Marko Kloos
Moderator Emeritus
dustind,
don't expect the Drug Warriors to remember the lessons of the Prohibition. They will insists that this is "totally different", and that legalizing drugs will cause "huge societal costs". They will use the same arguments as the Methodist Board of Temperance did in the 1920s, and the same arguments the anti-gunners use now. This country is afflicted with a terrible selective amnesia, which requires the relearning of lessons that have been learned in a painful fashion by the preceding generations. They don't realize that their particular pet prohibition is responsible for just about every Bill of Rights infringement since at least 1968.
They will insist to keep up this charade until nothing of our civil liberties remains. They will do so, because legalizing drugs would send the "wrong message". They will tolerate and support no-knock raids, asset forfeiture, and the imprisonment of millions of non-violent "criminals". They will hold the Zippo to the Bill of Rights with glee, as long as they are being perceived as righteous.
don't expect the Drug Warriors to remember the lessons of the Prohibition. They will insists that this is "totally different", and that legalizing drugs will cause "huge societal costs". They will use the same arguments as the Methodist Board of Temperance did in the 1920s, and the same arguments the anti-gunners use now. This country is afflicted with a terrible selective amnesia, which requires the relearning of lessons that have been learned in a painful fashion by the preceding generations. They don't realize that their particular pet prohibition is responsible for just about every Bill of Rights infringement since at least 1968.
They will insist to keep up this charade until nothing of our civil liberties remains. They will do so, because legalizing drugs would send the "wrong message". They will tolerate and support no-knock raids, asset forfeiture, and the imprisonment of millions of non-violent "criminals". They will hold the Zippo to the Bill of Rights with glee, as long as they are being perceived as righteous.
