Halt this Pointless War

[Rocker]

Peter Fitzsimmons, noted author, after dinner speaker, sports commentator and former Wallaby wrote this in his column:

 

Halt this Pointless War

 

(note the final sentence in the article below)

 

ANOTHER week, another massive drug bust. This one was on Thursday in Hinchinbrook, where the police found a drug laboratory said to be capable of producing $10million worth of ecstasy. Sigh.

 

All power to the courageous men and women of the NSW Police Force who do this stuff but, truly, hands up who thinks all this effort will make a blind bit of difference in the long run, any more than it ever has? Hands up who thinks there is any way around the laws of supply and demand, which state that when you make a bust like this, you simply push up the profits even more for the human scum who push the drugs and, thus, more and more of them rush in?

 

Good. While your hands are up, give yourself an uppercut. The only sane approach is to put all of our resources into education programs to highlight the health risks of drugs, normalise the drug laws and free the police and the prisons alike from being bogged in a war that can never be won.

 

Oh, do stop squawking. Sane policy is to deal with the world as it is, not the way we wish it was. Laws of prohibition on products that millions of people like never have worked, and never will work.

 

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-...00306-ppl8.html

[Herbman]

My personal Opinion is that the legalizing marijuana will reduce the amount of first time hard drug users by alot just due to the fact that easy acess to a relatively safe drug is all people want, By making marijuana illegal all you are doing is forcing normal people to deal with drug dealers and kids end up mixing with crowds of people who are into the drug sceene and thus hard drug use is prevelant, Its just a cycle of drug abuse that needs to be stopped hear and now Edited March 7, 2010 by Herbman

[Innocent criminal]

Good. While your hands are up, give yourself an uppercut. The only sane approach is to put all of our resources into education programs to highlight the health risks of drugs, normalise the drug laws and free the police and the prisons alike from being bogged in a war that can never be won.

 

Oh, do stop squawking. Sane policy is to deal with the world as it is, not the way we wish it was. Laws of prohibition on products that millions of people like never have worked, and never will work.

nice to see someone tell it how it is

 

"Oh, do stop squawking" lmao thats classic I can here the conservatives squealing from here

[Fibrofeend]

HERE HERE!!

[phreakah]

I like this... in the past months I have been hearing of more and more higher profile people speaking out about this insane situation. Fingers crossed the larger political parties take notice and back off with their pointless system. Edited March 7, 2010 by phreak1987

[malbuzz]

good point herbman no one ever asked if id like a gram of gas while i was purchasing my ciggarettes .

[Indycar]

Peter Fitzsimmons is sharp with the pen, 'n he's pretty well on the money with most of his opinions. This one does have touches of gold in em. Especially with what THC quoted.

 

[mull]

Yeah, that last sentence is perfect

 

Well written Peter.

[resist]

Good article, I hope a lot of people read it...

[Budman2012]

Geez you reckon?

Maybe he should give himself an uppercut aye for being part of the problem for so so long until he caught a sniff of wind to be able to punch the other way on the topic to make a jive for himself.

(I'm sure that's what he meant)

Give me a break.

Sure one or 2 wizecracks within barely 4 small paragraphs ... way to jump on the bandwagon ...

and this :

All power to the courageous men and women of the NSW Police Force who do this stuff but, truly, hands up who thinks all this effort will make a blind bit of difference in the long run, any more than it ever has?

Yeh , everything this fucking lackey said goes nowhere ...

All power to them aye? ... you do realize that without the 'drug' situation the cops would have to actually do real tricky police work ... 1/2 the reason for all of societies problems are the fucking cops ... why should I be nice about it ... these people are the epitomy of scum , look at all the atrocities of coppers in the news over the decades , they are fucking bigots and ALL deserve to die , they will not stop ... they can do whatever they want AND get away witrh it , you can damn well bet that the stuff those fuckers were e-mailing recently was some nasty business as they won't even describe a vague notion of the types of "extreme Racism and Sexual misconduct" that was going on ... cautioned , one of the fucking idiots even suicided , my condolences to the poor family , but good. We don't need fuckers like that roaming the streets with ultimate feelings of power. Makes me fucking sik to think about it , this post will probably be deleted

 

Ahem ... there is nothing courageous in Harrassing harmless drug users , I hope they all know in their tiny little minds that they are going to Hell ... at least they will be the most disrespected people on the face of the planet.

So they don't explode their victims literally , they do worse ... they scar them for life and make them live on with the detriment , make it so it's a garuntee they can bust that fucker again ...

Wake the fuck up , Serve and Protect is a myth ... so one or two people got saved and found their car keys or got an AVO by an angry husband ... otherwise , it's busting people who has apparently done nothing wrong , oh shit , was driving with a mobile phone , big fine that one ... oh shit ... that person has a gram of bud on them ... serious shit ...

Uh oh , big angry fist fight over there out front the pub ... oh well , boys will be boys

Fuck that and fuck them and fuck you if you don't like it ... Cops arethe citizens enemy ... ever had a Mafia triad Biker harrass ya? ... no.

 

ANyhoo , I forget what the topic was Cheerz

(Fuck the Pigz)