Some days, I want to give up. These legislators are killing me. Every time a bad bill is shot down, they just resurrect the law by hiding it inside something else.
Even assuming that the drug war was something I supported (it isn’t), how many wars do the dimbulbs in Washington think we can fight simultaneously? How can they possibly try and merge the Drug War and the war against terrorism, as if we’re all mentally retarded, and they’re going to slip one over on us just by claiming that drugs and terrorism are a duo much like the Captain and Tennille? I want to throw my hands up and just walk away from this idiocy:
If you thought al Qaeda or Iraqi insurgents were the major threats facing America, Rep. Charlie Dent (R-Pa.) says you’re wrong. According to Dent, “The growing availability of methamphetamine is a form of terrorism unto itself.” Many of Dent’s colleagues apparently agree, so they’ve attached surveillance, “smuggling”, and “money laundering” provisions to the reauthorization of the USA PATRIOT Act.
The war on drugs is an abomination, and so are the leaders who insist on continuing to prosecute that war. Inept bureaucrats destroy more lives than drugs ever will. The Patriot Act is trash because of garbage add-ons like this. Legislators who throw random unrelated crap into their bills should be tarred and feathered. Mr. Dent, I’m disgusted. You should be ashamed of yourself. Apologize to the American people, you’re hurting and making a mockery of people who are actually trying to fight terrorism.
These vast new police powers, contained in a new “Combat Methamphetamine Act” (CMA) and other provisions, serve no purpose in the ongoing and serious struggle against terrorism.
If Washington wants to be taken seriously, it should stop diluting the good things government does with rancid pieces of garbage like the above. By God, if I have to sit in Iraq having mortars and rockets shot at me on an almost daily basis, I want to know that my legislators back home have some common sense. I’m not feeling it. Words can’t begin to describe how angry this makes me. You are dishonoring my service with garbage leadership.
The drug war, is, at its heart, a war against Americans. I’ve said it before, and I’ll keep saying it until I’m dead. Using government as the primary tool to deal with people’s drug addictions is like using a hammer to do brain surgery. You might stop the addiction, but the patient usually ends up dead.
We need to have serious dialogue in this country about treatment and prevention options, not more growth of the police state.
If you disagree, watch this video of a DEA agent lecturing children and then shooting himself in the foot. That’s your government fighting the War on Drugs. OK, now go to the comments section and tell me the “drug war” has been anything but a travesty and that we need the important bill make America a better place to raise a family.
Hat tip: Instapundit, again.