Posted on 02/27/2005 7:50:54 AM PST by rface
Right, since the left not only gave Bubba a pass but insisted on it, not much else will signify from now on. But with this angle - Daddy got him off... children of the wealthy etc. - this jerk can indulge his favorite "political" agenda - class warfare.
I read the title and thought someone had posted an article from DU.
I did not know that people who are addicted to drugs are put in jail. I thought that they are put in rehab. I thought that the only ones who are put in jail are the ones who commit crimes or the ones who have enough on them to be charged with intent to distribute.
Joe Conason is a blind pig.
Of course solid evidence that Clintoon had a nose like a Hoover ( per his brother, and numerous credible witnesses) and may have helped smuggle cocaine into the US, now thats somehow lost down the memory hole for the left........
A search of Conason's previous articles show that he has a two track mind.
1. Attacking GW and lying about GW.
2. BS articles which push the rabid gay agenda and attack the sane people challenging the Immoral Insanity of the Gay Agenda.
Below is the search link re Conason and his articles/opeds which push the Immoral Insanity of the Gay Agenda:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Joe+Conason+Gay&ei=UTF-8&pstart=1&b=11
For some reason I get the impression that you agree with Conason and speculate that there's more 'dirt' in the remaining Wead tapes. Got your 'r' face on...that mask you wear on FR?
For once, @ least PART of what Joe sez in this article is right: his criticism of US drug policy. The War on Drugs is an expensive, embarrissing failure, & it has done nothing to slow down the amount of drug use. All it does is increase our prison popultion w/ mostly non-violent people who should have been left alone in the 1st place. It diverts law enforcement time & $ away from fighting REAL crime, especially in these days when we need to be on the lookout for terrorists who are scheming & living among us.
It is HIGH TIME for a major change in our drug laws: the federal government needs to follow the 9th & 10th Amendments & let the states decide how severely to fight drugs or if they decide to do so @ all. Use the $ saved in doing so by beefing up border security to protect us from drugs & illegal immigrants that are coming into our country...& build a wall along our southern border if need be!
He's also a Drag Queen preforming on a off broad way production.
I'm sure one of those guys looks just like him if you take the dress and make up off.
You would be surprised to find out what some people are in prison for were drugs are concerned. But that is a whole other thread. Not all drug users go to rehab.
Conason knows that Canuckistanis will buy this crapola, that's why the article is in the Toronto Star. We should also see reruns of it in Le Monde and Der Spiegle.
Euroweenies love crap and Conason is full of it!!!
Conason insists that, even though nothing can be proven, since "everyone knows" Bush did cocaine, it's hypocritical for Bush to support sentences for people convicted of cocaine possession.
That's really interesting. I guess since "everyone knows" Conason is a liberal lunatic, his charge of rank hypocrisy doesn't quite stick.
In very fact, Conason is an unrepentant, lying clintinoid with nary a fact to back his allegations.
I don't really care whether he did or didn't use cocaine. The point is he doesn't now, nor has he in a long time. If he tried it once - or even twice it doesn't make him a cokehead. I appreciate his brutal honesty in saying it's no one else's business - because it isn't. Far better than lying about it like Slick Willy did.
Funny isn't it how the drug loving left jump on things like this & try & make it an issue. If it's the left's candidate it' no big deal - if it's a Republican it's automatically a scandal. Give me a break.
Not really. It's just that he didn't want to be added to Clinton's secret list - "Dead men ain't gonna tell no more tales."
Thanks, Dave- it had slipped my mind that Ole Joe was a Butt Pirate, too, along with his many other reprehensible qualities.
Generally that's true. Most addicted people don't rot in jail. However, addicted people who commit crimes do rot in jail. Then, they get out, do more coke, do more crimes, then rot in jail some more.
That is a shame. Drug addiction is an illness just like alcoholism.
Very, very few people are in prison for mere possession (of a personal use amount). And if they're in jail, it's for a brief period. Hell, my guess is that they're not even arresting marijuana users in California, much less jailing them.
We are not locking up mere users "to serve five or 10 or 20 years in prison". Those are the hardcore, scumbag drug dealers and traffickers who, IMO, belong there.
If there are inmates in prisons serving that kind of time for mere use of drugs, I'm not aware of it. The ones who get prison time are the drug dealers, and even Conason hasn't quite gotten around to accusing the President of that.
The allegations about Bush and cocaine are false, by the way. He never tried it. I know this because I've had candid discussions with someone in a position to know one way or the other.
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