It seems like more and more people out there are questioning people’s motives, claiming that they are up to no good. Many believe the wealthy and the powerful are doing things dishonestly to make themselves wealthier. Maybe there is some cheating around the edges but I think most people act professionally and while incumbent players may benefit from the established rules, and as such I find most conspiracy theories hard to believe. Folks like to talk and there are always investigative reporters and whistle blowers willing to leak out any conspiracy. As such, most conspiracy theories are unlikely to exist.
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.
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 increaserevenue. 🐸
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.
The problem had been brewing for nearly a decade, intelligence sources had warned, as the National Security Agency vacuumed up more and more surveillance information into computer systems at its Fort Meade, Maryland, headquarters: There just wasn’t enough power coming through the local electric grid to support the rate at which the agency was hoarding other people’s communications.
“If there’s a major power failure out there, any backup systems would be inadequate to power the whole facility,” a former NSA manager told the Baltimore Sun in August 2006.
“It’s obviously worrisome, particularly on days like today.”
It turns out that manager, and other sources quoted in the Sun piece, were even more correct than was publicly known at the time: The NSA had, just the prior month, already experienced a major power outage and been forced for the first time to switch over its most critical monitoring — its nerve center, the National Security Operations Center — to a backup facility in Augusta, Georgia, according to an internal report classified “secret.” The culprit: hot weather and electric company problems generating sufficient power, according to an article posted on the internal agency news site known as SIDtoday.