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Armstrong Williams, about whom it must always be first asked, "who purchased this new opinion of yours, Armst?", has a new opinion about marijuana legalization in Mexico. It appears perfectly aligned with the Mexican drug cartels’ opinion of marijuana legalization. So, Armst, I gotta ask — which Mexican drug boss purchased this opinion of yours and paid you to type it up for The Hill?
Armst’s foolishness, perhaps bought and paid for with drug money from Mexico, takes him here, to a dystopia occupied by drug-"infested" illegal immigrants crossing our Southern border, oh my!
Economically, if illegal immigrants think there is an opportunity to sell drugs in the U.S. then they are going to do it. So instead of easier-to-track larger shipments, Border Patrol will be inundated with hundreds of thousands of hard-to-find, individual trackers. This will uncontrollably exacerbate our War on Drugs budget.
I don’t quite understand Mr. Calderon’s logic. He wants to legalize in order to thwart the millions cartels make annually. Doesn’t he get it? Cartel bosses are criminals! They kill their competitors! What do you think they are going to do to a mom-and-pop drug business?
What I do think they are going to do is find an easily purchased opinion and get it published in an Elite periodical like The Hill. Did drug money fuel this opinion, Armst? Can we see your checkbook *again* please?
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omfg. all kinds of wrong here.
never ceases to amaze me how little slapdash shit they have to say to get paid. this may be the Stonehenge of inartful – veritable boulders of inaccuracy
hey Arms – you forgot to mention the Terror Baby Pushers coming to a school bike rack near you !
jesus this is bad
The certifiable errors of fact were actually uncountable, so I went with full-on mockery. Seems that category error is the only thing worth assaulting Armst with: who paid you this time, suckah?
I’m totally down with the who’s paying you this time ? and wanted to ask over at the Hill, but sigh, didn’t feel like wading through that swamp of mouthbreathers in their comments
. . . although I’m a little disappointed, I had ‘Ward Connerly’ in that pool :D
I remain baffled that Armst gets published anywhere anymore.
But we have a right to know whose check he cashed for his typing.
I suppose there are other possible paymasters.
Armst really needs to drop a Big Clue.
Who paid, Armst??
He may not know simple economics, but man he sure knows how to shill. I’d ask why this guy’s opinion matters, but as with so many others that have a knack for being wrong…
There is so much wrong here, as others have pointed out, but yes the lack of any grasp of economics is quite amazing. Removing 70% of any company or cartel’s profits does what, again, Armst?
His arguments don’t even make sense…not that they ever did before. Mom and Pop drug traffickers? Not even Tom Freidman and his syphilitic mustache could come up with something so stupid.
Armst isn’t qualified to groom the mites from The Mustache Of Understanding.
I would say to him, Shut up and roll me one, wouldya?
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Isn’t this guy one of the Special Dispensation folks? You know, the ones who, by virtue of their being Republican, were un-outed and shoved waaaaay back in the closet after having been outed with great fanfare? (David Dreier being another one — his case is extra special as he was accused of the very same that Democratic pol Jim McGreevey was, namely, putting one’s boyfriend on the public tab. McGreevey lost his job, career, and family; Dreier kept his job, but wasn’t allowed to succeed Tom DeLay as Majority Leader when DeLay left in disgrace.)
My question is, why would anybody seriously ask this already compromised person his opinion?
It amazed me, too, Margaret, that he was published in as mainstream a thought-leader publication as The Hill. I certainly have to revise my opinion of them.
I don’t. Not after reading that idiot shill A. B. Stoddard.
Oh I had forgotten her.
Please don’t get me started on that elitist ‘golden spoon’ in mouth Alexandra!!!
I just read a similar pile of nonsense in my local “alternative” that features lots of ads from Medicinal Marijuana shops. Here was the logic against Prop 19.
1) It allows private individuals to grow 25 sq. feet of weed. “Until this allowance is removed from the language of the bill, it seems there is maybe a conflict of interest”…”it would prevent a monopoly”.
2) “I think that legalization is a way to prevent the masses from action…how will pot smokers rebel when all their rights are taken away”.
3) “Marijuana is just as dangerous as cigarettes and drinking. Just look at the neck of any pipe”. Yeah, and you clean those pipes with pure ethyl alcohol…clearly wood alcohol is safer…it’s so clean! Not to mention that pot won’t be allowed into anywhere that cigarettes are banned from…as well as from cars.
4) “Pot won’t eliminate the deficit. Arnold says ‘we have a spending problem’, ergo every bit used to pay off the deficit will be spent for other things that unions want.” So logically we should increase the debt even more, I guess…thus reducing available money to be used.
