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Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Legalize it bitches.
Video of SWAT Raid on Missouri Family - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine
Legalize it bitches.
Fuck the Drug War
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thats horrible and make me absolutely sick. WTF killing the dog? Where is PETA on this shit - thats no better then Michael Vick. Let alone a kid in there.
Balko used to cover this stuff on a regular basis at his site, The Agitator. It was an ongoing, sickening theme. His coverage alone dismantles the argument that "oh, it's just a couple of isolated incidents involving rogue cops."
Fucking bullshit if you ask me. They break into his house and shoot his dog...fucking ridiculous.
Fuck PETA. PETA would argue that if the animals weren't held captive by their "owners" then they wouldn't have been there to begin with.
My mother always believed that illegal drug use/possession should be decriminalized to remove a lot of the profit motive and to collect taxes on sales. I never agreed, but now I just don't know. I doubt there are many politicians brave enough to get behind this idea.
Does anybody else here agree with her?
Does anybody else here agree with her?
I do. Look up what happened in Portugal for the last few years.
Short summary:
Drug posession/use became decriminalized. Drug users do get contact to and support from therapists, counselors, etc..
Everyone is happy, drug use goes and crime rate drops across the board.
The thinking behind this is that drug users normally also have other problems, which will get worse by criminalization.
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Short summary:
Drug posession/use became decriminalized. Drug users do get contact to and support from therapists, counselors, etc..
Everyone is happy, drug use goes and crime rate drops across the board.
The thinking behind this is that drug users normally also have other problems, which will get worse by criminalization.
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That's what happens when you give a bunch of dumb rednecks guns and call them cops...they go on a power trip
USA drug war lol.
Why wouldn't any politicians be brave enough to get behind this? It's already happened in many countries around the world and they have seen the benefits.
I believe that most (if not all) drugs should be decriminalised. I fail to see how it should be a crime to consume a substance that has no inherent effect on other people.
Why wouldn't any politicians be brave enough to get behind this? It's already happened in many countries around the world and they have seen the benefits.
I believe that most (if not all) drugs should be decriminalised. I fail to see how it should be a crime to consume a substance that has no inherent effect on other people.
if this isn't a true example of authoritarianism/totalitarianism, i dont know what is. this just shows how much power our government has over us.
This is all a result of pretty much one thing, the private prison industry. Once states started contracting out the management of prisons it gave huge corporations an incentive to lobby for laws that will send more people to jail. Manipulating the public into believing we needed a war on drug was easy breezy for them and it gets tons of people into prison for them.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Prison_Industries,_Inc.
Under current law, all physically able inmates who are not a security risk or have a health exception are required to work, either for UNICOR or at some other prison job. Inmates earn from US$0.23 per hour up to a maximum of US$1.15 per hour, and all inmates with court-ordered financial obligations must use at least 50% of this UNICOR income to satisfy those debts.
Legalized slavery - I know I was there (although not in a private prison). Had to bust my ass for $3.13/day. What we worked on was at the discretion of our crew boss and it generally involved, roofing, waterproofing basements, resurfacing parking lots etc for their buddies businesses. Nice hustle they had pimpin us out. 8 men for $25/day = thousands saved every week.