Two Things To Say About Ron Paul's Allegedly Awesome Position On Drugs

[Donnachaidh]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/mark-ames/36957/two-things-to-say-about-ron-pauls-allegedly-awesome-position-on-drugs

Since no one else in the pro-drug camp will say it, allow me: Ron Paul is a drug war asshole. He’s a con artist playing a shell game with our liberties with his slippery proposal that the answer to this savage 40-year war on individual liberty is to transfer the power to destroy lives from one authority (federal) to another equally cruel authority (state). In doing so, Dr. Paul has shifted the moral debate about the drug war from one of barbarism and injustice to his crusty old Confederate gripe about states’ rights versus federal authority.

Here’s the latest whoop-tee-doo:

:snip bit about the new law introduced:

This is a moral issue, plain and simple. And there’s nothing moral about providing federal cover for barbarism at the state level. The reason why America forced the South at bayonet-point to dismantle its racist Jim Crow laws is because those Jim Crow laws were immoral, unjust and barbaric, and Washington either had to force the South to dismantle its racist laws, or else be a party to them by providing federal aid and protection to racist states. Until the Civil Rights legislation of the 60s, all of America was an accessory to that injustice, protecting, aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.

Millions of Americans have been locked up, their lives destroyed, merely for choosing to relieve the pain of existence via something more sublime (opiates, amphetamines) than that shit peasant drug alcohol they feed us. It’s a violation of the Declaration of Independence, the founding document for this country, which enshrines the “pursuit of happiness” as a sacred right of all Americans. This should be simple for libertarians to accept, and simple for them to say, “It’s as evil to oppress non-violent drug-users at the state level as it is at the federal level.” So say it!

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. I agree the Paul and many other 'states-rights' libertarians are hypocrites

on this issue for exactly the reasons stated. However as the states are currently WAY OUT IN FRONT of the federal government with respect to normalization of marijuana usage, I'll accept their support, hypocritical or not.