So we caused all this when we started the war on drugs. He sounds like a liberal making victims out of everyone but the addicts and criminals. Where is the personal responsibility in this article? Lets hear from the libertarian potheads.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913772/posts
Look at how peaceful Amsterdam is where drugs are legal?
I guess if we just forget about all the terrorists hell-bent on destroying the USA, and legalize drugs so poor innocent drug addict victims won’t be criminalized, that the world will be a happier place, and rainbows and sunshine will abound, and little butterflies and ladybugs will flutter about happily, and all will be well in the world...
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Oops. Sorry for that trip into Barbie’s Fairytopia. Got a little verklempted reading Doc Paul’s cure for the WOD and the WOT! ;-)
I guess if we just forget about all the terrorists hell-bent on destroying the USA, and legalize drugs so poor innocent drug addict victims won’t be criminalized, that the world will be a happier place, and rainbows and sunshine will abound, and little butterflies and ladybugs will flutter about happily, and all will be well in the world...
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Oops. Sorry for that trip into Barbie’s Fairytopia. Got a little verklempted reading Doc Paul’s cure for the WOD and the WOT! ;-)
My god, what an imbecile!
He’s right about the drug war. He’s so very wrong that there is a strong parallel between it and the war between Islamofacism and the rest of the world. In the first case, the root causes are the human desire for intoxication that in some cases turns terribly destructive, plus the government’s willingness to make war on its own citizens to try to stomp it out.
In the second case, there’s a violent, expansionist religious sect that has been able to use oil money to export itself around the world and wage war on modern civilization. I don’t see the comparison.
Ron Paul just won the Straw Poll here in Oregon.
What is wrong with my fellow Oregonians?
Anyone know if Paul has won any other straw polls?
I am inclined to agree with Ron Paul on this.
Bump!!
Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.
-—George W. Bush
Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI)
http://www.saag.org/papers3/paper287.html
isi, saudi arabia, cia, mi6 - Google Search
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=isi,+saudi+arabia,+cia,+mi6&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
PINR - Iran’s Territorial Disputes with its Caspian Sea Neighbors
http://www.pinr.com/report.php?ac=view_printable&report_id=499&language_id=1
Every nation in every region now has a decision to make. Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.
-—George W. Bush
Milton Friedman is a tree hugging pot head. I hate liberals like Milton Friedman.
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/45/337.html
What a liberal puke!
http://www.druglibrary.org/SCHAFFER/Misc/friedm1.htm
William Buckley is a hippie freak that wants to sell dope to your kids. I hate liberals like William Buckley.
http://www.nationalreview.com/12feb96/drug.html
What a bunch of losers Buckley and Friedman are. They are just a bunch of dope addicts hiding behind principles like “small government” and “individual liberty”. Nobody here believes in those concepts anymore anyway.
I think we should bring back alcohol prohibition. It worked so well the first time.
AND NOW, FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, if the wise and learned philosophers of the elder world, the first observers of nutation and aberration, the discoverers of maddening ether and invisible planets, the inventors of Congreve rockets and Shrapnel shells, should find their hearts disposed to enquire what has America done for the benefit of mankind?
Let our answer be this: America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government. America, in the assembly of nations, since her admission among them, has invariably, though often fruitlessly, held forth to them the hand of honest friendship, of equal freedom, of generous reciprocity.
She has uniformly spoken among them, though often to heedless and often to disdainful ears, the language of equal liberty, of equal justice, and of equal rights.
She has, in the lapse of nearly half a century, without a single exception, respected the independence of other nations while asserting and maintaining her own.
She has abstained from interference in the concerns of others, even when conflict has been for principles to which she clings, as to the last vital drop that visits the heart.
She has seen that probably for centuries to come, all the contests of that Aceldama the European world, will be contests of inveterate power, and emerging right.
Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be.
But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy.
She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all.
She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.
She will commend the general cause by the countenance of her voice, and the benignant sympathy of her example.
She well knows that by once enlisting under other banners than her own, were they even the banners of foreign independence, she would involve herself beyond the power of extrication, in all the wars of interest and intrigue, of individual avarice, envy, and ambition, which assume the colors and usurp the standard of freedom.
The fundamental maxims of her policy would insensibly change from liberty to force....
She might become the dictatress of the world. She would be no longer the ruler of her own spirit....
[America’s] glory is not dominion, but liberty. Her march is the march of the mind. She has a spear and a shield: but the motto upon her shield is, Freedom, Independence, Peace. This has been her Declaration: this has been, as far as her necessary intercourse with the rest of mankind would permit, her practice.
John Quincy Adams on U.S. Foreign Policy
Right, the war on drugs has been highlighted by one success after another. Hardly anyone smokes hemp products anymore and anyone with half a brain can see that cocaine use is almost non existent especially crack cocaine use in the ethnic community. Thankfully, the drug turf wars are finally over and ‘drive by’ hasn’t become a part of the everyday lexicon. We should all be thankful that ‘the gubbiment’ was able to accomplish all of that without resorting to infringing upon the liberties of the average law abiding citizens. I’m sure glad that Bendovr and all the other concerned Freepers agree that RP had his tinfoil hat on backwards when he said that the war on drugs wasn’t working. Why, even a blind man can see that the WOD has worked perfectly just as advertised. Yeah, ol’ RP is just another moonbat that refuses to acknowledge reality.
No pothead here, but yes, I support legalizing drugs. As a matter of who owns their own body - the individual or ...?
I disagree with Paul in seeing drug use as a disease. Individuals choose to use drugs, or quit using drugs. The disease metaphor helps them deflect responsibility for for their choice.
The 'war on terror' is clearly a notion derived from the idea of a war on drugs. Declaring war on terror means nothing. It could mean anything. It doesn't identify the particular faction of terror. It doesn't identify the nationality. While we talk about the war on terror, our borders remain open. Islamic extremists build mosques in America with State Department blessings. Saudi money influences American politics at every level. Whole regions of the planet are off limits to our troops in fighting this war on a word.
We've truly lost our way, and the mistaken thinking does actually appear to have emerged from the feckless yet incredibly destructive 'war on drugs.'