"The use of force alone is but temporary.

   

listened to an interview with the

chief law enforcement officer

for this parish

sometimes known as

the high sheriff

interviewer asked

chief law enforcement officer

 why this area

has the 3rd highest homicide rate

in the nation

drugs

was his reply

drugs

i had just eaten a motrin for back pain

i looked around to see

if i was going to be murdered

or if i might murder someone

apparently not

been reading in a book called

ceremonial chemistry

about

the ritual persecution of drugs,

addicts and pushers

by thomas szasz

he says

...for the facts here, quite simply, are that some

people want to take some drugs which some

others do not want them to take. The drug users-

called "drug abusers" or "drug addicts" by the authorities-

regard their drugs as their allies, and those who try to deprive

them of their drugs as their adversaries; whereas the politicians,

psychiatrists, and ex-addicts- who call themselves

"experts on drug abuse and drug addiction"- regard the prohibited

drugs as their enemies, the persons who use them as their patients

and their own coercive interventions as "treatments".

a fellow asked me for a cigarette this morning

i smugly told him i don't smoke anymore

then i went to the store and bought myself a

jar of instant coffee

for a quick fix

i found this info somewhere

17th century prince of the petty state

of waldeck pays ten thalers to anyone

who denounces a coffee drinker

and this

17th cent. russian czar michael federovitch executes

anyone on whom tobacco is found.

czar alexi mikhailovitch rules that anyone caught

with tobacco should be tortured until he gives

up the name of his supplier.

damn

the chief law enforcement officer says

he has increased

boots on the ground

to help stop the murders

boots on the ground

that's a military term

not a peace officer term

read in the national review

jan. 23, 2012

an article by james lileks

that there are now over

40,000 statutes on the law books

at the state level

he called it the

incremental criminalization

of some element of life

damn

we're screwed

i think the

chief law enforcement officer

only got half of the answer to

the interviewers question

the whole answer would be

drug laws

"Dilige et quod vis fac"

"Love and do what you will." St. Augustine

"The use of force alone is but temporary.

It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered."   Burke, Edmund

this place is a circus          looking at the stern of the oil supply boat just before
                                           going back to secure the vessel to the oil rig with a line
                                           all in a days work...unless you get washed overboard!

mr. cayetano