Posted on 03/27/2007 5:12:46 AM PDT by VRing
The man leveled his gun at Nicole Thompson's face.
Moments later, he had the mother of four on the ground with the barrel to the back of her head. According to her and her husband, the man screamed, "If you move, I'll shoot you in the f-- head!"
They regularly sack cops who are snotty though, so my complaint wasn't without value.
Aha. Good to hear that (though I still picture a couple Chicago cops saying exactly what you heard).
The border guards and our military personell are constantly screwed by their own government!!
Oh please, this has nothing to do with the "socialist agenda" but the product of social conservatives - especially the 'law and order" ones and the drug warriors.
You're not giving credit where credit is due. Plenty of liberals are also drug warriors. When was the last time you heard a democrat speak out against the abuses of power and infringement of civil liberties occurring more and more often in the name of the WOD? Seriously, I've been listening but the silence is deafening. They just tell us "it's for the children" while the right tell us it's for a morally upright society.
Big surprise for them ~ deal is they have to learn to be polite, take equal or worse risks driving the Jamaican Posses back across the river, and put up with Congressional hijinks.
The ones who can't learn end up working for Prince George's County (in Maryland).
How about we simply "privatize" drug use ~ you do what you want, we do what we want. Sound OK, or do you think you should get police protection?
"May I inquire as to why you posted it all?"
Because I can. Is it really too difficult to click the link?
yes, they are being used as pawns, even these jack booted thugs in the article are victims in a large way because of the policies pushed down the chain of command. In the end, like everything else it's all about the dollars.
Border = cheap, almost slave labor from Mex and South America.
WOD = confiscation of money, cars, homes, anything they want to take under suspicion of drug activity. Like Mexico, many of our cops work on commission now. Seize $5000 and put $1,000 in the evidence locker to be used later for the cheif's new cruiser or the newest fully automatic toys for the drug warrriors, we citizens are prohibited from owning (unless you have $20K or so to go through the paperwork and applications for a lisence.)
Who exactly is "we"?
Liberals are far more likely to be on the right side of this issue than social conservatives. Social conservatives gave us the ramped up War on Drugs and of any political group, social conservatives are most hostile toward civil liberties. The social conservatives even make war against the 2nd amendment by giving their undying support to no-knock warrants and the use of plain clothes officers.
I have read countless times here on FR by social conservatives that if a person has nothing to hide then they have nothing to fear.
You want total liberty, I'm proposing that what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander as well.
Just privatize these issues ~ get them out of the government's hands.
Given the post you replied to only made reference to marijuana, can I assume that you consider that "hard narcotics"?
That has not been necessary for several years.
To some extent, yes social conservatives can at times be seduced into the mistaken positon of legislating morality, but I would still contend that liberals (actually fascists, socialists and communists) are far more of a threat to our liberty than social conservatives. For perspective look at the political spectrum; on the right is anarchists, libertarians, free marketers and on the left you have socialists, fascists and communists and totalitarians. The liberals in the US at best sit in the socialist camp but many are even futher left firmly in the communist camp.
Social conservatives are much more likely to oppose government growth and expansion except for a few areas like abortion on demand, drug laws (some definitely not all), borders, gay rights. Most though would rather leave you alone as long as you don't push these things on them (except abortion, that seems to be a line in the sand for most) where as liberals will force thier views on the majority, via income redistribution, indoctrination in government run schools, political correctness. To them the war on Drugs is a good thing because it helps consolidate and expand govt. power over the idividual.
I think that you are confusing Libertarians with Liberals.
Really no need for government to stick its nose into this, right?
How about we simply "privatize" drug use ~ you do what you want, we do what we want. Sound OK, or do you think you should get police protection?
I don't understand your statement and question, would you please clarify?
My brother who was certainly no saint got beat up back in the 1970's by the cops where he lived. They were wrong for beating him up that time & he sued. They made life unbearable until he moved & he dropped the suit. It was easier for him to drop it as he found the new town knew cops from the old town...
that is EXACTLY what they should have done. In 5 minutes everything would have been figured out and the cops could have taken their two stooges off this guys property, after an apology of course.
Interesting, isn't it, how the "conservatives" and "liberals", take turns assaulting our rights from different directions, yet none of it ever seems to get rolled back?.
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