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Who Needs Moral Authority When One Has State Authority?

Wednesday 26 May 2010 - Filed under Dumbassery + POTUS + War on Drugs

Gene Healy via The Washingtion Examiner:

Like many middle-class kids, the president briefly flirted with drug culture before putting away childish things and becoming a high achiever. (Indeed, looking at what he has achieved since, you sometimes wish pot killed motivation as effectively as drug-war propagandists claim.)

The president lacks the moral authority to lock people up for behavior he engaged in as a young man.

Who needs moral authority when one has state authority?

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2010-05-26  »  madlibertarianguy