Posted on 09/03/2002 7:41:56 AM PDT by JediGirl
It's because of the frequency of this outcome, where the police are using over-the-line martial law tactics, that so many of us are outraged and calling for a stop to this egregious violation of our basic rights as Americans.
I understand that federal law prohibits drug use, and to that end, LEOs are obligated to do what they can to stop it. But think for a minute if this type of approach isn't just courting disaster every time it's employed.
I've never done a drug in my life and don't generally associate with those who do. If for some reason the police startled me from my sleep by ramming through my door at 3 in the morning, you better believe I'm gonna have a loaded Mossberg in my hand.
Under those circumstances, am I going to take the time to process whether this is a police raid (why would the police be raiding me?) or thugs breaking in to kill me and rape my wife?
This is the most laughable of the tactics du jour in the war on drugs.
You know where terrorists get their money? U.S. taxpayers. That's right... you and me, whether we like it or not. Between 1994 and 1998 the U.S. government (aka American taxpayers) gave $500 million in aid to the Palestinians.
Now John Walters and the ONDCP has the audacity to tell us that pot smokers ought to be ashamed because they're funding terrorism. That's beneath contempt!
While we're on the nanny state bandwagon, let's make a list of people killed with guns and you can give us you're profound and more-right-than-the-rest-of-us reasons for banning guns also, because they kill people you know.
It was an is against the law, too. What they warrant is prison, where we've got a lot of them and intend to put more of them every day until this complete disregard of the law stops.
Why is it that you and your kind can never give anythinng close to a reasoned and civilized answer. You must have nothing of merit on your side of the argument. It's a really transparent show of desperation.
Laws that violate basic concepts of freedom and justice need to be repealed and anyone who speaks out in favor of that is fully justified.
If your state passed a law that mandated you to house a homeless person for four weeks a year, that would be injust and you'd be right to argue against it, resist it, and/or ignore it if you could.
Lest you think this is a hypothetical scenario, you don't know some of the most notorious liberal politicians very well.
That must be almost painful.
If the government passed a law that said I have to share my home with the homeless or that I have to donate part of my land to charity, you better believe I'd fight that kind of government violation of rights even if I wasn't a homeowner or landowner.
The mark of an infantile personality is when you're only willing to do something because it benefits you directly. That seems to be where you're coming from. Some of us operate on that higher plain of human civility known as principles.
Of course, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see your infantile personality. Why is it that you and your pro-WOD buddies here can never make your case with facts, logic, reason, and civility? You always have to resort to personal attacks, baseless allegations, and outright slander.
You're only demonstrating how little merit your position has, so I guess I should welcome that behavior.
I'd like to see the law changed to reflect an American sense of justice. Haven't you been paying attention?
Do you think trying to change the law is so wrong? It's one of the founding priniciples of the Constitution, so if you think I'm wrong for wanting to change the law, tell me what other parts of the Constitution you'd like to throw out.
There's nothing wrong with the people of those countries drafting laws that reflect their notion of justice.
When you use the term socialist, you're doing so merely to be pejorative, and you're absolutely wrong in implying that it's only socialists who want to reform drug laws.
If we're going to resort to ridiculous generalizations, then I'll say only Fascists and Nazis and their dupes support the war on drugs.
Have you ever been to any of those countries? Do you know anything about them other than what your buddies at the garage gripe about?
Those countries (which I have been to) aren't as socialist as you think, but to the degree they are, it's because the majority of people support that kind of government. It has nothing whatsoever to do with legalizing drugs. Only a hopeless idiot would make that allegation.
You're so blindly determined to stop people from smoking pot in their own home (which is worse, socialism or fascism?) that you construct this stupid, desperate theory that there's some kind of alliance between socialism and drug marijuana legalization. That's moronic.
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