They say there’s no such thing as bad press, right? Well, look what turned up on the hyper-rightie site Little Green Footballs from commentor Shiplord Kirel, regarding my recent post on Kindasleezzy Lies:
#82 Shiplord Kirel 7/23/2005 09:52AM PDT
Radical Russ: still more evidence that legalizing hard drugs would put the shithead left out of business.
This gibbering fool equates the administration’s alleged stonewalling and obfuscation of media beasts with assaulting them physically, as happened in Sudan. I thought that even the dumbest left-tool would have figured out by now that equating disagreement with oppression is a non-starter in public discourse.
I am serious. Address the root cause of lefty anger, repeal drug prohibition. This would end the resentment whose tranference fuels their reflexive support for pseudo-rebel causes. With any luck, they would be too stoned to push their appeasement/incitement line in the future anyway.
How do I condemn Russ as a “doper apologist” while still advocating legalization? It’s simple: Dopers are scum. I don’t use dope, I despise those who do. It is not up to me, however, to protect these creatures from their own foolish impulses.
This is especially so when we have turned a whole continent into a war zone and put a million people in prison to offer it. What thanks do we get? The dopers resist it to the point of violence and express their anger by supporting the enemies of civilization.
Susceptibility to drug abuse is a weakness that would normally be eliminated by natural processes. Their own impulses should be allowed to destroy them. It is a necessary step in human evolution and we are holding it back.
I’m having trouble understanding how smoking a non-toxic plant is going to eliminate me from the gene pool; for some reason, Rastafarians still exist. At least he understands that the War On (Some Americans Using Non-Pharmaceutical, Non-Alcoholic, Tobacco-Free) Drugs has turned the continent into a war zone and filled our prisons to overflowing.
But I’ll take supporters of repealing prohibition anywhere I can get them, even if they want to do it for reasons of social Darwinism. He reminds me a bit of what the late Mike Royko once wrote:
Most criminals fall into one of two categories. Those who are so stupid or goofy that they don’t ever think about consequences, and those who are profit-motivated and believe the potential take is worth the risk.
There isn’t much we can do about the stupid or goofy. But since the sale and use of drugs are behind much of the profit-driven crime, we might think about changing our drug policies.
It’s obvious that drug use can’t be stopped. The federal government hardly tries anymore. Politicians prefer to talk about something else and hope their own kids’ noses don’t fall off.
But if the most profitable drugs were legalized and controlled-like booze and gambling — the illegal profits would shrink, the motives for many drug crimes would disappear and we wouldn’t be wasting so much prison space and money on people who merely want to exercise their right to scramble their own brains.
I’m left wondering, however, how many “scum” using beers, cigarettes, Ambien, Prozac, Xanax, Wellbutrin, or OxyContin he’ll have the time to “despise” once drugs are legal. I also wonder what he thinks of Rush Limbaugh or the 1970’s George W. Bush… should their own impulses be allowed to destroy them, too?
