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sick and wrong
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2002-07-29
They can have my glowsticks and my bottled water: ...when they pry them from my cold, dead hands!
In the latest ludicrosity from the War on Some Drugs, they're trying to make the anti-crackhouse laws apply to raves as well, and call bottled water and glowsticks drug paraphernalia. Lovely. Freegin idiots, I say.
The drug war has been a massive failure: a waste of money, of lives and of time. It's also been accompanied by extensive inroads on traditional American freedoms: property forfeitures, "no-knock" searches, expanded wiretap authority, and the destruction of financial privacy, to name just a few.
These are inroads that have served the agendas of bureaucrats but that haven't done anything to solve the problem that was claimed as their justification. And the drug war's combination of intrusiveness, corruption and ineptitude calls into question the government's ability to carry out the war on terrorism.
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Not being a bureaucrat, I think the drug war is a terrible model. In fact, I think it's an argument against creating a Homeland Security bureaucracy at all. If we can't trust the government to tell a glow stick from a hypodermic needle, then I don't think we can trust it to tell the difference between an American and a terrorist.
Exactly. I'm starting to get... real, *real* creeped out by some of the latest government tricks.
