I DID follow your “argument” with Dead Corpse. My question stands.
Also, Buckley advocated decriminalization of HEROIN, not just pot. Was he Conservative or Libertarian?
Rush, it was alleged, went doctor-shopping for his pain meds. Trust me, I KNOW how it feels. I don’t have an addiction but I would not want to not have my pain meds when I need them.
Intentionally taking drugs for recreational purposes is, well, recreation. Tobacco, alcohol, pot, whatever. It is also no legitimate business of the state. At the LOCAL level, perhaps a city could regulate PUBLIC BEHAVIORS while intoxicated, much as they do now. But please point out to me where a war on some drugs is either Conservative or Constitutional. Keeping the Tenth Amendment in mind, please be extremely specific as to where that authority is located.
As for “every true believer,” I suspect that they, like some “conservatives,” are more interested in control over others’ lives than in seeing the State wither away and die. The State is their security, just as it is yours; neither of you could exist without it, without the control it maintains over your life and attempts to maintain over mine and other liberty advocates. I have never met (or heard of) a socialist who thinks at all beyond the all-powerful State. So I’m calling BS on your comment.
Likewise, your brand of “conservative” is deathly afraid of true liberty, where you ARE responsible for your actions, not to the State, but to yourself and your own continued grasp on life itself.
“I DID follow your “argument” with Dead Corpse. My question stands.”
The argument to which I referred was not a quarrel with Dead Corpse. I used the word in the sense of “A process of reasoning; series of reasons: ‘I couldn’t follow his argument.’ ”
My argument was my explanation of why I hold my position. If you had understood that explanation, you would have seen that your question is…well, it’s so bad it’s not even wrong. It has nothing to do with anything I said.
“Also, Buckley advocated decriminalization of HEROIN, not just pot.”
Are you and Dead Corpse the same person? Both of you seem to have trouble locating your caps lock key.
Be that as it may, I read Buckley’s writings for years, and don’t remember him ever advocating the legalization of heroin. Perhaps you have a source for that.
“Rush, it was alleged, went doctor-shopping for his pain meds.”
Well, let us by all means accept the allegations of leftist scum. One might think that if their allegations were true, they would have been able to demonstrate that in court, but let’s not let that get in the way of credulity.
“Intentionally taking drugs for recreational purposes is, well, recreation.”
No, it’s a vice, and it is most certainly the legitimate business of the state.
“But please point out to me where a war on some drugs is either Conservative or Constitutional.”
I don’t feel like letting you introduce that into the conversation just now. However, I will note that a person can hold that recreational use of narcotics should be prohibited without endorsing the constitutionality of any measures now in place.
“So I’m calling BS on your comment.”
Call the library instead. Go get yourself some literature on socialism. Educate yourself.
“Likewise, your brand of “conservative” is deathly afraid of true liberty”
You have no idea what “brand” of conservative I am. You don’t even understand what I said in this one thread.