Obama's position on pot
Posted by preimert1 11 years, 6 months ago to Government
The prez smoked a little paka lolo as a youth?
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Instead of seething at history, perhaps you should focus your passion on what you can change today to prevent more tyranny. Just a helpful suggestion.
Are you a statist? Do you believe the government should run rough shod over your life? Do you like the idea of a dictator scripting your life? Do you hate the Constitution? The Bill of Rights?
Lincoln was a tyrant.
More good than otherwise? Are you oblivious? An apologist for despots? Uneducated? Stupid? What among the actions I've listed above do you APPROVE? Murdering war protesters in the streets? Locking up those who won't print a dictator's propaganda? Seriously… what "good" came of Lincoln's murderous war on Americans?
But had he not moved them, they would have been totally eliminated.
Do you have the same animosity for Genghis Khan?
Regardless of the reasons or what you think of him, there has been more good that came out of the war between the states than would have occurred otherwise.
1) Imprisoned hundreds of newspaper editors to force them to print his propaganda,
2) Had war protesters shot down in the streets of NYC,
3) Published an "Emancipation Proclamation" that didn't free anyone,
4) Imposed ruinous tariffs on the South to force them to buy manufactured goods from his northern industrial backers,
5) Precipitated a war to force the people of the South to remain under his control (something he called "preserving the union"). Note: Lincoln's war was the equivalent of Germany, Austria and France attacking Great Britain, Portugal and Spain because the latter three have announced they're leaving the European Union. NOTHING in the Constitution authorized Lincoln's War of Northern Aggression to FORCE states to remain in the Union,
6) Was directly responsible for more American deaths and depredation than any other president in history… rivaling American dead from all other wars combined.
Lincoln did all this - and much more - in an attempt to impose slavery on the people of the South and enrich his political backers in the North. John Wilkes Booth was a true American hero who simply arrived a few years too late.
And others like Carl Sagan and Wm. F. Buckley were inspired.
I, for one, believe that more evil and harm to society has occurred as a consequence of being illegal.
"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
Abraham Lincoln
Of the five people we "bagged", one was a worthless POS. He tried to falsify his test, so we were able to fire him (union or not). He was the only one who tested positive for anything but pot - and he had about 4 different drugs in his system. He was also caught mixing meth while driving down the highway BEFORE we fired him - but we didn't know that at the time. Was he a worthless POS because he was a druggie? Or a druggie because he was a worthless POS?
The other four were: 1 average performer, 1 above-average performer and 2 of my top workers, one of whom had been singled out for EXCEPTIONAL contributions to the company the month prior to the drug test.
Fortunately, we were able to retain the four who took the test straight. Unfortunately, two of them tested positive a few months later and had to be fired.
The lesson I draw is that some people use drugs and are out of control. Others use drugs (pot, anyway) and are more worthwhile than those who don't. It seems likely to me that it's not the drugs that screwed people up, but rather the screwed up people who use drugs. The fact that other people use drugs (pot, alcohol) and aren't screwed up advises it's not the drugs that are the problem.
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