End the War on Drugs and you end 90% of the justification for these unspeakable savages. I know they'll come up with other reasons (like unpaid student loans), but taking away the War on Drugs will go a long way towards pulling the carpet out from under their feet.
A classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Reading Ann Coulter's latest book regarding the "mob", the para-military units that have overrun our police and fire departments (yes, Austin FD has a "Regional Strike Force" and a "Special Operations Battalion") in my opinion, are yet another manifestation of the liberals trying to destroy the system so that We The People no longer trust, rather now detest and are repulsed by government law enforcement.
I wonder how long it will be before we hear of IEDs used routinely as perimeter defense against such offensive police action.
I have no reason to expect such a raid on my home, yet in the event of having to relocate, it is now a security decision to not only know the neighborhood, but also the history of the existing property. For example, say I was to look at some property owned by what appears to be a well compensated executive, if his child was black-sheep or if he himself managed to irritate an OIG over some pittance, even though he has long sold the house and is living in another part of the country, we know that government can't be bothered with any level of recon or simply confirming the address. Do I now have to sleep in clothes suitable for being hog-tied in while out on the front lawn for half the day as thugs ransack the home looking for the previous occupant?
It would seem that architects would have a new specialty to offer, and that is designs of a home that would stymie the thugs efforts to get to the owners and their children quickly, affording the owner time to call for legal representation (since obviously the criminals engaged in the lethal violence against you are on the other end of 911)
Now we can design labyrinth entryways with water features. Master bedrooms as strong rooms. Window designs intended to withstand teargas rounds fired at them, fence work and landscaping designed to injure the fast moving intruder coming at night. Will we need to string up piano wire in our hallways as a inexpensive last resort to protect us from being beaten into a coma, gunned down, or at the least thrown out in the front lawn in something we would never be seen in public?
Your neighbors voted for this demonic crap, now we have to live like Jews in Nazi Germany or Christians in present day Nigeria, or white farmers in Zimbabwe. Its Mogadishu because our politicians hate us and know we hate them, and now have a military guard to protect them and harass us.
See #44. The Law of Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head again.
You just posted an excellent analysis but I don’t see how it backs up your first line about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a Legalization Libertarian. But I see us in a constitutional crisis of the first magnitude and I think emergency steps are called for to reign in the power of the Thugocracy formerly known as USA, power that you so skillfully describe.
One way to reign in that power is to start legalizing things.
The fewer laws, the less justification for murdering civilians to enforce the laws.
And the one set of laws that has been consistently used to build, support, arm, equip, train and mandate this growing army of Mogadishu Thugs is the collective set of laws against drugs.
I say legalize every single g-d drug tomorrow and start laying off cops and auctioning off their toys.
>> End the War on Drugs and you end 90% of the justification for these unspeakable savages. I know they’ll come up with other reasons (like unpaid student loans), but taking away the War on Drugs will go a long way towards pulling the carpet out from under their feet.
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>A classic case of throwing the baby out with the bath water.
No, it isn’t.
The War on Drugs has not added, and cannot add, to the fundamental securities of the citizen. Here’s why: the whole idea is founded on the idea that the Federal government CAN regulate substances [drugs], EXCEPT there is no Constitutional authority for it to do so, even the corrupt judiciary’s beloved ‘precedence’ [*spit*] shows this in that Prohibition *REQUIRED* a Constitutional amendment to authorize just such a regulation against just such a substance.
Therefore, the War on Drugs is fundamentally at odds with our Constitution.