Posted on 05/03/2015 7:59:56 PM PDT by Yollopoliuhqui
This is where the War on Drugs is leading. Tyranny!
Exterminate? On the spot? No, I don't support that because government with that power really is a “slippery slope” to gulags, re-education camps, and “disappearances”. It is a gateway power drug that oligarchs love and can't get enough of.
Gee! And...You call me a “joker”.
I'm philosophically against long sentences like life/20-years — they are the feel-good, pat-ourselves on the back
for not-technically taking their lives but taking their lives in the ways that matter (20 years is essentially 1/4 of the lifespan, and it is enough time for kids to grow up and have their own kids) by caging them like an animal… in short, such long sentences devalue the human life and strip them of even the simple dignity of capital punishment.
I would even go so far as to claim that such long sentences are a violation of the Eighth Amendment.
No, it's not very clear — you said Exterminate all drug dealers On the spot
nothing there would indicate hard core
drug dealers and, in fact, the word all indicates universal quantification and it is therefore quite reasonable to take that to mean all drug dealers
.
As for your SPECULATION, it’s just that. You are the only one who’s equated books with drugs and then gone off to argue about that. Not me. You can keep arguing with yourself on that point.
Really, I seem to recall that the DEA raided a woman's house because she shopped at a gardening store — and that's even before your active summary execution idea would be put into effect. Is there some reason to think that making it easier for government agents to kill people would make government agents more reasonable?
Drug dealers are cancer on society. They destroy the very people they sell to and do not give two sh1ts about them.
And, by that evaluation, so are politicians.
I suspect that summary execution of politicians would have a far more overarching effect on society than a few measly drug dealers.
Don’t play the fool and don’t play me for a fool.
I'm not.
But you seem to have far too much trust in the people that would be acting in the name of the government to wield this power justly.
You seem to be a stickler for what I wrote.
Where did I say POLICE ought to be the ones executing the drug dealers. where did I say big brother should?
I didn’t.
I would not mind the community cleaning itself up and takig care of its own garbage.
Agreed.
Pro-drugs is pro-constitution?
The damage done by drug dealers to society is incalculable. It's time they pay. With their lives.
And to be clear, I’m not talking about the dude who once bought extra for a buddy. I am talking about the well known drug dealers. Gangbanagers with a history of selling drugs. The ones the cops have files on and know well. The kind of people that you think of in your head when you hear the term “hard core drug dealer”.
The War on Drugs has never been anything but a war on individual liberty.
It's amazing to what extent some people will go to defend drug dealers, who are the lowest and most pernicious scum in our society, right down there with cannibals, child-killers and islamic terrorists.
I just figure if the article is calling on us to end the war, this is one way to end the war. Pretty soon it would be regarded as way too dangerous and not worth it, to be a drug dealer.
Then what would prevent people in general from killing someone, dropping a baggie, and then claiming that they were killing a dealer?
Where would you get this "baggie" if all the dealers are dead?
The War on Drugs is predicated on the all-pervasive powers of the misreading of the Commerce Clause as per Wickard, the horrid decision of Raich which asserted that marijuana grown inside a state never having been sold at all was under the jurisdiction of the interstate commerce clause was only a small hop but still illustrates the length to which the courts will stretch to validate/justify the unjustifiable: not-commerce suddenly is commerce.
I’m not defending them — I’m saying that that move is one that is very dangerous, and could easily get way out of hand, and it would likely destroy what remains of the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments.
>> They resolved to decriminalize all drugs...
>> Exterminate all drug dealers On the spot.
I’m interested in a combination of the two where execution is a real option when dealing to minors.
>> Then what would prevent people in general from killing someone, dropping a baggie,
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> Where would you get this “baggie” if all the dealers are dead?
A small screw bag, a small sandwich bag... heck mash up some aspirin and make it look like the guy was defrauding his “customers” while you’re at it.
Because of the very fact that law-abiding people by definition do not break the law. The people that would want ot clean up their communities of actual drug dealers would not do that because they could have already done non-lethal setups of people and called the cops on them.
The very fact law abiding people do not do this right now, when they could, they would not do it then either. For the real drug dealers - they are real drug dealers and everyone knows who they are.
Hell the cops know who they are now, and don’t do this kind of thing to them. Regular people don’t either.
Only criminals would do this kind of thing. So unless you somehow think we have this huge underclass of criminals just waiting to set up people and frmae them so they can then murder them under false pretenses, I’d like to see that evidence.
CCW people are another perfect example. They don’t go around setting up anyone. I would say cops have set more people up to be killed and place a knife or ham sandwich (gun) on them than CCW folks ever have.
The "war on drugs" doesn't go far enough. We should be invading countries that make drugs for sale on US streets. We should be shooting people who run meth labs on the spot. Tens of thousands of americans have had their lives ruined by drugs, their kids lives, and so on. It's hard to believe that Americans do not take this personally, as they should. Americans should respond to drug dealing and drug manufacturing with maximum prejudice.
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