From: [s--a--z] at [my-dejanews.com]
Newsgroups: talk.politics.drugs,alt.law-enforcement
Subject: Re: More 'non violent' dopers
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 06:35:06 GMT
Message-ID: <6u4s2q$unv$[REDACTED] at [nnrp1.dejanews.com]>

In article <[3605 c 37 d 1719074] at [news.intouch.bc.ca]>, [p--er--e] at [kill.spammers.slowly]
  (Pierre Honeyman) wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 1998 06:35:42 GMT, [e--ub--n] at [oklahoma.USA.net] (E.
> Faubion) wrote:
> >[s--a--z] at [my-dejanews.com] wrote:
> >>Earl, if you substitute "black" for "doper" you'll get the same
> >>heated response from civil rights folks.
> >Doper isn't a race.
> Neither is stupid Okie cop, but that's no more a reason for me to kick
> in your door, kill your cat and steal your house than smoking a joint
> is.

        You know, this should be put into perspective. Whereas I view with
great alarm the actions of cops in the 'drug war,' we should remember that
they are doing what they are told.        Granted, the "we did what we're
told," excuse didn't work for the E. Germans who shot Berlin wall-jumpers,
but this is how cops and grunts behave: they take orders. If our society made
laws calling for the mass anal raping of pot users by police, they might go
ahead and do that (with Earl Faubion eagerly at the head of the pack, no
doubt). The point is, I feel a certain degree of compassion for people like
Earl, who obviously have been bred with no ability to question authority. Its
not their job to question unjust laws, they just enforce 'em.   I'm angry
that Earl enjoys it (and I let him know it), but it's society's fault that we
allow him to go on doing it.    Think about it: approximately 3/4 of society,
according to recent polls (source: Drug Policy Internationaal), think that
the War on Drugs is a failure.         What do we do? We keep doing it. It's
like banging your head against a wall to get rid of a natural predisposition
to migraines.        "Sending a message that drug use is wrong,"     "Keeping
our children safe,"    "Eradicating the drug scourge,"         etc, etc, etc,
 but our actions encourage the opposite effect....

        I forgive Earl for what he is, he has no capacity for anything else. I
forgive all people who break drug laws, because the laws are obviously on-the-
face-of-it stupid. Asking a cop to enforce a law against drugs is stupid,
because it gives the impression that perhaps murder is harmless as well?

        I don't know, but I have long ago quit looking to the nation's legal
system and government for moral guidance, and most others have as well. Drug
laws are a large part of the problem. Either you come up with your own moral
code which respects no government, or you end up becoming a moral cesspool
like Earl, or (to be fair) a home-burglarizing heroin addict.

        I submit that the drug laws breed disrespect and distrust of the police, and
create the mistaken notion that all laws are unimportant. We play with fire as
a society when we allow things like this to go on...

        1.6 million in jail in the USA, and counting
        a new jail a month, that's all we ask....

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