5) “Pot makes the mind slow labor down…it’s anti-capitalistic…watch more jobs leaving”. Yeah like those prison union jobs. And if it takes longer to complete tasks wouldn’t that mean that MORE people would be required to finish a task…sort of like having a 30 hour work week rather than have everyone working 55 hour weeks. One doubles the need for workers. And efficient, sober workers would benefit even more for being that way.
Really…this sort of stuff is getting coverage…I have to think it’s from the pot-industrialist grasping at straws.
Bootleggers and Baptists are the folks who kept liquor prohibition alice as long as they did.
Sounds like a country/western tune, Teddy. Are you starting a new career in your new city?
There was quite a bit of overlap there….
Didn’t the bootleggers of the (alcohol) Prohibition era kill their competitors?
Now then, in this age of re-legalized de-criminalized booze, how many microbreweries are getting burned down? How many bottlers are being extorted? Are Coors and Budweiser and Jack Daniels and all the wineries all over America in danger of being taken over by Mexican drug gangs?
Finally, the most obvious question of all: You want a toke. You gonna go down to the local licensed shop and buy some certified primo weed, all legal-like, or drive miles to some dank street corner to buy something you have no idea what it might be from skeezy low-life, who could just as easily be a cop looking to arrest you for buying unlicensed MJ?
Legalize it, tax it, and suddenly prison populations will go way down, and something like 60-80% (depending on who you cite) of the drug money out there just goes up in smoke (no pun intended).
Just Say NOW.
Someone should point out to Armstrong Williams that his logic only works if the US doesn’t decriminalize the personal growing and consumption of marijuana. If that occurs then there is simply no market for importation.
And even if that didn’t happen, those drug lords would have to deal with the same pressures as those Mafia types faced at the end of Prohibition. Suddenly legal alcohol was accessible from hundreds of breweries and bars. There was still some smuggling across the border for tax avoidance…but nobody smuggled beer. It was too much of a hassle for the profit.In fact, simply paying the tax was usually the better option…thus we got Seagram’s (originally controlled by the mob) becoming legit.
hahaha — “point out to Armst his logic….”
You slay me.
Bootleggers and Baptists
Sure do make my day
One group makes it for me
The other
Just makes me want to get soooo drunk that it doesn’t hurt anymore
Take a hit on that bong…Armstrong…or remain ‘a fool on the hill’!
Sounds to me like this is the political key to Just Say Now: ANYONE who’s against it is obviously in the pocket of the MURDEROUS DRUG CARTELS…. how can any Republican (or Democrat) not support Prop 19 now? It would be the political suicide….
Well, not anyone – - but if you know Armst’s history, you surely agree his opinions prompt the necessary question “Who bought this, Armst?” don’t you?
“Cartel bosses are criminals! They kill their competitors! What do you think they are going to do to a mom-and-pop drug business?”
I don’t think Armst was referring to mom-and-pop drug traffickers, but was referring to mom-and-pop drug businesses popping up all over America after marijuana legalization, competing with Mexican drug cartels for the U.S. marijuana market…except this doesn’t even make any sense because the one thing about marijuana is that someone can grow their own. What is Armst thinking (or not)? That the Mexican drug cartels are going to go after non-existent American mom-and-pop drug businesses? Or go after the millions who will grow their own marijuana in America after legalization, essentially cutting out all middle-men, like Mexican drug cartels, who will see their northward-bound marijuana drug routes into the U.S. dry up, with Mexican drug cartels left with trying to get the least used illegal drugs across the border?
Sometimes one has to wonder what these anti-marijuana-legalization guys are smoking.
Two things: First, I don’t think it’s very nice to pick on schmucks whose names were inverted since birth. Second, it’s now all-too obvious that the pro-prohibition, anti-legalization well has dried up, so they have to reach way down and scrape up the scum to find guys like him.
please support the troops. we must uncontrollably exacerbate our War on Drugs budget. The normal level of Drug War budgetary exacerbation is not sufficient now that dirty-cartel-liquid, shoe-bombing terror babies of the future illegal immigrant-alien busboys have figured out the game.
Say what you will about Armst,but at least you can’t see him smirk while he shills for the stat quo like Larry “pot people made me feel like a loser in 60′s college” O’Donnel.
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Eh – there’s loads of useful idiots and shills out there like Armst, who either get paid by someone or other (the Koch’s come to mind), or just write idiotic nonsense like this bc they are idiots. Read any forwarded rightwing email, and you’ll come across stuff that make this little gem seem positively intelligent. Wish I was kidding, but I’m not.
The whole pot-is-teh-eeevul debate is running out of steam. I think even rightwingers are losing the faith. It’s not worth it. But I guess those who make more money by having pot be illegal will try to do whatever works.
Yes, I think the wedge of those supporting continued prohibition is narrowing considerably, to those who profit from the drug wars — and their purchased spokesmen.