Posted on 11/22/2006 7:35:17 AM PST by Dick Bachert
Atlanta police went to a home on Neal Street in Atlanta last evening to execute a search warrant. When they kicked the door in the only occupant of the home, a 92-year-old woman, started shooting. She hit all three police officers. One in the thigh, one in the arm and another in the shoulder. All police officers will be OK. The woman will not. She was shot and killed by the police.
I'm not blaming the cops here. Not at all. They had a valid search warrant, and they say they were at the right address. Shots were fired, three cops hit, and they returned fire. A 92-year-old woman who was so afraid of crime in her neighborhood that she had burglar bars on every door and window, is now dead.
The blame lies on this idiotic drug war we're waging. We have all the studies we need, all of the comprehensive data is in. We can do a much more effective job of reducing drug use in this country if we'll just take a portion of this money we spend for law enforcement and spend it on treatment programs. A Rand study showed that we can reduce illicit drug usage in this country a specified amount through treatment programs at about 10% of the cost of reducing drug usage by that same amount through criminalization and law enforcement.
There's just something in the American psyche that demands that drug users be punished instead of treated and rehabilitated. We think they're stupid and ignorant for getting mixed up with those drugs in the first place. And you know what? We're right? But look at the messages we send to our children every single day with cigarettes, alcohol, and an endless stream of drug ads on television and in magazines. Drug culture? You bet we have.
But you want ALL recreational drugs declassified and legal like alcohol, correct, even though some of them are less safer than alcohol?
In reality, alcohol has nothing to do with it. Right?
Really? What if you could be convinced that teen drug use would double if drugs were legalized?
Wait. Maybe that's too much of a stretch for you. Let's say teen drug use would increase 10% if drugs were legalized (like alcohol).
Would you still favor legalization? If so, then you favor increased teen use.
No, you don't favor selling to children or anything like that. But if more children use drugs, you couldn't care less. Same thing in my book.
Maybe that is what it takes for some to gain the courage to defeat them. You think hatred is a "sin" of some sort? You did not answer the question...
Negative, I do not believe it to be a sin.
Honesty is not the drug cult. Or the Neo-Tech cult.
Saw it. Your sentence fragment quote didn't claim that there were no federal laws against murder. In fact, there are many. The first federal execution for murder took place a year after the Constitution was ratifies, a historical fact that your haven't yet worked up the nerve to address.
Yep.
Yep.
And manfacture them. And possess them. And transport them. And sell them.
And those are the ones who get sent to jail.
Drugs don't ruin lives? Drugs don't place a burden on others? Drugs aren't degrading to the human spirit?
--- people who use them, and manfacture them. And possess them. And transport them. And sell them, -- are the ones who get sent to jail.
--- The socialistic clowns who use 'drug abuse' as an excuse to ruin lives, place a burden on their peers, and degrade the human spirit, -- are the ones who should get sent to jail.
You blamed libertarians for the loss of the house and senate. Libertarians have been voting Republican since the sixties. Not once during those forty years have the Republicans accepted any libertarian reforms. You can't really expect libertarians to continue to support you when you give nothing in return.
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