Running The Laundry

[MSimon]

Thanks to Choff for one of the links - I did not credit him in the piece - didn't know how much heat he wanted to take.

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/running-the-laundry/

also the real drug war in Mexico

The more information uncovered throughout the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, the more incriminating and controversial it becomes. According to some recent allegations made by a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative in American custody, Fast and Furious was an agreement between the United States government and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel to help take down rival cartels.

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/a-market-correction/

[tomclarke]

Thanks to Choff for one of the links - I did not credit him in the piece - didn't know how much heat he wanted to take.

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/running-the-laundry/

also the real drug war in Mexico

The more information uncovered throughout the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, the more incriminating and controversial it becomes. According to some recent allegations made by a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative in American custody, Fast and Furious was an agreement between the United States government and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel to help take down rival cartels.


http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/a-market-correction/

I don't know anything about this. But on general principles - in war you often find agreements between enemies based on mutual interest to defeat another. And in this situation any such would look very bad.

No good solutions to drugs, except reducing demand, or legalising. One difficult and expensive, the other politically impossible.

[Diogenes]

Thanks to Choff for one of the links - I did not credit him in the piece - didn't know how much heat he wanted to take.

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/running-the-laundry/

also the real drug war in Mexico

The more information uncovered throughout the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious, the more incriminating and controversial it becomes. According to some recent allegations made by a high-ranking Mexican drug cartel operative in American custody, Fast and Furious was an agreement between the United States government and the Mexican Sinaloa Cartel to help take down rival cartels.


http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/a-market-correction/

I don't know anything about this. But on general principles - in war you often find agreements between enemies based on mutual interest to defeat another. And in this situation any such would look very bad.

No good solutions to drugs, except reducing demand, or legalising. One difficult and expensive, the other politically impossible.

And you think legalizing would not produce worse problems than the current status quo?

[choff]

In this case they are enemies in the sense of rival drug gangs as opposed to cops and robbbers.

[MSimon]

D,

The legalizing side is winning as the "Refer Madness" and "Heroin Demon" crowd dies off.

All I have to do is quote "about 70% of female heroin users were sexually molested in childhood" number and I win a few more converts to my side. In the mean time my opposition is dieing off.

What else do I have going for me?

50+% say legalize pot.
70+% favor med pot
80+% say prohibition is not working

And the numbers are still rising.

Who is working against me? The bankers laundering the drug money:

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/running-the-laundry/

But bankers are not too popular these days.

Now what would I do if I was on the left (well on some issues I am)? Start working the drug issue on Romney when he gets elected. I think the Ds could sweep the Rs in 2016 if Romney gets all stupid on the issue (he will).

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Why all governments love the drug issue. Japan opium WW2:

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/dubious-sources/

Follow the money. Even Hillary said there was a LOT of money in it.

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And a nice one about Conservatives conserving Progressivism:

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/cons ... -the-past/

I quote Chesterton to great effect.

[MSimon]

I forgot all about:

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/opiu ... cket-1792/

[MSimon]

Let me add this one for D

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/02/the-ptsd-party/

Brains on the left are different. We could pacify them and get them out of our way if we let them have the drugs they need to calm them down. Instead we war on them and they return the favor. Ruining OUR productivity in the process.

Stupidest thing I ever saw. But hardly anyone - left or right studies this stuff from a scientific view point. The right has its brains just as programmed by emotion as the left. Rational thought. Such as it is - is precluded.

People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. That is the fiction of "addiction". People in pain generally do not make good decisions.

In addition go to your local post office and look at the wanted posters. About 1/2 scream PTSD. If we could pacify those folks we could reduce real crime considerably. Another way the right is self destructive. You do not improve PTSD by punishment. I will grant that it is required if a crime is committed. But we should do out best not to let it get that far.

So where should we start? Reducing the incidence of child abuse would be a good place. Not with laws but with education.

BTW Gramscian Marxism is a recognition of the PTSD origins of the left.

[tomclarke]

Thanks to Choff for one of the links - I did not credit him in the piece - didn't know how much heat he wanted to take.

http://classicalvalues.com/2012/08/running-the-laundry/

also the real drug war in Mexico

I don't know anything about this. But on general principles - in war you often find agreements between enemies based on mutual interest to defeat another. And in this situation any such would look very bad.

No good solutions to drugs, except reducing demand, or legalising. One difficult and expensive, the other politically impossible.

And you think legalizing would not produce worse problems than the current status quo?

I don't know. It would produce different problems. It would be a solution to drugs as a large source of income for criminals.

[MSimon]

I don't know anything about this. But on general principles - in war you often find agreements between enemies based on mutual interest to defeat another. And in this situation any such would look very bad.

No good solutions to drugs, except reducing demand, or legalising. One difficult and expensive, the other politically impossible.

And you think legalizing would not produce worse problems than the current status quo?

I don't know. It would produce different problems. It would be a solution to drugs as a large source of income for criminals.

Not to mention terrorists and the banks that launder the money.