Saw and saved a similar quote by the pseudo-Religious Stephen Colbert. (I'm still not sure where he is on agnosticism...you decide.
If you as the ruling class admit that society is imperfect, and you can no longer blame the people you are locking up for spoiling it, then you have to admit that the people REALLY responsible are probably you yourselves.
And that cannot be true, 'cos then you'd have to lock up yourself.
The white power structure specifically enacted the criminalization of cannabis in order to incarcerate non-whites and to rob them of the ability to vote thereafter. That cannabis continued to remain illegal, decade after decade, shows how deeply entrenched this bigotry was. Plus, police enforced the laws in hugely discriminatory ways, charging and imprisoning non-whites out of all proportion to usage (Whites were rarely stopped, arrested, charged or imprisoned for cannabis). They repeated the pattern with crack cocaine.
Glenn...my opinion is that far too many of us are lazy thinkers. OF COURSE we want to solve social problems...we just don't know how to do it, we don't want to admit any guilt and we certainly don't want to pay for whatever it costs.
Posted by backtobasicsHow the Puritans Thanksgiving should have gone.
Posted by glennlabLeave the kids alone.
Posted by mistymoon77Get your mind out of the gutter.. just passing along some tidbits of knowledge here.. ;)
Posted by KilltheskyfairyI like it! Also good way to use churches that are closed for 6 days!
Posted by KilltheskyfairyWhat up with that?
Posted by glennlabLet's give peas a chance.
Posted by backtobasicsThe shortest distance between two points is a straight line... Unless you are traveling on a the surface of a sphere.
Posted by bookofmoronsGoing for Level 9. maybe this road will help
Posted by glennlabDeath is nature's way of telling you it is time to slow down.
Posted by glennlabOctober's PSA
Posted by glennlabWe haven't had any pot posts in awhile
Posted by bookofmoronsWhen a picture is worth a thousand words
Posted by noworry28Evangelicals and Conservative Christian Nationalists today.
Posted by glennlabMy heart goes out to those suffering in the wake of both the recent hurricanes, Will the idiots that don't want to help stop lying.
Posted by glennlabGood old Betty calling a spade a fucking shovel.
Posted by bookofmoronsspeaks for itself