Posted on 09/24/2002 6:23:39 PM PDT by StopDemocratsDotCom
Ok, So what's the deal with "5", I have a general idea of what it is but i want specifics. You see it everywhere and in all forms, what the heck is "5"?, other than the number after 4, before 6. Did Freepers start this trend?
Not only are you a psycho stalker, RBAhole, you have a creative imagination as well.
ROFLOL...almost lost a keyboard reading that!
True, but smoking weed in one's house isn't hurting anyone else. Most normal people do not think up ways to hurt others. Many however like a temporary escape from reality. The reason for my comment is that no one I know has any trouble finding drugs.
And I'll say it again, if my tax monies must be spent on behalf of dopers, I want it spent to punish them and make them uncomfortable--not to coddle them and tell them their are poor victims.
I don't have a problem with this view, I'd rather not support anyone who uses drugs with my tax dollars be it alcohol, weed, cocaine, nicotine (lung surgery), unhealthy foods (not a drug but with all the health problems caused by obesity) or crack. But if you didn't have to pay for them to be dopers and there wasn't any socialism, would you be ok with legalizing it? (Btw the drug war costs more than economic costs to society on it, and that includes hard drugs such as crack and meth, marijuana has very little economic costs to society)
I think FreedomFriend's #332 sums up the concerns pretty well from the paleo-con perspective. Speaking for myself, I support the actions of our president and elected representatives on a case-by-case basis. I don't think that support for the war on terror need require unquestioning support for everything the administration wants to do both domestically and abroad. Even in matters of military strategy in the WOT, there is room to ask questions and to disagree. I believe that it is our obligation as citizens to inform ourselves and to hold our elected representatives responsible for the decisions they make. Questioning the prioritizing of Iraq as the next target in the WOT does not automatically mean that the poster is a democrat or a leftist. A representative republic has room for differing opinions.
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