Comments on: I told you the Drug Warriors were completely nuts

By: Jake Witmer

Jake Witmer — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 10:39:25 +0000

As usual, Starchild is 100% correct. I like the cross-pollination metaphor. Another good metaphor is DNA. Code. Meme transfer. Idea software programming.

The trouble with what passes for Americans these days is simply that they have not been programmed with anything resembling proper code. It’s not that they’re stupid, it’s that they accepted the government youth propaganda camps because it’s all they’ve ever known.

Their parents, on the other hand, should be ashamed. (And we should all sign up for a Johnny Appleseed class tomorrow, because it’s not getting better on its own.)

See also http://www.fija.org for viable solutions.

By: Durk Pearson

Durk Pearson — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 23:43:04 +0000

That creep and his accomplices deserve to be tried, convicted, and imprisoned for child abuse.

By: Starchild

Starchild — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:42:40 +0000

In response to Van Cronkhite — I totally hear and agree with what you’re saying. I sometimes view the role of libertarians as cross-pollinators — helping members of the various groups resisting government encroachment on the particular freedoms they hold dear, to raise their heads and look around them and see the others fighting their lonely fights see that they are *not* alone, if only they would make common cause with others fighting for freedom, and mutually agree to respect each others’ rights to be left alone so long as they are not committing aggression against others.

I will often send emails to my friends and allies in the cannabis freedom movement about the right to keep and bear arms, the problems with government taxation and spending, etc., and when I encounter conservatives at Tea Parties or elsewhere, I try to help them understand that opposing Big Government means opposing not just social welfare spending, but also military spending, the “War on Drugs,” intrusive border controls, etc.

However when you ask “How have we sunk so low?” I must protest that *we* have *not* sunk so low. At least I know I have not, and from your comments I would strongly surmise that you have not either. Those who would give up their freedom, or that of others, are not part of any “us” that I choose to recognize. In political terms, I believe we as libertarians, freedom lovers, or fellow travelers, ought to recognize “ourselves” not as those people who happen to live within a particular geographical area or enjoy government recognition as U.S. citizens, but as those people, regardless of race, creed, color, location, national origin, sexual preference, or physical characteristics, who generally value freedom and respect that of others.

By: Lynda di Armani

Lynda di Armani — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 21:21:21 +0000

I work in school and since when has it changed so that children don’t even have the right to dignity.Instead the fear of the scary drug of ibprophen has given this man the right to violate a 13 year old .This vice principle is abusing his power and I’ll bet if you look in to his past it won’t be the first time or the last by the looks of it,if he is allowed to be validated for his behaviour. The school board and school this man works for need to know that we don”t approve of this behaviour. Judges are also elected in the USA . They also need to know that we don’t approve or validate people who use their power to abuse and violate others. One should never forget that absolute power corrupts absolutely. Are we trying to teach the children what it is like to live in a police state? Fear is the biggest factor used to strip us of our human rights.

By: Rob Musso

Rob Musso — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:51:49 +0000

I have two daughters, and even though I live in the People’s Replublic
of Kalifornia, if that incident had happened to one of them, that man would have had a hard time making it to his trial from his hospital bed.

By: Drew

Drew — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:14:49 +0000

The little girl being forced to strip for fear she might have an Advil of RX strength? This is absolute evil. What is more troubling is that the nurse and other aide to the Rape, are without blame as they are “following orders”. What is happening to our country? That argument went out with the Nazis… right? Hang em high.

By: Van Cronkhite

Van Cronkhite — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:31:02 +0000

How have we sunk so low? I am hard pressed to think of any American I know who cares about freedom. I know firearm enthusiast who care about RKBA, “Their own” RKBA. I have met pot heads who want decriminalization of marijuana laws, but who could care less about my RKBA. My Christian friends what to raise their children in schools that teach their religious values, but could care less about my right to privacy over my own body, or anyone’s RKBA. And on and on it goes…

Is anyone alive in These United State who cares about freedom for freedom’s sake?