Posted on 06/08/2011 6:37:40 PM PDT by AustralianConservative
I’ve been to Amsterdam and the revolution is a lie. Troubled by the Netherlands failed social experiment on teenagers, however, the Soros-backed Cato Institute and other Woodstock libertarians have been singing the praises of socialist Portugal’s soft-on-drug ethos, and hoping to hell we wouldn’t ask too many critical-thinking questions.
The faithful still claim that crime in Portugal has gone done since their nation went soft on drugs. But what’s gone down is their economy, an economic basket case. Moreover, the Portuguese have a history of fiddling with crime statistics. Or to quote my local newspaper:
A Melbourne woman was murdered in Portugal and her death covered up by police there, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation has found.
Former international model and fashion executive Jacinta Rees was hacked to death with an axe at her cottage in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, two years ago.
Portugal is cool!
But even official statistics can’t hide what I call the peaceful terror that is progressive Portugal. Somehow drug-first libertarians and open-borders libertarians are always missing the bloody stories:
The official data show that in the third trimester of the year (the summer months) violent criminality rose more than 16%, a substantial portion of the overall 10% rise in criminality last year, which concerns the most violent cases.
Portugal is cool!
Drugs Free America Foundation’s Calvina Fay knows:
Studies show Portugal is a classic example of what not to do. Drug-induced deaths in Portugal climbed to 314 in 2007 - significantly more than the 280 deaths recorded when decriminalization started in 2001.
Altogether now: Portugal is cool!
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Well, I am certain every conservative would agree that social behavior can best be shaped by the State. That is why all conservatives support Michelle Obama and the Progressives’ attempt to finally win the War on Obesity. /s
The New Deal was a product of the last depression (and the federal drug war the bastard child of the New Deal). The beltway bureaucrats have learned well that you don't waste a perfectly good crisis.
You're high.
While you were studying fallacies, did you happen to notice one about “oversimplification and exaggeration”?
800,000 is 10% of 300,000,000? or are you extrapolating to those presumably millions of unarrested pot smokers? 10% of the public might be just a wee bit closer to 30,000,000.
So explain your position, it’s a fallacy as well. Yours is a truth because you say so? You’ve no idea you you’re talking Friend.
Husband bought some safes at a government auction; they had been confiscated by authorities in a drug bust. Got them home, opened them and there were some snippets of marijuana in the bottom of one (just residue), and some residue of white powder in the other one. Ah, maybe it was just where some potpourri and powdered sugar got spilled in them. All perfectly innocent I am sure.
Significant? Seriously? The difference between 280 and 314, especially when not controlling for population and immigration variations, strikes me as completely statistically insignificant. Two arbitrarily chosen data points varied by what? 12 percent? Proof of absolutely nothing. What about 2008? What about 2003? Can you demonstrate a trend? Ever studied statistics? Sure doesn't seem so.
It's hard to imagine a greater crime against humanity than sipping a beer at the beach, other than smoking a joint at the beach, of course.
Commies can’t maintain big government with no large manufacturing base and a currency that’s worth squat.
Not all welfare.
Just where it is foreseeable and preventative.
We're entering a depression that may have a powerful effect against vices, bureaucratic thieveries and hyper-interests for global concerns.
Agreed. And when it happens, the drug war and drug warriors will be thrown under the bus.
Now that's going to be popcorn material!
Microgood said that 20-30 million people in the US smoke pot. THAT’s 10% of the population. He said 800K are arrested. I was questioning both points.
Oh, it’s real easy. Smoking a cigarette at the beach. That’s a much greater crime. California made sure it was a TOP priority.
“What war on drugs?”
The one we are wasting billions on
Soros-backed CATO institute? Really now...
I thought I might have been speaking to someone who was intelligent. I see now I was wrong.
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