Posted on 05/06/2002 8:14:39 AM PDT by Mo1
Well gee I am sure that pipe bomber thought he was an Individualists .. should we make that legal too???
Loddy, I agree there are A LOT of stupid laws but I also think that some law are necessary .. just because we are I N D I V I D U A L S! does not mean that we can just walk around and do whatever we want to ..
We are a land with laws that yes were also around when the Founding Fathers Started this Great Nation
I do like the commercial that has the thirty year old guy in the upstairs of his parents home yelling downstairs about how he can get a job next week.
Then he lights a joint and sighs about how drugs never hurt him....
Reminds me of a few people.
Oops...you're not Baptist....
I am not trying to make light of Val's dilemma, or Mo's FUTURE problems, but I DO believe that ultimately, the only person who can keep you away from drugs, is the person that you see in the mirror. (Excepting Dracula Val, of course)
And since the Gov't has made a MOCKERY of the Bill of Rights, ALL of it in the name of fighting drugs, then you don't have to be a genius to see that they didn't have these kinds of problems when drugs were legal, and there was no profit motive in them for kids to pursue.
But since law enforcement now gets to keep part of what they take from unconvicted forfeiture victims, there IS a large motivation for the establishment to CONTINUE the drug war. All in the name of helping the kids.
Answer me this... we represent most of the area of the U.S. here on this thread. Is there ANY part of our reading area, where you CAN'T get illegal drugs?? If not, then the ONLY thing the drug war has accomplished, is to make felons out of about 10 million people, and to raise the prices on the drugs, further enticing profit motivated people. Oh, and it also spawned about a million more federal employees and countless ones at the state and local level.
Because many have not earned the trust
Those who are willing to trade essential Liberty for temporary security deserve neither.
Oh, so Individuals have to EARN their rights now??
What the heck??? ... so you think pipe bombs going off in mail boxes and injurying people are ok???
TRUST = RESPECT and NO many have not earned that
and please stop putting words in my mouth .. you have been doing that ALL day
There you go again, writing another law, and using the power of the Gov't to enforce your preferences...
Writing a law doesn't make it wrong. Ask the people who peacefully used drugs for ten thousand years. You seem to forget, this prohibitionist movement spawned by Collectivists, is a relatively NEW concept, started within the lifetime of people still living.
Even the freaking PURITANS didn't outlaw drugs... And I bet you they could tell you a thing or two about having a repressive Collective society being against you too. They APPRECIATED their INDIVIDUAL rights that they had sailed across the ocean for three months, to achieve.
SOCIETY doesn't have to accept anything, and that is usually how people conduct themselves, based on what is acceptable to society.
But that STILL doesn't give the Gov't the right to prohibit our use of substances, or to decide what is 'acceptable,' according to my copy of the Constitution.
Heck if I know .. he seems to be jumping back in forth .. reminds me of the conversations I have with my mother .. lol
I made a point to say that the "war on drugs" is stupid and there are a lot of stupid laws about drugs .. I just don't thing that drugs should be legal
Just name one.....
This better be good....
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