I last visited this subject in March of 2013. In light of my many posts on how cannabis can cure cancer at least in some people and given this is breast cancer awareness month, and in recognition of the GOP effort to continue drug prohibition I thought the subject could use a revisit.
A definition is in order and the wiki is probably good enough in this instance.
Crimes Against Humanity, as defined by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Explanatory Memorandum, “are particularly odious offences in that they constitute a serious attack on human dignity or grave humiliation or a degradation of human beings.”[1] They are not isolated or sporadic events, but are part either of a government policy (although the perpetrators need not identify themselves with this policy) or of a wide practice of atrocities tolerated or condoned by a government or a de facto authority. Murder; massacres; dehumanization; extermination; human experimentation; extrajudicial punishments; military use of children; kidnappings; unjust imprisonment; slavery; cannibalism, torture; rape; political, racial, or religious persecution; and other inhumane acts reach the threshold of crimes against humanity only if they are part of a widespread or systematic practice.
So would widespread persecution of people for what they like to smoke be considered a crime against humanity? How about denying the ill medicine in order to continue the persecution? Well that probably qualifies.
And where do the majority of these Nazis reside in the current era? As Bill Quick has pointed out and the Heritage Foundation has so amply proved, they reside for the most part in the Republican Party. And they do not appear to be ashamed of their position.
Help them out. Make Drug War Nazi a common phrase. And when asked, point out that they would deny some people medicine in order to continue the persecution of other people.
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At the heart of the drug war is the theory that people should be up for the “crime” of harming themselves. I can think of few concepts as morally flawed from the get-go. The result has been the creation of huge economic opportunities via the artificial inflation of prices and the imprisonment of millions. Those who support such a system are at least as misguided as the fanatics who are called “Safety Nazis.”
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. Dear drug war Nazis, please stop paving now, Hell has been achieved.
There are a few exceptions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/22/opinion/alison-lundergan-grimes-kay-hagan-and-other-candidates-avoid-obama.html?_r=0
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Senator Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, who has fought loudly against the president’s energy policies, has scurried so far to the right that she even opposes legalizing marijuana for medical purposes, though her leading Republican opponent supports it.
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