Tis the season for marijuana smugglers

Hartford Courient via Washington Compost ^ | 12/21/02

[Sparta]

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[Sparta]

Another stunning success of the WOD.

[Wolfie]

Heh...between this, and drug-testing nursing home residents, we'll have this thing wrapped up by Tet.

[Nick Thimmesch]

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[DumpsterDiver]

Here's one for the family values crowd:

"A lot of these guys [drug smugglers] are trying to buy Christmas presents, so they want to sell what they have, then get home to spend time with their families," said Will Glaspy, a spokesman for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration.

[Sparta]

Don't you just love our "allies" on the religious right?

[Jonathon Spectre]

Heh...between this, and drug-testing nursing home residents, we'll have this thing wrapped up by Tet.

>claps<

Most impressive, I'm going to have to steal that one.

[golder]

People happly handing over their freedom for the price of a baggie of drugs. Maybe a few decades in prison will change their minds, or being sent back to the hellholes they came from.

What?

We're doomed.

[jmc813]

WOD Ping

[SandfleaCSC]

The marijuana abuse is secondary, it is the law itself that these delinquents abuse. Is there some sort of sick fun that they find in being arrested and punished? With every drug law arrest, it makes it less likely that doping losers like these will be serving cheese burgers to unsuspecting customers at MacDonalds, which is probably the only honest job that they can get. Maybe they can learn a trade in prison.

I'll bet you didn't want the kids in Footloose to dance either.

[robertpaulsen]

In the movie, the town of Bomont's ban on dancing was legislated after a car accident took the lives of four teenagers, at least one of whom was drinking, when they were driving home from a dance in neighboring Baylor County.

Why did you think it was banned -- because it was sinful?

I'd be interested in seeing your rebuttal of Lord Voldemort's points rather than a smart-a$$ reply to well thought-out post.

[SandfleaCSC]

Be careful for what you wish for cupcake.

Since Oct. 1, Border Patrol and U.S. Customs Service agents working in the southernmost tip of Texas, from Laredo to Brownsville on the Gulf of Mexico, have seized more than 93 tons of marijuana with an estimated value exceeding $150 million. That much less to line the pockets of Osama bin Laden and murdering drug kingpins. That much less to dirty the lungs and destory the minds of schoolchildren. It is good to see that at least one part of the government still works as the law intended.

So marijuana smokers are lining the pockets of bin Laden now. Looks like we've actually found someone who believes that cockamaimy anti-drug commercial. Now go buy some premium unleaded and help Habib buy a new AK-47. We also see in the above post the old "save the children" argument. Stuff the little buggers full of Ritalin, but for God's sake, don't let any marijuana in the country for their benefit. One government drug law does, however, work just as it is intended. The asset seizure and forfeiture law that confiscates property without a guilty verdict and distributes the "booty" to law enforcement works like a charm. Tell me that you support that law so that we all can know where you stand on freedom, liberty, and government intrusion.

It is flooding in, stashed behind truck seats, mixed in with loads of tomatoes, stuffed into hollowed-out floor beams of flatbed trucks and, in one case, stuffed under a disabled grandmother sitting in the front seat of a car. And so called libertarians on Free Republic defend these smuggling scumbags. The law means nothing, common decency means nothing, even their own families means nothing to them. Still they cry "Let me sell my drugs on American playgrounds with no protest" It is good that morality still triumphs over license at the ballot box in America.

Another "for the cheeeeldrin" argument, how suprising. How many kids die by guns every year? Probably quite a bit more than do by THC. Maybe all you WODdies don't care a whit about human life, just your own narrow agendas. Just a reminder, stupidity, fraud, and greed rule at the ballot box. See years 1992-2000 for a good example.

*Disclaimer...I am not advocating gun control. Just holding up a little hypocracy. Viva Darwin.

U.S. teenagers use marijuana more than any other drug, according to the U.S. government's Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The marijuana abuse is secondary, it is the law itself that these delinquents abuse. Is there some sort of sick fun that they find in being arrested and punished? With every drug law arrest, it makes it less likely that doping losers like these will be serving cheese burgers to unsuspecting customers at MacDonalds, which is probably the only honest job that they can get. Maybe they can learn a trade in prison.

