The DEA Propaganda piece currently featured at Chicago’s Museum of Science and Industry has been a hot topic on this (see here and here) and many other blogs.

Finally, I’ve come across some great pictures from inside the exhibit, courtesy of Mark Draughn of the Windy Pundit. We’ve all heard about the highly offensive display of wreckage from the World Trade Center and from the Pentagon, but I didn’t realize how many other aspects of the exhibit are just plan silly. It opens, for example, with a heart-wrenching picture of a car wreck in which a family died and the driver was on several drugs. But how does this evil make drugs any different from alcohol?

Another is a life-size model of a Drug Den, complete with peeling wallpaper so that you will Know Your Dope Fiend. Lastly, there is an insulting to my intelligence poster of several DEA agents, all lined up like action heroes. The certainly un-staged picture is also, of course, more than sufficiently representative of several cultures.

The DEA really has embarrassed themselves here.

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