Posted on 10/28/2010 4:41:17 PM PDT by opentalk
California's marijuana legalization campaign, which has struggled to raise money despite the intense nationwide focus on the issue, was jolted Tuesday when a multibillionaire investor with a long interest in loosening drug laws endorsed Proposition 19 and donated $1 million.
The contribution triples the amount of money that legalization advocates have to spend in the final week before the Nov. 2 election and dwarfs the $317,500 that the California Chamber of Commerce has spent on radio ads in Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Diego against the initiative.
...Soros donated to a campaign committee run by the Drug Policy Alliance, a national advocacy group that he also supports financially. Stephen Gutwillig, the organization's California director, said the money will help turn out supporters and air the television ad, but declined to be more specific. The alliance and Yes on 19 committee have about $1.5 million to spend.
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“Boardwalk Empire” ping
All the pro-legalization people should take note of who is funding this.
All the pro-legalization people should take note of who is funding this.
Could it be that Soros is a Drug Runner?
Yes. If soros is for it, they need to be against it. His ulterior motives are always evil and destructive.
We can’t legalize it until government gets out of healthcare, education and everything else. We can not be a socialist country and legalize drugs. It won’t have the same results (make us into complete slaves) and people will not be held responsible for their actions.
In a free society, good gets rewarded and bad gets shunned—it is the reverse in communist countries—the good gets punished and the derelicts and zombies get rewarded for their inactivity and careless behavior.
It’s much easier to take over a country if the citizens are zonked out.
Actually, in a free society, the government leaves us all the heck alone.
But you knew that.
Exactly...that is why I wouldn’t care that drugs were legal.
Yeah, I should be free to be licentious, wreck myself then drain the State of funds when i can`t afford the emergency room trip.
Libertarianism + Soros = dumb as F**k
Libertarianism + Soros = dumb as F**k
Very dishonest. Libertarians don't believe in having state support systems funded by extortion to fall back on.
This is a crony-capitalist-disguised-as-populist move by Soros with 2 goals:
1) Sedate the populace
2) Become a legal drug lord.
It has nothing to do with freedom or libertarianism.
A broken clock is right twice a day. The war on pot has been an amazing waste of money and an absolute failure.
” It has nothing to do with freedom or libertarianism.”
But being licentious does. The fatal flaw of libertarians who confuse freedom with being free to do anything.
Sir, with all due respect, you are very confused, or possibly completely ignorant, of what being free means, and what being a Libertarian (capital L) means.
Humanity took upon itself the right to screw up under the liberty God granted us in Eden. That liberty has never been retracted. We are free to do anything, and equally free to reap the consequences.
If God wasn't willing to retract our self-destructively applied freedom, what gives another man that right?
Libertarianism simply asserts the fact that human beings have God-given individual liberty, and co-resident responsibilities toward other men, specifically the responsibility to not initiate force or fraud.
That is all.
Stop thinking like a nosey statist.
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