Local radio talk station WFLA, tallahassee, just happened to have a retired Gainesville Police Chief and spokesperson for LEAP (Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, see two posts down) on this morning. Of course the discussion was motivated by the recent murder of Rachel Hoffman recruited by the TPD as a drug informant while involved in drug court.LEAP is an organization that believes it is time to end the carnage and destruction of personal lives caused not by drugs, but the "war against drugs". Mike Jones, retired deputy police chief
made a rational case for the legalization of drugs. All drugs mind you not just weed. Eric Eggers saw the rationale as did many of the callers. Preston Scott, an otherwise rational person, could not only not see, but closed his mind almost immediately to what he could not argue. And admitted he can't form a rational thought due to being angry.
His initial primary concern was that the legalization of drugs would make them more accessible to kids. His belief was that kids do not use drugs because they are afraid of the laws.
He had to fall back on the argument that philosophically it was the continued ruination of a society. Hedonism at its best. Then tried to tie accessibility to guns to the issue, i.e. if one is to make drugs legal then they will become easier for kids to get so we may as well make it easier for them to get guns??????? You can hear this segment at: http://www.wflafm.com/pages/morningshow.html Click on the caption "Is it time".
At one point Preston accuses the opposite viewpoint as being naive (having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information). One might suspect that the representative of LEAP probably has considerable more experience and information on this topic than Preston Scott.
In fact I would suspect that a great many kids have more experience and information on this subject than Mr. Scott and that in this case at least, Mr. Scott is naive. Note I said in this case. I enjoy the exchanges between Eggers and Scott. They are entertaining. Unfortunately, there are occasions when emotion overrules facts. That is probably true of many of us on any number of issues. Lack of knowledge on this particular issue however plays right into the hands of the persons who profit from the drug wars. Politicians, police and the prison industry. Were people actually concerned about the lives and the collateral damage lost to the war on drugs
the Florida House of Representatives would not have tried to cut Substance Abuse Treatment out of the corrections budget this last session. But then as Mark Twain said:
“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself!”
(thanks for that one Mike).
Now since, due to what apparently is subconscious desire to bed down in gutters and hang out in seedy places with seedy people (well actually I kinda like seedy places and people), I attempt to stay away from drug and alcohol on a daily basis. Minus the worst drug of all, yet legal, cigarettes. So why should I have a dog in this fight. Hell, if I'm gonna do em, drugs and alcohol, like everybody else is going to do them. Legal or not. So why?
Because this site is about Freedom! Not just for a few, but for everybody. You free nobody by attempting to take the chains from their souls to wrap them around their wrists.
To those who have never had the experience to gain that knowledge, be grateful.Add to Technorati Favorites
Let's not get carried away, Preston Scott isn't that rational as he sticks to his fundamental beliefs.
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