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The drug war is worse than a waste of money, it simply and obviously causes more problems than it solves.
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"If more government control and less civil liberties mean increased safety, why aren’t our prisons the safest places in the country?" Munchkin Wrangler
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Fire two. "Unknown Pilot
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"Remember, government jobs are *hard* and confusing; irrational decisions appearing to be insane are the case only because we can’t appreciate how immensely difficult redistributionist social relativism really is." - Hatless Hessian
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"Blaming the current financial crisis on the failure of markets is like blaming an airplane crash on the failure of gravity." Kyle Bennett
"Be you. Be kind. Give a shit. Mean it." Kawehi
"Wars are seldom caused by spontaneous hatreds between peoples, for peoples in general are too ignorant of one another to have grievances and too indifferent to what goes on beyond their borders to plan conquests. They must be urged to slaughter by politicians who know how to alarm them." H.L. Mencken
"The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life." - George Will
"We should all be thankful to the Soviets because they have proved conclusively that socialism doesn't work. No one can say they didn't have enough power or enough bureaucracy or enough planners or they didn't go far enough." Paul Craig Roberts
"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart." H.L. Mencken.
"Taking care of business is cool where we live." Bono.
"Capitalism has taken more people out of poverty than any other ‘ism’." - Bono
"We didn't speak to each other. That's how everything falls apart, isn't it." Nick Heyward, commenting on Haircut 100’s breakup.
"[F]or all he's really worth to Objectivism today, That Woman might as well never have devoted a single line to Ragnar Danneskjold" - Billy Beck
"25 States allow anyone to buy a gun, strap it on, and walk down the street with no permit of any kind: some say it's crazy. However, four out of five US murders are committed in the other half of the country: so who's crazy?" -- Andrew Ford
"Asking liberals where wages and prices come from is like asking six-year-olds where babies come from." Thomas Sowell
"People shouldn't be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people." V for Vendetta (Movie)
"That stone buddha deserves all the birdshit it gets. I wave my skinny arms like a tall flower in the wind." Ikkyu
"I left Earth three times. I found no place else to go. Please take care of Spaceship Earth." Walter Schirra
"I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; I’ve watched C-Beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in the rain. Time to die." Roy Batty - Blade Runner
"All social engineering is preceded by verbal engineering." Rita Marker
"Neither one person, nor any number of persons, is warranted in saying to another human creature of ripe years that he shall not do with his life for his own benefit what he chooses to do with it. All errors he is likely to commit against advice and warning are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him to do what they deem his good." John Stuart Mill
"Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place." from The Law - Frédéric Bastiat
"Well, you have to know. Or you can't sing it." Richard Dreyfuss (Mr. Holland's Opus)
"When seconds count, the police are only minutes away." (who knows who said it first...but it's true).
"We didn't leave the Stone Age because we ran out of stones" - Thomas Barnett
"Pete Best was a good drummer, but Ringo was a good Beatle." John Lennon
"I guarantee that people will steal things in market anarchy. They just won't be able to credibly claim a public mandate to do so." Kyle Bennett
"For if power without law [meaning 'just the will of the prevailing dominant mob'] can make laws, may alter the fundamental laws of the kingdom, I do not know what subject he is in England that can be sure of his life, or any thing that he calls his own." Charles I (pdf)
"If more government control and less civil liberties mean increased safety, why aren’t our prisons the safest places in the country?" Munchkin Wrangler
"They're called missles, not hittles.
Fire two. "Unknown Pilot
"Your third party vote is not wasted. It serves to enslave your mind just as well as a major party vote does." - Brad Spangler.
"Remember, government jobs are *hard* and confusing; irrational decisions appearing to be insane are the case only because we can’t appreciate how immensely difficult redistributionist social relativism really is." - Hatless Hessian
"Tradition holds that even the most senior officer will salute a Victoria Cross recipient as a mark of the utmost respect for their act of valour." - Angus Houston
"Though my heart may be left of center, I have always known that the only economic system that works is a market economy. This is the only natural economy, the only kind that makes sense, the only one that leads to prosperity, because it is the only one that reflects the nature of life itself. The essence of life is infinitely and mysteriously multiform, and therefore it cannot be contained or planned for, in its fullness and variability, by any central intelligence."--Vaclav Havel
"Whenever someone from the government asks you 'where would you be without us' the first and most essential answer is 'free'. - Me.
