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Bluelighter
- Joined
- Nov 28, 2011
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Unless their house is being broken into, Mr and Mrs Joe Blow couldn't give two shits about the violent criminals. Its why its called the Underground. Bad people doing over other bad people has been going on for decades. Time to time you get a mum holding a picture of her 30yr old missing son but you know he simply ran with the wrong crowd, owed money and is now buried in a shallow grave in the distant rainforest. The only reason there is a crack down on bikes in QLd is because their arrogance thought they could conduct their business in public places with bashings and shootings. If they had kept it on the down low it would be business as usual. Criminal groups will exist with or without drugs because something else will always be better than actually working a job for money. Bad guys are usually lazy guys and they aren't going to go straight as soon as one revenue flow is eliminated. Ditto for terrorists, they would run guns or illegal bookmakers with the same level of violence and profit.
What really upsets the mum and dad voters is seeing kids overdosing, crashing their car under the influence, getting into meth fuel fights out the front of nightclubs, becoming paranoid and pulling a knife on them in a kitchen or losing their job by constantly fucking up while high. All of this will happen regardless if their drugs are legal or not, just as it does with alcohol today.
Yeah, if they are not directly harmed by violent criminals, they may be harmed by violent drug warriors, who arrest their son and put him in jail for getting "high". Getting rid of prohibition is more than pleasing the average family in a first world country...
Of course the only reason a crackdown on bikies is due to bad behavior. Law Enforcement is basically on the same team as the criminals when it comes to prohibition. I wonder why? hmm....
It is so funny when you seem so convinced that a market as lucrative or more lucrative than the drug market exists. I hate to burst your bubble, but it does not. The god damn commodity is worth more than food...Criminal groups will still exist, but they will be a dwarf in comparison to today. It is also laughable that you believe the Taliban could survive by simply gun running and working with illegal bookmakers? Pfthaha, dude seriously, lets be honest about this and stop spewing crap.
I have already argued with you before, and you have proven to argue to the point of utter bullshit...last I remember you were arguing that criminal gangs COULD keep up with the government on purity and pricing rofl. You obviously have either something to lose if drugs are legal or simply a troll who enjoys to spur debate. I think a troll, but anyway, it is good to have ignorant close minded people like you opposing legalization because the more deeper your arguments go, the more desperate and stupid they become. We have clearly seen that prohibition has not worked, CLEARLY...why don't we try something different so we can stop the debate and see both sides of the story?