Posted on 07/01/2014 2:07:11 PM PDT by PoloSec
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The increase in police brutality in this country is a frightening reality. In the last decade alone the number of people murdered by police has reached 5,000. The number of soldiers killed since the inception of the Iraq war, 4489.
What went wrong? In the 1970’s SWAT teams were estimated to be used just a few hundred times per year, now we are looking at over 40,000 military style “knock and announce” police raids a year.
The problem of police militarization is a legitimate threat to the very fabric of a free society.
We are now witnessing the horrible manifestations of this standing army that has been built up around us in the name of throwing people in cages for their personal choices.
Innocent children are now being caught in the violent fodder that is the War on Drugs.
This problem has been staring us right in the face for a long time and up until now, has been being largely ignored.
However, the elephant in the living room has caused so much damage that even the mainstream media is now being forced to cover it.
Because of people out there like you, that share these atrocious stories of police violence, this conversation is being forced into the public debate.
Below is the materialization of your refusal to remain silent in the face of tyrants, give yourself a pat on the back!
bkmk
No, not 1%. Violent crime and thefts have actually gone down 10% in Denver (#1 city for legal pot) when directly compared to the exact same time period before legalization. http://www.denvergov.org/Portals/720/documents/statistics/2014/UCR_Citywide_Reported%20_Offenses_2014.pdf
CO legal sales are higher than illegal prices and not anywhere near the true market cost for many reasons. Mostly due to government taxation and over-regulation. Of course there will continue to be a black market when prices are artificially high.
-Cannabis is taxed 25% on the total sale price. This is on top of sales tax and countless other government taxes and fees. At true market value, such sales taxes would probably exceed the profit.
-Cannabis stores and growers are being prohibited from writing off expenses on their federal taxes. Imagine running a business and having to lose 30-40% of GROSS income! This is another gift to the cartels by the feds.
-The number of stores and growers is strictly limited by the government. The existing stores have high prices and still can’t keep product on the shelves. There is obviously room for market supply to grow and reduce prices but government restricts it.
-Legal cannabis is new and a novelty to many people. They are willing to fly cross country to patronize the stores. This keeps prices high for the locals and encourages them to continue buying from their old local dealer.
"Whatever the price will be set in Washington and Colorado, criminal organizations
are ready to come in and sell cheaper," she said. She also claimed, without offering evidence,
that many cannabis shops get their supplies from grow operations controlled by cartels.
We'll talk again after about a year. We all know where this will lead.
“Whatever the price will be set in Washington and Colorado, criminal organizations are ready to come in and sell cheaper,”
Yes, because the feds are keeping cartels in business by harassing and overtaxing the legal sellers/growers.
In a true free market, the price will go so low there will be no point for criminals to sell it. It will be like growing basil - hard work for 10-20% profit. Something criminals are not interested in.
“We’ll talk again after about a year. We all know where this will lead.”
Yes, the feds will continue to protect cartels and keep prices artificially high.
There is no true WOD and the only purpose is to keep profits high and pick who gets them. Everyone in the “game” quickly realizes there is no way to stop something so small and profitable. All they can do is get a cut by “managing” it and destroying competition to keep violence down.
There’s a flip side to this story.
More Americans have been killed by illegal aliens than have been killed in the middle east wars.
“More Americans have been killed by illegal aliens than have been killed in the middle east wars.”
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Do you have a link for that info?
I would love to state that fact to a few people I know.
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I have no information on just how heavily armed the criminal element in Tahlequah and Muskogee is. I'd be willing to bet that they have more firepower than you or I. On the other hand, the availability of the MRAP might be what made it desirable over another armored vehicle.
http://www.wnd.com/2006/11/39031/
http://www.wnd.com/2006/09/38134/
http://thefiringline.com/forums/showthread.php?t=239487
http://www.immigrationshumancost.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHGOO_FsR7s
http://www.rightsidenews.com/2013081033026/us/homeland-security/19-very-disturbing-facts-on-illegal-immigration-every-american-should-know.html
http://fight4truth.com/illegal-immigration-killing-america-literally.html
Thank you very much.
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Knock and announce? I thought the big deal was “kick in door, throw in flashbang and go in shooting the dog”.
There, fixed it for you.
There's no record that she offered evidence for the first claim, either ... in fact, neither of these claims are in the official transcript of her statement (at http://www.justice.gov/dea/pr/speeches-testimony/2014t/040214t.pdf).
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