Comments on: The Drug War’s Assault on Liberty

By: Cry Aboutit

Cry Aboutit — Fri, 29 Jul 2011 14:00:22 +0000

Instead of using the (very good) example of alcohol prohibition to explain my anti-drug war views, I use prisons.
Prisons are the most restrictive environments human beings can impose upon others. They are designed to be that way by architects, engineers, psychologists, and other worthies to thwart the unauthorized movement of people & materiel.
Yet prisons are rotten with drugs.
What kind of jaw-dropping arrogance can suggest that national borders & a free populace could ever be rid of drugs when we can’t keep them out of prisons?

By: Eiji Wolf

Eiji Wolf — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 21:52:37 +0000

“…This does not mean government has no right to restrict and prohibit harmful behavior…”

But, pray tell, how do you ensure that the government ONLY conducts its “proper” functions, if, as every day proves, anything it does it does wrong, except expanding its own sphere of influence and “income”?

Do you believe that the government CAN do this right? Do you believe that essential liberties are the one thing we CAN trust the goverment with?

I do not.

By: Mexico’s Drug Lords Fall, but War Goes On | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty

Fri, 01 Apr 2011 12:43:28 +0000

[...] “The Drug War’s Assault on Liberty” by Lance Lamberton [...]

By: John Anderson

John Anderson — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:39:16 +0000

The war on drugs, to me, is just an insane situation and only serves those who seek some sort of gain…personal, political, morallly, controlling, and profit, while it destroys individual freedoms and self-responsiblity. It is an enabling system, most often promoted by fears, for all who seek everything but reality.

As a former user and dealer of all types of illicit (?) substances, the solution to the problem (?) is the free market, free enterprise system. If we fail to learn from history, then, we only repeat what we could avoid. Example in mind: alcohol prohibition. One only has to read the history surrounding this legal restriction to see the correlation between drugs and alcohol results.

Of course, there are those who will immediately say, Oh no, not that same premise again. We have rode that horse to before and sent it back to the barn. Give it a rest. To them, I say, that horse has never been allow to run the race to prove it is a winner… because we, the people, have not given it a free-reign to run.
NOTHING WILL EVER BE ATTEMPTED, IF ALL POSSIBLE OBJECTIONS MUST FIRST BE OVERCOME.