[Banagor]

I rarely comment on FR, but here's one time that I will comment:

Like many recent "Conservatives", I'm also a former "liberal" (although I was always VERY hawkish on defense and Israel - always - and loved Ronald Reagan when I was in High School).

Quite frankly, I've never cared one way or another if weed is legal or not. I just have one major problem with it's legality: You can't test for it immediately on drivers. If somebody is driving stoned, you can't give them a breath test to see if they are stoned. Imagine, if you will, that your kid's bus driver is stoned. Or, for that matter, your airplane pilot.

I need say no more on that matter. And I actually hate the argument "think of the children". I just think it is particularly apt in this case.

But that was the only problem I had with legalizing weed.

I do have a new problem with it, however, and it is quite simple (and also falls in my "problem" with gay marriage):

The frigging hippies want it.

Quite frankly, I'm happy to oppose many things which the other side tries to champion, simply because I have grown to hate them so much. I know, it's absolutely illogical and it doesn't make for a great argument, but I'm human. After having lived in San Francisco for years during the entire anti-war fervor since 2002 (I moved a little over a year ago, thankfully), I've come to loathe anything which the commies and hippies want to legalize. It's just a natural, visceral, reaction against their evil ways. No, I'm not kidding, and no this isn't sarcasm.

I'll oppose the legalization of marijuana simply because it pisses them off - the same way that they piss me off. Sorry for the strong language, but I get a bit heated when thinking about them. I used to live, literally, about 4 or 5 blocks away from Haight and Ashbury street in San Fran, so you can imagine how bad it was. Everyone knew I voted for Bush, just as everyone knew I supported the war. I was a pariah. They loathed me. I frigging gloated the day that Bush won in 2004. And just for their dirty looks, I will always oppose them; and for their "Palestinian" keffiyehs and flags; and their commie shirts whilst parading in the streets half naked a if that would save the world.

I hated them for it. I started to hate the left since a while, but I truly started to hate them in San Francisco. The words "Social Justice" start to get me very upset. The word "Progressive" calls me into a frightful state.

I never really cared one way or another about euthanasia - which I now oppose because I hate them so much.

I never really cared about marijuana - which I now oppose because I hate them so much.

I never really cared about gay marriage - which I now oppose because I hate them so much.

And every time people ask me why I take these stances, I tell them very publicly: because the left hated me, and I hate them back. I make no bones about it, and I mean it very deeply: I really hate them.

I can't forgive them. If they want to legalize marijuana, and gay marriage, they have lost an ally for a long time to come. If they want to learn about root causes, they should first look in the mirror at the amount of people they have driven away with their insane "ideals" about what they should and should not support during a time of war.

Again: illogical and not based on the moral arguments which many here on FR make on a daily basis, but it's a stance. It's my stance.

Let them rot in hell for all I care. If they want to get stoned, they can buy a bottle of booze.

I wonder how many others out there are like me, driven away by the leftists because of their hatred for Western civilization and willfully bending over for the terrorists to become their battered, willing, wives in bed.

I don't know. But I do know that I am one such person.

I hope that this has been instructive. Again, it is not sarcasm. Yes, I hate them that much. I am proud to have voted for Bush in 2004. I would vote for him again in 2008 if only he could run again. I have disagreed with Bush on many issues, but I support our security, and our country, and Israel. And anyone on the other side who doesn't gets a big American middle finger from me.

[loboinok]

You should comment more often.

[expatguy]

bleh... I can also agree with you as well. I dont think certain professions should use it - before they do whatever they do.

[Banagor]

I'd just like to say a few more things:

In case any DU idiots are monitoring this, simply because most of them are stoners: I gloat at your demise. I really do. I laugh it up every time a Democrat and a "progressive" loses an election. I laugh every time one of your bills is voted down by a Republican majority in Congress.

I will never, ever, support the legalization of marijuana, simply because it is what the "progressives" want. Never. I will laugh every time we bomb the hell out of a terrorist enclave, and I will applaud at every terrorist we wax. I used to support some "liberal" causes in the past, but I won't anymore - because I hate the left. I loathe the left.

