Title: People as Poultry (Has the US Ever Been a Free Country?) Source:
Eric Peters Autos URL Source:http://ericpetersautos.com/2016/04/18/people-as-poultry/ Published:Apr 18, 2016 Author:Eric Post Date:2016-04-20 05:56:04 by Deckard Keywords:None Views:1304 Comments:12
We live in a lunatic asylum .. the lunatics being us.
For believing we ever lived in a free country. As long ago as the reign of His Rotundity the second president of the United (at bayonet-point) States people were being dragooned off the street and roughly thrown into cages for having annoyed the powers-that-be. Or who were deemed dangerous by the powers-that-be. This was more than 200 years before The Chimp came along with his squinty-eyed pronouncements about the enemies of freedom and being either with us or against us.
Not much is taught in government schools (for the obvious reason) about the Alien and Sedition Acts or other such clear evidence of a disconnect between what we are told and what actually is.
For example, why should a free man have to worry about prosecution for possessing anything? In what way does the mere fact of possession entail a harm caused to some other person?
How is it that a free man can be told at gunpoint what he may not put into his body?
I refer, of course, to the lunacy that is the war on some (arbitrarily decided upon) drugs.
Of all the many things wrong with America, this is perhaps the most obvious and yet, the one most people seem to have trouble appreciating. A cop who drinks alcohol who possesses and consumes this drug is legally empowered to throw people in a cage for possessing or consuming that drug.
Or even if not.
In the video above, a salesman from California traveling through Wichita County, TX is followed by police for nearly half an hour before he is pulled over for a minor traffic violation. One so minor, in fact, the cop who pulls him over initially states that he will only be issuing a warning. But then things escalate and the driver is advised that a drug-sniffing dog will be brought out and that if this dog alerts to the supposed presence of arbitrarily illegal drugs, the drivers vehicle will be searched.
No surprise, the dog alerted and that was sufficient probable cause for a pair of Drug Warriors to rummage through the mans vehicle and his personal property in the hopes of finding some arbitrarily illegal drugs. Which would have not only resulted in the arrest of the driver but also the likely forfeiture (read, the stealing) of his vehicle, a common practice employed by Drug Warriors and a financial incentive for them to be particularly aggressive in their truffle pig-like sussing out of these arbitrarily illegal drugs.
None were discovered fortunately for the victim. That is to say, the driver, whose only crime appears to have been that he was an out-of-state driver. This, by itself, is enough to draw the attention of the Drug Warriors. They will ride your ass for as long as it takes for you to let your tire touch the yellow line or perhaps signal a left turn not quite 100 feet from the road youre turning onto. Maybe your windows are tinted.
They will find a reason and then its open season.
The next step is to bring out a dog and let him leap up on your doors and scratch your vehicles paint with his claws. Then, like Dr. Doolittle his handler will converse with the canine and he (the canine) will, through some inscrutable doggy pantomime of yelps and body gyrations, convey to his handler that he smells arbitrarily illegal drugs.
Thats all it takes. The word of a dog.
This is considered adequate probable cause to remove you from your vehicle and to then root around through your vehicle and its contents in search of well whatever they find.
Or, plant.
You not only have no right to confront/cross-examine this witness against you it is an inter-species impossibility. Except for the handler, naturlich who tells us (and we must believe him) what the dog is thinking (and saying) and whose testimony is accepted at face value both by the side of the road and later on, when you are before a judge.
You the defendant might try yelping and rolling on your back to question the witness. But the answers are inadmissible.
All of this over the possession of a substance decreed arbitrarily to be verboten to possess. Not even the pretext is offered that some actual harm has been caused to anyone. Or even might be. The government that is, the people who have somehow assumed ownership over us simply tell us what we may and may not posses, what we may and may not put into our bodies.
Few people stop to think about it. Ponder the nature of this business.
Grown men who themselves possess and consume various drugs decreed (arbitrarily) to be legal think nothing of siccing dogs on people, taking their property, throwing them in cages because they possess or consume some other drug just as arbitrarily decreed to be illegal. And are not ashamed or even slightly embarrassed.
