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Title: The War on Drugs Just Got Even More Vile: Police to Begin Inspecting Your Poop, Seriously
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/war-drugs-police-inspecting-poop/
Published: Dec 21, 2014
Author: Justin Gardner
Post Date: 2014-12-23 08:34:18 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 2612
Comments: 10
As the wasteful, immoral war on drugs continues in police states around the world, authorities are always looking for ways to track the use of “illicit” drugs. It’s the intelligence aspect of their war, and some of the methods literally reek. Introducing “sewage epidemiology,” coming soon to a community near you. Sewage epidemiology is a rapidly expanding field that can provide information on illicit drug usage in communities, based on the measured concentrations in samples from wastewater treatment plants. According to the American Chemical Society’s report: The war on drugs could get a boost with a new method that analyzes sewage to track levels of illicit drug use in local communities in real time. The new study, a first-of-its-kind in the U.S., was published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology and could help law enforcement identify new drug hot spots and monitor whether anti-drug measures are working. The thought of authorities slogging through the sludge may be comical, but it represents another example of big brother using our money to monitor our behavior. Drug consumption is a non-violent act upon oneself. The drug trade is made violent in a black market under government prohibition. What is the rationale behind attempts at drug eradication and criminalization? It provides a means for government to assert power; it enriches the prison industry and the jackboot industry and politicians. Take these away and there is no logic to the war on drugs. Supply is consistently available to meet demand, despite massive amounts of money and effort directed at eradicating supply and criminalizing demand. Instead of learning from this history, however, the state continues its meaningless pursuit by turning to things such as sewage epidemiology. While some European countries put this technology to good use by monitoring sewage for environmental toxins, in the U.S. it will be used to repress its citizens. Most information on drug use is gathered by the state through surveys, crime statistics, and drug seizures. Analyzing our bodily waste will “help law enforcement identify new drug hot spots.” After all, they have to find reasons to use all that fancy new military gear.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Are you a crack dealer?
Attaboy! Typical ignorant response from someone who thinks that only "crack dealers" are against the police state and the war on drugs. Should Christians Support the War on Drugs? Laurence M. Vance : Not only do I not use what are classified by the government as illegal drugs, wouldn’t use them if they were legal, and would prefer that no one else do so whether they are legal or illegal, I would rather see people use drugs than the government wage war on them for doing so. As a believer in moral absolutes, I consider the use of any drug for any reason other than because of a medical necessity to be dangerous, destructive, and immoral, but I also consider the government’s war on drugs to be dangerous, destructive, and immoral. As an adherent to the ethical principles of the New Testament, I regard drug abuse to be a vice, a sin, and an evil that Christians should avoid even as they avoid supporting the government’s war on drugs. As a Christian, I oppose root and branch every facet of the government’s war on drugs just as much as I oppose the use of drugs themselves. Yes, I know I am being redundant. But that’s because some Christians still just don’t get it. So let me make myself perfectly clear: drugs are bad. Smoking crack is evil. Getting high on marijuana cigarettes or brownies is a vice. Snorting cocaine is destructive. Shooting up with heroin is sinful. Swallowing ecstasy is immoral. Injecting yourself with crystal meth is dangerous. But none of these things means that there should be a law against doing any of them. And it is a myth that those who favor marijuana legalization or drug decriminalization just want to get high without being hassled by the police. Pat Robertson certainly doesn’t. And I certainly don’t either. There are many reasons why Christians should not support the war on drugs. Constitutionally, the federal government has no authority whatsoever to regulate drugs, let alone criminalize their manufacture, sale, and use. Just like the government has no authority to control what Americans choose to eat, drink, smoke, inject, absorb, snort, sniff, inhale, swallow, or otherwise ingest into their bodies. Philosophically, it is not the purpose of government to be a nanny state that monitors the behavior of its citizens. It is simply not the purpose of government to protect people from bad habits or harmful substances or punish people for risky behavior or vice. Drug prohibition is impossible to reconcile with a limited government. Pragmatically, the war on drugs should be ended because it is a complete and total failure. As I have pointed out many times, the war on drugs has failed to prevent drug abuse, reduce drug trafficking, or reduce the demand for drugs. It has ruined more lives than drugs themselves. Practically, the war on drugs should be ended because all it does is clog the judicial system, unnecessarily swell prison populations, foster violence, corrupt law enforcement, hinder legitimate pain treatment, and unreasonably inconvenience retail shopping. Medically, the war on drugs is misguided. In a study by the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet, it was alcohol that ranked as the "most harmful drug," beating out heroin, crack cocaine, and ecstasy. And then there is the fact that tens of thousands of people die every year from prescription drugs and reactions to over-the-counter drugs like aspirin. Financially, the costs of drug prohibition far outweigh the benefits. According to a 2010 study by the Cato Institute, spending on the drug war tops $41 billion a year. What have we gotten for this except the militarization of the police, the erosion of civil liberties, and the destruction of financial privacy? Theologically, and most importantly, there is no warrant in the New Testament for Christians to support a war on drugs by the government.
"if you're not cop, you're little people" Those guys really know their shit, don't they?
It appears to be a troll that is spamming this forum with anti-police "articles". Poor thing.
You mean "anti-corrupt police articles", right? Or are you one of those who believes that cops are gods and can do no wrong?
"if you're not cop, you're little people" I was beaten for no reason by Kentucky pigs.
aRE you SuRe about that?
100 percent sure.
Me too. I broke one of their arms.
I once witnessed two cops tackle and cuff man who just robbed an old lady coming out of a market. I also once witnessed, late at night while driving home from work, two cops hand a large paper bag to a street thug. Then turn on their lights and pull me over tossing everything in my car. There are good ones and bad ones.
But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name (John 1:12)
#2. To: A K A Stone (#1)
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Are you a crack dealer?
#3. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#1)
#5. To: Zesta (#4)
....spamming this forum with anti-police "articles"
#6. To: Zesta (#4)
#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)
I was beaten for no reason by Kentucky pigs.
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