"If I have a right to be free at all, I have a right to be free right here where I am, and right now." - Me.
"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." - Etienne de La Boétie
"You might think that we can find an alternative to markets, that markets are a political tool that can be chosen or rejected. They're not. They operate at all times and in all places, and always by the same laws. They are the given that your political positions are tested against." - Kyle Bennett
"If I have a right to be free at all, I have a right to be free right here where I am, and right now." - Me.
"I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces." - Etienne de La Boétie
"You might think that we can find an alternative to markets, that markets are a political tool that can be chosen or rejected. They're not. They operate at all times and in all places, and always by the same laws. They are the given that your political positions are tested against." - Kyle Bennett
7 comments:
our landlords have cop relatives. talking with them and how organized crime is so huge in canada, i suggested marijuanna be outright legal. the reply was that while that's good in theory, it's not going to work unless the united states makes some drastic moves toward legalizing it too. otherwise the border trade just continues.....b.c. bud for cocaine , made in canada 'ice' for whatever.
interesting mr.christ (ha, great name) is leading such a growing movement. if all is said and done, can orders be place on the internet?
scout: Canada is a sovereign nation. We have the right to make our own decisions, and drug flow would be a problem the Americans would have to deal with. It's one thing, I guess they think, to send armies to central american dots on the map--it'd be entirely another for the United States to move against Canada in the same way were drugs legal here. Even the States knows that wouldn't fly.
I can just imagine the British Prime Minister spinning in circles, going "my goodness, my lord, oh gawd, choosing can be ever so difficult..."
Besides, prohibition worked out pretty well for Canada :-)
...and who mentioned legalizing just grass? Legalize them all; that'd work at least for us Canadians, too. Then there'd be not much point in trading for ice--you could get that at the corner store...
I know some folks would get hurt, but there are lotsa folks getting hurt, badly, right now. Might as well let the ones who get hurt be the ones who choose it for themselves. At least that'd be an improvement.
ron, i was just commenting on some attitude out there.....it doesn't necessisarly reflect my own beliefs. and looks like we won't be a sovereign nation soon if the cons stay in power. thats besides the point though.
i know the movement is growing to see a more 'dutch' approach to drugs.
meatime many reservations are enstating 'zero tolerance' and those who get busted lose their status, get kicked off the rez until they've 'worked the program' and can prove themselves clean.
again, this is just news, no opinion included.
scout: I understood you were noting someone else's opinion. :-)
Personally, I have little or no interest in whether someone is "clean" or not. What I am concerned about is people's behaviour towards others.
People choose their lives, and whether or not they want to do drugs, alcohol, tobacco...whatever. Some folks treat others fine and don't put anyone else at risk when they're high as a kite. OK, no problem.
Some folks get all out of shape and endanger others. Then we have to talk.
"Canada is a sovereign nation. We have the right to make our own decisions.."
Canadians have a right to make their own decisions individually, not collectively.
Canada has already collectively decided on prohibition, and there's nothing just about that.
John: You are correct. Howvever, there is a growing trend up here to legalize/decriminalize marijuana and other drugs. If we did that, it would be a small step in the right direction.
Of course, the use of such substances should already be an individual decision with no interference by the state.
My response here mentioning our national sovereignty was in response to scouts mention of an opinion she heard that stated we couldn't legalize because it would upset the US government.
The U.S. tried Prohibition, even passed an ammendment to the Constitution, then repealed it when they found it simple created more criminal activity, i.e. Al Capone.
In the late 1800's one could purchase a Cocaine Kit from the Sears Catalogue, because it was 'fashionable.'
The issue of drugs and responsibility should be 'Commit a real crime and drugs are no excuse.
If people wish to fry their brains, go right ahead. I choose not to personally.
We could have stopped numerous real crimes if the billions wasted on Wacky Weed and other drugs had been spent on real crime.
But, that would be intelligent...wouldn't it?
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