No, there's usually notice. Lots of notice. Generally a bunch of guys yelling about how they're gonna keep you safe.
Quit picking on Obama……
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I thought the Patriot Act was going to protect us. I couldn't bring myself to believe that it would be used as the basis to fundamentally change the concept of privacy in America. I didn't realize my mistake until it was too late.
I'm gonna brag some here. Back when they were passing that damn thing, I asked people supporting the act, mostly Republicans, "Do you think President Hillary Clinton will give back the power President Bush is taking?"
I figured maybe you wouldn't mind my bragging, because I ain't happy about it. No more'n you are.
But POTUS says they were phony scandals and the flock bleated.
Anything said to the contrary... well... you are a racist. Any defense of that unsubstantiated accusation is...well... racist.
BHO releases the hounds, pathetic.
'2016: Obama's America' Filmmaker Indicted for Violating Campaign Finance Laws - The Hollywood Reporter
'2016: Obama's America' Filmmaker Indicted for Violating Campaign Finance Laws - The Hollywood Reporter
I oppose the expansion of govt. powers, and their use to oppress part of the citizenry. That makes me a racist homophobe. That works for me. I'm going to change my CC moniker to Ray Cyst.
This is how an incipient police state gets started. A supporter of the Edwards campaign who committed the same offense several years ago was charged with a misdemeanor instead of a felony as in the current case against the Republican film maker.
The American left has become a cult of personality. Reminds me of North Korea.
The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged
Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama’s recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are so dangerous that they cannot be tolerated, and the government has scientifically identified them. In reality, the distinctions drawn by our drug laws are arbitrary, and marijuana is the clearest illustration of that fact.
“As has been well documented,” Obama told The New Yorker’s David Remnick in an interview published on Sunday, “I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” When Remnick pressed him to say whether marijuana is in fact less dangerous than alcohol, the president said yes, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
Judging from survey data, that is not a very controversial position. According to a recent CNN poll, 87 percent of Americans think marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, and 73 percent say it is less dangerous.
You can see why pot prohibitionists reacted with dismay to Obama’s comment—not because it was false but because it was true. As measured by acute toxicity, accident risk, and the long-term health effects of heavy consumption, marijuana is clearly safer than alcohol. That does not mean smoking pot poses no risks, or that drinking is so dangerous no one should ever do it. It simply means that the risks posed by alcohol are, on the whole, bigger than the risks posed by marijuana. So if our drug laws are supposed to be based on a clear-eyed evaluation of relative risks, some adjustment would seem to be in order.
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The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged - Forbes
Prohibitionists were outraged by President Obama’s recent observation that marijuana is safer than alcohol—not because it is not true but because it contradicts the central myth underlying public support for the war on drugs. According to that myth, certain psychoactive substances are so dangerous that they cannot be tolerated, and the government has scientifically identified them. In reality, the distinctions drawn by our drug laws are arbitrary, and marijuana is the clearest illustration of that fact.
“As has been well documented,” Obama told The New Yorker’s David Remnick in an interview published on Sunday, “I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don’t think it is more dangerous than alcohol.” When Remnick pressed him to say whether marijuana is in fact less dangerous than alcohol, the president said yes, “in terms of its impact on the individual consumer.”
Judging from survey data, that is not a very controversial position. According to a recent CNN poll, 87 percent of Americans think marijuana is no more dangerous than alcohol, and 73 percent say it is less dangerous.
You can see why pot prohibitionists reacted with dismay to Obama’s comment—not because it was false but because it was true. As measured by acute toxicity, accident risk, and the long-term health effects of heavy consumption, marijuana is clearly safer than alcohol. That does not mean smoking pot poses no risks, or that drinking is so dangerous no one should ever do it. It simply means that the risks posed by alcohol are, on the whole, bigger than the risks posed by marijuana. So if our drug laws are supposed to be based on a clear-eyed evaluation of relative risks, some adjustment would seem to be in order.
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The President Forgets To Lie About Marijuana, And Prohibitionists Are Outraged - Forbes
I'm with the majority on this.
Poll: 63% Don't Have Confidence in Obama to Make Right Decisions | Truth Revolt
Poll: 63% Don't Have Confidence in Obama to Make Right Decisions | Truth Revolt
