Support the War on Drugs ?

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Government in the USA
was established by the permission
of its citizens, to defend their rights
from violation by others;
NOT to prevent a citizen
from exercising poor judgment,
insofar as his OWN interests r concerned.

In other words,
it was the Founders' filosofy
that each citizen had the right
to do whatever he whatever he damn pleased,
so long as he did not violate the rights of others.

Government 's War on Drugs
exists only by USURPATION.

As a libertarian citizen,
I don 't support that war,
altho I deem addictive narcotics to be poisonous,
destructive substances that a man of wisdom wud avoid.

Comments ?

David

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What's the issue here? Are you for POT?

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Support the war on drugs. How by using them more frequently? Razz

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Miller wrote:

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What's the issue here?

The issue is the absence of jurisdiction
in government to have any influence
upon what any American citizen
chooses to ingest,
and government 's running hog wild
in grabbing jurisdiction to do so,
that does not rightfully belong to it;
( like a dishonest bank teller who grabs
some of your funds, when no one is looking ).

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Are you for POT?

No.
Sucking in dirt is not a good idea,
in my opinion; government by usurpation
is a WORSE idea.
David

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au1929 wrote:

Support the war on drugs.

How by using them more frequently?

How does the logic of that work ?

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I THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUPPLY ALL CITIZENS WITH DRUGS.

I BELIEVE A STONED COUNTRY WOULD BE A GOOD ONE.

I HAVE NO ANALOGIES TO USE AT THE PRESENT TIME.

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OmSigDAVID wrote:

au1929 wrote:
Support the war on drugs.

How by using them more frequently?

How does the logic of that work ?

That was a joke son. Just a joke Laughing

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The fact is there is too much money to be made to ever be able to fight the drug trade effectively.

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gustavratzenhofer wrote:

I THINK THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SUPPLY ALL CITIZENS WITH DRUGS.

I BELIEVE A STONED COUNTRY WOULD BE A GOOD ONE.

I HAVE NO ANALOGIES TO USE AT THE PRESENT TIME.

Will u get some in the future ?

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au1929 wrote:

The fact is there is too much money to be made to ever be able to fight the drug trade effectively.

The harder the government makes it to get drugs, the more valuable they will become. The war on drugs is creating many more problems than it is solving.

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rosborne979 wrote:

au1929 wrote:
The fact is there is too much money to be made to ever be able to fight the drug trade effectively.

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The harder the government makes it to get drugs,
the more valuable they will become.

The war on drugs is creating many more problems than it is solving.

Yes.
The innumerable victims of criminal violence
since dangerous, addictive narcotics were outlawed,
owe their injuries to GOVERNMENT price supports
for those narcotics, such as to put them out of the reach
of their customers, without recourse to crime.

How many innocent citizens ( 100s of 1000s ? millions ? )
have been sacrificed, by THEIR government
on the alter of stopping people from using poor judgment
as to their own best interests. I remember Nixon 's anti-drug speech on TV:
" We will not have a generation of slaves " as if people who
chose to addict themselves were going to forget about it,
because government made it against the law
( after STEALING the jurisdiction to do it ).
David

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The money making is on both sides of the issue, including prison building.

I am philosophically opposed to the war on drugs, prohibition, etc. - but the system is well entrenched now. Hard to just say no to it and have the complex system just stop.

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ossobuco wrote:

The money making is on both sides of the issue, including prison building.

I am philosophically opposed to the war on drugs, prohibition, etc. - but the system is well entrenched now. Hard to just say no to it and have the complex system just stop.

Actually, I disagree. The war on drugs is one of the few wars we can actually win. We CAN just stop it, with the smallest flourish of a pen, it will deflate itself and vanish.

Most wars result from human needs, economic, religious and emotional. But the war on drugs is one of the few wars founded on legislation. And not just any legislation, but a restriction of personal freedom. Some would say that we are trying to prevent people from harming themselves, but not only is our attempt at prevention failing, but we are corrupting the most basic value of life in the process; personal freedom. Yes, it's the freedom to commit suicide, and some people don't like that, but I think it's a freedom that a mature civilization will have to come to grips with.

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I believe that before we support anything so grand as a national or internatinal policy on narcotics, we should all encourage David to spell correctly and to use a standard font.

I would likely read more of his posts if it weren't so laborious.

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candidone1 wrote:

I believe that before we support anything so grand as a national or internatinal policy on narcotics, we should all encourage David to spell correctly and to use a standard font.

I would likely read more of his posts if it weren't so laborious.

I am ALREADY spelling correctly.
The rest of u r spelling rong.

U honor the anti-logical, non-fonetic paradime.
Shame on u.

Do it right.

I also support full fontal freedom.
David

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candidone1 wrote:

I believe that before we support anything so grand as a national or internatinal policy on narcotics, we should all encourage David to spell correctly and to use a standard font.

I would likely read more of his posts if it weren't so laborious.

What is laborious about it ?
David

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Nothing is Labourious about it, candidone1 is just being nit picky.
I hate these bloody spelling/font NAZIS. They seem to squirm into every thread at some stage.

"Fontal freedom" Awsome Laughing

The war on drugs is a joke. Next thing ya know the casual pot smoker is labeled as an enemy combatant and sent to 1 of the many sinister FEMA prison camps dot-ing the american landscape.

Freedom is a dream, not a reality.

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