Posted on 09/21/2002 5:49:50 PM PDT by Libloather
Liberteens come, and Liberteens go. But they seem to have an awful time with their own (and biggest - maybe only) issue - pot.
As far as anyone can tell, not ONE person has been placed behind bars for smoking pot. But the Liberteens paint an entirely different picture. They claim that HUNDREDS of THOUSANDS are behind bars for smoking.
Can anyone provide any proof either way?
Perjury? Thousands? List 'em...
No silly. Please try to stay on the topic of the thread you started.
Since you changed the subject. Nor was I talking about Bill boinking Hillary,,, or Monica, which he never did have sexual relations with. And when I look closely at a picture of Vince Foster and then at Chelsea, I wonder if Bill boinked Hillary.
Hmmm. Let me grace you with another irrelevancy... in putting someone down, one should use proper grammar.
I know - I blew it. When your post become relevant, I'll let you know - eh?
Doesn't fit the description of the question. Sorry. Please, try again...
The Marxists are still using that example in black neighborhoods to stir up strife and resistence against "The Man."
That doesn't make Harry Anslinger any less of an asshole, and if "the man" can't acknowledge blatant racist laws and do something about them, other than gloat, than "the man" deserves all the strife and resistence that can be brought to bear.
If you want to extrapolate you could if you wanted start championing that people should be imprisoned for buying and selling bird seed that has hemp seeds in it.
It could very well be that in decades past people spent years in prison in some states for possession of marijauna. It would have been rare, and is even rarer (nonexistent) today.
It wasn't too long ago that rape and horse-theft were punishable by death in many states. In fact, in the America of the late 19th Century--a time most pro-dopers remember fondly as the time of great libertarian freedom--there were many, many extremely harsh laws on the books that punished behavior that libertarians cherish today as unalienable rights, e.g., sodomy, adultery, even keeping a business open on Sundays. About the only thing desirable (from a pro-dope point-of-view) was that you could get fried on opium (laudunum), and whacky-tabacky wasn't really on anyone's radar screen yet.
To return to the point of this thread, the army of millions of suffering prisoners-for-dope-alone is an illusion created by pro-dope agitators.
Falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus.
This sight has the 'prisoners of the war on drugs' and their stories. Some seem stories sad, others cruel, others were obviously dealing.
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