The Empire Strikes Back

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Re: The Empire Strikes Back

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liberty wrote:
Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:13 am
The war on drugs is finally what it should have been all along: a real war on drugs. In the past, it was treated like a joke, but now it is no longer a joke. Those who import illicit drugs into the United States are enemies of the nation. They are killing and enslaving Americans.
Tell me, liberty, that you have never, ever smoked weed (still illegal, although 'decriminalized', whatever the hell that means), or tried cocaine (again, illegal), or even drank beer in your teens (sure, alcohol is legal, but not for people under 18/now 21).   I know you can't do it.   And there's the reason we are losing the war on drugs, and it's the same reason we lost the war on alcohol during Prohibition.   You, along with tens of millions of other members of the American public, are the problem.    You and they want this stuff, and they'll get it one way or another.

And just like happpened during Prohibition, entities will arise that will ensure the supply continues.   Back in the twenties and thirties it was mobsters like Al Capone, Dutch Schuiltz, Lucky Luciano, Bugs Moran, and Meyer Lanksy providing bootleg alcohol.   Today it's the people that run the drug cartels and the countries that support them providing heroin, cocaine, fentanyl, and God-only-know what else.   And just like it was in the 1920s, the drug runners will win in the end, because while a large portion of the American public may pay lip service to the War on Drugs, in the end they won't allow the government to do more than play Whack-a-Mole because they want — nay, they DEMAND — their bag of weed or their bottle of Mother's Little Helpers to put the world on hold for a while.

And if that's slavery or a sickness...   well. let's just say that I''ve never heard of people volunteering to become slaves or acquiring a life-threatening illness.
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" let's just say that I''ve never heard of people volunteering to become slaves or acquiring a life-threatening illness".

Ever hear of a product called 'cigarettes?

When I was in the fourth grade, 1949, long before the surgeon general ever put his warning on a pack of cigs, we commonly called them 'coffin nails' and 'cancer sticks.' Some of my fellow 4th graders bought them. The brand called "Wings" sold for about half the price of a regular pack-- ten cents. Wings included trading cards, just like the English brand "Players'. Rather than sports celebrities, the card in a pack of wings were all about flying machines. I think the wings pack contain less than 20 cigs, and the cigs were slightly smaller than Lucky's or Camels, or Chesterfields (the major brands then.) I never volunteered, never smoked any cig, or cigar or a pipe. When I shipped to Army basic training in 1960, there were only three smokers in my platoon. When I left active duty in 1963, I and three others were the only non smokers in my platoon. One was a career NCO. That was first platoon, H&Hq Company, 11th Combat Engineer Group, Schwetzingen, Germany

Times have changed. Kids for a prank now never call a store on the phone and ask "Do you have Prince Albert in a can?"

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Re: The Empire Strikes Back

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Joe Guy wrote:
Tue Dec 02, 2025 2:57 am
liberty wrote:
Tue Dec 02, 2025 1:13 am
The war on drugs is finally what it should have been all along: a real war on drugs. In the past, it was treated like a joke, but now it is no longer a joke. Those who import illicit drugs into the United States are enemies of the nation. They are killing and enslaving Americans.
I disagree with the idea that people who bring drugs into the US are killing and enslaving Americans.


Why kill them? Do you not believe in due process?
I wouldn’t be too sure of that. Do you remember the Dennis Paris trial in Hartford, CT, 2007? He used heroin to keep his slave whores in line. Once he had them addicted, they were much easier to control. He didn't recruit whores he made his own, capturing and Brutally training them. Most of his slaves were black and at least one as young as 14.

And no, I do not believe in due process in war. How would that have worked? It would have given the entire German army due process. How do you think that would have turned out?
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Re: The Empire Strikes Back

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liberty wrote:
Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:00 am
I wouldn’t be too sure of that. Do you remember the Dennis Paris trial in Hartford, CT, 2007? He used heroin to keep his slave whores in line. Once he had them addicted, they were much easier to control. He didn't recruit whores he made his own, capturing and Brutally training them. Most of his slaves were black and at least one as young as 14.

And no, I do not believe in due process in war. How would that have worked? It would have given the entire German army due process. How do you think that would have turned out?
Not that it matters but these people swanning around the Gulf of Mexico and the Pacific Ocean are not at all to be identified with Dennis Paris - a home-grown pimp who operated in the same manner as all pimps, using any coercive means to hand. The people being murdered in boats are not performing that function in the least.

Also 100% wrong is your claim that there is a "war" going on. No, there is not (yet). There is no named belligerent, opposing military force in the field. So - total bullshit called on you for bringing up the Wehrmacht.
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"And no, I do not believe in due process in war. How would that have worked? It would have given the entire German army due process. How do you think that would have turned out"

It turned out just like it does here in the USofA. A few were hanged. Many got a slap on the wrist. Some were hustled back to the USofA and put to work doing the same thing they had been doing in Nazi Germany, to join the fight against the evils of Communism. But those mud-men refused to know their place and had the audacity (chutzpah?) to make it their life work to punish the exterminators of Jews.

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liberty wrote:
Wed Dec 03, 2025 2:00 am
I wouldn’t be too sure of that. Do you remember the Dennis Paris trial in Hartford, CT, 2007? He used heroin to keep his slave whores in line. Once he had them addicted, they were much easier to control. He didn't recruit whores he made his own, capturing and Brutally training them. Most of his slaves were black and at least one as young as 14. And no, I do not believe in due process in war. How would that have worked? It would have given the entire German army due process. How do you think that would have turned out?
What Meade said.... and to emphasize, the people being murdered in boats aren't soldiers. They are suspected criminals. If it's okay to kill them because we are in a war on drugs, then shouldn't we be able to immediately kill individuals who are caught attempting to smuggle in drugs daily at ports of entry at the Mexican border?

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