B.P. Terpstra
Leftists are singing a mantra: “See no cannabis evil. Smell no cannabis evil.” You see, cannabis suffocates sober capitalism. Consequently, skeptical views on so-called medical marijuana are considered blasphemous. In a world of competing rights, the rights of narcissistic drug users are superior. Conservative families and their small businesses are inferior, period.
When confronted with real evil, Woodstock libertarians suddenly become legalists, and point to their groovy interpretations of the Constitution and pothead-centric rights, dude. Apparently, true freedom is a druggie defecating on your front lawn. It’s also LSD rides.
As I’ve repeatedly stated, it was no coincidence that Euro-socialist states raced to soften their drug laws, because drug users are government-dependent citizens, as Orwell recognized in Nineteen Eighty-Four. Beyond theory, in the real world, taxed-to-hell conservative families are expected to pay up.
I’ve been to Amsterdam and the revolution is a lie. Troubled by the Netherlands failed social experiment on teenagers, however, the Soros-backed Cato Institute and other Woodstock libertarians have been singing the praises of socialist Portugal’s soft-on-drug ethos, and hoping to hell we wouldn’t ask too many critical-thinking questions.
The faithful still claim that crime in Portugal has gone done since their nation went soft on drugs. But what’s gone down is their economy, an economic basket case. Moreover, the Portuguese have a history of fiddling with crime statistics. Or to quote my local newspaper:
A Melbourne woman was murdered in Portugal and her death covered up by police there, a Sunday Herald Sun investigation has found.
Former international model and fashion executive Jacinta Rees was hacked to death with an axe at her cottage in the Algarve, in southern Portugal, two years ago.
Portugal is cool!
But even official statistics can’t hide what I call the peaceful terror that is progressive Portugal. Somehow drug-first libertarians and open-borders libertarians are always missing the bloody stories:
The official data show that in the third trimester of the year (the summer months) violent criminality rose more than 16%, a substantial portion of the overall 10% rise in criminality last year, which concerns the most violent cases.
Portugal is cool!
Drugs Free America Foundation’s Calvina Fay knows:
Studies show Portugal is a classic example of what not to do. Drug-induced deaths in Portugal climbed to 314 in 2007 - significantly more than the 280 deaths recorded when decriminalization started in 2001.
Altogether now: Portugal is cool!