Posted on 10/05/2007 7:17:45 AM PDT by cryptical
Hey, even bureaucrats have to eat.
“John Walters, still slinging the bull”
I want some of what the drug czar’s smoking!
Is the author suggesting that we legalize heroin, meth and cocaine so those drugs can kill more people -- maybe even catch up to alcohol?
What a maroon.
Uh, yeah. That's why it's called Civil Asset Forfeiture. If they were charged with a crime, it would be Criminal Asset Forfeiture.
What a maroon.
I love the inner city analogy...the only thing black kids have to aspire to is pro sports or drug dealing.
Stop the WOD & legalize drugs.
Voila, the black kids then only have pro sports to improve their lives.
See, making drugs legal solves the inner city black kids!
Yes. We could legalize drunk driving. Arrest the drunk driver only if he harms someone or damages property. Drunk driving, like drug use, harms no one. Right?
Nor murder, burglaries, rapes, prostitution, etc. No reason to throw in the towel and legalize those activities.
I seem to recall that the urban lifestyle was pretty darn barren during the Great Depression, but I don't recall reading that pro sports and drug dealing were the only way out.
I believe the solution back then was to GET A JOB. Perhaps that would work today.
No, the author is suggesting that the drug war isn’t about “protecting” people at all - it’s about increasing the power of the state.
Free man will sometimes make bad choices. Those may be tragic, but that does not mean the state has a right to make choices for everyone.
What was it George Carlin used to say?... Just give us the pot. ;-)
Care to focus that list on marijuana and call for another show of hands?
I hope you wore your kevlar today...and a spittle shield. Common sense and WOD threads do not mix.
If true, it's a lousy way to do it. If people stopped doing recreational drugs, the state would have no power.
The author didn't. Why should I?
They'd just pull an ATF, and figure out something else to regulate.
Only the government is allowed to seize assets without civil trial. If anyone else tried to do what our government does routinely they would be tried and convicted of armed robbery. Drug warriors have made the US a police state where guilt or innocence is decided at the whim of police.
Constitutional protections like presumption of innocence until proved guilty, and trial by a jury of your peers have been destroyed by the drug war. Welcome to the Soviet States of America where everything that is not prohibited, is compulsory.
The drug war is lost. Time to cut our losses and spend money elsewhere, like sealing the border.
The potency of narcotics today is a direct result of the prohibition policies set forth in the middle of the last century. Just like moonshine during prohibition, if alcohol were illegal, you'd see a black market in 180 proof booze as the standard. But with a freedom based model, people are free to make their own choices, good or bad, without tying up the courts and law enforcement going after potheads and crack addicts.
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