These recent actions by the Government, to make abettors in '*projects' also subject to discipline - begs the question of (as Brandioch has pointed out several times):

* 'projects' - need for same? An entire thread in itself.

'Our' tolerance of a Government policy towards 'drugs that some people Like' (or toss in prostitution too, if you want; 'sex that some people Like') in its favorite theme of "War On ___"

We indeed tolerate this continuous thread of 'reasoning' re very many 'problems'. We have NOT begun to learn even the lessons of Prohibition and its bloody-well FORCED Repeal! It DID NOT WORK and it was the petri dish for The Mob which exists today.

'Victimless Crime' is a typically Murican oxymoron -I aver that it is a direct descendant of (Our version of) Puritanism: the nagging fear that somewhere somehow SomeOne is enjoying hisself in an unAuthorized Way.

Street Gangs, expanding prisons-for profit (a Growth Industry lobbied for wih massive funds from handsomely paid Guards), the entire NARC infrastructure which perpetrates 'confiscation for the direct cash benefit of the NARC Organization !! for just one aspect of the creeping unConstitutionality 'we' supinely accept ... ...

These all derive from the Puritanism just below the surface. And we are spawning YAN variant in all the new legislation aimed primarily at --> continuing the Murican War On __ mentality IMhO.

Root Causes. Find those, and the remedies become at least Thinkable. Otherwise, it's just all Demo/Repo, Librul/Cunservative *blab* ad infinitum. Sound and fury signifying Nothing. Solving? even less = exacerbating!


Ashton