I voted for Clinton - twice. I vote for Gore in 2000. I'm glad he lost. I'm so frigging glad. In 2000, after the second Palestinian "intifada" began, and George Bush said that Israel had every right to defend herself, I applauded him. I started to become a Conservative. After 2001, in September, when I was in New York City and saw those burn and fall, and I saw how the left opposed the war in Afghanistan, I never would turn back. Ever.

Ten years ago, I would never have joined a site such as this. Now, I'm proud to be on Free Republic. A lot of my former friends moan the fact that I am. Many of them are horrified that I support Gun Rights, and Religious Rights (I'm a "devout" Atheist, as I like to call myself, but I defend Evangelicals).

In the 1990's, I supported the idea of the European Union. Now I want to tear it apart. In the 1990's, I still supported the United Nations. Now, I would gladly see it abolished forever and spit on it's grave.

I am so fed up with liberal causes that there are simply no words to express my disgust with them.

I am an Atheist who has been a "free thinker" for over twenty years. But I am an Atheist who would see an army of crusaders with a cross and star of david on their shields, taking over the Muslim world together and imposing our way upon them; humiliating them; grinding them into the dust; breaking their very last spirit in our own charge of defiance against them.

That is how much I have come to loathe the left. And that is why I will never support their causes.

It's too bad that some people have good arguments for legalizing marijuana, or euthanasia, or even gay marriage. But I couldn't care less. Perhaps I'll be willing to discuss it in a more rational tone one day, in the distant future, when the left has been utterly defeated and destroyed along with the enemies of this great civilization.

But that time isn't now. And I wouldn't ever bank on it.

[Khurkris]

You just made one of the best posts I've ever seen on Free Republic.

Thank You.

[KeepUSfree]

Using "hate" as your guiding principal will almost ALWAYS lead to poor choices. Period.

In fact, I believe that "hate" is the primary motivation of Islam.

So, from where I sit, it seems you have alot more in common with muslim extremists than you would like to think.

Decision making requires both mind and heart. To use one completely at the exclusion of the other is also going to lead you astray (unless, of course, you are doing math).

I like to think of our side as using more logic to make decisions. But, sometimes, I am disappointed.

[Son Of The Godfather]

That was a most excellent post.

[television is just wrong]

I myself have never partaken, of marijuana, but my grandmother, who now has been dead for 30 years, used to smoke it as a migraine headache remedy. When it became illegal way back when, she then had to lie in bed in a dark room for two to three days and everyone had to tip toe through the house so as not to disturb her.

For what it was, it allowed her to carry on and hold down a job. It was not an addiction for her, but it was more a medicine to aid in a medical condition she had.

[brazzaville]

Good morning.
"If they want to get stoned, they can buy a bottle of booze."

That makes a lot of sense. Substitute a drug that puts people in jail because it has been made illegal with one that puts people in jail because they kill people while under the influence way too often.

You're pretty hateful. If you are this way as a conservative, you must have been a real winner as a liberal, as mean as they can be. Oh, and what does Israel have to do with it?

Michael Frazier

[jmc813]

I make no bones about it, and I mean it very deeply: I really hate them.

That really is an unhealthy attitude.

[mugs99]

I wonder how many others out there are like me

Millions...Hate is very popular. We saw it with the Nazis and we see it now with the Muslims.
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[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Enjoy...

Q: How many hippies does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None, they don't screw in light bulbs, they screw in dirty sleeping bags.

Q: What's the difference between a hockey player and a hippie chick? A: Hockey players shower after three periods.

Q. How do you get a one armed hippie out of a tree? A. Pass him a joint

Q: What has long hair and looks good in red? A: A hippie on fire!

A hippie dies and goes to the Pearly Gates. St. Peter looks him up, and says, "I'm sorry, but you'll be going down to Hell." The hippie, astounded, peers through the gates and sees God walking in the distance. "God!" he says. "What gives? Remember that time I was stoned out of my mind? I saw you, and you said we'd be in Heaven together forever!" God thought for a minute, then said, "Oh yeah, but I was drunk."

[an amused spectator]

This is one of the best "rants" that I've read on FR for quite a while - and I've read a few.

Excellent!