Seattle Has Figured Out How to End the War on Drugs
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UPDATED: Saturday, August 8, 2026 15:24
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Originally posted by WISHIMAY:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Legalizing or at least decriminalizing marijuana is a great start.
I've changed my mind lol, maybe neutering chronic (non medical excuse people) that use weed would be a great place to start.
Stay fascist, wonderful.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Yeah, did you ever notice that WISHY's posts almost always talk about killing, or nuking, or frying, or eradicating, or castrating? Just a bundle of love, that one is.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Legalizing or at least decriminalizing marijuana is a great start.
I've changed my mind lol, maybe neutering chronic (non medical excuse people) that use weed would be a great place to start.
Stay fascist, wonderful.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Yeah, did you ever notice that WISHY's posts almost always talk about killing, or nuking, or frying, or eradicating, or castrating? Just a bundle of love, that one is.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by WISHIMAY:Quote:
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Legalizing or at least decriminalizing marijuana is a great start.
I've changed my mind lol, maybe neutering chronic (non medical excuse people) that use weed would be a great place to start.
Stay fascist, wonderful.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Pity would be no more,
If we did not MAKE men poor - William Blake
You idiots have been oppressing the entire sexual spectrum as long as you have existed. I can't wait for the day your kind is dead - WISHIMAY
But it's okay Sigs.
Because they're all bad people, or people who don't think the right way...
Yanno, people who don't agree 100% with her on everything.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I also find it interesting that of the five people who have posted in this thread so far, Wishy is the one who is so far authoritarian in her ideas of how the issue of drug abuse should be handled she'd make Kamala Harris blush.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I think she's further "right" on the issue than even JSF would be.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Because they're all bad people, or people who don't think the right way...
Yanno, you're right. When someone eventually murders you because you are helping turn your neighborhood into a ghetto, we should absolutely pat that person on the back and say "It's ok, he wasn't worth much anyway. Try harder next time."
Or, let's take this one step closer to home for you...Someone kidnaps and tortures your innocent beloved niece to death and claims mental illness we should just let them keep doing it, right? After all, they don't think the right way...Or we should give them a comfy cot and three hots a day so they can sit in their cell fapping themselves over the memory... while existing on your taxpaying dime? That's JUSTICE??? I don't think so and neither DO YOU.
This planet is a cruel place and it always has been and always will be. Coddling people who choose to defile themselves, others, and this planet demeans US ALL. Well, those of us who pay attention, anyway.
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I never said I had all the answers.
I am a firm believer that you should be able to do anything you want to do in a free country as long as you're not harming others or unnecessarily inconveniencing them. Though the non-violent offenders aren't doing the former, they're certainly doing the latter in Seattle.
What I do know is that the US Prison system is slave labor, and corporations make big profits off of it. It's not designed to rehabilitate anybody, and quite the contrary, it turns non-violent people who were just misguided into hardened criminals when they do get out. Most of them end up back inside.
There's an answer somewhere. Seattle may not have "figured out how to end the war on drugs" like the thread title here so boldly proclaims.
But putting people in prison alongside murderers and pedophiles for what essentially boils down to a mental illness isn't the answer either. At least Seattle is trying something different.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Satterberg is the spear tip, but I think Jay Inslee (governor of WA and former presidential candidate) deserves some credit. The state overall has come up with some revolutionary plans. And I don't think this could go forward without some state-level agreement.
Portugal got great results but I think anything like that is very context sensitive; and they're trying to institute something similar in a different country in a different culture. If it translates well it could be a sturdy model going forward for the rest of the US.
There are feral people and there are people with organic neuropsychiatric issues (even if they're acquired through drug use). It may be easier to deal with feral people since they have a reliably responding brain. As for people with neuropsychiatric issues, I always thought the whole idea of kicking them out on the street was dumb --- and cruel. How hard could it be to imagine that people barely functioning in a stable, safe environment might possibly not do so well on the streets? Thanks Reagan. Maybe we'll find out that being a humane society is cheaper in the long run, and start to reverse the damage done so many decades ago.
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Quote:Many folk had heard rumor that the Prison System was designed for the purpose of Punishing miscreants who decided to violate the Laws with the known Punishment of incarceration.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I never said I had all the answers.
I am a firm believer that you should be able to do anything you want to do in a free country as long as you're not harming others or unnecessarily inconveniencing them. Though the non-violent offenders aren't doing the former, they're certainly doing the latter in Seattle.
What I do know is that the US Prison system is slave labor, and corporations make big profits off of it. It's not designed to rehabilitate anybody, and quite the contrary, it turns non-violent people who were just misguided into hardened criminals when they do get out. Most of them end up back inside.
Funny how that sounds like it makes sense. It punishes as it was intended to punish.
So, the giant secret of ending the War on Drugs is to.....STOP ENFORCING THE LAW!!!!
Funny, this sounds much like the Libtard solution of lawlessness - err, actually, it is the same!
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oops - computer didn't give me the back arrow
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There was a huge prison built in Pennsylvania, built on the idea that people should be either doing productive work or in Quaker solitude and quiet to consider their misdeeds and become 'penitent' - ie, a penitentiary. It wasn't intended as punishment per se.
The Eastern State Penitentiary
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http://www.ushistory.org/tour/eastern-state-penitentiary.htm
A group met at the home of Benjamin Franklin and created the world's first "penitentiary."
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Of all of the radical innovations born in this era, American democracy was, of course, the most influential. The second major intellectual export was prison design and reform.
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Eastern State Penitentiary broke sharply with the prisons of its day, abandoning corporal punishment and ill treatment. This massive new structure, opened in 1829, became one of the most expensive American buildings of its day and soon the most famous prison in the world. The Penitentiary would not simply punish, but move the criminal toward spiritual reflection and change. The method was a Quaker-inspired system of isolation from other prisoners, with labor. The early system was strict. To prevent distraction, knowledge of the building, and even mild interaction with guards, inmates were hooded whenever they were outside their cells. But the proponents of the system believed strongly that the criminals, exposed, in silence, to thoughts of their behavior and the ugliness of their crimes, would become genuinely penitent. Thus the new word, penitentiary.
To this day we haven't figured out what our prisons are for. Are they punishment? A means to isolate dangerous people from the rest of society? A place to help people with their problems? A place for penitence and reform?
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