Comments on: Good Reading

By: ezrydn

ezrydn — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 18:08:40 +0000

Question: When the canvaser comes to your door with a questionaie, do you A) answer all his questions to the est of your ability, B) Shut the door in his face or C) provide him with the iformation you want him to have, not necessarrily the truth.

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By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:36:23 +0000

Thanks Pete, that’s what I was trying to do but they were not showing up in the preview.

Next time I comment I’ll use Firefox in case it’s a Chrome thing.

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By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:32:19 +0000

Steve, I went ahead and converted all your long urls to html links. Comments here accept basic html, including the a href tag for links, and html links are much more reliable (especially when they have a lot of strange characters), plus they’re less likely to break certain parts of the site (and will make your preview look better). More info at the About page.

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By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:21:28 +0000

No, it didn’t all make it in. Maybe it’s a Google Chrome browser thing. Here’s the document of interest, I think:

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By: Steve

Steve — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:19:19 +0000

> I’ve been searching high and low…

It’s a maze!

Drug War Chronicle points to page 83 of this PDF from the Diario Oficial.

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From the ellipses in the document above I don’t know if it’s final or complete, but there are also ellipses in what looks like the document of interest at the Diario Oficial site.

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Here’s the search I used:

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OK, now let’s see if all of this makes it into my comment. The preview feature isn’t working as I’d expect.

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By: paul

paul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:50:54 +0000

Ah, Kaptinemo, the danger here is that the most useless and costly ones will NOT have their necks chopped first. We’re talking about the government after all, and as you know, if a program is not working that is the best reason to keep on doing it.

Forgive my uncharacteristic pessimism for a night. I’ve drunk too much beer, (which is legal, I might add) and cynicism comes easy. Tomorrow after I’ve had my coffee, I’ll sober up and probably agree with you. It is starting to look like the federal government is running out of other people’s money to spend.

And that’s when the steel cage death match begins, live from Washington D.C.! Anyone got tickets?

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By: ezrydn

ezrydn — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:02:37 +0000

I live down here. I’ve been searching high and low for a copy of the new law, even in Spanish, but it’s nowhere to be found (published). I even asked my wife, “How can you comply with a law if the government won’t share the wording in the law with you?” She didn’t have an answer. I’ve got a cop friend who’s a Law student here and he can’t find a copy of it for me.

So, from what “fact-” based document are these people spouting???? I’m still looking for it and if I can find it, I’ll get it translated and posted. This needs to see the light of day and not remain hidden. I’ve got a call into the local University Law Library. Hopefully, they’ll be some help.

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By: Duncan

Duncan — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 13:23:28 +0000

Ms. Fay is correct, if only we could stop people from getting high everyone would be sober. We could also effectively manage global warming by manipulating the distance of the Earth from the sun, or perhaps by adjusting the planet’s tilt. It’ll take a lot of work, but we could then burn fossil fuels to our hearts content.

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By: kaptinemo

kaptinemo — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:55:06 +0000

Calvina et al can rant all they want; the fact is, the taxpayer can’t afford the DrugWar, anymore. In truth, the taxpayer never could, for most government operations were in fact paid for through loans from foreign governments and banks; the amount collected in taxes only go to paying the interest on the loans those banks granted Uncle Sam, not paying off the principal on them.

Which means that when the foreign banks and governments pull the plug, which they are doing, then a great many government operations will have to be suspended. And the most useless and costly ones will have their necks stretched over the budgetary chopping block first (significant look in the ONDCP’s and the DEA’s direction).

Now, if Calvina and her ilk want to pay for the DrugWar all by themselves, they are more than welcome to. Please, feel free to run your own finances into the ground. But I need what little money I have, and I daresay that sentiment is echoed in a hundred million households by now. Especially in those households where the inhabitants are looking at pink slips. And they are more concerned with basic survival and how they are going to make ends meet than be concerned about DrugWarrior budgets.

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By: paul

paul — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 04:30:07 +0000

Calvina Fay made a few mistakes in her comments. I fix them here:

She said, “Drug users are not innocent. They support the vicious drug cartels. Without their demand for drugs, the supply side has no purpose. Since terrorists depend on the drug market to fund their activities, users are potentially aiding terrorism. Because drug traffickers are frequently linked with weapons and human trafficking, users are also supporting these activities.”

In fact, it should read,”Prohibitionists are not innocent. They support the vicious drug cartels. Without their repressive laws, the supply side has no customers. Since terrorists depend on the drug market to fund their activities, prohibitionists are potentially aiding terrorism. Because drug traffickers are frequently linked with weapons and human trafficking, prohibitionists are also supporting these activities.”

There!

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