Posted on 06/14/2011 4:17:25 AM PDT by marktwain
My kids have moved West and it's quite clear now that I'll have to blow this pop stand (a People's Republic) within a couple of years.
See #44. The Law of Unintended Consequences rears its ugly head again.
Remember, we were all GPSed according to voting preferences!!!!
What really puts this into perspective is that as SWAT usage continues to soar (especially under Obunghole) the violent crime rate continues to plummet to all time lows.
My major goal in life is to be left alone (not hassled by “The Man”).
You just posted an excellent analysis but I don’t see how it backs up your first line about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a Legalization Libertarian. But I see us in a constitutional crisis of the first magnitude and I think emergency steps are called for to reign in the power of the Thugocracy formerly known as USA, power that you so skillfully describe.
One way to reign in that power is to start legalizing things.
The fewer laws, the less justification for murdering civilians to enforce the laws.
And the one set of laws that has been consistently used to build, support, arm, equip, train and mandate this growing army of Mogadishu Thugs is the collective set of laws against drugs.
I say legalize every single g-d drug tomorrow and start laying off cops and auctioning off their toys.
SWAT should be restricted to State Police units, where local law enforcement needs to show a very good reason to get the state unit come and assist.
Prior to about 1911 or so, people could buy cocaine, morphine, marijuana and opium, mostly without legal restrictions. The US managed to survive up to that point.
As Prohibition demonstrated, you CANNOT win the "War on Drugs" without establishing a police state. Even WITH a police state, the Soviets could not stop drug use.
Six months ago I would have argued with you on your post#68. Today, after reading more and more stories of these SWAT (State Worker Attack Thugs ?) teams, I agree with you.
Ending all drug laws is probably a necessary first step to clearing out these vicious beasts from our midst.
but I don’t see how it backs up your first line about throwing the baby out with the bathwater.
The proposition that surrendering to the War On Drugs will go a long way to solve the Police State environment pretends that the there is ONLY one way to execute the WoD.
Philosophically the WoD is important since the alternative is worse. I think everyone except the politicians and the goons agree that the WoD is executed poorly. If we don't like No-Knock warrant service, then do what government has always done to discourage a practice - regulate the heck out of it.
Government perversely knows that rewarding something by allowing the actors to profit in an unregulated environment will encourage huge growth in that activity. So they have no regulations on No-Knocks and through seizure laws allow the goons and their enabler/handlers to profit immensely. If some politician sees a Bugatti Veyron, then accuse the owner of dealing drugs, invade the home and confiscate the object of desire as part of the seizure practice. That is not WoD, that is an out-of-control unconstitutional kleptocracy. Throw that out.
Thanks for that suggestion, did not think of that.
Tha answer to this question is really quite simple. People just don't care about liberty. They are more than willing to trade it away for the flimsiest of excuses.
If everyone were intelligent AND paying attention your prescription would be a good one.
Sadly, few are both intelligent and paying attention. No one will even hear your prescription, let alone think about it. (Very few, anyway.)
That’s why I say, pull the rug out from under the feet of the goons. Legalize drugs now.
Not only does the Fourth Amendent have no meaning now, the entire Constitution, according to the Democrat Party and its deciples, consists of two, soon to be three things:1. A woman’s “right” to murder her unborn child. 2. A degererate’s “right” to practice their perversion. Soon to be added, a degenerate’s “right” to “marry” anything they please. On second thought, make that four things: A parasites “right” to be sustained by the producers.[Whether the producers wish to sustain them or not.]
Determined to be a "good shoot" I suppose.
And with the money comes lot of strings. You play ball with the feds any time they tell you to, or they take their ball away. Once a local PD becomes dependent on grant money, the feds effectively own them.
Date Night for you two!
In exactly the same way and to exactly the same extent that eliminating sodomy laws (largely in the sixties and seventies) has reduced the problems with homosexuals preying on children and teenagers.
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