Obama's War on Drugs

[RespectTradition]

"liberty"......what everyone claims they want others to have as long as they use it exactly the way we want them to

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[RespectTradition]

now I have a headache

 

[milohimself]

Building quote pyramids is tough. Respek.

 

[RespectTradition]

Building quote pyramids is tough. Respek.

:blink: Do you have an aspirin I could borrow? :ill_h4h:

 

[VolsSportsFan]

I've never understood why those that claim to be conservative so blindly support the war on drugs. I know it's mostly because too many go along with the "social" conservative crap, but you'd think if you're going to claim you want small government, at least don't be a hypocrite. The amount of money wasted and individual rights trampled on is mind-boggling.

 

[milohimself]

Purely a guess here, but does the fact that the war on drugs is tied so strongly to the Reagan administration have anything to do with it? A lot of people out there, myself included, view the war on drugs as a complete failure, but there are also a lot of people out there that still lift Reagan to some sort of status as an infallible deity.

 

[Gramps]

Purely a guess here, but does the fact that the war on drugs is tied so strongly to the Reagan administration have anything to do with it? A lot of people out there, myself included, view the war on drugs as a complete failure, but there are also a lot of people out there that still lift Reagan to some sort of status as an infallible deity.

Ahhh. the myth of Reagan.
Some do treat him as the God of conservatism. His record says otherwise .

 

[gsvol]

Obama has gone against everything he said he would do on the campaign trail with his approach to "the war on drugs".

There is not and has never been a war on drugs.

It is a war against american citizens exercising freedom.

Drugs don't bleed. They don't die. They don't surrender. People do.

The war is on some college kid having fun on the weekend.

The war is against an entrepreneur who sees a demand/need and tries to find a way to supply it.

The war is against anyone who wants to be able to fully exercise rights that have been abridged for the sake of prohibition.

Doug Ross @ Journal: One Chart to Rule Them All

If government is so beneficent, so effective, so humane and compassionate, how is it that throughout all of human history, the great philosophers and thinkers were so fearful of it?

Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and so many more.

Is human history all wrong and Obama right?

Is human history all wrong and Nancy Pelosi right?

Is human history all wrong and Harry Reid right?

Do you really think Obama, Pelosi and Reid hold a candle to the greatest thinkers civilization has ever seen?

Because for Obama to be right; and for his party, now in the hands of the radical left, to be right; the Founders had to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, the Declaration of Independence has to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, the Constitution has to be wrong.

For Obama to be right, Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, Burke, Smith and the founding fathers all had to be wrong.

And so it is clear how all of this will end.

Government-run health care will be used as a tool by government officials. As these programs always are. It will be used to punish political enemies, to reward friends, to entice supporters and -- always -- to aggregate more power.

It must be repealed. It must be obliterated.
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Prior to 1902, Congress had never reached a 70% reelection rate.

Jacksonian argues that when the Senate became a directly elected body and no longer represented Statehouses, taxation and other federal usurpations of Constitutional bounds became rife. In other words, the federal government could and did use its power to begin punishing the states, regulating local affairs and interfering in every sort of arcane transaction.

That change triggered an ever-increasing federal budget that went far beyond national defense. Budget-busting initiatives, politically motivated in nature, purported to help retirees, the sick, the elderly and so on, while concentrating ever more power in Washington.

The federal government now consists of a body of lifetime bureaucrats, many of whom couldn't power a flashlight with all of their brainpower combined, who are reelected automatically through their use of federal tax funds. They reward, they punish, they anoint.

And they continue to aggregate more power at the federal level -- and to build their own personal wealth -- ignoring and flouting the law. Rangel, Feinstein, Frank, Reid, Waters, Conyers -- to name but a few -- have repeatedly thumbed their noses at financial disclosures, ethics violations, criminal complaints, FOIA requests, and the like.

dreVol
on the bright side, Obama hasn't waged a war against eating dogs