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Tue, August 23, 2005 - 7:46 PM new
More Sick, Sad Meth
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This is what I'm saying. Meth bad? Yes: meth bad. Hysteria worse? Yes, hysteria worse.
Crack bad? Yes, crack bad. Crack babies existed? No, crack babies did NOT exist.
And entire generation of minority youth imprisoned? Priceless. That's what we call a cost-effective labor pool.
So, we've almost run out of black people to throw in prison, time to turn our attention to no-good po' white trash by demonizing their drug of choice to the point where simple possession can be equated to attempted murder.
Hey, maybe we can start seizing their property under narcotics seizure laws and auctioning it off to Wal-Mart! Even if they do fight us in court, we'll just call it eminent domain!
And don't we have a war to fight in Iraq? What's this in your pocket, boy? A little crank, you say? Now, have I got a deal for you, Pfc Loser! You like the desert?
And what do we do with our soliders as soon as we get them over there? That's right, pump them full of gubmint-issued amphetamines, so they'll fight better!
Mark my words: meth hysteria is being used as a means to intimidate disenfranchize a population cohort that is right in the sites for semi-compulsory military service. If any red-staters are going to object to the war, it's the ones who end up being forced to fight it.
More Sick, Sad Meth
www.slate.com/id/2124885/
This is what I'm saying. Meth bad? Yes: meth bad. Hysteria worse? Yes, hysteria worse.
Crack bad? Yes, crack bad. Crack babies existed? No, crack babies did NOT exist.
And entire generation of minority youth imprisoned? Priceless. That's what we call a cost-effective labor pool.
So, we've almost run out of black people to throw in prison, time to turn our attention to no-good po' white trash by demonizing their drug of choice to the point where simple possession can be equated to attempted murder.
Hey, maybe we can start seizing their property under narcotics seizure laws and auctioning it off to Wal-Mart! Even if they do fight us in court, we'll just call it eminent domain!
And don't we have a war to fight in Iraq? What's this in your pocket, boy? A little crank, you say? Now, have I got a deal for you, Pfc Loser! You like the desert?
And what do we do with our soliders as soon as we get them over there? That's right, pump them full of gubmint-issued amphetamines, so they'll fight better!
Mark my words: meth hysteria is being used as a means to intimidate disenfranchize a population cohort that is right in the sites for semi-compulsory military service. If any red-staters are going to object to the war, it's the ones who end up being forced to fight it.
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Re: More Sick, Sad Meth
Tue, August 23, 2005 - 9:47 PMI'm totally with you on the prison thing. It's ridiculous to imprison someone for posession. I don't know people are thinking with that shit. As for hysteria. I guess my problem is that I've just seen WAY too much real meth addiction and the resulting orphaned kids this year. My perspective is very skewed.
Madatory minimum sentencing... an INSANE idea. You know that song "Oh My God" by Spearhead?
Well politicians got lipstick on the collar
the whole media started to holler
but I don't give a fuck who they screwin' in private
I wanna know who they screwin' in public
robbin', cheatin', stealin'
white collar criminal
McDonald eatin', you deserve a beatin'
send you home a weepin', with a fat bill for your
Caribbean weekend
for just about anything they can bust us
false advertising sayin' "halls of Justice''
you tellin' the youth don't be so violent
then you drop bombs on every single continent
mandatory minimum sentencin'
'cause he got caught with a pocket fulla medicine
do that again another ten up in the pen
I feel so mad I wanna bomb an institution
singin'
Oh-my, oh-my God!
in my mind they got us livin' suicide
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Re: More Sick, Sad Meth
Tue, August 23, 2005 - 10:10 PM"I'm totally with you on the prison thing. It's ridiculous to imprison someone for posession. I don't know people are thinking with that shit."
It's woven into the way we see substance abuse. Everyone is a victim or a perpetrator.
Look how much court-ordered 12-stepping there is. State-sponsored religion, much?
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Re: More Sick, Sad Meth
Mon, September 5, 2005 - 10:34 AM
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Re: More Sick, Sad Meth
Mon, October 1, 2007 - 2:58 PMAbout 20 years ago I was real strung out on crank. It was almost all over for me, homeless, sick, one foot in the grave. So I started looking for help, asked around to some treatment places. Nobody could sqeeze me in, waiting list, they said. So I went and shot some more dope and pranced ever closer to the dirt nap. No room they said, no funds. But they sure had room for me in jail when I got caught!! Simple possesion, jail, jail, jail. Why did they want to spend all of that $ on a bed in jail when they could have spent les to help me get well? Nazi facsist cocksuckers, all. They even locked me up twice for simply tweaking. Not committing a crime, but high enough that I" might consider it". Prisons are full of people convicted of so-called drug crimes, and the bill is eating us alive. I say, give 'em treatment if they ask. I wasted 20 years of my life, and no one cared enough to spend some of their precious tax dollars on rehab for me. Fuck him, they said, lock him up.
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