So, more teenagers use marijuana than alcohol and nicotine? I'm gonna have to call you out on your statement, I believe that it is pure bulls**t and that's about as nice as I can put it. The drug laws abuse the public, you've got it backwards. For every non-violent drug offender behind bars, there's going to be one less bed for a violent offender. Not to mention the fact that we all have to pay for prisons....let them take extra taxes out of all you WODdies' income to pay for the 600,000 marijuana offenders that get arrested in 2003.

marijuana smokers are the front-line consumers in a multibillion-dollar industry. Did anybody really think that Libertarians get their blood money from those who do not addle their minds with marijuana? Follow the money. A terrorist can kill a lot more Americans by making them dull and stupid than they can by hijacking a whole fleet of airplanes.

Libertarian blood money? You should have taken the left turn at Albequerqe, Bugs...you're lost. You want blood money, talk to Saudi Arabia, Texaco, and the Republicans in Congress and the White House. We've been targeted by the Middle East since the 60's and it has got zero to do with drugs. The terrorists are the ones who believe they have the absolute, God-given right to tell the world how to live and just what the population can or cannot ingest. It sounds suspiciously like you WODdie authoritarians...simply replace pork and alcohol with marijuana.

"You can't stop everything," Rose said. "But I haven't been here yet in a 24-hour period where we haven't caught something." People happly handing over their freedom for the price of a baggie of drugs. Maybe a few decades in prison will change their minds, or being sent back to the hellholes they came from.

You WODdies are the ones who are so eager to hand over everyone's freedom for your silly little crusade. The folks who skirt the unconstitutional set of drug laws, the ones who refuse to recognize legislative tyranny are the true patriots, not you people.

[jodorowsky]

That much less to line the pockets of Osama bin Laden and murdering drug kingpins.

Yeah! And Jeffrey Dahmer! Don't forget Dahmer!

It is good to see that at least one part of the government still works as the law intended.

Like all socialist programs to save people from scary buzzwords, these laws work just like they're supposed to ; )

[Drippy]

"People happly handing over their freedom for the price of a baggie of drugs. Maybe a few decades in prison will change their minds, or being sent back to the hellholes they came from.

Wouldn't it be a little better to seriously tighten up border security and surveilance and shut off the flow of south of the border bandits than to lock up thousands of people in prison for pot? Our relationship with Mexico is a one-sided affair and this needs to change fast in my opinion for the health and well being of our country.

[tacticalogic]

I'd be interested in seeing your rebuttal of Lord Voldemort's points rather than a smart-a$$ reply to well thought-out post.

What points? It was a quarter grain of half-truth in a bucket of perjoratives. The only thing I saw that was of any relevance was "Follow the money", and even that was misdirected.

[SandfleaCSC]

Well, reason and logic eject out of these folk's cockpit long before the plane leaves the runway. You have to realize that pulling out the "losertarian", "doper", and "pothead" trump cards automatically wins an argument in their minds.

[robertpaulsen]

"the ones who refuse to recognize legislative tyranny are the true patriots"

All along, I thought the people who smoked dope did it to get high, and the people who sold it did so to make money.

I didn't realize they were doing this in protest of 'legislative tyranny'. That puts this this whole thing in a different perspective.

But any movement needs a slogan. How about "Tokers Against Tyranny"?

[jayef]

You nailed it. People use intoxicants to get high. People who supply intoxicants expect financial reward in return. Is there anything else about this relationship that we might have missed? I wait with baited breath for the next morsel of wisdom.

It may not be a protest, but that doesn't change the fact the anyone of us could find ourselves a victim. Even you, robertpaulsen. Let's hope that the next thing the government declares contraband does not satisfy your desires.

[SandfleaCSC]

I guess those folks in Canada that are tearing up their gun regisration papers are just doing it to litter.

[jenny65]

And so called libertarians on Free Republic defend these smuggling scumbags.

No Lord, it is YOU who support these smuggling scumbags by making it such a lucrative business. As long as there is demand, there will be somebody figuring out a way to provide it. Crack down on the dealers, slow down the flow, and all you do is raise the stakes.

I've got a sure-fire way to win the war on drugs: Stop the demand! The scumbag dealers disappear and the "war" is won. Simple huh? I'll let you guys figure out the details, because I'm not too good at changing human nature.

I keep posting this quote, but I've yet to receive a rebuttal:

"How many laws can we really have to stop crime if people are determined in their heart to violate them no matter how many there are or what they say?" President George W. Bush