[I've been having image troubles, so if you can't see the whole thing, click on it]Having come from liberal Northampton, a city with an even occasionally impartial newspaper has been an unfamiliar pleasure, the benefits of which I have today experienced. Blazing across the top-right column of the Telegram & Gazette was this headline: Income tax end has foes: Supporters say time has come. Although it's an AP story, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and Springfield Republican have apparently ignored it.
Such joy this has brought me. As the Ron Paul campaign has been saying, freedom is popular, especially in the leadup to the 2008 election. Next year will likely be a good year- besides the chance we have of electing Ron Paul, we in the Bay State have a genuine chance to deal a hammer blow to big government and socialism. Imagine what it would say if Massachusetts, realm of gay pride parades and bomb-free zones, could cut the amount of money we give the goons on Beacon Hill by 40%! We got 45% of the vote in 2002, and there was so little publicity that even I, who at the time prayed each night for a Romney victory, didn't know about it for a few years afterwards. I'm going to be on this measure day in and day out from now on; with luck, we will be Taxachusetts no more!
Also on the ballot will be a measure to legalize ownership small amounts of marijuana [good idea- though I'm no fan of pot, the nanny state's argument for illegality logically could be used to ban alcohol, tobacco, trans fats, or even sugar, as they are all worse for our health than pot, and have, unlike the latter, actually lead to disease and death], a measure to ban greyhound racing [animal rights nuts] and a confusing measure to simplify the laws on low-income housing [aids a socialist program, and therefore bad]. I simply cannot wait for the first Tuesday of November 2008.
posted by crusader @ 3:13 PM
8 Comments:
Legalize pot?
It would have been better if it had never been made illegal, then there might be less hoopla about it (and in these anti-smoking days, pot would have even fewer backers). But, being that it is illegal, legalizing it opens the floodgates to all sorts of nonsense.
That's why I am against legalization of drugs. That said, I am no fan of the drug war.
If we punished crime routinely and firmly, there would be little to worry about. Those who used drugs and committed crimes would be locked up and puit to work at hard labor. Those who got addicted and died would remove themselves as problems.
I don't think legalization is a good idea. I might favor it more if the movement wasn't led by yahoos like Woody Harrelson.
To some extent, what you say is true: the pot legalization movement is led by yahoos: the bomb Iran National Review is also all for it.
While I disagree with your position, I think you make a good point regarding enforcement. It should either be legal or illegal with regularly enforced laws. The state we have now is insane: we have the reverse psychological effects of marijuana being cool because the authorities tell us not to do it, while the authorities are mostly just talk and DARE programs. At my high school, roughly 40% of students [according to an actual study] had experimented with pot, many of whom were my friends. But it was a very rare case when the system they were supposedly rebelling against actually made a concerted effort to enforce its own laws.
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Why do some people seem to have nothing better to do than post crude, unnecessary comments?
There is absolutely no reason for anyone to be so incredibly rude and disrespectful.
I understand that quite a few people who read this blog may not agree with everything the writer states. But you (the writer(s) of these comments) are so far out of line that I can't help but comment.
These comments are clearly intended to hurt and insult this blogger, and are entirely inappropriate.
What makes you feel the need to hurt and insult someone in that manner? Simply not agreeing with them or their opinions is not reason to engage in such hurtful behavior. What has Leslie done to you personally to make you feel that he deserves such remarks?
It makes me a little annoyed to think that I am of the same species as people so entirely crass.
I am very much opposed to a "big brother" type government which interfeers in health and lifestyle choices, and provides everything for it's citizens. BUT I think that at this point in time, it is not a good idea to legalize marijuana.
There has been such a struggle over it recently, that it would be extremely imprudent to decriminalize it's use right now. When a child is told it can do something, but is given a mixed message, it continues to engage in the type of behavior, which is what is currently occuring now. If the parent eventually gives in, the child learns that it can get away with all manner of things that it should not be able to. It become spoiled and used to getting it's way. What stared out as being allowed to eat sweets before dinner as a six year old turns into full fledged rebellion as a teenager.
In the same way, legalizing marijuana at this point will lead to voters believing that if they don't care for a particular piece of the law, they can simply push, and push, and keep engaging in the behavior until finally the law is revoked and/or changed. What happens when more people begin using cocaine, and want to legalize that?
This current battle has less to do with the drug than it does with the overall political atmosphere of the country. The people of America feel that they are entitled to welfare, health care, protection, and more without having to give anything in return, whether it be in the way of paying taxes or obeying the law. This current cry for everything to be 'put on the ballot' shows an incredible disrespect for both the law and the lawmakers.
American have to understand that the law is not there to be swayed at their whim or convenience.
Sorry about the copious amounts of errors in that comment...
The second paragraph should read "When a child is told it CAN'T do something",
And the other errors should be pretty much self explanatory...
Thank you for the comment, Rachel. While I believe that making pot illegal was a bad idea from the beginning, and that it being forbidden has made it more attractive to a rebellious youth, I realize that the atmosphere which has been built up around the issue would make legalization very painful for society as a whole.
If it were not for those mandatory health classes in public schools, which waste so much time making drug use look cool and rebellious (whenever they're not pushing artificial contraception), there wuld not be such a big problem. I enjoy having actual discussions on my blog; I've gotten used to the stupid comments by now. In a way, they cheer me up, because they show that even when my readers disagree with me, all but the dumbest still respect me.
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