Reply #312: FINALLY got to this post -- sorry it took so long. [View All]

I address the issue of gay sex down below, as well as civil rights.

What you are missing is HOW WE SPEND THE $40 BILLION -- its not going towards knocking down the doors of the guy who is toking up in front of his television -- its going towards dealing with the killing, and the stealing, and the selling to little kids, and dealing with the addicts who are causing problems in their community.

I've talked to the law enforcement folks. They aren't going after the little guys -- they are going after the "big fish" -- the ones who have guns and shoot at them. And when they have to, they are dealing with the crazy guy with a knife who is on a bad trip and threatening his family as he tries to tear his eyeballs out, and in their copious spare time, they are dealing with that drunk guy who is weaving his way down the street because he only had two or three (or seven or eight) beers, and he can handle it right? And he needs his car for tomorrow, so he can't just leave it at the bar, and BAM!!! He's fine, and the lady in the compact is dead.

And meanwhile, the guy who is toking up in his living room really doesn't understand why all of his tax money is being wasted on chasing him down, because *he* isn't having a problem. Sure, he drives to the bad neighborhood when he wants something a little harder, but those scary looking dudes on the corner who slip him some crack for twenty bucks while they glare at the neighborhood children (at least the ones who aren't being paid for look-out duty). Let the folks in the bad neighborhoods deal with the turf wars, and the guns, and the violence -- he's got his, right?

The problem isn't being caused by the folks who *aren't* doing the drugs; its being caused by the ones who do.