Posted on 12/14/2005 9:27:54 PM PST by Mojave
The George Soros-funded campaign to legalize marijuana has run into a problem. Joseph Smith, convicted and sentenced to death for the abduction, rape and murder of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia, has been exposed as a pothead. In an unsuccessful ploy to spare his life, his attorneys argued that he was a drug addict, used drugs on the occasion of the Brucia murder, and began his involvement with drugs by smoking marijuana. It looks like marijuana didn't have many "medical benefits" in this case.
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Hey, everything old is new again. And so it goes.
A parade to the gas chamber, electric chair, firing squad or gallows I will happily join.
If this turd had smoked pot that day he would have never kidnapped and murdered this girl. Perhaps his impulse came because he had STOPPED smoking it.
This article just makes the WoD look even stupider and more desperate being so clearly illogical and flying in the face of facts.
I bet he drank a lot of alcohol too. We banning that next?
I guess I can assume you guys don't want to be added to the "Potheads for Bush" pinglist?
"WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
Transcendentally Soros.
This guy's already one beyond-twisted sicko for raping and killing Carlie. Fortunately, 12 sane members of society determined that not only did he do it, he's also a menace to society.
Now, $oro$ and his Nutty lawyers on the Left are working overtime trying to excuse his behavior on the grounds that he was stoned into next week when he commited this heinous crime?
Does being drunk excuse a fatal DWI? Absolutely not. It shouldn't matter whether one was drunk or stoned or whatever. He knew what he was getting into when he decided to use those drugs. Just because he lost his presence of mind while he was Nutty on said voluntary usage of drugs is not a reason to excuse the taking of an innocent life.
It's the bleeding-heart liberals exposing themselves for who they are--apologizers and appeasers who'd let a criminal go free because locking him up or putting him to death is "inhumane" and "unfair."
Couple that with the fact that this thing (calling him an animal would be too kind) is a career criminal, and there is no doubt in my mind that he deserves to die.
Thus in the end, I am forced to conclude that: Stupidity never ceases to amaze me...
This isn't a setback for Soros, not even a blip.
It's been proven a million times that most hard drug users started out with pot. It's also known that a high proportion of criminals are drug users. One more murder won't make a bit of difference. People will still joke about Reefer Madness and laugh at you any time you try to tell them that smoking dope is not a Good Thing, and that it often leads to Worse Things.
We'll see.
What these Liverpool yobbos did, for which I personally will never forgive them, and those who promoted them, is help convince many members of the formerly sensible working classes that marijuana is a great and good thing to smoke, and sacramental in nature.
A. Nothing is good to smoke. Marijuana, in particular is loaded with tars, oils, and many other compounds. When smoked it creates carcinogenous reactions, just like any other chemical fire. If it is legalized, which I personally oppose, but am willing to submit that as an option to the Democratic process, will it be subject to the same laws as tobacco, with the same research behind it? Can it not be taken as a liquid? As a pill? Why is tobacco smoking anathema to those on the Left, who simultaneously agitate for the legitimizing of marijuana, which smoked, is at least equally harmful. The medical rap is that one joint contains more bad things for the body than a couple of packs of Chesterfields.
B. Since marijuana is (also) an hallucinogen, it is not a good idea to mix it with alcohol, formerly, now, and always, consumed in large quantities and with great gusto by the working classes. I dare say if the young working fellows of my acquaintance were to choose one mild hallucinogen, or the other, they would be far more useful to the general good. However, yobbos being yobbos, they do BOTH. Constantly. As a result their productivity is low, their attendance unreliable, and their wits foggy.
C. Marijuana is a "Gateway" drug. Now, I personally know that many marijuana users, particularly those whose parents inflicted some education upon them, stick happily with it. They cheerfully accept the mental deficits it imposes and use it as their recreation. They are by and large harmless (except that their drug use financially fuels the enemies of America, from Fidel to the Fedayeen). However, they are also usually uniformly boring.
By "Gateway" drug, I mean it predisposes people, including myself (who would not dream of indulging) to the tacit acceptance of illegal activity. (in that regard, it is rather like illegal immigration!) In those of insufficient intelligence, it absolutely does lead to use of other drugs. In my experience, those other drugs, in my region, will be Methamphetamines, and Crack Cocaine. Any sociologist who does not believe me, can drop me a line and I'll take them to 5 County Jails, and they can judge for themselves what has happened to the young men and women of this country.
Whatever that is supposed to mean. Do I have to get stoned to understand it?
People don't laugh when told that smoking dope is not a good thing. They laugh at the ridiculous "evidence" used to support that proposition. Such as this article's idiocy that smoking dope turns you into a murderer.
Using this kind of non-logic is the anti-WoSD's best friend.
Backwards.
Soros is the poster boy for all social ills in this world... and he wants to take away my guns. Once I started collecting firearms, I found that pot could not slake my needs, and the wonder of our second amendment took over as the opiate for my life. Nothing like shooting the 10 ring out of a paper target at 50 yds with iron sights on a Cetme.
Was he a pork-eater too? We Jews have always known that pork turns otherwise normal people into homocidal maniacs. And I think I have at least as much correlative evidence as you do to suggest that marijuana turned this man into a killer.
For a better understanding, additional quotes from Jefferson:
Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves.
So if Thomas Jefferson was alive today, who would he accuse of despotism?
In a government bottomed on the will of all, the... liberty of every individual citizen becomes interesting to all.
Law is supposed to support liberty, freedom and choice. Law is not supposed to protect us from ourselves. You have done Thomas Jefferson a grave injustice by trying to promote the nanny state using his words.
Funny, just about everyone I've ever met at a "happy hour" goes there to have a drink or two to "unwind" from the days work, not specifically because they like their beer, or gin and tonic, or the glass of wine they're having. It's to alter their state of conciousness, i.e. get a buzz.
When I have "a beer," it's for the taste, and I only have it with a meal (nothing like a good porter or stout with beef, or a Young's Double Chocolate Stout with a chocolat-y dessert!) just as many wine lovers who only drink wine with a meal, feel the same. But don't kid yourself that the vast majority of even social drinkers aren't having a drink to get a buzz.
Mark
Just because capitalhillblue posts something doesn't mean it's so... If someone would actually admit being at the meeting, and hearing President Bush make that statement, then I'll believe it... Until then, I'll treat it as nothing more than part of the "Bash Bush" media.
Mark
I have heard he had a BLT that morning. Must have been the straw than broke the camel's back.
I can't answer for those on the Left. But I don't think either tobacco or marijuana should be illegal.
Since marijuana is (also) an hallucinogen,
Marijuana is a hallucinogen? Really?
By "Gateway" drug, I mean it predisposes people, including myself (who would not dream of indulging) to the tacit acceptance of illegal activity.
What about underage drinking? Failure to use seatbelts? Jaywalking. I'm not sure I see your point. Does jaywalking leed to a culture of law-breaking as well?
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