Community | October 23, 2008 | 3 comments

The Cry of a Strawman

source: http://www.unitedliberty.org/articles/the-cry-of-a-strawman

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For some reason, Congressman Price believes it is a good idea to spend billions of dollars a year to enforce drug use and possession laws against individuals, spend billions more incarcerating them and subjecting them to the adverse physical and psychological effects of incarceration, and then spend even more money to “re-adjust” them.


This specious argument is just one example of Congressman Price’s perverted thinking on the issue of drug abuse, with his vote just this year for H.R. 6028 to support aggressive “drug war” efforts in Mexico and Central America being another. With another two years, it is quite clear that Congressman Price cannot be trusted to promote the end of the four-decade policy failure known as the War on Drugs that is posting handsome profits for drug dealers, generating violent crime by-products, destabilizing communities and regions around the world, and engendering institutionalized racism with blatantly unfair enforcement patterns.


According to Albert Einstein, insanity is “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” By the logic of Einstein- who I think we can all agree had terrific logic- David Price is clinically insane in his support for the continuation of our failed drug policies.
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3 comments // The Cry of a Strawman

  • MizPiz
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      MizPiz  

    • Why hasn't America rebelled, yet? Isn't that the reason the founding fathers put in both the First (freedom of speech, assembly, etc) and Second (right to bear arms) Amendment?

    • 3 years ago
  • VoyagerFilms
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      VoyagerFilms  

    • I agree!

      The mentality to punish people who have problems and who are suffering - is insanity.

      We know enough about why people use drugs, but we fail to address it. Instead, we chose to play ignorant using the issue of drug use as a means to pass judgment on our fellow humans - and for those emotionally sterile and profoundly ignorant, a means to enrich themselves.

      The result is a perversion of law enforcement's purpose and the judicial system to the detriment of the individuals, their families and society. There is no upside. It is akin to focusing human consciousness, labors and natural resources on destructive ends, rather than constructive.

      What does it matter you say? Yes, what does it matter?

    • 3 years ago
  • HolyCity2012
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