Posted on 08/13/2010 12:58:50 AM PDT by Candor7
First we have to get the fascist man child oout of the White House after cleaning out the RINOS in the GOP.I think man child should resign, NOW!(I demand his resignation as a farudulent, unqalified person who occupies the office fraudulently.) And then we have to build the Southern Border, we can't just "seal it" We have to build it and man it. And we have to destroy the Mexican War Lords, ASAP. And the people demand it, have been demanding it and will not rest until they have it.Its priority 1 !
Organized crime all but ran parts of the US. It led to all kinds of stupid laws like the National Firearms Act, because no one wanted to face up to the real problem.
And the moral absolutists insisted that nothing would change if we repealed Prohibition. Guess what? It did. We closed a dark chapter on this country's history, only to open another one because another target was needed. This time, it was more convenient to target the mood altering drug of choice for people other than the white majority -- because racism was still in vogue.
You can make all the excuses and rationalizations that you want. But, until you realize that it's driven by your personal morality rather the actual self-inflicted damage by drug abuse, the War on Some Drugs will continue to destroy this country (and our neighbors) from within.
You are wasting our time, and mine. This is not a drug legalization thread.
If you need a platform to preach from, please start your own thread.
These gangsters, the Mexican Cartels, have an infrastructure that they will go to great lengths to maintain. A black market to get around the regulations and taxation that our Federal government will levee against addictive drugs, just like they do tobacco, will result in a raging black market.
It HAS happened in other places.
Pot, this is Kettle, you are black. Over
You people learn nothing from history. Prior to Prohibition, there was no organized crime to speak of. Sure, there have always been small geograpically-based criminal bands, but nothing like the organizations that sprang up in the wake of prohibition due to the huge amount of money that it generated. There was the same death and destruction on the streets in the big cities that we see today during prohibition because there were no legal avenues to keep that sort of thing in check. Today you don't see Miller brewing and Budweiser killing off thier compentition to fight over distribution rights like you saw back then.
Once prohibition was repealed, the level of violence was dramatically reduced. This is a simple, observable fact that those of you who support neoprohibition, and the drug lords just simply refuse to acknowledge. You'd rather keep the drug cartels, gangs, and their governmental enablers on the gravy train rather than admit that the entire enterprise has been a huge waste of resources and liberty-destroying compact between the dealers and the government.
It's true that there will be remnants around to attempt to get around any regulations and taxation that might be put im place after legalization, but that's an entirely different level of a problem, because the profit margins just simply don't compare.
Personally, I agree with other posters on this thread who have pointed out drugs are used to keep people docile, much like football, and American Idol. They have many avenues of social control, and drugs, which include alcohol and tobacco are just one of many tools used to keep the average joe from thinking about how different this country has become from that which existed prior the inroads made in the name of the "war on drugs".
However, I believe that the damage done by this fake "war" and the power it has gven to the government, is a bigger danger than some fellow down the street smoking a joint or doing some blow.
The drug warriors created the drug cartels, and continue to support them, as your response above indicates.
If you're not going to respect your own call to drop the subject (see post #119) then you have no ground to stand on calling on others to respect it.
I let myself get beat up in order to give you that respect.
I apologize Tiger, I didn’t understand. I should have come to your assistance,and missed the whole dymamic. Now I see having reviewed the whole thread.
You see much further than I do.
I am so sorry!
FReegards and again this is not a problem.
It's just life in the big city and we've both been there and seen the elephant.
mark
If Iraq can figure out how to be a normal country, so can Mexico with some help.
Prohibition of drugs currently turning Mexico into a model of the USA during prohibition of alcohol early in the 20th century...is there a lesson to be learned here?
Right. And the legalization of drugs wiill sole the problem. You are as bad as the nagic wand theorists who belive that just by waiving a magic wnd, all problems will be solved.
Buahahahahahahahaha!
Social engineering is a liberal trait. Drugs are not prohibited in the USA, they are prescribed as medicine. You want to allow our population to become lethargic, and escapist. China and its historical deatruction by opium is the true example of the legalization of such drugs.China now hasn’t got much of a drug propblem, chronic abusers and dealers are executed, they learned their lesson the hard way.Why should we?
What a laugh!
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