Comments: Tenn Cops to Start Enforcing Laws

Prohibition has always supported gangs.

The police were powerless in the face of alcohol prohibition.

What makes you think they can do any better against this version?

The church has always supported vice with its prohibitions. Has man changed so that prohibition no longer works this way? I doubt it.

Yet as with the French aristocrats we have forgotten nothing and learned nothing.

Machine gun bans were enacted because of the violence of alcohol prohibition. Why should this era be any different?

The stupidity of all this makes me crazy. Can you tell?

Interestingly enough the gun rights folks tend to love prohibition and the anti-gun rights folks are not so happy with it. Funny, huh?

Why is it that Republicans who hate vice support it with prohibitions (price supports for criminals) and Democrats who enjoy vice (except for tobacco and food) are not so happy with prohibitions against vice. (It was Dems who ended Prohibition I).

Well I suppose Einstein was right. Stupidity is more common than hydrogen in the universe.

We have to choose: tolerate vice or tolerate criminals who supply vice.

Tough choice. Vice alone or criminals and vice.

Posted by M. Simon at July 1, 2005 10:33 PM


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