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For over four decades, this country waged a misguided War on Drugs, which was a miserable failure. This "war" cost this country trillions of dollars and put thousands upon thousand of our young men and women in prison for possession of small amounts of drugs. Many of these young people suffered from an addiction, and medical treatment and education would have been more beneficial than prison, but that is not what happened.
During this time, we saw the advent of the militarized police SWAT teams barging in on citizens and an attack on the Fourth Amendment. At the same time, private prisons began to emerge to house the many people convicted for drugs.
The government for years used faulty scientific studies and played hard and fast with the rules to demonize marijuana and its users. If some of you are old enough and you ever get the chance, there is a movie called "Reefer Madness" that displays the total ignorance of the issue.
Here it is on youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/l7qebzj
Just watch a few minutes of that foolishness. At the time, in 1937, many people thought that movie was a true representation of the effects of Marijuana.
Now people are beginning to wise up and see the folly of our failed "War on Drugs." Yes, this war is till going, but it has dissipated considerably in the last several years.
Not to worry, folks, we have a new war, a war against an enemy so insidious and powerful that it is enabling perverts and pedophiles to steal our children's future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sarcasm off) It is a new and improved war. It is called the War on Child Pornography.
The government is using the same methods to vilify child porn defendants as they did years ago to demonize drug users----faulty statistics, sensational reporting, and just a general state of incorrect facts that are not supported by legitimate research.
And not to worry folks, the government is now using its same tried and true methods to carry out this War on Child Pornography. Police SWAT teams, the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, propaganda in the media, and loooooooooong prison sentences.
I do not support true child pornography; nobody does. But the punishments for possession are absolutely ridiculous.
Some of the images that are deemed as child pornography in a legal sense are not what most people think of when they hear the words child pornography. A young man taking a picture of his girlfriend coming out of the shower with a towel around her waist and her breasts exposed may legally be child pornography, but c'mon people, labeling that as child porn is just insane. There are other examples and I am sure a few of the posters can cite examples.
It is just as much an outrage to place a young man in prison for several years for LOOKING, only looking, at a naughty picture of an underage person as it was twenty years ago when the country locked up minor drug defendants for many years for possession of marijuana. In both instances, the general public agreed with the government because they people have been progagandized to belive that all marijuana users were potential drug kingpins and all defendants in a child pornography case are all potential perverts just waiting to nab one of their children to rape them.
There is nothing really scientific about this. The War on Drugs has morphed into the War on Child Pornography.
You see, we always have to have a "war" in this country going. There has to be a continuing war to feed billions and billions of dollars in the form of federal grants to feed groups like law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. And hell, let's not forget private prison corporations. They surely want their piece of the pie. After all, they lobby hard for more laws which will keep their prisons full and making the most profit.
This country is a joke and a laughingstock to any other civilized nation in the world. The America I once knew has become so damn disgusting that I don't even watch the news anymore.
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During this time, we saw the advent of the militarized police SWAT teams barging in on citizens and an attack on the Fourth Amendment. At the same time, private prisons began to emerge to house the many people convicted for drugs.
The government for years used faulty scientific studies and played hard and fast with the rules to demonize marijuana and its users. If some of you are old enough and you ever get the chance, there is a movie called "Reefer Madness" that displays the total ignorance of the issue.
Here it is on youtube:
http://tinyurl.com/l7qebzj
Just watch a few minutes of that foolishness. At the time, in 1937, many people thought that movie was a true representation of the effects of Marijuana.
Now people are beginning to wise up and see the folly of our failed "War on Drugs." Yes, this war is till going, but it has dissipated considerably in the last several years.
Not to worry, folks, we have a new war, a war against an enemy so insidious and powerful that it is enabling perverts and pedophiles to steal our children's future!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sarcasm off) It is a new and improved war. It is called the War on Child Pornography.
The government is using the same methods to vilify child porn defendants as they did years ago to demonize drug users----faulty statistics, sensational reporting, and just a general state of incorrect facts that are not supported by legitimate research.
And not to worry folks, the government is now using its same tried and true methods to carry out this War on Child Pornography. Police SWAT teams, the evisceration of the Fourth Amendment, propaganda in the media, and loooooooooong prison sentences.
I do not support true child pornography; nobody does. But the punishments for possession are absolutely ridiculous.
Some of the images that are deemed as child pornography in a legal sense are not what most people think of when they hear the words child pornography. A young man taking a picture of his girlfriend coming out of the shower with a towel around her waist and her breasts exposed may legally be child pornography, but c'mon people, labeling that as child porn is just insane. There are other examples and I am sure a few of the posters can cite examples.
It is just as much an outrage to place a young man in prison for several years for LOOKING, only looking, at a naughty picture of an underage person as it was twenty years ago when the country locked up minor drug defendants for many years for possession of marijuana. In both instances, the general public agreed with the government because they people have been progagandized to belive that all marijuana users were potential drug kingpins and all defendants in a child pornography case are all potential perverts just waiting to nab one of their children to rape them.
There is nothing really scientific about this. The War on Drugs has morphed into the War on Child Pornography.
You see, we always have to have a "war" in this country going. There has to be a continuing war to feed billions and billions of dollars in the form of federal grants to feed groups like law enforcement and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. And hell, let's not forget private prison corporations. They surely want their piece of the pie. After all, they lobby hard for more laws which will keep their prisons full and making the most profit.
This country is a joke and a laughingstock to any other civilized nation in the world. The America I once knew has become so damn disgusting that I don't even watch the news anymore.
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You said, "If people have to pay more for insurance they will stop volunteering"...I thought Odumbocare was supposed to bring the cost down...
Btw, Barry just today extended the deadline to sign up by a day, it was supposed to be today..There are around 300 million people in the US, and less than a million have signed up....Even the Libs are running away from it, especially the ones who are running for office next year..Liberalism/.Socialism has never, and can never work, can't spend more than you have...
Many of these people are never seen by the rest of us because they feel ashamed.
The real purpose of Obamacare is to mend the social safety net so that everyone---those who are long-term unemployed, those with medical diagnoses that a regular insurer would not touch, those who are disabled--can get the care they need without using the most expensive and inefficient form of medical care we have--the Emergency Room.
What people don't get is that we are already paying for the care of people who are uninsured with big government grants to teaching hospitals to take care of these folks. (Obamacare eliminates these grants BTW.) These are the people who don't get preventive check-ups because they can't afford it. Then, when it is an emergency, it costs taxpayers large sums to take care of them. Either that or good people are driven out into the streets simply by the fact that they were unfortunate.
My opinion is that Obamacare will look like a bad thing for a while, but that it will get integrated into the system we already have and EVENTUALLY be beneficial for everyone. The other thing is that most people only look at this fumbled roll-out to say that it is bad and it doesn't work. However, if you look beyond that, you'll see that the parts of the law that are already in place HAVE driven down costs quite dramatically and there is more to come.
This whole thing reminds me of when they added Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) about 10 years ago. What a mess! People were predicting all kinds of negative outcomes, yet Part D has turned out to be a tremendous success and a lifesaver for many.
Adding to the social safety net always starts out rough. I bet this will smooth out quicker than you think.
I bring up all of this because guess what group of down on your luck people are likely to benefit from this. Can't get good work because you're a felon? How do you get health insurance? What happens when a sex offender gets cancer? What if a sex offender is diabetic? I bet there is a lot of discrimination. Perhaps this will relieve some of that burden.