Journal roman_mir's Journal: Drug War 12
It's hard to understand all of the things that happen during a war and it's hard to understand a drug war. This is what drug war looks like.
USA does not have a choice, if it is ever going to do the right thing, this right thing must be done now. Ron Paul is the only candidate who promised to end the drug war. All other candidates will continue with it.
Every single day that drug war continues, the stuff above will continue and if it is not easy to look at 2 people having their heads cut of with a chain saw and a knife, then it should be difficult to vote for more of the same.
Whether CIA funds some of its operations with the war on drugs.... I don't know, but that's what people say happens. So I imagine CIA would not be too happy if Ron Paul won the presidency. Of-course his policy that CIA is unconstitutional as it is spying on people inside the USA and it is used to change regimes all over the world, so instead of trading with countries, USA uses special forces and CIA to establish regimes, and it always has the blow back effect. From the Shah being established in Iran to Saddam Hussein, to Libya now, who knows what will happen there?
I don't know what other evidence you need to vote for the correct candidate on all fronts: economic, political and humanitarian, but I don't see anybody, except Ron Paul address these issues and all other candidates look like puppets, actors.
How does it feel having an 'actor' president (and I don't mean Reagan, though he was an actor before he came to the office and he became an actor while in it.) I mean - actor, as in he is put there to act for you, but not to make actual policy changes based on any ideology.
I don't see anything change for the better if yet another actor president is elected.
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Wait a fucking second. Do you remember D.A.R.E. [wikipedia.org]? Do you know how unsuccessful it was? It actually created more druggies than it stopped. I doubt the Presidential candidacy has anything to do with this. It's all about policy, and public mindset. Most people live and let live. Until this country is like 1984, this will probably not change, and even then, I dunno if it will....
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Well, if you elect another president actor, then you definitely will have nothing to look forward to, there will be no change.
POTUS has a role, it is to give overall direction and ideology to the government and by extension to the country. It's really about leading.
When people want to be lead into false sense of security, they elect war mongers, when they want false sense of prosperity, they elect somebody who'll espouse 'eat the rich' rhetoric but nothing that actually looks at the economy as a whole, an
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You know, George Orwell wrote a little story about bureaucrats who think they can make changes.
From their position it's very easy people like Ron Paul/Dennis Kucinich to make big speeches of 'revolution'. Put him in the hot seat though, and watch him sing a completely different tune. He will toe the line just like all the others. What all of you want will take nothing less than all out war. Power will not be relinquished peacefully. You can put your delusions to rest.
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It will take a war to stop a war?
So you'd rather never try, you'd rather get the exactly same old BS?
One thing: before you go into an all out war, why not give 4 years of chance to somebody who has been proposing exactly the same thing, which is the right thing, and he has been on it since 1971?
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...why not give 4 years of chance to somebody who has been proposing exactly the same thing...?
Precedence.
I'm not advocating war. I'm merely telling you what it will take. The only other option is submission.
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So it's a war then, and what's better but to start it with a message - electing Ron Paul IS that message.
It's a war against those, who want perpetual war profiteering from war crimes.
It's a war against those, who WANT poor to stay poor and they, themselves will keep everything, because THAT is what corporatism is about.
Not free market capitalism, no. I am not talking about competition and removal of government from regulating business and labor and money, I am talking about corporatism, where government is
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Your buddy, Ron Paul is a racist lunatic who believes in states rights, not individual rights. Hell, he would let them bring back the old Jim Crow laws and become little fascist enclaves. He's for property rights, not human rights, and even less womens' rights. And his real concern over the drug laws is the lost revenues due to the wars and prohibition itself. Please, don't try to make him out to be some kind of messiah. His agenda is not what you think it is. And he wouldn't get my vote in a thousand years
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Your buddy, Ron Paul is a racist lunatic who believes in states rights, not individual rights.
- wow. A racist who wants to end the drug war? Who wants to free the non-violent prisoners who are in prison for drug-related offenses? Do you know what percentage of those people are NOT white?
A lunatic? The guy who wants to STOP wars is a lunatic? Who wants a working economy, not a counterfeiting economy is a lunatic?
Guy who is for more local government, which means you get to choose how things are done on a more local level, and if your State totally doesn't welcome your choice, you can choose one of 50
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Are you a Perry voter?
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When a man stands alone, consistent over 40 years in the same message, when he delivers that same message in every vote he takes, every interview and every debate, regardless of how he knows he will be perceived, you can dismiss him, but then you have to dismiss every single politician, regardless of their denomination. So who are you voting for?