boykorda
05-03-2006, 05:58 PM
I am so tired of these felons getting away with a slap on the wrist! It is damaging the morale of those on the frontlines in the sinfully successful Wars on Drugs W used to abuse, Science, the Terminally Ill, Common Sense and the Truth?
(How can D Dubya I & co. wage all these wars plus the ones versus Iraq and Afghanistan when they're overdrawn by about $400 billion, anyway? Guess that's a future topic.)
Does anyone get why Limbaugh thinks he won, other than he might have fried his brain? If one is found not guilty, then there's no punishment. But there's all sorts of conditions to this deal. Usually when someone pleas out, he does it on the advice of his attorney and for a lighter sentence. Maybe Florida had a stronger case than he's letting on.
Sigh. I know his mess is about prescription drugs. But now is as ideal an opportunity as any to review:
According to the Nat'l Institure of Health, alcohol kills more than 200,000 people annually, while tobacco claims the lives of about twice as many. They're both perfectly legal and gleefully regulated and taxed.
At the same time, illicit drugs account for fewer than 10,000. The real danger here is that the violence and property crime are as a result of the nation's misguided and Draconian anti-drug policies, not the properties of the drugs themselves.
If the goal of mandatory sentencing was to jam prisons and clog courtrooms with small-time dealers and users while the illegal drug trade flourishes unabated and the gang VIPs escape justice with the help of slick lawyers, then mission accomplished! It's funny how the right always mocks the left for clinging to costly and discredited social policies, but this is the mother of them all. And such stubborn adherence to it is more telling of a Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro, not a U.S. President.
Prohibition was a train wreck. Gun control is a bust. If you support the War on Drugs, what makes you think it's ever going to work despite an avalanche of evidence to the contrary? The DEA may win a few skirmishes and a couple of battles, but they'll never win the war. Could someone please explain our exit strategy? Is there an outline for victory? Anyone?
How do we expect to come out ahead when we can't police our borders and keep away people who don't belong here? And didn't the House just vote down an amendment that would have mandated the inspection of all cargo flowing through the ports instead of the current and pathetic 5 per cent?
The Doctor of Hypocrisy may have "won" his own personal war, but let me say this much for our foreign policy: The US will probably declare victory in the war on terror before we ever win the War on Drugs.
(How can D Dubya I & co. wage all these wars plus the ones versus Iraq and Afghanistan when they're overdrawn by about $400 billion, anyway? Guess that's a future topic.)
Does anyone get why Limbaugh thinks he won, other than he might have fried his brain? If one is found not guilty, then there's no punishment. But there's all sorts of conditions to this deal. Usually when someone pleas out, he does it on the advice of his attorney and for a lighter sentence. Maybe Florida had a stronger case than he's letting on.
Sigh. I know his mess is about prescription drugs. But now is as ideal an opportunity as any to review:
According to the Nat'l Institure of Health, alcohol kills more than 200,000 people annually, while tobacco claims the lives of about twice as many. They're both perfectly legal and gleefully regulated and taxed.
At the same time, illicit drugs account for fewer than 10,000. The real danger here is that the violence and property crime are as a result of the nation's misguided and Draconian anti-drug policies, not the properties of the drugs themselves.
If the goal of mandatory sentencing was to jam prisons and clog courtrooms with small-time dealers and users while the illegal drug trade flourishes unabated and the gang VIPs escape justice with the help of slick lawyers, then mission accomplished! It's funny how the right always mocks the left for clinging to costly and discredited social policies, but this is the mother of them all. And such stubborn adherence to it is more telling of a Saddam Hussein or Fidel Castro, not a U.S. President.
Prohibition was a train wreck. Gun control is a bust. If you support the War on Drugs, what makes you think it's ever going to work despite an avalanche of evidence to the contrary? The DEA may win a few skirmishes and a couple of battles, but they'll never win the war. Could someone please explain our exit strategy? Is there an outline for victory? Anyone?
How do we expect to come out ahead when we can't police our borders and keep away people who don't belong here? And didn't the House just vote down an amendment that would have mandated the inspection of all cargo flowing through the ports instead of the current and pathetic 5 per cent?
The Doctor of Hypocrisy may have "won" his own personal war, but let me say this much for our foreign policy: The US will probably declare victory in the war on terror before we ever win the War on Drugs.