This is to simple and I know others have thought of this, but I am going to put it out there and get booed and hissed at by some and others will love the idea. Let's face a few simple facts first.
1) The American national debt is freaking out of control and no one is willing or able to stop it.
2) Illegal drugs will not go away, no matter how much is spent on enforcement or education people are still going to use, buy and sell drugs. During the 1930 when the United States completely prohibited the manufacture or sale of alcoholic beverages, there was a huge illegal business in that exact thing.
3) The government (state and national) want more tax money and the people in control are willing to take that money from you.
4) The problems in Mexico are being blamed on the USA, because we are the biggest user of the drugs they supply, no we do not supply the guns to the cartels, no matter what the ATF or any government idiot tells you.
The USA should legalize all drugs, from marijuana to the hardest opium based drug, I am talking about all of the drugs. The next step would be to tax the usage of these drugs, much like liquor and cigarette taxes. I can promise you this businesses would start making these high quality clean drugs, regulate how they are sold like smokes, liquor and other controlled items and let the users purchase and use them. It goes with out saying that working and driving and things that are prohibited while under the influence of any intoxicant would remain so.
Once manufactures started producing cost effective and safe drugs the illegal trade would decrease greatly and the tax base would increase greatly. Those folks who are employed trying stop the drugs could simply start managing the manufacture, sale and regulation of the new legal drugs. I know that there will always be someone who wants to sell, manufacture and distributed drugs illegally and therefore we will need some enforcement people for combating that group.
I know this is a wild idea, but I think it would work, we will never win the war on drugs until we cut of the money supply and the way to do that is redirect it.
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Time to Overhaul the Federal Law Enforcement Agencies
The more I watch the news about the BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tabacco, Firearms and Explosives) and the Fast and Furious, Gun Runner investigation, the more I think it is time to overhaul the Federal law enforcement agencies.
Many of the men and women who work for these agencies are great and honorable people who have dedicated their lives to public service and law enforcement and I salute them and say thank you.
However it would appear that as certain individuals move up through the ranks they develop a sense that they know better what needs to be enforced, than the law they are sworn to enforce. I will grant that some laws are stupid and should not be enforced, however when administrators in a law enforcement agency decide to violate the law to pursue a political agenda something has to be done. It is time for the US Congress to take a long hard look at the Federal Law Enforcement agencies, of which there are many.
Is it possible that some agencies have out lived there useful life and need to be abolished or merged with another agency to stream line enforcement. The BATFE has long history of trying to go undercover into motorcycle gangs that trade in firearms, good idea, but the FBI has a very effective organized crime unit and motorcycle gangs that traffic guns are organized crime. The BATFE has a group that looks for smugglers of all types weapons, explosives, alcohol, tobacco, yet the are limited to working with in the USA and have a very small presence out side the borders of America. The DEA engages in anti-smuggling operations on a regular basis and we have operators with the DEA around the world. Trust me on this guns and drugs go together.
I could list many more examples, but I won't take up your valuable time. The question arises, what can I do about all this, simply put: write, call or email your elected Congressional Representative and Senator and ask them to investigate. You are slowly losing your freedoms unless you stand and stop the theft.
Many of the men and women who work for these agencies are great and honorable people who have dedicated their lives to public service and law enforcement and I salute them and say thank you.
However it would appear that as certain individuals move up through the ranks they develop a sense that they know better what needs to be enforced, than the law they are sworn to enforce. I will grant that some laws are stupid and should not be enforced, however when administrators in a law enforcement agency decide to violate the law to pursue a political agenda something has to be done. It is time for the US Congress to take a long hard look at the Federal Law Enforcement agencies, of which there are many.
Is it possible that some agencies have out lived there useful life and need to be abolished or merged with another agency to stream line enforcement. The BATFE has long history of trying to go undercover into motorcycle gangs that trade in firearms, good idea, but the FBI has a very effective organized crime unit and motorcycle gangs that traffic guns are organized crime. The BATFE has a group that looks for smugglers of all types weapons, explosives, alcohol, tobacco, yet the are limited to working with in the USA and have a very small presence out side the borders of America. The DEA engages in anti-smuggling operations on a regular basis and we have operators with the DEA around the world. Trust me on this guns and drugs go together.
