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To: Jim Robinson
Simple. Don’t do drugs.

Including the legal ones, of course.

Contraband law is Tyrannical. The requirements of its enforcement necessarily lead to gross abuses, Constitutional and otherwise.

Limited, minimal government should never wield such arbitrary power as to make commonplace such things as:

During alcohol Prohibition, the government was perfectly willing to imprison ordinary citizens for possessing or selling the wrong drug (distilled spirits). Such "government" was Tyrannical then, it's Tyrannical now, and it always will be Tyrannical.

The willingness to grant government such sweeping, virtually unchecked powers (see the USSC) occurs on all "sides" of the political spectrum, IMHO, and it's net effect is a whole lot o' governmental Tyranny.

I'll always be against that. No free adult deserves to be imprisoned merely for committing the "crime" of possessing (or facilitating possession of) the wrong plant, distilled spirit, medicine, or recreational substance.

I just don't believe that Rush Limbaugh is a criminal, regardless of the fact that some government agency didn't like his medical habits. Do you?

The same goes for the likes of Paul McCartney, Willie Nelson, or any of countless others, including ordinary everyday people. Does anybody really believe such a wide swath of peaceable people belong in prison? You know, like during Prohibition?

In any event, contraband law, in all of its insidious forms, will always be the road to Tyranny, and, even when enforced in the most unrestrained and extreme ways, its horrid abuses will be rationalized executively, legislatively, and judicially by whichever political faction happens to hold power at the time.

Prohibition is just another cog in an increasingly Tyrannical government behemoth, IMHO.

86 posted on 06/23/2014 9:11:20 PM PDT by sargon
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To: sargon

Deal in illegal drugs, go to jail. I have no sympathy for idiots.


87 posted on 06/23/2014 9:23:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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