Marijuana should be legalized at the federal level and everything else including heroin, meth and cocaine should be decriminalized. Harm reduction should be the national policy with regard to drugs going forward. All so-called drug offenders currently in prison should have their cases reviewed, preferably by the Innocence Project. Qualified immunity for police should be eliminated and the death penalty abolished across the land, no exceptions. Cops and DAs found guilty of railroading innocent persons into prison should lose all licenses (such as to practice law) and spend at least 25 years behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Asset forfeiture should be outlawed as theft, and all those who have been subjected to it, regardless of their innocence or guilt, are owed financial recompense plus damages plus 25% interest from the government. And finally, abolish the police. A free country has no need of an army of slavers acting in the service of an illegitimate prison industrial complex. Abolish the police and the criminal court system, release any and all non-violent drug "offenders" and give that money to the communities they formerly terrorized. MAAFC - Make America A Free Country. Hard to pronounce but a worthy goal nonetheless.
I suppose that's one way to look at it. OTOH, maybe they don't want anybody to go through what they went through. I've never met a chemical addict who didn't wish he was an addict. I have met happy alkies, though.
I'm sure that is their motivation, but that goes to my point: they are identifying the person who sells drugs as the main cause of their addiction instead of looking deeper.I've known & loved lots of *cheerful* alcoholics, but that's not the same thing as happy. And their livers, guts & hearts eventually display the hurt, even if their faces don't.
That's because the process is the most important thing in the legal system, and, in those cases, the process was followed correctly, so the outcome was correct.
Our office banned smoking, like everyone else, but they failed to include chewing tobacco in the ban. We had only one person in the office who chewed. They called him in and asked him to voluntarily stop in the office so they wouldn't have to release an amended policy.
He declined. He did, of course, stop chewing in the office after the amended policy went into effect, but he was of the opinion that they weren't paying him to make the jobs of those above him more convenient.
We actually did win the war on poverty. ABC news did a primetime special, "Poverty In America," in 1967 that so shocked the populace that it spurred a whole raft of antipoverty programs. Within ten years, everyone had a roof over their heads and food on their tables.
Then, Ronnie Raygunz came along, gutted the programs, leaving us with the crumbling ruins that have made "federal housing" a synonym for decrepit, crime-ridden, rat-infested slums.
Meth, crack, heroin and all of the rest should be decriminalized. They are a health problem, not a law enforcement issue.
Time to end employer piss tests. They are unconstitutional.
Marijuana should be legalized at the federal level and everything else including heroin, meth and cocaine should be decriminalized. Harm reduction should be the national policy with regard to drugs going forward. All so-called drug offenders currently in prison should have their cases reviewed, preferably by the Innocence Project. Qualified immunity for police should be eliminated and the death penalty abolished across the land, no exceptions. Cops and DAs found guilty of railroading innocent persons into prison should lose all licenses (such as to practice law) and spend at least 25 years behind bars without the possibility of parole.
Asset forfeiture should be outlawed as theft, and all those who have been subjected to it, regardless of their innocence or guilt, are owed financial recompense plus damages plus 25% interest from the government. And finally, abolish the police. A free country has no need of an army of slavers acting in the service of an illegitimate prison industrial complex. Abolish the police and the criminal court system, release any and all non-violent drug "offenders" and give that money to the communities they formerly terrorized. MAAFC - Make America A Free Country. Hard to pronounce but a worthy goal nonetheless.
I suppose that's one way to look at it. OTOH, maybe they don't want anybody to go through what they went through. I've never met a chemical addict who didn't wish he was an addict. I have met happy alkies, though.
One of George Carlin's better lines concerned the war on marijuana:
"Think about it. The US government declared war on a plant. And the government is losing!"
I'm sure that is their motivation, but that goes to my point: they are identifying the person who sells drugs as the main cause of their addiction instead of looking deeper.I've known & loved lots of *cheerful* alcoholics, but that's not the same thing as happy. And their livers, guts & hearts eventually display the hurt, even if their faces don't.
I thought it was War on Christmas. Dammit! I'm using that fucking Julian Calendar again.
I'm fine with this too. I wouldn't call this approach a "war."
Only if it was in the stars.
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That's because the process is the most important thing in the legal system, and, in those cases, the process was followed correctly, so the outcome was correct.
The process is what's most important in the legal system.
It's that woke mind virus.
Our office banned smoking, like everyone else, but they failed to include chewing tobacco in the ban. We had only one person in the office who chewed. They called him in and asked him to voluntarily stop in the office so they wouldn't have to release an amended policy.
He declined. He did, of course, stop chewing in the office after the amended policy went into effect, but he was of the opinion that they weren't paying him to make the jobs of those above him more convenient.
There are recordings of Nixon being encouraged to take that route because the primary targets of the War would be Blacks and antiwar protesters.
We actually did win the war on poverty. ABC news did a primetime special, "Poverty In America," in 1967 that so shocked the populace that it spurred a whole raft of antipoverty programs. Within ten years, everyone had a roof over their heads and food on their tables.
Then, Ronnie Raygunz came along, gutted the programs, leaving us with the crumbling ruins that have made "federal housing" a synonym for decrepit, crime-ridden, rat-infested slums.
For one brief moment...
Oh, and the top tax rate was 71%.