[Rembrandt_fan]

You wrote, "You support a Sin War, plain and simple. Why don't you have the honesty to admit that?"

Honesty isn't the problem here, at least not my problem. I don't advocate a war on drugs out of some sense of righteous indignation fueled by religious fervor. I advocate a war on drugs because the alternative--legalization--is detrimental (at best) to the continuance of a free society. Historically, drug use presages cultural and societal decline. One of the central reasons for the decline of the Islamic caliphate, for example, which enjoyed lit streets and the invention of algebra while London was a Dark Ages morass, was the pervasive use of hashish. Remember the greatness of ancient Chinese civilization? One word: opium. Look it up.

Implementing laws and public policies that either passively allow or publicly endorse destructive individual behaviors has a destructive effect on the political entity as a whole. That's what I've been saying. That's pretty much all I've been saying.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Implementing laws and public policies that either passively allow or publicly endorse destructive individual behaviors has a destructive effect on the political entity as a whole. That's what I've been saying. That's pretty much all I've been saying.

After reading your bio, I can take your post for what it's worth. No disrespect, but you still haven't lost that collective leftist mindset yet, my friend. If anything, I'd say you merely changed sides and now support the statists on the right.

"Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss." And all that.

[mugs99]

Historically, drug use presages cultural and societal decline. One of the central reasons for the decline of the Islamic caliphate, for example, which enjoyed lit streets and the invention of algebra while London was a Dark Ages morass, was the pervasive use of hashish.

Nonsense. The Use of hashish predated the Caliphate and the decline by centuries. The decline was caused when the outlying provinces, beginning with Spain, stopped paying the jizya tribute to the Abbasid caliph. A tax revolt ended the Caliphate, not hashish.

Remember the greatness of ancient Chinese civilization? One word: opium.

Again, nonsense. The Chinese love affair with opium predates the Chinese civilization. The stagnated Chinese civilization, caused by isolationism, fell to Europpean culture.

while London was a Dark Ages morass

That Dark Ages morass was caused by the rise of religious persecution of knowledge, science and infidels.

Implementing laws and public policies that either passively allow or publicly endorse destructive individual behaviors has a destructive effect on the political entity as a whole.

More Mussolini nonsense. Taking a right from one who has taken no right from you has a destructive effect on the freedom of the people as a whole. Our founders knew that and that is why the Constitution gaurantees the right of self determination. That you have to violate that Constitutional right to wage a drug war proves beyond a reasonable doubt that our Constitution means nothing to you.
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