Posted on 02/18/2006 6:28:37 PM PST by MRMEAN
Spending billions in taxpayer dollars with no clear progress? Inserting government agents into Americans' private lives? Holding a million men and women in prison for what are mostly nonviolent crimes?
Please, how does any of that promote the values that principled conservatives hold dear?
None of it does, of course.
But now, seemingly all of a sudden, people on the left aren't the only ones expressing doubts about America's war on (some) drugs. Some of America's most energized conservatives - activists and intellectuals on the right - are openly asking, "Isn't there a better way to deal with drug abuse than the old lock-'em-up-forever approach?"
At week's end, thousands of conservative activists gathered in Washington for the annual CPAC, the massive Conservative Police Action Conference, half pep rally and half conservative family reunion. The attendees were regaled with the usual conservative litany - warnings about illegal immigration, attacks on the liberal media, throaty calls for a muscular war on terrorism. Dick Cheney and Karl Rove revved up the crowd.
"Conservatism is the dominant political creed in America," Rove declared approvingly.
But this power group of fired-up conservatives also heard something else, a message that seemed to come as a surprise to some in the sprawling meeting room: pointed and serious questions about America's 35-year campaign to rid the nation of heroin, cocaine, marijuana and other illegal drugs.
Who'd have expected this at a CPAC meeting? Extended comments from the podium by Ethan Nadelman, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, a man who has been called the invisible hand of drug reform in America. A former Princeton University professor, Nadelman has guided the national fight for medical marijuana and been a key player in the battle to ease the draconian Rockefeller-era drug laws in New York.
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And it is right.
The "warriors" remind me of dogs too stupid to even be housebroken. Within one year of their lives, those dogs will show that they can't learn much of anything else either.
Hitler also said, "How fortunate for governments that people do not think".
He would have loved to have the "warriors" as his loyal subjects.
No, I said I have no problem with your engaging in anal sex.
How can you have no problem with something I don't do?
Your posts are becoming more and more irrational.
Miss your meds for the last month or something?
And "medical marijuana" can treat any resulting AIDS.
Post from a "warrior". Hippies, and pathetic types obsess about drugs, not stable adults.
No group obsesses more about drugs than the "warriors". The most pathetic types of all. Unstable "adults", for sure.
I bet you can't show me one where he is pro-recreational drug use.
I wouldn't bother. JR made his position clear. -- He's like most of us that oppose you drug warriors. --
--- We base our opposition on Constitutional grounds, -- and you oafs chatter on about 'rec drugs'. Get real.
I've had people on these threads boast of being such rotten parents that they do the drugs in front of their minor children before. They they say idiotic things like let the children decide for themselves if they want to use or not.
Yep, just as you clowns goad your opposition, I'm sure they goad you back. What else is new?
It is so against everything conservative that is is ridiculous to read most of the time.
So are your ridiculous defenses of the 'war'.. Read JR again about how our rights are being ignored in that phony war.
Conservatives want to be the best they can be, not the most medicated.
Kumbya guy, -- talk to the hand.
Well, the bottom line is you want your recreational drugs.
That is not mainstream to anything in America and is as popular and odd as beastiality or being a pedophile.
We also don't need to grow addicts or addiction.
I bet you can't show me one where he is pro-recreational drug use.
I wouldn't bother. JR made his position clear. -- He's like most of us that oppose you drug warriors. --
--- We base our opposition on Constitutional grounds, -- and you oafs chatter on about 'rec drugs'. Get real.
I've had people on these threads boast of being such rotten parents that they do the drugs in front of their minor children before. They they say idiotic things like let the children decide for themselves if they want to use or not.
Yep, just as you clowns goad your opposition, I'm sure they goad you back. What else is new?
It is so against everything conservative that is is ridiculous to read most of the time.
So are your ridiculous defenses of the 'war'.. Read JR again about how our rights are being ignored in that phony war.
Well, the bottom line is you want your recreational drugs.
Typical, - you can't make a rational reply, so you revert to 'rec-drug bull'. Pitiful.
That is not mainstream to anything in America and is as popular and odd as beastiality or being a pedophile.
Lordy, now you 'tar brush' the issue with your sexual obsessions. Bizarro.
We also don't need to grow addicts or addiction.
Of course we don't, we need to end the Fed WOD's, and let States/localities reasonably regulate the issue, -- just as our Constitution intended. -- Just as they regulate booze.
Of course we don't, we need to end the Fed WOD's, and let States/localities reasonably regulate the issue, -- just as our Constitution intended. -- Just as they regulate booze.
Anarchy would be necessary to get your will done and I doubt it will happen.
Daft reply. I advocate State regulation, as per our Constitution, and you equate that to anarchy.
Get lost guy. - You're trolling.
I "need" the WODs? - And tar baby Soros.. Rant on guy..
Hey, Soros is financinf your pro-drug efforts, not conservatism.
Soros obsessions are funny. Get out the nets.
He usually backs what isn't good for America, but that could make himself rich by manipulating markets.
You can't reason with fools.
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