The Wire if the Department of Justice is equally ready to reconsider and address its continuing prosecution of our misguided, destructive and dehumanising drug prohibition."

Simon further claimed that the government's current anti-drug policies are "nothing more or less than a war on our underclass".

He continued: "[It is] succeeding only in transforming our democracy into the jailingest nation on the planet (sic)."

Simon's new HBO drama Treme, which examines the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the residents of New Orleans, was recently renewed for a third season.

http://www.digitalspy.com/tv/news/a323351/the-wire-creator-hits-out-at-attorney-general.html

Anti Federalist
06-09-2011, 03:16 PM
w00t

KramerDSP
06-09-2011, 03:22 PM
The Wire is the greatest Television show ever created. It reaffirms a lot of Ron Paul's platform of wanting a minimalist government. The portrayals of "chain of command" in all facets (drugs, police, politics) is unsurpassed.

brandon
06-09-2011, 03:29 PM
Awesome.

Dreamofunity
06-09-2011, 06:19 PM
I just recently started re-watching The Wire. I had seen most of the first and second seasons a long time ago and stopped watching it for some reason, however I'm glad I put it off. Watching it from a libertarian perspective really adds to how you view the show.

dannno
06-09-2011, 06:22 PM
Oh wow that's tight!

trey4sports
06-09-2011, 06:25 PM
isnt the creator a socialist?

heavenlyboy34
06-09-2011, 06:27 PM
Never seen the show, but the producers have a good attitude. :cool:

roho76
06-09-2011, 06:43 PM
isnt the creator a socialist?

Socialists are just misguided. The reason they believe in free shit is because the government has effectively made everything to expensive through our corporatist structure. And they have been very successful thus far at blaming capitalism for our problems.

KurtBoyer25L
06-09-2011, 06:54 PM
Socialists are just misguided. The reason they believe in free shit is because the government has effectively made everything to expensive through our corporatist structure. And they have been very successful thus far at blaming capitalism for our problems.

There are anarcho-socialists and optional governence-socialists who do not necessarily believe in "free shit" and certainly don't believe in violence or coercion.

Libertarianism is not actually anti-collectivist, but collectivism in its usual forms of fascism/socialism is anti-libertarian.

ClayTrainor
06-09-2011, 07:01 PM
That is awesome. I've been intending to start watching this show for a while now, it sounds so good.