And I am continously amazed at the self described conservative that would spend time arguing for the legalization of something that would further cause the downfall of this nation. I agree that drug laws are perhaps not the best path to take. However, the drug laws are there for a reason. We live in a society today that would disgust the Founders. I see quotes from Paine constantly about our freedoms (and every once in awhile from Jefferson) but there were 53 other men that signed the Constitution. Some grudgingly, because they felt that too much power was going to the federal government, but that's another argument. With the exception of 2 or 3 more these men were avid Christians(M.E. Bradford's Founding Fathers and several other documented instances) and NONE OF THESE MEN never truly considered that the nation they were writing this wonderful document for would come to the point it is now.
You scream for freedom, but would refuse to accept the documented medical evidence of what most illicit drugs do to the body, refuse to accept the documented social evidence of the affects it has on families, and refuse to accept the evidence before our very eyes of what this nation has become. A squalid 'do what I want and you better not get in my way because it's what I want to do' pit. Pro-drug advocates would argue that if drugs were to become illegal that crime would drop, the government would come out of recession from the taxes, and that over time drugs would become as commonplace and used much in the same way as alcohol. Well, for those that don't look at the world through rose colored glasses and see the human race as it really is, drug legalization is not a valid option.
[W]e have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. . . . Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.--John Adams, President of the United States
This quote probably sums up what our nation should be and what I would fight for to my death that it can be.
And I am continously amazed at the self described conservative that would spend time arguing for the legalization of something that would further cause the downfall of this nation.
Does not agree with this:
I agree that drug laws are perhaps not the best path to take.
Your pathetic attempt to justify the harassment, inprisonment and murder of peaceful people can't even make it past two sentences before you contradict yourself. Your haste to warn us all of the great "drug boogyman" help blinds you to the reality that your WOD has marked the path for the taking of all our liberties. You are so blinded, but not completely absent from reality since you did state that "drug laws may not be the way to go". But your stubbornness outweighs comon sense in insisting on "stopping" "drugs", although you still seem to think drug laws are not the answer. You are confused, to say the least.
The rest of your knee-jerk reactionism was just as lame.