A nother incident may help shed some light upon our law enforcement priorities, and how those priorities affect whether cops are really busy fighting crime, or instead preoccupied with the more profitable pursuit of making money off people like you and me (and whether the citizens might want to attempt to change their government's priorities). This next example, like the previous sections on the CIA and the U.S. armed forces, also illuminates the government's true priorities in its so-called Prohibition against freshly illegal drugs. Within a year of returning to Knoxville, Tennessee, from wartimes with the US Air Forces in Europe in 1993, I met someone whose mother was abused in a domestic violence situation. It was a classic case of battered-woman syndrome, a tragic fatal attraction, and the victim's family had repeatedly begged her to leave once they learned of the man's violent history.