Crime is caused largely by outlawing drugs and guns. Black market profits for drugs; disarmed innocent citizens
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 8:17 AM, RICHARD BROWN <[email protected] > wrote: > > Arlene, I read your article and I must disagree with your > conclusions. Having government provide more money for education and > healthcare will not solve the problem because the problems has nothing > to do with inadequate health care or with inadequate schooling. > Lincoln had less than three years of formal schooling and zero > government or employee provided health care. The problem is the war > this nation has been conducting for nearly 100 years against its own > people. We have invaded them with an army of laws and have treated > their resistance as an insurgency that requires an armed and violent > response and after incarceration we send them to be re-educated so > they will accept our invasion of them without further resistance. > In your article you point out that Dante's father was a functioning > heroin addict who held down a job, but spent most of his paycheck, not > on his family but on enriching the drug dealers down on the corner. > Dante, after observing this scenario for years, realized the only way > to get ahead is to sell drugs. Working two jobs as his mother did, > was insufficient to care for a family. I have seen functioning heroin > addicts working in apprenticeship programs, working at good paying > jobs and being productive members of society. They get prescription > heroin that costs $15 per dose, in a country where minimum wage is > about $25 per hour. Their insurance pays for it. Sidewalk displays > are left unguarded during the two-hour lunch break because you don't > have addicts being forced to steal to pay outrageous prices for their > drug of choice. > The real problem is the hundreds of billions of dollars that we waste > in trying to force our people to surrender their bodies to the state. > The interventionists in our society have, since prohibition, been > trying to tell people that they do not own their own bodies, that the > state owns them and they are only allowed to put in them what the > state approves, including trans fats. The response has been gangs > trying to control the drug trade and all of the violence caused, not > by the drugs but by their illegality. > I hope you reconsider your conclusions. > Dik > > On Jun 14, 8:56 pm, MWR <[email protected]> wrote: > > LOL, Keith!!! Doesn't number five cover that? :o) > > > > On Jun 14, 11:40 pm, Keith In Tampa <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > One More: > > > > > === > > > > > As my ole friend plainol would say "Spot on!" :o) > > > > > Below is the Code of Ethics I use in the classroom. I just wish I > > > could teach it to the parents! :o) > > > > > I will be responsible for my own behavior. > > > I will honor myself. > > > I will respect others. > > > I will resolve conflicts without violence or drugs. > > > I will take pride in my total environment. > > > > > ==== > > > > > I will never go to bed without washing the funk off all parts of my > > > anatomy...... > > > > > > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > This is my first post folks, so please go easy on me. I am from > > > > > > Louisiana and because of that, I have seen a great deal of > negative > > > > > > issues stemming from the political climate here. If you have a > > > > > > moment, please peruse my article at the link below & let me hear > from > > > > > > you on your thoughts - perhaps this is a sensitive subject, but > > > > > > whether I agree with you is not the point - it is just so > important > > > > > > that we all, no matter where we are from, address this issue: > > > > > http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-2552-New-Orleans-Crime-Examiner~y2...text- > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
