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In reply to the discussion: The real question that the Ron Paul candidacy poses for Democrats [View all]TheKentuckian
(25,023 posts)impacts on minorities? The direct effects are a debacle and the ancillary impacts combine to make a nightmare that also further empowers some of the worst elements making all our lives difficult.
The entire train of thought also works as an effort to minimize the accompanying concerns about military intervention and broader civil liberty and privacy concerns.
Clearly, civil rights cannot be guaranteed in a society that cannot maintain due process and habeas corpus and we can't afford critical initiatives bogged down in playing the game of acquisition and security and security of resources for tax evading, unemployment creating, environment wrecking multinationals.
Ending the failed drug war doesn't mean ending civil rights, it means advancing and protecting the rights of all.
It also would be pretty decent to back off the "when did you stop beating your wife" style logic, unless you feel it is fair to ask you why you want to incarcerate huge chunks of the minority population for corporate profit and political advancement for a lucky and mostly white and wealthy few?
How is it not shitty to inject such as your reasoning and how is it the least bit decent to ascribe similar motives to others? Not a soul has even suggested they would trade anyone's rights except from certain establishment quarters and not for drugs but for political position, then it is called "pragmatism" and celebrated like a virtue.