I could list many more examples, but I won't take up your valuable time. The question arises, what can I do about all this, simply put: write, call or email your elected Congressional Representative and Senator and ask them to investigate. You are slowly losing your freedoms unless you stand and stop the theft.
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
Freedom Under Assault
Our freedoms in America are under a slow, steady, sneaky assault, not just one, but all. It is important to understand that there are individuals in the current government that want to regulate one of your rights for the well being of the mass population, and they will try to regulate all of those rights. How do they do this you might ask? Let me share some thoughts with you.
If someone wants to restrict one of your rights, they first must make you believe and think it is for your own good, and the good of everyone. For example, if the government wants to restrict what a pastor can say in his or her pulpit, they simply must make people think that any statement disagreeing with current politically correct thought or verbiage is hate speech and must be outlawed. It makes no difference if the statements are true or factual, these statement offended some overly sensitive individual and there fore it must be hate speech. The next step must be making sure that everyone with differing views on anything, (most importantly those that agree with the power brokers) have equal or more time to make their case in the media. Finally the the last step is to have complete control of the media(radio, television, and print), thus eliminating the right of free speech. If you would like to see how that plays out take a look at the countries in the Middle East of late. State run TV and news, communications shut down by the state, only what the power brokers want on the news got there. Complete control of the freedom speech, really means no freedom of speech.
Gun control supporters use the same type of plot. I read a quote from and Egyptian citizen the other day and he made the statement: " I always thought gun ownership was just an American thing, after the police left the streets I got a gun from my grandfather and now I have it all the time, it is a good thing to be able to protect my family. Now I understand the American thing about guns." Make no mistake about it your Second Amendment rights are under attack also.
The First Amendment is under attack on the religion side of things also. The government will someday wish to tell you what you can believe in and worship, my bet is it will be the "god" of Environmentalism and "green". Soon, if the current administration in the USA has its way there will be a tax on operation of your private vehicle. How about that for restrictive.
What can you do about this? Good question, I have few answers.
1) Pray to God that our country will be a light on a hill for Jesus, and all those that disagree with this idea will see the love of Jesus in His followers.
2) Work with in the system to vote into office defenders of freedom.
3) Stop asking the government to do things that the government should not worry about, no the government can not take care of your every need or want from the cradle to the grave.
4) Demand the governing people return to the Constitution of the United States.
5) Demand that the United State withdraw from the United Nations, and stop funding that organization.
Your continued freedom or lack there of depend upon what you do.
If someone wants to restrict one of your rights, they first must make you believe and think it is for your own good, and the good of everyone. For example, if the government wants to restrict what a pastor can say in his or her pulpit, they simply must make people think that any statement disagreeing with current politically correct thought or verbiage is hate speech and must be outlawed. It makes no difference if the statements are true or factual, these statement offended some overly sensitive individual and there fore it must be hate speech. The next step must be making sure that everyone with differing views on anything, (most importantly those that agree with the power brokers) have equal or more time to make their case in the media. Finally the the last step is to have complete control of the media(radio, television, and print), thus eliminating the right of free speech. If you would like to see how that plays out take a look at the countries in the Middle East of late. State run TV and news, communications shut down by the state, only what the power brokers want on the news got there. Complete control of the freedom speech, really means no freedom of speech.
Gun control supporters use the same type of plot. I read a quote from and Egyptian citizen the other day and he made the statement: " I always thought gun ownership was just an American thing, after the police left the streets I got a gun from my grandfather and now I have it all the time, it is a good thing to be able to protect my family. Now I understand the American thing about guns." Make no mistake about it your Second Amendment rights are under attack also.
The First Amendment is under attack on the religion side of things also. The government will someday wish to tell you what you can believe in and worship, my bet is it will be the "god" of Environmentalism and "green". Soon, if the current administration in the USA has its way there will be a tax on operation of your private vehicle. How about that for restrictive.
What can you do about this? Good question, I have few answers.
1) Pray to God that our country will be a light on a hill for Jesus, and all those that disagree with this idea will see the love of Jesus in His followers.
2) Work with in the system to vote into office defenders of freedom.
3) Stop asking the government to do things that the government should not worry about, no the government can not take care of your every need or want from the cradle to the grave.
4) Demand the governing people return to the Constitution of the United States.
5) Demand that the United State withdraw from the United Nations, and stop funding that organization.
Your continued freedom or lack there of depend upon what you do.
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