Posted on 08/15/2006 5:24:59 PM PDT by Coleus
Sophistry persists.
Amusing grammar. Must be recreational cocktail time at Guy's pulpit. -- The WOD's somehow equals liberty?
At the time of the Constitution we has slavery and (gasp) we ended it as well.
Yep, -- just as we should end the 'war', - gasp.
You are not going to get much sympathy for drugs and in no way would people raise it to the level of a liberty....
No one hear wants "sympathy" for drugs. We want to be free of unconstitutional prohibitory 'wars' on our liberties.
People being free of overseas and home grown drug dealers, addicts and abusers to enjoy their lives is much closer to being free for far more people, yes!
Are you lecturing to us about 'abuse' Guy, -- when you can't even compose rational sentences?
Amen.
I think you are wrong.
The twenty-first amendment reversed the idiocy of alcohol prohibition. This came about because the lawlessness and corruption finally became so overwhelming that there was little to do but surrender to the fact that people will behave in an immoral fashion and there are limits to what a free people can do about it.
Hurricane Katrina demonstrated pretty clearly what happens when what few constraints there are on lawlessness disappear. The New Orleans Police were looting the stores.
Think of all the inner city areas that YOU would not enter because you KNOW that the gangsters rule there and that you would be easy pickings for the criminals. As long as the War on Some Drugs continues, these areas will continue to expand and their impact during emergencies will be even greater.
Another article just posted relates an Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals decision to uphold the confiscation of more than 100 thousand dollars in cash with no evidence of drug involvement whatever. Soon that number will drop to 50 thousand, 10 thousand, and who knows how low the amount will go.
When I was in the military we were forced to account for any amount over $200. The future of the War on Some Drugs looks pretty bleak to me. Please convince me that we are making any progress and just what the country will be like when this War is "won". I hope that you don't have to destroy the village to save it.
tee hee. No kidding. Oh well, I guess that would be one way to make the gov. sit up and hear the proposal.
What do you mean. I am intrigued. Do you mean by the length of time someone would receive or something else.
Thats a Fact. But it would be fun to see what they would come up with. But if they were smart, those funds could go into rehabs for people at greatest risk from addiction.
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