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Those Who Would Be Our rulers
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 12:07 am
by Jccarlton
This woman is in charge of the drug war? Unbelieveable:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_cjLqDM ... r_embedded
This woman is the best argument against the drug war that I can imagine. Enjoy.
Re: Those Who Would Be Our rulers
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 5:57 am
by djolds1
Posted: Wed Jun 27, 2012 11:37 am
by Jccarlton
fixed
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 10:11 pm
by Diogenes
"The State has announced:"
"You will do exactly as we tell you in every area of your life. You will work as and when we allow you to work, you will spend what little money we allow you to keep as and when we tell you to spend it, you will say what we tell you to say -- and if you disagree with us about any of this, you will indicate your disagreement as and when we allow you to. In brief: you will follow orders. Please don't be tiresome and petulant, telling us this isn't what you want. We've been systematically approaching this end for well over a century. You can hardly claim this is surprising, not if you wish to avoid ridicule. And you might have stopped these developments much earlier -- if you'd wanted to. You didn't want to."
http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/20 ... hings.html
Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2012 11:36 pm
by GIThruster
Clearly, she is shocked at the incredibly stupid nature of the questions. Who can blame her for not wanting to be lead by Rep. Polis to say that Marijuana is not as addictive as these other drugs, especially legal substances. He is trying to forward a handful of arguments to support legalization, as if a congressional hearing were a place to make an argument rather than to learn from those bought to the hearing.
I'm surprised that you thought this was something other than tragic theater, and an obvious waste of everyone's time. If you watch enough congressional hearings you'll find there are those that are serious, and those that are merely political. Polis is a bully, and he's beating up on Leonhart because he can. He's not winning some debate. There is no debate. This is a hearing. You do understand what a hearing is, don't you?
It's not Leonhart's place to bother with judgements about the law. DEA's task is enforcement. It should be obvious to anyone who watches this vid, that this is an example of bullying for no purpose except that abusing power is fun.