Obviously not everyone is going to agree with all the laws that are passed, but they are still the laws of our nation.
The many comments on WOD threads in favor of the state sponsored terrorism of the DEAmen and their ilk...
We live in a nation of 300 million people where 24 hour news stations love to overly dramatize everything.
There are unquestionable instances where the DEA and other government agencies have overstepped the bound of the law in the war on drugs. However, despite the real seriousness of such cases, they are still relatively rare. There are also a lot of instances where the press or individuals misrepresent things to fan the flame of anger people have over the war on drugs.
"The unlawful use of or threatened use of force or violence against individuals or property to coerce or intimidate governments or societies, often to achieve political, religious, or ideological objectives."--FBI definition of terrorism.
Well other than the relatively rare serious abuse of authority, the actions of the DEA aren't unlawful. A number of the laws they enforce are arguably misguided, and I don't personally understand how some of the property confiscation laws are constitutional, but they are the law.
DEA agents aren't terrorists. They aren't targeting innocent people. They are targeting people who are breaking the laws that were passed by our representatives.
Your overblown hyperbole doesn't serve your cause well.
Your approach also seems to insult or belittle those who oppose your views rather than to provide information and reasoning that supports your views.
Once again, it doesn't serve your cause well.
The lack of results in a generations long civil war(WOD) relegates all action taken by the government as significant only for the TERROR that it inflicts upon the citizenry in effort to control their appetites.
The problem with that statement is it is the citizenry that elects the representatives that make the drug laws, and with the exception of medical use exclusions, our drug laws have widespread support among the citizenry.
Since many of these laws have the support of the majority of people, your claims of terrorism detracts from your credibility. Reports of abuse by the DEA sound like rantings of anarchists rather than serious governmental abuse of its citizens.
Not a Constitutionally mandated federal power!
I have some level of agreement with you on that point. I believe that the commerce clause has been horribly abused to unconstitutionally extend the authority of the federal government that should not be possible without a constitutional amendment. However, it you take a serious look at the past popularity of the war on drugs with the majority of the populations (despite strong opposition by a sizable minority), I think if the Federal government's regulation of drugs had been found unconstitutional, it is likely that the support for a constitutional amendment was there.
The DEAmen are the Taliban of America.
The Taliban is a brutal and oppressive minority that murdered people for little to no reason, supported men treating women as property with no real rights, and denied people basic human rights. They also supported and harbored those that murdered thousands of Americans on 9/11.
You're comparing them to a government agency that enforces our nations laws that prohibit your recreational use of drugs.
The moral depravity of your statement is appalling.
It is people like you that are the worst enemy of the legalization of Marijuana.
If you feel insulted it can only be that you identified with some misguided group I have righteously chastised in my service to the Lord.
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Christ, afterall, is the Prince of Peace.
You repeatedly support the tyranny of the majority in your statements proving that you are not a Republican. The law of the land is the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. They limit the powers of the government to those which are enumerated and control over dietary law is not an enumerated power because it has always been the purview of the church, not the state. The DEA, regardless of actions, is a murderous abomination masked in mystery and black armor sucking off the teat of a harlot. It is responsible for more death than the inquisition. It is a duty for freedom loving Republicans to prevent government from imposing upon individuals, through force and coercion, arbitrary puritanical beliefs particularly when they are contrary to established religious facts, beliefs and scripture. Only in this way can we assure the freedom of religion envisioned in this nations’ founding.
Bear in mind this sacred principle, that
though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail,
that will to be rightful must be reasonable;
that the minority possess their equal rights,
which equal law must protect,
and to violate would be oppression."
--Thomas Jefferson