Comments on: Let’s Play, “How Many Things Are Wrong With This?”

By: Michael

Michael — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:12:11 +0000

I’m pretty sure this guy remembers the “Dry Squad Days” of the 20’s and 30’s quite vividly, and probably voted in a few of the congressmen who passed prohibition. You know, back in the days when nickels had pictures of bees on ‘em and Al Capone danced the Charleston on the top of a flagpole.

By: GU

GU — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:53:25 +0000

I think this person should move to Pyongyang, it will be a great fit.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:19:14 +0000

Consider (as one of the comments following the letter suggests) that was perhaps satire. Sometimes the best satire is that which sounds like is may not be satire (:

By: JSB

JSB — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:25:08 +0000

To put it simply, this whole letter is a very good indicator of the public opinion surrounding our crusade against drugs. Certain individuals fail to realize the overwhelming detriment the drug war has caused, and for these people the only way to change their opinion would be to suddenly awake them in the middle of the night surrounded by large men with big guns pointed right in the faces of their family…all in the name of preventing people from getting high (as Radley has stated previously).

To quote one of my favorite movies:

“While the truncheon may be used in lieu of conversation, words will always retain their power. Words offer the means to meaning, and for those who will listen, the enunciation of truth. And the truth is, there is something terribly wrong with this country, isn’t there? Cruelty and injustice, intolerance and oppression. And where once you had the freedom to object, to think and speak as you saw fit, you now have censors and systems of surveillance coercing your conformity and soliciting your submission. How did this happen? Who’s to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you’re looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror. I know why you did it. You were afraid. Who wouldn’t be? War, terror, disease. There were a myriad of problems which conspired to corrupt your reason and rob you of your common sense. Fear got the best of you, and in your fear you turned to the now high chancellor. He promised you order, he promised you peace, and all he demanded in return was your silent, obedient consent.”

-V for Vendetta

By: dsmallwood

dsmallwood — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:23:31 +0000

actually, i like this letter; i don’t think its too bad.

the only follow up question i would ask is, “if you can’t find drugs, maybe there aren’t any, in which case, why not try another method of ’stopping the kingpins’” ?

if we keep busting all these people, and their all ‘little people’, perhaps we could stop busting them ?

By: Nando

Nando — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:10:39 +0000

Oh, Lord! This lady is a (insert your derogatory comment here)

By: Blue

Blue — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:06:41 +0000

One can’t help wondering why such raids aren’t conducted every day, or at least several times a week.

You makea me laugh.

The current process reminds me of the showboating during the Dry Squad days of the 1920s and ’30s.

If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck… What a loon.

I think Mr. Spellenberg wrote this with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek.

By: Fred Mangels

Fred Mangels — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:57:53 +0000

How about that. My very own town and newspaper make it to Radley’s blog. The raid in the article was a half mile or so from my house.

By: MRK

MRK — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:50:04 +0000

Oddly, apparently a dolt, the author still is able to make the connection between modern and historic prohibition.