Emiliano Antunez at Sierra Times – Rush and Chong – possibly the best, most concise, statement on the war on freedom, er…

Emiliano Antunez at Sierra Times –

Rush and Chong – possibly the best, most concise, statement on the
war on freedom, er… some drugs, that I’ve read. [sierra]
bq.
Within a month’s time, drug war supporter and conservatives’
conservative Rush Limabugh fesses up (only after being outed by a
tabloid) about his addiction to prescription pain killers and 70s
pothead icon Tommy Chong (the other half of Cheech and Chong) is
sentenced to nine months in prison, not for possession of the evil
weed, not for distribution of the enticing white powder, but for
selling “paraphernalia.” America has definitely reached the
boiling point of hypocrisy in its useless drug war.

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The cat is out of the proverbial bag, many Americans have known for
years that the war on drugs is not about drugs. This drug war is a war
by our own government on its own citizens, it has made mince meat of
the fourth amendment, it has shredded the second amendment, it has
given the government the power to peak into our finances, it has run
rough shod over private property rights, it has turned our inner
cities into war zones, it has turned non violent youths into criminals
and in the process ruined countless lives.
[End the War on Freedom]

This is a very relevant comparison which I haven’t seen made anywhere else.