Posted on 10/13/2013 6:45:57 AM PDT by Kaslin
Not as long as Obama’s in charge; it’s much more useful - and generates more publicity - to block Washington memorials and close forests.
It’s important for Americans to realize that the police are just a convenience. Every honest, able bodied citizen are the enforcers of the law, and as groups, we even decide guilt or innocence of someone accused of a crime.
As a convenience, the police really only do three things:
1) They clean up after crimes, gathering evidence that can implicate someone in a crime, as well as determining if someone is a victim of crime.
2) Once they have evidence of a crime, and a suspect, they are to doggedly pursue and arrest that suspect.
3) They are a day and night watch for a community. If they see something amiss, they are authorized to do something about it.
So everything the police do beyond these three things is questionable, and should be questioned.
In Viet Nam I worked in a rock quarry for a couple of months. A ‘round’ rock will not crush, they just bounce in the crusher jaws. We’d hire older men and women to break these rocks in half. They used a one or two pound hammer and a chisel. Tap, tap, tap, tap all day long then like magic this four foot across stone would fall in two pieces. It just amazed me that they knew where to place the chisel to crack this monstrous rock.
Very precise analysis.
Color me totally against the war on drugs. Its part of a push to control peoples medical lives, and their food, too. It is no more a mandate of the gov’t to keep me sober and clean than it is for the gov’t to feed me.
War on drugs is behind a gazillion abuses of our constitutional rights on a daily basis.
Also, ending completely the war on drugs would knock out the economic foundations of the gangs, black, biker, and mexican. All those groups are primarily about drugs at the core.
The War on Drugs is a complete waste of time, money, lives, and freedoms.
Want violent crime to go down?
Want property crime to go down?
Want less traffic stops by police? Less daily intrusions?
Want less money spent on the militarization of the police?
Want less money spent on the prison industry?
Want your Constitutional rights restored?
If so, be dead set against the drug war. I am, and I fought in it neck deep for five years.
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