outcry against the Texas gestapo's "war on drunks" of a few weeks
ago. How anyone can argue that there is a difference between cops
arresting drunks who have committed no "crime" other than being under
the influence of one recreational substance, and arresting people for
committing no "crime" other than being under the influence of some
other recreational substance just boggles the mind. I neither drink
nor do other recreational drugs and I don't like being around either
drunks or people who are high on other substances, but as far as I'm
concerned, they have committed no crime. If I were "king for a day"
(I might even forget that I am an anarchist for that one day! :-) ),
the first thing I would do is issue a decree overturning all drug
laws; the second thing I would do is issue pardons to the millions of
Americans whose only crimes have been drug violations and order their
records expunged so they could start to get their lives back. The
third thing I would do is try to figure out what to do about the
millions of cops and jailers and prison guards who would suddenly be
without employment. Ah, but by then, the coach would have turned back
into a pumkin and I would have turned back into an anarchist.
--- In [email protected], "mark robert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Reading that makes me sick. I thought I was starting to see a ray
> of hope. Oh well. I guess expecting to see such a major change in
> one puny lifetime was asking too much. Besides, drug prejudice
> may actually be the most historically tenacious bigotry of them
> all. I don't think anyone realizes the difference its absence
> would make because it appears post-agriculture civilization has
> never been without it.
>
> Apparently most people still feel (not "think") that drugs are
> worse than massive violent crime, the destruction of untold
> numbers of innocent lives, and the punishment/incarceration of
> the highest number of people in the world. "Bad drugs" (and their
> use) are apparently considered to be more evil than the direct
> infliction of pain and suffering and death upon millions of
> people. In other words: the "message", "appearance", "image", and
> the religious "morality" of our society are more important than
> individual safety and liberty (life). Apparently, preventing
> things that only look bad is more important than preventing
> things that really ARE bad.
>
> The active misidentification of evil is the worst kind of evil.
> It's not the drugs that create these atrocities; it's the drug
> prohibition that does. The Drug War is an anti-solution: a far
> worse problem than the problem it is supposed to solve. To
> sustain prohibition in any way is to increase the harm to
> society: the exact thing it purports to reduce. Buying drugs does
> not support terrorism; supporting drug prohibition does. Every
> juror's vote to convict a drug defendant (and every vote to elect
> a prohibition candidate) is a vote to create more drug
> defendants, more murder defendants, more crime, more chaos, more
> danger, more terrorism, more gang violence, more
> imprisonment/torture of harmless citizens, more corruption, more
> bloating of govt, and etc etc.
>
> I challenge anyone reading this that thinks he/she can debate
> against anti-prohibition on the bases of reason, ethics and/or
> science! Comon, make my day!
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
> ************
> {American jurors have complete Constitutional authority to vote
> "not guilty" based on nothing more than a disagreement with the
> case, no matter the evidence - despite the judge's instructions.
> There is absolutely no obligation to vote "guilty" to arrive at a
> unanimous verdict. Get on a jury, stand your ground, and fulfill
> its other main purpose: to counteract abusive government and
> unjust lawsuits.
> See www.fija.org
> [Please adopt this as your own signature.] }
>
>
> ----------
>
> Subject: [Libertarian] Mexico U-turn On Drugs
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4971416.stm
>
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