Reefer Madness, The Liberal Way

Thanks to the mainstream media and Liberal idiocy, people who grow marijuana continue to be, now with increased vigour, associated with criminality and murder in the minds of the unthinking public. The London Free Press continues its shameless agenda with its emphasis on stories like this, further adding fuel to the burning pyre. Worse yet, the attack is expanding to include smokers of 'BC Weed', with the US press getting into the fray: The murder of four RCMP officers searching a marijuana-growing operation in Alberta is stark evidence of how serious the B.C. bud problem is becoming, U.S. officials said in an article yesterday in the New York Times newspaper. "It's getting worse and worse and we need to address it at every level," said Leigh Winchell, special agent in charge for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Seattle. "The funding needs to be there and the resolve of law enforcement to address it needs to be there -- on both sides of the border," Winchell told the newspaper. "It's a very dark day for all of us." Indeed it is: The front-page story notes U.S. officials are increasingly concerned about cross-border smuggling of B.C. bud, a potent form of marijuana, with fears that related violence in Canada could spread to the major transit points of northwestern Washington state and Seattle. The issue is highlighting frustration with Canada's less-stringent drug laws and concern that's making it harder to stem to flow, said the article. "I think the southern border just has the attention of the media and with the northern border, people just assume it is far more secure than it is," said U.S. Senator Patty Murray from Washington state. One crazed man kills four mounties and suddenly mass hysteria kicks in with talk of 'related violence' from Canada seeping over the border. It is a non-issue whether the gunman smoked or grew marijuana, except in so far as the media has taken the connection and drawn a false correlation, implying marijuana use and propagation leads to violence. Roszka had a history of property violations and was under investigation for stolen cars! That is the real issue. The death of the four mounties has also made on impact on the National Liberal Convention, but of course. Liberals side-stepped an awkward marijuana showdown at their national convention yesterday while giving a slam-dunk endorsement of gay marriage and committing to reform the country's prostitution ban. An emotionally charged debate over federal marijuana laws, set against a backdrop of four dead Mounties, was contained within a raucous committee room and never made it to the party's main convention floor. Almost 600 Liberal delegates at a justice workshop simultaneously endorsed resolutions that would see pot legalized, taxed and federally regulated -- while also voting to impose mandatory minimum sentences on convicted grow operators. But neither resolution was debated by the full convention plenary, meaning neither will become official party policy this weekend. Instead, the Liberals used yesterday's main convention sitting of 2,500 delegates to give a rousing endorsement to same-sex marriage legislation. It is the first time the party has endorsed gay unions, keeping faith with the minority Liberal government's bid to legalize such weddings. ..... The contentious pot debate was immediately framed in the tragedy of four RCMP officers gunned down Thursday during a raid on an Alberta farm that was found to contain a small grow operation. "We knew that something drastic was going to happen and we just didn't know when," B.C. delegate Ginny Hasselfield said as she proposed the grow-op sentencing resolution. I knew there was trouble coming when the Liberals starting discussing the issue of decriminalization. Harmless smokers of marijuana will continue to be unjustly persecuted by the state, with the addition of tougher penalites for growers if the Liberals have their way. Liberals attempt to 'please' all of us, the necessary result being we all get screwed, five years over, five years at a time, as the jails fill up. A London Fog Salute to the Liberal National Convention: "This very fact that crowds possess in common ordinary qualities explains why they can never accomplish acts demanding a high degree of intelligence. The decisions affecting matters of general interest come to by an assembly of men of distinction, but specialists in different walks of life, are not sensibly superior to the decisions that would be adopted by a gathering of imbeciles. The truth is, they can only bring to bear in common on the work in hand those mediocre qualities which are the birthright of every average individual. In crowds it is stupidity and not mother-wit that is accumulated." Gustave Le Bon Thanks to To Herd or Not to Herd for reminding of this classic quote by Le Bon. Update: Magnifisyncopathological dissects the media hype.