Senators McCain and Kyl in a letter to President Obama concerning illegal immigration: The violence has crossed the border and escalated to a point where many Arizonans do not feel safe within their own homes or on their own property . . . It would be irresponsible not to do everything we can to stop […]
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When our drug war causes political instability and violence in other countries, it should be taken as a sign that something isn’t right about the War on Drugs. I’m not here to defend the actions of drug cartels and their leaders, but we must remember that before we initiated the War on Drugs, there was […]
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Seriously. These fucking guys are the ones responsible for defending my rights as a citizen? The ones who “selflessly” patrol the streets making sure that no harm comes to me? Bart Bedsole via KRISTV: Police later hauled away 300-400 medium-sized plants that they also believed was marijuana. If fact, officers only stopped collecting the plants […]
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Perhaps one of the reasons why we don’t hear about the excessive use and abuse of paramilitary SWAT team units against low level drug users is that, apparently, the only people who want to broadcast anything about it without demonizing those being perpetrated on is Russian TV.
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Nicholas Casey via The Wall Street Journal: Authorities battling drug traffickers in this violent border city [Ciudad Juarez] have begun to suspect that their efforts to impede the flow of drugs into the U.S. has fostered demand—and turf wars—on their own territory. (Emphasis mine) They’ve begun to suspect that prohibition worsens the problem in every […]
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Aren’t drug warriors awesome? In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]
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When Afghan terrorists get more consideration than American civilians, it’s pretty evident we have a problem.
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And I’m ‘Firmly Opposed’ to the Obama Administration. Via the Huffington Post: Yet the entire premise for maintaining the government’s policy — that keeping marijuana criminally prohibited “reduces [its] availability and lessens willingness to use [it]” — is demonstrably false. Under present prohibition, more than 1/3 of 8th graders, more than 2/3rds of 10th graders, […]
Via the Marijuana Policy Project: The agenda for the publicly funded conference, held at the prestigious U.S. Grant Hotel from May 10 through May 13, is not available to the public. In fact, the conference is under the close guard of about a dozen San Diego Police officers and even some military personnel. We do […]
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Chief Burton of the Columbia, MO Police Department: I hate the internet. The Internet: We hate you too cocksucker. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbwSwvUaRqc&feature=related