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WOW! ISN'T THIS DRUG WAR GREAT!
Boortz.com ^ | 11-22-2006 | Neal Boortz

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.


TOPICS: Heated Discussion
KEYWORDS: cutandrun; donutwatch; druggy; drugwar; hempatarian; leo; stoner; wod; wodlist
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To: Phantom Patriot
Oh, you want it DEclassified. I thought you were going someplace else with your argument.

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?

561 posted on 11/29/2006 6:21:32 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Phantom Patriot
"Or selling to children or anything like that."

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.

562 posted on 11/29/2006 6:29:26 AM PST by robertpaulsen
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To: Sir Francis Dashwood

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.


563 posted on 11/29/2006 7:49:39 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: robertpaulsen
You wish to legalize all drugs. That's absolute insanity. We are so far apart on this issue, there's no debating it.

That's all I needed to know. Interesting how you cannot formulate a plan of action that differs from your opinion. Continue prosecuting a losing battle. Sounds kinda like Rumsfeld and the war we are prosecuting over seas. Some times fresh approaches can amaze you. Have a great day.
564 posted on 11/29/2006 7:56:05 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: robertpaulsen
You wish to legalize all drugs. That's absolute insanity. We are so far apart on this issue, there's no debating it.

That's all I need to know.

You cannot possibly know that

And we will never if we stay on this path.

And what would that be? Drugs are good? Drugs are safe? Drugs don't ruin lives? Drugs don't place a burden on others? Drugs aren't degrading to the human spirit?

Drugs are none of those nor are they the opposite. It's the people who use them. Even some people who drink are an example. Some over drink and become violent. Some can control their intake and be social.

What could they possibly tell me? I really would like to know what you're talking about.

There are other ways of convincing people to quit once they have started hard destructive drugs. Without waging war. You know sometimes you have to hit rock bottom before you can see the truth. Then if you are worth salvaging you will pick yourself up. Sometimes that requires help. Any way have a great day can't dwell on this. We'll just have to agree to disagree because we live in a free country and can do that.
565 posted on 11/29/2006 8:11:17 AM PST by Phantom Patriot (From my cold dead hands.)
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To: Zon
Honesty is not a cult.

Honesty is not the drug cult. Or the Neo-Tech cult.

566 posted on 12/02/2006 5:31:17 AM PST by Mojave
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To: patton
Care to see #498?

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.

567 posted on 12/02/2006 5:49:54 AM PST by Mojave
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To: robertpaulsen
That bears repeating.

Yep.

Yep.

568 posted on 12/02/2006 5:51:46 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Phantom Patriot
It's the people who use them.

And manfacture them. And possess them. And transport them. And sell them.

And those are the ones who get sent to jail.

569 posted on 12/02/2006 5:53:59 AM PST by Mojave
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To: Mojave; Bozo
Mojoke rants:

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.

570 posted on 12/02/2006 8:36:55 AM PST by tpaine (" My most important function on the Supreme Court is to tell the majority to take a walk." -Scalia)
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To: A CA Guy
Great, the libertarians that brought us Democrat control of Congress

LOL
You brought Democrat control of congress.
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571 posted on 12/04/2006 9:24:00 AM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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To: mugs99
LOL
You brought Democrat control of congress.


If I had voted for a third party in a major election or outright voted Democrat you would be right. Fact is I voted Republican in the main election, so I did not cause Democrats to gain control as Democrats and people who voted for third parties always do.
572 posted on 12/06/2006 11:45:22 AM PST by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

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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573 posted on 12/07/2006 9:26:14 AM PST by mugs99 (Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.)
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