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Why I Do Not Support The Police

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Why I Do Not Support The Police

Notice that I did not say I am anti-cop (though many people will likely assume that anyway). I am not anti-cop because I recognize that some police officers are truly doing their jobs. They believe in justice, and follow the motto to “protect and serve.” That being said, I do not support the police. I am anti-police. Not on an individual level, but on an institutional level. Because the institution of the police, whether you look at a single department or entire states, has proven to be persecutory and ruthless.

Allowing local governments to profit off drugs?

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Local governments regularly express the need for increased sources of revenue. I have a suggestion to raise revenue — allow local police departments to sell heroin to addicts.👮💉

Heroin is an addictive substance, which would mean it’s a dependable source of revenue. 💰Chemical addiction means that addicts will keep coming back to the local police department with large amounts of cash, and transactions can occur.💸 Existing police facilities can be used, so the cost of staffing such dispensaries would be low cost.🚨

Some people saying that the government shouldn’t be feeding the addictions of drug users. Most local governments would disagree.🏯 They would note that 3% of all gross revenue from heroin sales is being put away to fund the needs of addicts to get treatment, should they have an addiction problem with heroin🚬. In contrast, the sales of heroin is only intended for recreational users, NOT addicts, and those suffering from temporary pain.

Government is increasingly addicted to increased revenue so selling hard drugs like every other addict makes a lot of sense. 🚧Sure it’s a deprived activity for government to exploit addicted individuals but it’s no different than government schemes to encourage commercial development of wild spaces to increase revenue. 🐸

Before ‘Cat in the Hat,’ Dr. Seuss drew cartoons to fight America First, racism, fascism – nj.com

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Before ‘Cat in the Hat,’ Dr. Seuss drew cartoons to fight America First, racism, fascism – nj.com

Nearly two decades before he gave us our favorite breakfast recipe in “Green Eggs and Ham,” (1960) Dr. Seuss used his sharp wit and even sharper pen to draw political cartoons.

On this day, Dr. Seuss was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904, and while children across the nation put on their red-and-white striped top hats to read "Cat in the Hat" or "Fox in Socks," political junkies might flip through the digital archives at UC San Diego Library to survey the good doctor's work from the 1940s.

Dr. Seuss drew more than 400 satirical cartoons for the now defunct New York daily newspaper PM between 1941-1943.

This Supreme Court Decision Should Worry the EPA and FDA

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This Supreme Court Decision Should Worry the EPA and FDA

Under existing law, vast discretion isn’t unconstitutional provided there’s an intelligible principle to guide it. The laws that delegate authority for regulation to the Environmental Protection Agency or the Food and Drug Administration confer that authority in extremely general terms — but express the goals of a cleaner environment and safer food and drugs

Yet Gorsuch argued that the very doctrine of the intelligible principle makes no sense, and “has no basis in the original meaning of the Constitution.” In his view, Congress can assign “essentially fact-finding responsibility” to the executive branch. But it can’t delegate “legislative power,” understood very roughly to mean the exercise of central policy-making judgment characterized by “unfettered discretion.”

I think this is a interesting court case to watch, as sometimes administrative agencies do abuse their power making public policy when that's the job of the  congress.