Comments on: The big lie

By: Its Good to See Some Facts I Guess - Christian Forums

Its Good to See Some Facts I Guess - Christian Forums — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:35:33 +0000

[...] with me. Not sure Christians would call war on masturbation PRIOR: "Exactly! It's called "sado-moralism", the sadistic pleasure in punishing the "bad" people (often for a profit). The current [...]

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By: DdC

DdC — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:30:30 +0000

Why should we pay taxes for LIE Makers propaganda,
or LIE Enforcement hedging their own bennies?

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By: Jesper Kristensen

Jesper Kristensen — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:08:11 +0000

Transform recently introduced me to the term “securitization”, not the bank variety but a term having to do with the Copenhagen School of International Relations:

Of particular interest:

“It is argued that ‘security’ is a speech act with distinct consequences in the context over international politics. By talking security an actor tries to move a topic away from politics and into an area of security concerns thereby legitimating extraordinary means against the socially constructed threat. The process of securitization is intersubjective meaning that it is neither a question of an objective threat or a subjective perception of a threat. Instead securitization of a subject depends on an audience accepting the securitization speech act.”

We knew that, of course, just thought it would be nice to get a proper academic term for it.

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By: Tweets that mention The big lie - Drug WarRant -- Topsy.com

Tweets that mention The big lie - Drug WarRant -- Topsy.com — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:31:50 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Nicholas Stewart, Ian 'Cat' Vincent. Ian 'Cat' Vincent said: Today's word is 'sado-moralism' http://bit.ly/6uvSqC (on US moral crusading vs drugs, sex) [...]

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By: Hope

Hope — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:22:34 +0000

Prohibition of cannabis and opium and cocaine had to do originally, and was put in place by white men, for racist reasons, more than anything, in an effort to keep white women from being “seduced” by orientals with opium and those blacks with their devil music… jazz, and their seductive viper weed.

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By: BruceM

BruceM — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 03:11:08 +0000

Those who best and most frequently invoke “the children” always win. Prohibitionists have been taking advantage of the maternal instinct and invoking “the children” ever since they first decided something must be banned.

Our problem is that a position that says “X hurts children” will always trump a position that says “banning X causes things that hurt children” since the latter requires thought, rather than mere agreement. A position that requires people to think will always lose out to a position that doesn’t. As such, drug prohibition will never end. At least not while America exists. America is past the point of no return, on the brink of collapse. So the big question we should be asking ourselves is this: what will drug policy be like in a post-America world? I have several thoughts, but I do not yet have a firm prediction.

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By: Dante

Dante — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 22:21:22 +0000

“The Big Lie” only works because people are lazy. Anyone who spends a few minutes actually investigating the history of cannabis can see that the prohibition of cannabis has resulted in harms that are 10,000 times worse than any harm associated with the use of cannabis.

The government is lying. The DEA is lying. Our local sherrif is lying. Our elected representatives are lying. They are not serving the public, they are only serving themselves.

Protect & Serve (Themselves!)

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By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 21:49:38 +0000

Dr. Gabor Mate is amazing. And he’s right.

And a lot of their shrill opposition is fear based.

A saw the anti-pot group held a press conference complete with a logo on the podium. I’m too young to remember, but did the Klan have press conferences after debates on civil rights legislation?

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By: rick boston

rick boston — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:49:38 +0000

We here in Missouri have a man, a Mayor of Cottleville Missouri. His name is Don Yarber. He is an outspoken realist, trying to get Cannabis out of the closet and on to the state’s authoritarian attention. We apparently are the “Show Me State” for a reason. Some of our represenatives seem as though they are on a differant PLANET than the rest of the country. Now 14 states are able to use Medical Cannabis in the U.S. This is a man, who has witnessed Cannabis’s effectivness himself. We need our politicians to join with Don, and help him get this taken seriously in this state.

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By: DavesNotHere

DavesNotHere — Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:41:43 +0000

Good article here today.

http://www.seattlepi.com/connelly/414149_joel13.html?source=rss

The Doctor treating hard-drug patients makes the point that all of his patients were abused as children. Drug dependence typically isn’t their biggest problem, just a symptom. But all we know how to do is lock people in cages to “help” them and “keep them safe”. That’s sado-moralism alright.

Nothing is solved or improved, but the control freaks feel better about themselves because they punished someone and made them suffer instead of actually helping them.

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