It is husbandry.
I restrict what my animals may consume and control what they do because I own them. They are my property, to do with as I see fit.
We stand in the same relation to the state as my chickens.
I refer, of course, to the lunacy that is the war on some (arbitrarily decided upon) drugs.
You're a one trick AGENDA pony. The sites drug dealer.
So here is your dose of reality. When you posted this yella piece of garbage, drugs are still controlled substances. When you wake up tomorrow AND EVERY DAY YOU WAKE UP UNTIL YOU EXPIRE... they will still be controlled substances.
You have no hope... all despair. I'll donate the rope if you locate your own tree.
And yet again, you fail to grasp the rampant hypocrisy that permeates your failed war on (some) drugs).
Of all the many things wrong with America, this is perhaps the most obvious and yet, the one most people seem to have trouble appreciating. A cop who drinks alcohol who possesses and consumes this drug is legally empowered to throw people in a cage for possessing or consuming that drug.
by 2001, the country decided to decriminalize possession and use of drugs, and the results have been remarkable.
What's gotten better? In terms of usage rate and health, the data show that Portugal has by no means plunged into a drug crisis.
As this chart from Transform Drug Policy Foundation shows, the proportion of the population that reports having used drugs at some point saw an initial increase after decriminalization, but then a decline:
(Lifetime prevalence means the percentage of people who report having used a drug at some point in their life, past-year prevalence indicates having used within the last year, and past-month prevalence means those who've used within the last month. Generally speaking, the shorter the time frame, the more reliable the measure.)
Drug use has declined overall among the 15- to 24-year-old population, those most at risk of initiating drug use, according to Transform.
There has also been a decline in the percentage of the population who have ever used a drug and then continue to do so:
HIV infection rates among injecting drug users have been reduced at a steady pace, and has become a more manageable problem in the context of other countries with high rates, as can be seen in this chart from a 2014 report by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction Policy
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In the video above, a salesman from California traveling through Wichita County, TX is followed by police for nearly half an hour before he is pulled over for a minor traffic violation. One so minor, in fact, the cop who pulls him over initially states that he will only be issuing a warning. But then things escalate and the driver is advised that a drug-sniffing dog will be brought out and that if this dog alerts to the supposed presence of arbitrarily illegal drugs, the drivers vehicle will be searched.
No surprise, the dog alerted and that was sufficient probable cause for a pair of Drug Warriors to rummage through the mans vehicle and his personal property in the hopes of finding some arbitrarily illegal drugs. Which would have not only resulted in the arrest of the driver but also the likely forfeiture (read, the stealing) of his vehicle, a common practice employed by Drug Warriors and a financial incentive for them to be particularly aggressive in their truffle pig-like sussing out of these arbitrarily illegal drugs.
None were discovered fortunately for the victim. That is to say, the driver, whose only crime appears to have been that he was an out-of-state driver. This, by itself, is enough to draw the attention of the Drug Warriors. They will ride your ass for as long as it takes for you to let your tire touch the yellow line or perhaps signal a left turn not quite 100 feet from the road youre turning onto. Maybe your windows are tinted.
This is what you and the other drug warrior scum support.
Oh here's another example of your glorious "war on drugs" fucking over an innocent citizen.
we all know the war on drugs isn't about drugs and it isn't about possession. It is about criminality, it is about the things people do to get drugs. Surely one prohibition failure was enough to provide some lessons. The trafficing in drugs is not a local problem. it is an international problem. The whole thing is stupid, stop locking people up and concentrate the efforts on closing the border and you will solve more than one problem. Stop sympathising with the growers as poor peasants and naplam the poppy fields and the coca plantations, it isn't as though you don't know where they are. If it is a war fight it like a war, it is rediculous, the greatest military power cannot control its borders, cannot put an end to the attack on its people and instead fights proxy wars against people who are not their enemy