[quote=faterikcartman][quote=CA renter]From the link:
In northern Mississippi’s Itawamba County, Sheriff Chris Dickinson said his office has handled about 30 encounters with bath salt users in the past two months alone. He said the problem grew last year in his rural area after a Mississippi law began restricting the sale of pseudoephedrine, a key ingredient in making methamphetamine.
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Faterikcartman,
Clearly, you do not understand how successful these bans have been.
In order to save everyone from him/herself, we need to prevent **everyone else** from gaining access to all manner of “dangerous” substances, tools, vehicles, sports activities, etc. We’d better get started enacting those bans, because we have a long, long list of products/activities to ban until we are all “safe.”
/sarcasm ;)[/quote]
You’re right on the money. I know the political bent on this forum is generally pretty far left, but I always secretly pray that it is just from all the constant brainwashing from the likes of college professors and Keith Olberman. Deep down if we went issue to issue surely people must see that the nanny state is corrosive and ultimately nibbles away at our freedom bite by bite.[/quote]
Actually, I’m probably one of the more “left” posters here, but it has nothing to do with Olberman or college professors, and has everything to do with logic, and a basic understanding of history, sociology, and psychology. I’m an economic (not political) socialist, but also support the right to bear arms, and the rights of parents to raise their children as they see fit (barring *real* abuse or neglect, of course). I support gay marriage, and even polygamous marriage, as long as nobody is opposed, and nobody is being hurt by it.
Believe it or not, there are a number of left-leaning types who are greater supporters of individual rights than many right-leaning types. That’s the problem with labels and stereotypes, all too often, they reduce arguments and debates to name-calling and childish taunts, rather than debating the facts and explaining the logic behind one’s beliefs.
I honestly believe the “two party” rhetoric is used by those in power to maintain their power via “divide and conquer” strategies. The worst thing that could happen to them (and the best thing for middle-class Americans) would be for us to have civil, informed, logic-based, honest conversations about what is best for this country and its citizens. That would really freak them out. 😉
