Posted on 11/02/2017 11:20:11 AM PDT by Bonston
The US government has created a business out of putting people in jail, a quite lucrative one at that. Privately run prisons thrive due to those minimum sentencing practices, while taxpayers pay for often disproportionately long prison times for people that are no immediate harm to anyone but themselves. And as a reaction those individuals are persecuted to the fullest extent, lives are being destroyed, and the nation’s workforce is diminished while the costs are paid by society.
Instead of a helping hand, the U.S. has introduced the tradition of handing out handcuffs to those related to drugs. And that is exactly what we have to talk about.
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James Madison said the general terms such as “General Welfare” and “Common Defense” were identified in the list of authorized powers, such as “Weights and Measures”, “Postal Service and Roads”, and the power to raise armies and to provide a Navy.
If lawmakers are allowed to make laws according to their interpretation of the General Welfare clause, then the Constitution is meaningless. Most lawmakers pretend their proposed legislation is for the general welfare, or the common good, or the public safety.
“And you think that the crack cocaine problem would have never developed if we were still getting cocaine in our soda?”
“If the cocaine was legal, they were going to eventually make crack with it. I know crack addicts.”
Like civilian guns, crack cocaine is never going to be eradicated.
However, each cocaine soda buyer would only be able to buy so much per month. A DEA order system might track purchases.
If it gets boiled down by the ninth of the month, replacement bottles might officially be five times the price.
A friendly neighbor might sell you his, but it would be illegal.
The normal price of the soda might be increased 50% for each incident officially found to the buyer. The friendly neighbor would repent in a jail or pay a stiff fine.
A $5 two-liter bottle might then cost the overenthusiastic buyer $7.50 each for say five years.
Instead of paying say $150/month for a soda habit, the crack habit would run maybe $600/month at the least in a neighborhood of friendly resellers.
The soda wouldn’t be sold in a store. A customer would have to pay for a delivery service.
There might also be cocaine soda parlors.
“An Act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen was passed by the 5th Congress. It was signed by President John Adams on July 16, 1798. The Act authorized the deduction of twenty cents per month from the wages of seamen, for the sole purpose of funding medical care for sick and disabled seamen, as well as building additional hospitals for the treatment of seamen.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Act_for_the_relief_of_sick_and_disabled_seamen
Of course it won't make it legal, but it will make it more common. Your response is crap.
I haven't seen anything in that direction that resembles a "war". When there is a massive body count of drug dealers, then I will believe we are fighting a war. Till then, it looks like we are just dancing with them.
Drug dealers are being executed literally every day, without benefit of a trial, by other other drug dealers. It hasn't stopped anything. New ones are always waiting in the wings. But you think that if the government starts executing them, that will magically make some huge difference?
It was within the power of the Congress, under Article I Section 8, to raise a Navy. Naval personnel have to be cared for. On those grounds, it was constitutional.
A “Living Constitution” is an unconstitutional, man-made construct, designed to trick people out of their rights. The bizarre notion that anything a lawmaker claims to be “General Welfare” is also constitutional, plays right into the hands of Karl Marx and Saul Alinsky whose goal was to promote the use of “democracy” as a tool to get to communism. Our Founding Fathers rightly despised democracy, which anyone but the most foolish understands is simply 51 wolves and 49 sheep deciding what to have for dinner.
That's just a hazard of doing business in that trade. It's both random, and insufficiently fatal to enough of them to create a deterrence effect.
But you think that if the government starts executing them, that will magically make some huge difference?
It did in China. It utterly wiped out the drug trade in China. They do it in Singapore, and it works there pretty well. They are trying it in the Philippines, and so we can keep an eye on the situation there and see if it makes a difference.
I am betting it will.
Without any judicial process. Is that what you want for the United States of America?
Not at all. I would very much rather see them put to death through the judicial process.
Not at all.
Good to hear. But a bona fide judicial process can't offer the same results as authoritarian states have had.
The 86 amnesty and the War on Drugs (really a war on civil liberties) were two of Reagans’ biggest mistakes.
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