Posted on 03/10/2018 6:20:32 PM PST by mdittmar
MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. (Reuters) - President Donald Trump attacked his critics, promoted his steel and aluminum tariffs and tossed out an idea to have drug dealers face the death penalty, addressing a raucous rally on Saturday for a Republican congressional candidate in a tight race.
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There are posters easily seen everywhere in Singapore proclaiming death penalty to drug dealers. Guess what? Ther is no drug problem in Singapore and every 6th citizen is a millionaire, which is the highest concentration of rich people in the world. Yes, even better than Switzerland.
I will bet dollar to a donut, if such law existed in US, your niece would not be dealing any contraband. But such law will never pass here. Under the umbrella of “freedom” we allow many things which harm many “free” citizens.
Trumps death penalty talk opens door to tougher laws and enforcement. Classic Trump moving an issue from the sidelines to front and center.
I don’t think drugs like marijuana would be on the death penalty list. I couldn’t support that. It’s the meth and heroin dealers that gotta go. Those drugs are destroying communities. Slaps on the wrist aren’t cutting it.
It’s tough to make the case to kill first time street level thugs dealing those drugs, but execute a few of the mid-level traffickers while mixing in some low level repeat offenders and you might start to get somewhere.
These dealers have no fear anymore ... None. I often hear that legalization would solve the problem, but I think, in the case of heroin and meth, that’d generate even more demand, more addicts, and a black market for dirt cheap, potent drugs since the legal ones would be more expensive.
The sources of this garbage need some fear. Until that happens, nothing is going to change.
Obama loved to Pardon Drug Dealers, especially the
ones that used those Evil Assault Weapons while committing their Crimes.
I guess getting another Felon Democrat Voter was worth it.
Whether or not he admits recreational use of drugs is an open question. But there is no doubt he is opposed to the organized government/pharma/criminal enterprise that has been operation for 100+ years. Heroin and opiates are government-controlled business, shared with bad guys around the world.
And bigger balls. To Reagan's defense, he had GHWB as his wingman.
If the penalty was death, I would hope your niece would never have even considered it in the first place.
Nice! Glad you could go in person. What do you think the chances Rick Saccone wins?
I actually don’t know anything about Rick since I live in Eastern PA. I did meet LOU BARLETTA, who Trump is supporting for the Senate. Lou is OUTSTANDING.
I don’t think he meant the death penalty for small dealers of pot, but the big dealers of heroin, meth, and coke, that lead results in deaths.
“Don’t do the crime unless you are willing to pay the price. Dealing drugs is dealing death. You seem OK with that. Shame on you!”
Why stop with dealing dope. What about going after adulterers fornicators, alcoholics or the divorced. Infidelity destroys more families than dope. You can pass all the laws you want and punish the violators to the maximum extent and you won’t stop human nature. And human nature includes a percentage of the population looking for some escape from reality.
We would be better off giving the dope fiends free dope and a place to take it. After a certain point they are a lost cause anyway.
I remember Dwight D. Eisenhower and vaguely Harry S Truman. Both had spines, and while I don’t remember him, I think FDR may have also. That would have made three in a row if my opinion is correct.
If you have never been threatened by a somewhat deranged drug dealer (one I didn’t even know), then you have no idea what you could be up against. Fortunately we put one very sick kid away for a while (hopefully to get some decent mental health help) because he threatened to kill me, my wife (neither of us knew him), my son (who was in the Army), and my daughter (who slightly knew the guy through a friend who was destroying his life on drugs. He’s basically been in jail all his adult life due to drugs).
Too many of my kids’ generation were destroyed by drug use, and some ended up in jail as dealers and thieves.
We have to get serious with the major drug dealers and rings. If it takes the death penalty (against those whose drug providing demonstratively killed people), then so be it.
The cartels killed people in the US and Latin America, until recently, with near impunity. Then we began to go after them and kill them if necessary (not like Obama’s chase and scare policies with ISIS).
Time to clean up the streets, our kids, and our schools. No more Kate Steinle’s, no more streets of Chicago, the cartel gangs of America, etc.
Take out the worst and jail the rest. Your childrens’ lives depend on it.
“Sycophant much? You deal pot? Or just buy it?”
Neither, actually. I simply have zero respect for folks who lack the balls to do their own killing.
You want somebody dead? The step up and do it yourself. If you’re unwilling to do that then sit down and shut the f*** up.
Does that clear thing up for you?
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That is not exactly the kind of drug dealing being discussed. Drug dealing, yes. Your daughter was doing that. But it was pot and it was very minor.
Question: If someone other than your daughter is caught dealing in large quantities of meth or cocaine or heroin how do you feel about the death penalty for dealing drugs?
okay, good! Love your UID btw.. Kay Scarpetta?
Carter in elementary school was my first recollection and that didn’t go so well. :)
Bttt
Be careful before jumping on the death penalty for drug dealing because you never know if jr. Is selling pot or a little bit of Coke or ecstasy at college.
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NOBODY said it was retroactive.
If death penalty the law do you think she still would have done it. AND if she had she is taking the chance of getting caught.
LIBS are the ones that want to be able to ‘pick & choose’ which laws to obey or not.
Breaking the law is breaking the law, be it murder, illegal alien, drug dealer, spit on the sidewalk if the law there is a chance you will receive the maximum sentence. If a few pot sales is worth risking the chair for, shame on the stupid person that is dealing.
Sort of like pleading mercy for the Mendenez Bros because they were orphans.
BUT they were orphans because THEY killed their parents.
And many of the drug addicts your niece pimped drugs to are also dead, instead of helping.
Why is your perp more valued than her victims??
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