> Then you admittedly have a biased frame of reference
-- True. I watched by brother become completely overrun and now is locked away in prison for 20 years. I am biased... but you don't have to do drugs just to see the what they can do.
> If not ourselves, who then?
-- I want more than anything for it to be ourselves. But when the choices of others make a negatives impact on my life, should I not do what I can to protect my lifestyle? (This could, of course be and argument for both sides... just setting myself up here.)
> I think what you mean to say...
-- Sadly, yes.
> Wow, I think you've hit all the O'Reilly talking point!
-- Not a big fan of the O'Reilly. I don't know many more people that can spin like he can. I may agree on a few things he says, but the way he gets at them... quite twisted. mainly the -> d) You're all wrong and suck, and it's easy to see how wrong and sucky you all are from up here on my pedestal.
> The Drug War is a failure, and to continue doing the exact same thing
-- Just what I was trying to say. With one emphasis. I really have a hard time with those that hate the fight. It may not be fought the best way, but it still should be fought.
Oh... can you tell this was my first response to a/. article? Been reading for about 2 years. I always laugh at people like me...
Despite my nickname, I have never once used drugs. The problem here is the interpretation of 'freedom.' Legalize drugs because we should have dominion over our own bodies? You are so full of it, you can't think straight. This country is founded on morals and values. Just because you have none, nor the self control to do what is right shouldn't mean we should encourage others to do the same. With that logic we should get rid of all laws besides murder because we shouldn't be constricted. We all know, at one point or another, that there are limits to what should be legal and what should not. It's not because of the lack of technology or money that we can't keep out these drugs, but lack of a real dedication on the eradication of that which is wrong. Case in point. The two border patrol agents (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4141562) that were convicted of crimes because they were doing their job. What kind of message does this send? "Here, take a gun, make sure these pieces of slime don't come across the border and give our kids drugs. But if they do, just tell them to stop. If they run, don't you chase them! Just watch them cross, and report it later. Hopefully we can catch them when they sell the drugs to the dealers. And if we can't do that, then we will hopefully catch them when they are distributing those drugs. If we can't do that, we will just the kids in grade school that are taking them. But if we miss that, we will watch them shoot their classmates on prime time television and blame the teachers for not recognizing that they were troubled. Oh remember, don't exceed the speed limit without permission."
Ya, great idea! Let's just legalize drugs and let the moral disintegration of our nation come to a peak. Don't you give one piece of crap for your real freedom? Don't you think that allowing this kind of garbage take over society is exactly what the terrorists want us to do? Let us all be so messed up on legal drugs that we don't care anymore! This rant could go on forever! You can bring up statistics of other countries and how their legalization worked. Well then move there and puff it up, pal. We are the greatest country for a reason. And if we don't keep our wits about us, we will loose that to a bunch of third-world freaks that want to kill us for any reason they can. Stop pretending that we are great only because we have the choice to do anything we want whenever we want. We are the greatest because we have that freedom AND we have chosen the higher path. Once we choose to drop the second, we will fall, and we will fall hard.
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/. article? Been reading for about 2 years. I always laugh at people like me...
> Then you admittedly have a biased frame of reference -- True. I watched by brother become completely overrun and now is locked away in prison for 20 years. I am biased... but you don't have to do drugs just to see the what they can do.
> If not ourselves, who then?
-- I want more than anything for it to be ourselves. But when the choices of others make a negatives impact on my life, should I not do what I can to protect my lifestyle? (This could, of course be and argument for both sides... just setting myself up here.)
> I think what you mean to say...
-- Sadly, yes.
> Wow, I think you've hit all the O'Reilly talking point!
-- Not a big fan of the O'Reilly. I don't know many more people that can spin like he can. I may agree on a few things he says, but the way he gets at them... quite twisted. mainly the -> d) You're all wrong and suck, and it's easy to see how wrong and sucky you all are from up here on my pedestal.
> The Drug War is a failure, and to continue doing the exact same thing
-- Just what I was trying to say. With one emphasis. I really have a hard time with those that hate the fight. It may not be fought the best way, but it still should be fought.
Oh... can you tell this was my first response to a
Despite my nickname, I have never once used drugs. The problem here is the interpretation of 'freedom.' Legalize drugs because we should have dominion over our own bodies? You are so full of it, you can't think straight. This country is founded on morals and values. Just because you have none, nor the self control to do what is right shouldn't mean we should encourage others to do the same. With that logic we should get rid of all laws besides murder because we shouldn't be constricted. We all know, at one point or another, that there are limits to what should be legal and what should not. It's not because of the lack of technology or money that we can't keep out these drugs, but lack of a real dedication on the eradication of that which is wrong. Case in point. The two border patrol agents (http://www.dailybulletin.com/news/ci_4141562) that were convicted of crimes because they were doing their job. What kind of message does this send? "Here, take a gun, make sure these pieces of slime don't come across the border and give our kids drugs. But if they do, just tell them to stop. If they run, don't you chase them! Just watch them cross, and report it later. Hopefully we can catch them when they sell the drugs to the dealers. And if we can't do that, then we will hopefully catch them when they are distributing those drugs. If we can't do that, we will just the kids in grade school that are taking them. But if we miss that, we will watch them shoot their classmates on prime time television and blame the teachers for not recognizing that they were troubled. Oh remember, don't exceed the speed limit without permission." Ya, great idea! Let's just legalize drugs and let the moral disintegration of our nation come to a peak. Don't you give one piece of crap for your real freedom? Don't you think that allowing this kind of garbage take over society is exactly what the terrorists want us to do? Let us all be so messed up on legal drugs that we don't care anymore! This rant could go on forever! You can bring up statistics of other countries and how their legalization worked. Well then move there and puff it up, pal. We are the greatest country for a reason. And if we don't keep our wits about us, we will loose that to a bunch of third-world freaks that want to kill us for any reason they can. Stop pretending that we are great only because we have the choice to do anything we want whenever we want. We are the greatest because we have that freedom AND we have chosen the higher path. Once we choose to drop the second, we will fall, and we will fall hard.