Terrorism and the American Public
<Nearly two years ago>
When did Americans become such mewling children?
Oh no… there’s a terrorist behind those bushes! That light up sign is a bomb!!! Won’t someone please think of the children?!?! etc.
I was just going to rant about the terrorism panic Americans suffer from but then I just saw this little gem…
http://www.fmqb.com/Article.asp?id=477125
Personally, if Fox and NBC want to show hardcore porn at 3 in the afternoon they should be able to. TV’s have V-chips and cable boxes have parental control units. Clearly parents have the tools to enforce what they want their kids to watch… why the hell is the government involved at all? Because most Americans are mewling babies who can’t take responsibility for anything, apparently. Besides if no one is watching the hardcore porn hour then no advertising will be on board so then no money will be made so the porn will be canceled. Somehow I don’t think ratings would be the issue though….
Anyways, on to the rest of this scree.
<about 2 years later>
God I started this nearly two years ago… I’m pretty sure everything I said there still stands. Mewling and whiney. The latest and greatest in the great American pussifications… what to do with the Gitmo Detainees… As Jon Stewart has said.. If we can keep the brain eating guy under lock and key, I’m sure we can handle these guys in our good ol supermaxes. Hell maybe if we ended the war on drugs we could make room for the war on terror. Always heard you shouldn’t fight a war on two fronts. Not sure what that says about the war on cancer… I think we could probably keep that one and the war on terror. Might be safer just to keep the cancer one though. I know.. lets start with legalizing most vices. Prostitution… Legalize… Weed… Legalize… Most other drugs… legalize. We should probably keep the out and out poisons and potential neuro toxins illegal. I’m looking at you heroin, pcp, crack and meth. Coke.. you’re on the border. Wide scale prohibition doesn’t work. Hell even small scale targeted genies are hard to get back into the bottle.
To cut off stupidity at the knees… legalization doesn’t mean rampant distribution. Cigarettes are legal but regulated.. Alcohol is legal but regulated. I would envision all the other vices would fall under that category. To the ‘but prostitution will encourage sex slavery!!!!’ people…. I’m pretty sure any type of slavery is still going to remain illegal, but now the girls and guys in the sex trade can get health care and regular check ups. (Thus reducing STD’s over all) They can go to the police without fear when a john attacks them… cause assault is assault and you shouldn’t have to be scared of going to jail cause you got beat up doing something that should be legal. Oooo and look at that.. we can save a shit ton of money on vice enforcement and really focus on tageting the real predatory types.
This rambling rant gets published now cause I’m tired of it being in my drafts. I no longer care about how well written or persuasive it really is. Citations are for suckers but multiple studies have shown that legalization of vice is probably the way to go and legalized prostitution has decreased STD rates in Nevada.