The NWO Has A SWAT Team

I am amused at my my Right Wing Brethren decrying the militarization of the police.

And yet the Right in America fully supports Drug Prohibition. The main use of these militarized police.

It makes ya wonder. I’m trying to figure out if I should laugh or cry.


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4 responses to “The NWO Has A SWAT Team”

  1. Eric Avatar

    I hate to diagnose this hopeless disagreement in psychological terms, but it may be that they are in denial. Or maybe they think that America’s pre-drug war period was a failed experiment with freedom. Some of them may simply hate people who take drugs, and take comfort knowing that the people they hate are at least criminals who ought to be locked up. The WOD is the closest thing to real culture war that we’ve got going, right? We cannot back down, or America will be destroyed, just like it was before 1914!

    I think many of them honestly believe that legal drugs threaten “the culture.” Still others see it as a threat to authority. To established order. Yet they also distrust that same authority and established order, so analysis gets a little contradictory. I want to understand these people, but the more I try, the more I fear I cannot.

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  3. Mark Alger Avatar

    I actually suspect you might be engaged in a category error here. After all, once Bill Buckley came out in favor of drug legalization, it was OK for us in the Right to relax a little on the subject.

    As libertarian ideas gain ever more currency among right-thinking folks, your observation goes ever farther astray.

    I actually think that the objection to the militarization of the police is helping to drive the shift in attitudes on drugs.

    One of the most frequent arguments I hear from conservatives against the war on (some) drugs is exactly the corrupting influence it has on the police.

    M

  4. Simon Avatar
    Simon

    Mark,

    Yes things are trending in the right direction. But there are still very large pockets of resistance. Mostly on the Right.

    If you will check out the blog in question “Conservative Tree House” you will note lots of posts on Fast and Furious. Lots on police militarization.

    Absolutely nothing directly about Prohibition. And it is not that unusual.

    Here is a piece I did earlier this year:

    http://www.gunvaluesboard.com/interview-with-m.simon-from-classical-values-the-second-amendment-community-tends-to-ignore-the-connection-between-the-war-on-guns-and-the-war-on-drugs-772.html

    I have yet to see other gun rights blogs take up the cry.

    And Fast and Furious has been a gunner’s topic for at least two years (give or take).