Posted on 06/11/2010 11:39:21 AM PDT by Mozilla
Seeing that George Soros and Sting are working together to end the drug war puts me in mind of a story an Army buddy who works in the DEA told me about busting in the door of a drug house only to find three occupants the oldest four years old, having been left in charge while his parents went out to score meth. Yeah, drug use is a victimless crime if you ignore the victims.
Apparently not content to subsidize the whining of the nonentities at Media Matters, Soros is taking a break from his adventures in currency manipulation and general scuzziness to enlist entertainment celebrities like Sting in his newest quest. The Drug Policy Alliance is the result, a group whose members, as its founder puts it, come from across the drug use spectrum. Yes, the junkies, stoners, hopheads, dope fiends, pill-poppers, and Lindsay Lohan are unanimous: Drug laws are bad, and its probably BusHitlers fault.
The threshold problem with comments by Sting such as, The war on drugs represents an extraordinary violation of human rights, is that Sting presumably not only believes this piffle, but further believes that he can put down his bass and offer meaningful input into the discussion. This assumption of competence is a common delusion among celebrities, and here it has more potential for damage than most mindless celebribabble.
Now, Sting is not alone no one in that clip says anything worthwhile. One woman, who is bald for no apparent reason, states that The War on Drugs is a war on people of color, as if Americans decided they would outlaw crack because they fear that black people might enjoy themselves.
(Excerpt) Read more at bighollywood.breitbart.com ...
There are many conservative who are opposed to legalizing drugs, but nevertheless believe the current ‘war on drugs’ is stupid, oppressive, and counterproductive.
They’re not sure exactly what we ought to do instead, but would like to explore alternatives.
At last!
The “opiate for the masses” can be Opiates for the Asses!
Your response seems reasonable, thoughtful, and balanced. It has no place in a thread about the WOD!
If they offered any alternatives, I'd listen. But I've heard none other than legalizing and taxing, decriminalizing and looking the other way. I'm more of the "cut off the head and the snake will die" school myself; kill the top people who produce and distribute the crap, and as far down the food chain as necessary. Starting with Soros himself would be a public service!
Alternatives, PLEASE!
I am increasingly convinced that the war on drugs, like the wars on poverty and terror, are being fought so as never to be won. That way the government budgets and the restrictions on freedom always grow, never wither....
cause........like......you don’t go to Tea Parties when you’re stoned, man......like, ya dig?
Would you support their 10th Amendment prerogative to enact the policy without fedgov interference? Or, would you support fedgov shutting it down under authority of the Commerce Clause?
How about the constitutional alternative - let the States decide intrastate drug policies and have fedgov butt out. You don't support the New Deal Commerce Clause, do you?
Sting is extremely disciplined and intelligent. He can toke up now and then and take ayahuasca which he has. He helped popularize it. Others that take drugs and don’t have that discipline.... They will destroy themselves and others and their children possibly
Sting has just made it more cool for teens to take drugs too. Something I’m sure he prohibits his own children from doing
I'm not at all fond of the Commerce Clause, but until it is repealed or amended it is the law, just like the first, second and fifth amendments. As far as I'm concerned the fewer things the Feds have a hand in, the better.
Having all the druggies flee to the "tolerant" states has much to be said for it, until it happens to MY state!
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