jclalor 12
If you cannot even begin to keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, how do you keep them from a free society?
How is that war on drugs thing working out for ya.
How is that war on drugs thing working out for ya.
RonD1120 58
QuoteIf you cannot even begin to keep drugs out of maximum security prisons, how do you keep them from a free society?
Now that's a good point to ponder.
The only alternative, that I can see, to drugs is faith in a power greater than yourself. As for me and my house, we choose the Lord.
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.
RonD1120 58
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Pablo Escobar was taken out and it remains a mystery who fired the kill shot.
The son of a bitch needed it!
Chuck
Amen.
That's the ol' Southern defense, "He jes needed killin'."
Look for the shiny things of God revealed by the Holy Spirit. They only last for an instant but it is a Holy Instant. Let your soul absorb them.
rushmc 18
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Pablo Escobar was taken out and it remains a mystery who fired the kill shot.
The son of a bitch needed it!
Chuck
Amen.
That's the ol' Southern defense, "He jes needed killin'."
As reprehensible as it is, the lowest common denominator is not always set by the good guys, is it.....
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"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
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Pablo Escobar was taken out and it remains a mystery who fired the kill shot.
The son of a bitch needed it!
Chuck
Amen.
That's the ol' Southern defense, "He jes needed killin'."
The way I see it, he brought it on himself. He knew the rules of the game.
Chuck
winsor 187
I've had the opportunity to talk with several DEA agents and their response to the question about the 'war on drugs' was... 'it's a joke!'
I've often wondered, how many politicians and those in authority, are in the 'pockets' of the drug cartels.
Chuck
I've often wondered, how many politicians and those in authority, are in the 'pockets' of the drug cartels.
Chuck
You need not assume there is any actual corruption in order to have a conflict of interest at work. In this case, having drugs illegal is pivotal to quite a variety of industries: the Apprehension Industry, the Prosecution Industry, the Defense Industry, the Incarceration Industry and so forth.
If I have been on the Force for the last 23 years and things are precisely as bad as they were when I joined, my response is not going to be "Gee, what I do does not seem to make much difference. They should just legalize the stuff and make my job go away."
More likely, I will focus on how horrible things would obviously have been if I had not been out there in the trenches fighting the evil menace. When I retire in a couple of years, one can only hope that there will be some dedicated person to take my place, otherwise all is lost....
After agreeing that marijuana is a "bad" thing, I have asked cops the following: would you rather arrest someone who has been smoking pot all night, or someone who has a half a bottle of Jack Daniels in them?
The overwhelming response is they'd rather bust the pothead ("I'm under arrest? Bummer. You gonna finish that donut?") than the boozer ("Y'wanna 'rest me?! You sumbitch, I'm g'na kill you! [retch]").
Prohibition is job security for those charged with its enforcement every bit as much as for the illegal drug trade itself.
When the Volstead Act was repealed, the murder rate in the US of A went down by 2/3. Why? Because there were no longer obscene, illegal profits over which to battle. Executives from Miller and Anheuser Busch now meet at industry conventions where gang members would shoot and throw bombs at each other previously.
I do not approve of booze, dope or tobacco, but have concluded that the prohibition on any of these is a cure that is infinitely worse than the disease.
BSBD,
Winsor
rushmc 18
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Pablo Escobar was taken out and it remains a mystery who fired the kill shot.
The son of a bitch needed it!
Chuck
Amen.
That's the ol' Southern defense, "He jes needed killin'."
The way I see it, he brought it on himself. He knew the rules of the game.
Chuck
Hell man, he defined the rules of the game!
"America will never be destroyed from the outside,
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
if we falter and lose our freedoms,
it will be because we destroyed ourselves."
Abraham Lincoln
You and I are on the same page here with one exception. I believe the "war on drugs" was a political decision and had little to do with good intentions. Bottom line, it did very little good. The war seemed to have provided some excellent training for our black ops personnel.
Pablo Escobar was taken out and it remains a mystery who fired the kill shot.
I've had the opportunity to talk with several DEA agents and their response to the question about the 'war on drugs' was... 'it's a joke!'
I've often wondered, how many politicians and those in authority, are in the 'pockets' of the drug cartels.
Chuck