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He Rides A White Horse wrote: I have a friend whose daughter is giving her a really hard time. This kid stood up in the school cafeteria and announced that she was going home to smoke pot, and that she had a plant. Within a short time, the police went to my friends house and upended EVERYTHING in her place. That may have been to the tipping point for me. My friend is straight as an arrow. She was crying and shaking. Coming apart.
You've revealed yourself, statist thug. You apparently believe that the Drug War Stasi should be able to toss the homes of law-abiding citizens if their minor children lose control of themselves in public.
You know, a minor child, as in "not responsible for themselves, or the things that come out of their mouths".
The fact that people have to live in fear of this sort of thing is testament to the fact of the American Police State.
And you're its cheerleader....
The really tragic thing is that there are some passionate and well meaning conservatives that don't understand why liberals don't back ending the War on Drugs. They love the Police State architecture it provides. They'd support it if it was a War on Potpourri, Hip Hop music or LoLcat photos. What they gain far outstrips what they lose.
Not that we are any better. Rather than trust to education, personal responsibility and the basic notion that freedom is worth the occasional mess, many conservatives prefer the idea of a stomping a boot on the necks of people they consider sinners.
All well and good, until the liberals shift the laws a little more, and the boot winds up on FReeper necks for 'extremist website viewing'. Liberals think that conservatism is a sin, and lucky for us, we're already in the buisness of the government policing your soul.
The War on Drugs, at best, is conservatives pandering to old Puritan instincts instead of the wisdom of the Founding Fathers, and at worst, is a mechanism for liberals to enforce political control, once they finally seize power for good.
So it goes with group "B", "C" and so on. I say it with all seriousness. We are a fledgling totalitarian state. I can't believe that some people here can't see it coming. We got the memo from Homeland Security, don't they remember? Might as well call that memo, "Mein Kampf". We were warned in advance.
Sorry, it should have read, “small minority”.
I'm a staunch supporter of the war on drugs. What am I? Reagan was a staunch supporter of the war on drugs also. What was he?
Actually, most of my friends smoke the mellow, and most of them are conservatives, they believe no one represents them. I am a liveaboard sailor and my friends are all cruisers, your mileage may vary from my demographics... ;)