Comments on: Drug Czar Calls For End To “War On Drugs” http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/ Life. Liberty. Property. Defending individual freedom and liberty, one post at a time. Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66539 Eric Fri, 15 May 2009 15:39:24 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66539 No, not really. His predecessor just stumbled from crisis to crisis with no philosophy or ideology or guiding principles. Although people call him a neo-con, he truly was not. Bush was an opportunist that got lucky. I suspect he actually believed all the bull he continually spouted about liberty and genuinely thought that he was doing things to advance the cause of liberty. That’s what happens when you don’t found everything in coherent first principles.

Obama, on the other hand, has a coherent philosophy and set of first principles that is not liberty friendly and he has been executing against it from day 1.

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66538 Doug Mataconis Fri, 15 May 2009 15:33:07 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66538

anything Obama does is calculated to extend the power of the state.

Much the same was true of his predecessor

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66537 Eric Fri, 15 May 2009 15:14:57 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66537 I’m quite willing to admit that left wing radicals are far and away more prudish than anyone else. I’m surprised that Obama is doing anything of this nature, but I suspect it is about populist demagoguery …. the American public is opposed to prohibition, so loosen the strings slightly, let the loud whiners not whine so much ….

On top of that, I suspect that our Dear Leader and his cronies understand the concepts Heinlein presented in several of his books (as did Pournelle) about the difference between citizens and taxpayers, and which ones need to be productive and happy and which just need to be content.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66536 Eric Fri, 15 May 2009 15:11:55 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66536 Tarran, anything Obama does is calculated to extend the power of the state. I have no intention of ever applauding anything he does. Unless he turns around and denounces everything he has previously stood for, fires his cabinet, makes it clear that Ayers is a left wing terrorist and then begins a new way of doing things. I’m sorry, I cannot get on board with supporting anything from this administration. It makes me complicit in their take over.

]]> By: tarran http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66516 tarran Thu, 14 May 2009 23:51:47 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66516 Oh Baloney, Eric!

What if Obama were to announce massive reduction in spending and taxes? Would we condemn them just because he is a statist? The way you bring people to your side is you praise them when they do the right thing, even if their motives are suspect.

in this case, though, I can assureyou that a desire for more drug consumption is not in the Obama administration’s agenda. Drug users don’t make productive workers and make it hard to make the quotas called for by the five-year plan.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66509 Eric Thu, 14 May 2009 21:08:23 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66509 I like to see things move forward, but I can’t stand and applaud anything coming out of the most statist administration this country has had since at least Johnson, and more likely since FDR. Endorsing anything from them is to become complicit in their desire to remake us into a very radically different culture and government.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66505 Eric Thu, 14 May 2009 20:46:50 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66505 Oh please, you think that the statist Obama Administration cares about individual liberty? I’m sure that some of them, at the very least, think that making narcotics more easily available is a good way to manage the population.

Since when do the ends justify the means?

]]> By: Doug Mataconis http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66504 Doug Mataconis Thu, 14 May 2009 19:53:33 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66504 Eric,

What does that even mean ?

Any small step away from drug prohibition is a victory for personal liberty and while I have my doubts that anything substantive will come out of this — other than the fact that the Obama Administration has apparently ended the practice of sending the DEA to raid medical marijuana clinics in states where they are legal — it’s worth noting one theless.

]]> By: Eric http://www.thelibertypapers.org/2009/05/14/drug-czar-calls-for-end-to-war-on-drugs/#comment-66499 Eric Thu, 14 May 2009 19:12:55 +0000 http://www.thelibertypapers.org/?p=5790#comment-66499 Oh boy, drugs for the masses ….. this isn’t about personal liberty Doug.

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