A woman who escaped from a Detroit prison 32 years ago has been arrested in San Diego, where she was married with three children and living under a false name, authorities said.Well, this'll do society a lot of good. Not to mention her family.
Funny how outside the system she "reformed" just fine, isn't it? Thank goodness for driver license fingerprinting!
"Law and order" gun owners who insist on prosecuting the "War on Drugs" guarantee a much more destructive and unchecked force will pervade every aspect of our lives--from spying eyes on our finances, to asset seizures/forfeitures, to no-knock militarization of "law enforcement," to official corruption, to enabling and making inevitable a violent street gang subculture (with consequent demands for "gun control"), to enriching enemies foreign and domestic, and all the attendant evils these "unintended consequences" represent.
Here's just a microcosm example--look at the resources being expended in Bloomberg's Paradise. Do you really think with the money and power and budget "justification" they'll get out of this that their incentive is for anything but ensuring a growth industry--as has happened?
The most effective way to deal with a moral problem, a health/mental health problem, a spiritual problem, is to treat it for what it is (without excusing any resulting criminal force, fraud or negligence). That is, if you really want to.
Anybody think success at solving the problem is the destination the enforcement gravy train is bound for?
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"Funny how outside the system she "reformed" just fine, isn't it? Thank goodness for driver license fingerprinting!"
ReplyDeleteJust think how much more she will be reformed after more time in the slammer.
Besides, this is easier than going after violent people!
Did they use a dynamic entry? After all, this is an escaped felon.
What a waste of resources!
Yeah, I'm all for more freedom, more liberty, and less government.
ReplyDeleteTrouble is, when some insane doper grabs my youngest child and puts a knife to his throat because I won't give him my wife's Vicodin, I'm not allowed to instantly kill him without the State grinding me up and puking me out.
And yeah, that really happened.
"(without excusing any resulting criminal force, fraud or negligence)."
ReplyDeleteThere were massive strikes on marijuana "grow houses" in the Miami-Dade area this week. This is to prevent Cuban-American organized crime from making a lot of money and sending some of it to Castro's regime, which, as we all know, should not be done because *Cuba hates freedom.*
ReplyDeleteThe news hardly mentions what the escaped woman was in prison for. Maybe a 20-year sentence for a drug offense is too embarrassing.
If drugs were at least decriminalized, fewer people would face physical threats from people desperate for them. Addicts will be addicts no matter what. If they could flush their own lives without destroying ours because of the financial cost of Prohibition, wow, gangs and guns would disappear from the news and legislative chambers. But my state lawmakers and Congresspimps are strict law-and-order types. Oh, no, we can't DEcrease the power of the State. That would be unnatural.
So people -- and freedom -- die.
I can't find the source right now, but I have read--and it seemed authoritative--that the percentage of the population with drug abuse problems is the same now, after untold billions spent and untold infringements on freedom tolerated--remains the same as it was before drugs were criminalized.
ReplyDeleteHere's the other thing--at least with alcohol prohibition, the feds realized they needed a Constitutional amendment to authorize their involvement. There has been no similar formality observed with drugs--they just kind of assumed the power, even though it is nowhere delegated to them.
Kinda neat--who here would sign a contract with me if I could arbitrarily change the terms and conditions to my advantage whenever I pleased? Because ultimately, that's what anyone who supports the (federal) War on Drugs is going along with.
How can anyone not see the absolute mortal danger to the Republic (and everything it is supposed to stand for) such powers represent?
Yes David, I have read the same article somewhere. If I remember correctly, it stated it that roughly 8% of the population will become addicts. It doesn't matter whether drugs and alcohol are legal or illegal, that percentage stays the same.
ReplyDeleteIf some "insane doper" grabs someone close to you, "shoot, shovel, and shut up". Or skip the shovelling if necessary.
ReplyDeleteSometimes I wonder why people call the cops after capping some crook who is attacking them inside their house. No, I exaggerate. I always wonder why they call the cops afterwards.
Unless you KNOW you will not be victimized again by the enforcers after defending yourself, you have no obligation to hand hyourself over to them. Not anymore.
Kent,
ReplyDeleteBecause, unless you live alone, a report of the incident will get out. A wife or child might say something inadvertently(sp?) a family member will likely have PTSD symptoms, the gunshot could be heard and called in, blood evidence from the cleanup could get spotted in the trash, etc...
When that happens, if you did not call it in you are a murderer. At least considered one by the State.
No, it is not right, no I do not like it, but unless you live alone in the hinterboonies...
The weak link would be family members. I have fired shots that never attracted "official" scrutiny, even while living in populated areas. Since an invader probably didn't leave a note saying he would be in your house, who would be looking for him there to ever find any "blood evidence"?
ReplyDeleteThe most important aspect of this comment thread has not been addressed till just now.
ReplyDeleteThink how perverted our system has become, when peaceful law abiding people begin to discuss how to hide the perfectly moral and legal act of self defense so as not to be punished by the state apparatus whose sole function should be in alignment with not opposition to protecting people from criminals.
That this discussion is even taking place is all the indication one needs of the sorry state we to which we have devolved.