Richard Lawrence Miller's Chain of Destruction

This is a truly eye-opening expose on the failures of the "War on Drugs", I found the interviews in this documentary incredible for the complexity and novelties of the views expressed. Such views never get aired on TV, because in isolation, they would make no sense in the 12 minutes you get between ad breaks. e.g. a hard-boiled prison chief explaining how private prisons generate a demand for more prisoners. This man was no liberal.

But the most interesting idea was the the one from Richard Lawrence Miller (the guy with the "Amish" beard) on the chain of destruction.

He explained the Holocaust (Nazi genocide of Jews, Gypsies and others) and many other lesser events in human history followed a pattern, a "Chain of Destruction" where all the links were the same. Miller's point was that many of these steps were happening as part of the "War on Drugs". Miller was not claiming that this was directly comparable to the Holocaust (although David Simon, another interviewee, did so), but he showed how the steps follow the same pattern.
Each link, he said is supported by the previous ones and requires them.

The first link is Identification, where a group in society is clearly outlined in the public eye
The second link is Ostracism, isolating these people from the rest of society, whether in actual ghettos like the Jews in Nazi run Europe, or in de-facto ghettos
The third link is Confiscation of property, and the documentary showed compelling evidence of what can only be called legalised looting by the police
The fourth link is Concentration, placing people in camps or prisons
The final link is Annihilation, be it through denial of health care, preventing reproduction, starvation, or actual murder in the case of Jews

Miller was careful to say that the final link was less evident in the war on drugs, but that elements were present, examples being incentive programs to sterilise drug addicts.