[WLR]

I have a couple of homes one in a Richy Rich area on a Golf Course. The elitist liberals there get together and smoke their dope. My other home is in a poor area. The people around sell and buy all kinds of drugs and smoke their dope. I am hard pressed to see any difference. None of the Richy Rich neighbors ever get pulled over and searched in the rich neighborhood. Not a week goes by in the poor neighborhood when I don't see 3-4 vehicle searches.

But times are changing and now $500,000 condos are surrounding me and the old place on three sides. Soon they will condemn my old place paying me 1/3 the value of the land if I had the "right" to build a few Condos. When redevelopment is complete I will no longer have my poor neighborhood home nor will I profit from the redevelopment nor will any of those who have lived or owned homes here for 40 years (in my case 50). The same politicians that let our community fall into disrepair will condemn the land and then order the police to chase out the riff Raff they allowed in to lower the value of that land and make it difficult to live in. After their friends receive the condemned property for "redevelopment"
I am sure they will all get together in one of the now $500,000 condos and smoke dope while they celebrate their financial acumen. 4 Blocks away some 23 year old will be arrested for marijuana in his car, spend time in prison and be branded for life a criminal/drug dealer/bad guy. Probably the guy that sold the liberal politican and developers the marijauna

Hell of a thing.


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[tpaine]

Well put.
And as you commented, the liberals/socialists will gather round to say:

We, as a society, decide which rights we will protect --- We choose not to protect your right to do drugs. If and when a majority of the people decide that we should, then we will.
Given that we're a self-governing nation, there's nothing to stop the majority from deciding this.

Hell of a thing.