2. Every draconian law ever passed in this country for the past century has been "for the children." "For the children" has replaced "protecting white womanhood" as the excuse for politicians to pass the most asinine, moralistic laws.
I still don't want to be on the road, flying anything with "legally" stoned people, anymore than I want to be with those intoxicated fools.
Pot prohibition is a good example of that. " We must protect our fair daughers from the black jazz musicians and the Mexican migrants. They smoke that pot and go on murdering, raping rampages! It turns them into MONSTERS!!" A campaign of absoloutely false, racist propoganda started this "drug war" and people are wondering why it can't be won? Typical.
Tobacco prohibition is next. The handwriting in on the wall.
I was about to verbally lash out at someone on this thread who pulled the "it's for the chillll-drennnn" excuse out of their hat.
I consider "it's for the chillll-drennnn" to be on par with "it's in the name of public safety" when it comes to cheap excuses for the expansion of tyranny in society.
I'm sure Robispierre, Hitler, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot justified their crimes in the name of "public safety" in some form or another.