FACT IS ‘Populist/Isolationist’ Pat is very much the
puppet front man for entrenched biz-nihilists who
are working that other awesome source of cheap
labor —ACROSS the Pacific -in history’s –MOST–
awesomely genocidal regime -bar none!
( 70 million exterminated in ‘peacetime’ decades
AFTER WWII -unoutted, unmentioned, unanswered
for -FACT! )

Further, it’s not much of a stretch to realize that
Buchanan is, very much, acting as cover man and
apologist for the ascending Red Chinese card.

NOTICE, he’s forever tut-tutting the gargantuan
moral implications of it all –and scandalously
downsizes known death tolls every chance he gets.
—Check it out!

He’s just the other face of the coin of the shamelessly
self-serving PC Hollywood revisionist retreading of
done-to-death WWII themes —on this, the once again
‘mysteriously overlooked’ 60th Anniversary of the
staggeringly relevant KOREAN WAR.

And if you’re not pewking yet –notice further that
the other ‘daringly ourspoken conservatives’
-Ann Coulter and Michael Savage are also blindsiding
us on these matters. Coulter has NEVER even mentioned
the role of Red China suck-up cheap credit and enabling
in any of her diatribes.

Savage, when going off on immigration
“—and bring our troops home from Korea!
—get ‘em on our southern border! –NOW!”
He has also been caught dramatically downsizing
the death toll of ‘peacetime’ social and political
genocide by —10 million!

-Get it?

“The Americans came just like whores, all dressed up
and knocking at our back door—”
-Chou En Lai
NIXON / MAO bestseller

AT that time, BOTH Taiwan and South Korea were
pre-emptively tossed on the table. -FACT-

—BUCHANAN was there…

-CASE CLOSED-

I guess it’s all you can expect from someone like him.

No, it’s more that we just cannot afford the DrugWar anymore. It was paid for, like a lot of government programs, with borrowed money, as the tax base was always too small to support the hugely bloated Fed Gub’mint. people are realizing that we’ve been living beyond our means governmentally for a long time now, and it’s time to tighten belts.

As things get worse, there will be more demands to fund programs like unemployment insurance, and Joe Sixpack, staring at a pink slip, isn’t going to want to be told the money he needs is being spent by pontificating (and lying) fat-cat DrugWarrior bureaucrats who say they want to protect Joe’s kids from drugs, when Joe is more worried about where they’ll live and what they’ll eat.

And as the realization that the DrugWar is sucking funding away from those ‘life-support’ programs, and Joe starts voicing his anger at that, the pols will have the cover they need to take on the ‘sacred cow’ of the DrugWar. Then, it’ll be all over but for the shouting. http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/search/print_518872.html><a href=Because we already have a precedent.for relegalization.

Sweet reason will not prevail in the ending of drug prohibition. In the end, the price tag of drug prohibition will finally cause the necessary ‘sticker shock’ to jolt people out of their complacency. And it can’t come soon enough…

Could somebody please check hell for icecaps?

I think the point is that there are degrees of black market. Right now, illegality has created a powerful, militaristic, well armed black market for drugs.

The black market for cigarettes used to be almost nothing. When I was a kid, the taxes on cigarettes were minimal. Now they are getting so high that illegal drugs seem cheaper. But as the taxes rise, it creates a motive for people to seek alternate, cheaper means to get their fix.

So there is no doubt that the function of the black market correlates with how high the taxes are. Why do I say that?….
Because I am a lazy fuck. I am not going to search out a black market and the potential law enforcement risk that it portends when I can go down to the corner store and get a pack in a few minutes. Finding a non-taxed dealer, whether it is for cigs or pot is a pain in the ass.
But I am only so lazy. If the taxes get so high, I will get off my ass and investigate alternatives.

Would there still be cartels? Sure. But the law of supply and demand works with them to. If no one is demanding their products because people are seeking legal versions, the cartels are going to starve. There won’t be a big pie to fight over.

As the situation is currently with the war on drugs, the government can pretty much do anything it want’s so long as the justification is “DRUGS!” How much has law enforcement powers been expanded because of the “war on drugs”, how much has government intruded into our lives? How much of our freedom has already been sacrificed. How much money is currently wasted by taxpayers to finance all this? [[South America/Columbia, DEA raids, granny killing swat teams, all those little county police forces on steroids? etc.]] Seems a little ridiculous to think that government could become anymore intrusive given the current situation. Seems to me that a 20% tax on retail drugs would be a whole lot cheaper than the current debacle…especially if you factor in all the social ills and societal costs of prohibition. I’d gladly take some bureaucrats sitting in a tax office over DEA, SWATs, ONDCP, Militarized police, ever expanding prisons, black market violence, and blah, blah, blah, ANYDAY!

And besides, if drugs were legalized, who ever said that it wouldn’t be within my right to grow a (tax-free) marijuana plant in my house for personal use, no body comes and taxes the tomatoes I grow in my garden! Only difference would be that with drugs legalized I would no longer have to worry about the DEA banging down my door with assault rifles, shooting my pets, seizing my house and car, putting my kids into the foster system, serving a mandatory minimum or forced “rehabilitation”, fines, and a host of other bull—- that the government currently gets away with doing; all in the name of the “drug war”.

No one likes taxes, and obviously over taxation leads to black markets….but, F— Man! I’d much rather take the bureaucrats in a tax office, (probably some suits from the Bureau of Tobacco, Alcohol, Narcotics, Marijuana and Firearms) over all of that DEA-assault rifle-pet killer-do more time than a murder-constitution shredding-BS.

Even if we legalize all drugs, there will be some money to be made by smuggling (and/or fraud) to avoid taxes, as there is with any product that’s taxed. People smuggle cigarettes, booze, and Canadian prescription drugs. At best we can reduce the profit in smuggling to the point that some people say “You know, this isn’t worth getting shot,” and get out of the business or stop shooting each other.

While Pat Buchanan has definitely does some moralizing in his time, I think too many people mistake him for Pat Robertson. Buchanan is far closer to Goldwater and Buckley than Robertson and Huckabee.

I don’t like to defend DEA, but I’ve met some while I was down in Honduras, and what they were doing (“advising” military counter drug teams) was from what I could see pretty much the same as soldiering, and exposed them to extreme physical danger. Indeed, many SWAT and DEA are former military. I imagine there are similar agents in many countries, including Afghanistan. Again, I’m not defending the mission, I’m not saying many aren’t total assholes, but I don’t know if you can just use the term coward as a blanket for all of them.

Which is the greater evil? Legalized narcotics for America’s young or a failed state of 110,000 million on our southern border?

Substitute “consenting adults” for “America’s young” and it’s a home run sentence.

God help me for daring to embrace a tiny bit of optimism, here, but I’m starting to sense the first inklings of a sea change in drug policy, not just here, but all around the world. The mounting pile of evidence of the drug war’s failure and catastrophic consequences is getting too big for reasonable people to ignore.

In 1975 I was certain that marijuana would be legalized in 10 years. I hpoe like hell you’rw better than I at forecasting. Far too many lives have been wasted and ruined by the War on Drugs Sanity.

Buchanan:
Legalized narcotics for America’s young or a failed state of 110,000 million on our southern border?

#8 | Kunal | March 8th, 2009 at 4:52 pm

I know TARP and the Stimulus have changed people’s perceptions of large numbers such as Billions and Trillions, but I’m pretty sure there aren’t 110 Billion people in Mexico.

Whether or not there are, don’t let Lonewacko/Orange Line Special see that number!