Oliver nails it with one of the most powerful and entertaining pieces to inform the public about this travesty.
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Brilliantly done. Hopefully the necessary undeniably powerful and righteous public backlash ends up being promptly equally brilliantly done.
Our nation was clearly established against law abuse (according to the U.S. Declaration of Independence), but that fact has been effectively ignored for over two centuries (and counting) with terrible results.
Corruption has always had a home in our nation and abroad, and ultimately corruption may be synonymous with imperfection (and therefore a permanent part of reality, because perfection is impossible within reality).
You want to corrupt a saint? Simply remove the right option(s), so the saint must choose a misfitting (so corrupting) alternative, and then lambast that saint for doing so.
That said, most people remain unaware of the hardcore scientific logic concluding that no one ever gets away with corruption (including law abuse).
The most credible application of science currently concludes that reality is an ocean of energy from humanity’s perspective (e.g. particle/wave duality in quantum physics shows particles act as waves, Einstein’s famous equation shows mass is highly condensed energy, and String/M Theory shows a subatomic particle is a modulating string of energy).
There is no doubt that literally every system within reality that humanity has ever encountered requires balance for stability, and at least given the modulating (so balancing) needs of reality (which lines up perfectly with the law of physics saying every action is an opposite and equal reaction), there is no uncorrupted reason to deny that reality itself (with its demonstrably perfect winning record against anyone within reality) also requires balance for stability.
The net result is clear. Anyone as a collection of matter (i.e. energy seamlessly part of reality) cannot screw over another collection of matter without ultimately paying in full for it.
If you’re interested, here’s more on this apparently fresh new look at hardcore science: http://spiritwave.wordpress.com/reality-waveform-theory
Humanity needs to promptly learn that getting away with abuse is scientifically impossible, at least according to the best application of science today.
Basically, ‘certain drug’ prohibitionists (among all other law abusers) owe reality big time for all of the suffering they have caused (and continue to cause), and there is no escaping their proper fate (even death will not save them). Such prohibitionists understanding this sound conclusion, however, can stop their obviously failed prohibition now to minimize the amount of compensating suffering needed for reality’s balance.
They can join the rest of us (i.e. perception alteration fans) to properly educate (interestingly by fully honest entertainment) amateurs about the risk of such alteration in any of its many forms to minimize (if impossible to prevent) perception alteration abuse.
Agreed?
Mankind is hardwired to seek pleasure,,any laws prohibiting pleasure will turn into a never ending battle.
The forfeiture laws were enacted to combat a pleasure market and evolved into a beast due to greed and the natural tendency of man to take a mile when given an inch.
How much this was enhanced by not hiring officers with sufficient IQ to question some of these laws may be a factor in how quickly the greed is spreading but if all you hire is stupid then eventually stupid makes it to the top.
That was just excellent. I’m very impressed with Oliver’s show so far.
Pennies from heaven indeed! Who needs the occasional dirty cop taking money off a dealer. Its much more effective to legalize the whole process, right?
Elections are clearly approaching. With each election comes the fear mongers. Where there’s fear, there’s the drug panic. Representative Tom Cotton (R-AR, 4th District), is running for the U.S. Senate. He’s just played the drugs card with the ISIS card, and he is claiming he’s holding two-of-a-kind:
Yup, according to Rep. Cotton, if people smoke marijuana, ISIS will march right down main street, Little Rock, USA. White Arkansas women will marry dope-smoking, dark-skinned, Arab Muslims, and produce hundreds of little Islamic mini-terrorists. Christmas will be prohibited by Sharia law. Arkansas will be decimated by Ebola. People in Arkansas won’t make enough money to forfeit any to the cops. All because of drugs.
The truly sad part of this is that Tom Cotton will likely win the election and become the new U.S. Senator from Arkansas—bad news for the rest of the country. Prohibition always creates and encourages the worst political leaders in the world.
So, the logical conclusion would be to legalize drugs and put the cartels out of business. Is it just me, or does it sound like he’s saying if you support prohibition, you support ISIS.
“Prohibition always creates and encourages the worst political leaders in the world.” Yes indeedy! I hope we also see some heroes.
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So has everyone seen the “latest” “scientific” study listing the horrid dangers of cannabis? Well, it’s not actually new. It’s a compendium of “scientific” studies that have been discredited over the last 20 years. I’ve got to admit it, while there’s no question that the prohibitionists are idiots, they stand by their stupidity come hell or high hippies.
On the other end of the spectrum at least 3 of the first 7 still executes cannabis law violators.
I really do believe that if someone wants to be a professional confidence artists that he shouldn’t regurgitate hogwash that can be discredited with just a few clicks of the mouse.
Oh, please don’t think that I missed the fact that the headline misrepresented the study’s inane claims.
This door should be standard to prevent such cop nonsense.
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=899755960050647
He could have played up the link with drug prohibition more in my opinion, but yes it was a great segment.
Daily Show did a bit last night about how there is no national data base of police killings. They couldn’t find the total number of people killed by police in the US. Apparently, police departments are supposed to report those numbers to the DOJ, but are not actually required to, so none do. Why is it not surprising that the government doesn’t want those numbers to get out?
Daily Show Oct 7
It’s at 7:50 (if you can make it past the mandatory commercials).
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How about we turn this one into a dictionary picture worthy example of irony?
“There is no national data base of police killings.”
There is a national database of cannabis DNA. A CODIS for cannabis as they say down at the crime lab.
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What you think I made that up? Well I don’t blame you a bit. Sometimes I wonder if I did do that because it sounds so darn stew-pid. Never drop acid around a prohibitionist. That combination just might make your brain implode.
How cops take millions from motorists not charged with crimes!
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=5b4_1412867958