Reason: Huckabee Knocks "Libertarian faux-cons" in his new Book

[Anti Federalist]

If drugs were made legal...what do you think would happen? just curious. tones

About what happened prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act.

A nation at peace (mostly) with an expanding standard of living and home to some of the greatest innovations, and innovators, in history.

Prior to 1914 you could buy a sack of opium at a drugstore.

So, the presence of drugs, cheap and easily obtainable, does not mean that society will collapse. It's called Coca - Cola for a reason you know.

So what would happen if certain taboo drugs were re-legalized?

I imagine a lot crooked cops would be out of business. Ditto mafia hoodlums and inner city "gangstas".

I imagine that, in a short period of time we would cease to have the largest prison population, both in raw numbers and per capita, than any other nation on earth.

I imagine that the "intelligence community" would have to look for another source of funding for their murderous "black ops".

I imagine quite a few people would cease taking harmful, suicidal pyschotropic drugs pushed by the pharmas and perhaps smoke a joint to relax.

I imagine people would stop dying in "no knock" warrants, being served by 'roided up cops, hut hutting into people's homes with machine guns blazing.

I imagine a lot people would get their property back, after having it wrongly siezed in asset forfeiture proceedings.

That's just for starters.

 

[politicsNproverbs]

I'll never make it to the end of this thread, so I'll just post this FWIW...

Last week I noticed Huckabee Muckabee was going to be a guest on TBN w/Jesse Duplantis hosting. For news' sake I should have watched, but had no desire to see/hear the guy, but maybe he was on there pushing this new book.

Tuesday Nov 18, 2008
Jesse Duplantis hosts Pastor David Shearin, Pastor Russell Kalenberg, Pastor Joseph Ripley, Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, Mike & Kelly Bowling in Atlanta, GA. http://www.tbn.org/index.php/2/37.html

 

[Truth Warrior]

About what happened prior to the passage of the Harrison Narcotics Act.

A nation at peace (mostly) with an expanding standard of living and home to some of the greatest innovations, and innovators, in history.

Prior to 1914 you could buy a sack of opium at a drugstore.

So, the presence of drugs, cheap and easily obtainable, does not mean that society will collapse. It's called Coca - Cola for a reason you know.

So what would happen if certain taboo drugs were re-legalized?

I imagine a lot crooked cops would be out of business. Ditto mafia hoodlums and inner city "gangstas".

I imagine that, in a short period of time we would cease to have the largest prison population, both in raw numbers and per capita, than any other nation on earth.

I imagine that the "intelligence community" would have to look for another source of funding for their murderous "black ops".

I imagine quite a few people would cease taking harmful, suicidal pyschotropic drugs pushed by the pharmas and perhaps smoke a joint to relax.

I imagine people would stop dying in "no knock" warrants, being served by 'roided up cops, hut hutting into people's homes with machine guns blazing.

I imagine a lot people would get their property back, after having it wrongly siezed in asset forfeiture proceedings.

That's just for starters.

Good imagining starters there.<IMHO>

 

[Paulitical Correctness]

Is this an epic troll or does that chick really believe this nonsense?

I would say the USA needs some morality crammed down their throats at this point

Be good...and you don't get the government's foot on your neck

Those are just from the past two pages, I wonder what other gems I could scroll back and find...

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

Ok anti federalist...fair enough. Do you think the government would control it and tax it like alcohol or ciggarettes? one more...anyone...do any of you think the government imposed drugs into our society as a means to control the masses? I know that marijuana has been used for many years for medicinal purposes. Tones

 

[powerofreason]

If drugs were made legal...what do you think would happen? just curious. tones

Drug dealers go out of business? Crime goes down? People can afford drugs without killing and stealing? I can afford to buy drugs because I don't need to pay for an appointment to get a prescription?

 

[powerofreason]

I bet Tones is one of those people who believe that if all drugs were legal everyone would be high 24/7 and people would snort coke off their dashboards on the way to work. And don't forget the heroin vending machines. Those are sure to proliferate.

 

[tonesforjonesbones]

The question is...why are you fixated on drugs? tones

 

[LittleLightShining]

And don't forget the heroin vending machines. Those are sure to proliferate.

 

[Grimnir Wotansvolk]

The question is...why are you fixated on drugs? tones

the war on drugs is one of the greatest sources of human suffering here in the U.S., and by proxy, even worse in south america

how you can ignore this and then promote yourself as some beacon of morality is beyond me

 

[LittleLightShining]

The question is...why are you fixated on drugs? tones

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/ron-paul-answers-your-questions-part-two/Ron Paul answers your questions

Q: Why is it that, even in the midst of unimaginable deficits and an economic crisis, both our enormous military and our policy of drug prohibition remain sacrosanct? Do you think this reflects actual democratic opinion, or is it the work of powerful, but numerically small interest groups?

A: I think that it might reflect democratic opinion, but only because each issue has been demagogued.

Take military spending. I believe in a strong national defense. I want our troops here, defending our territory; I want nuclear submarines and an adequate arsenal of weapons that can repel any conceivable attack. What I don’t want to do is spend a trillion dollars a year maintaining an empire.

Today, our troops are in 130 countries. We have 700 foreign bases. We can spend far less and have a stronger national defense than we do right now. But if you question our foreign policy, you are branded as un-American. And we’re told that if we don’t “fight them over there, we’ll fight them over here.” That’s absurd.

On your second example, the federal war on drugs has proven costly and ineffective, while creating terrible violent crime. But if you question policy, you are accused of being pro-drug. That is preposterous. As a physician, father, and grandfather, I abhor drugs. I just know that there is a better way — through local laws, communities, churches, and families — to combat the very serious problem of drug abuse than a massive federal-government bureaucracy.

There are certainly some powerful special interests that benefit from our flawed foreign and drug policies. Now, do I think they openly conspire together to deceive and manipulate? No I don’t. The system is much too complicated to think a few puppet masters control the strings. But I do think we’d be a lot better off if we listened to our founding fathers and obeyed the Constitution. The founders would never have formed a D.E.A., and they would be horrified if they saw our troops spread thin around the globe.

 

[Anti Federalist]

Ok anti federalist...fair enough. Do you think the government would control it and tax it like alcohol or ciggarettes? one more...anyone...do any of you think the government imposed drugs into our society as a means to control the masses? I know that marijuana has been used for many years for medicinal purposes. Tones

Would they? Yes, beyond a shadow of doubt. "They" are at the point of taxing the very air we breathe under "carbon caps".

Should they? No.

And I would say that government and the medical establishment is doing a bag up job already, controlling the masses, what with 50 million 'scrips for "happy pills" already written.