The guy threatened the ability of the State to extort money from everyone.
I think this is more about tax evasion and power than real harm to real people.
Of course, taxes of some sort are necessary. But It appears to me that the judge is more outraged at the affront to State Power, than he is concerned with “the little people”.
A common situation between the police and drug runners is that confiscations happen from time to time and it is a kind of rough tax because the offenders never get prosecuted or only get slaps on the wrist.
This is supposed to be about right and wrong, but green palm grease makes it easy to forget that.
The idea of a prohibition on substances rather than on behaviors is foreign to the Judeo-Christian background that raised America to such success and blessing in the past.
I’ve seen people play mighty violins from time to time over how addictions got out of hand in the late 19th century and following, but this was also a time when ecclesiastical ministry about the issue was weak. In the meantime forcing it all into the shadows out of the sunlight only let it grow to be worse that it was. We could wish that the 19th century addiction problems were all we had today.
What he said. The Feral Goberment sees this as MUCH worse than murder or baby raping. Can’t allow such a challenge to go unanswered.