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I am confused about how I will be labeled
I just started learning about this website today, after being handed a leaflet at SCCC in Seattle, Wa, the main camp of "occupyseattle" (occupyseattle.org). I guess, I would have to say that it seemed a bit chicken of you folks at first glance to threaten to "excommunicate" from the site anyone expressing any "right wing views", but then I realized that you have this one spot on the site which claims to allow right-wingers their say on the issues of the day. So, anyway, I myself see myself as being all over the map on various issues, and I am wondering if I should spend my time contributing my ideas to this site, or if it is going to be a waste of time due to my sometimes "liberal" or "libertarian" sounding views
Here is how I stand on a few issues I consider to be important:
1) recreational drugs, which are now predominantly illegal in the U.S.A.
I support total freedom, in a libertarian way, on marijuana, heroin, cocaine, (crack and regular), lsd, peyote, meth, ecstasy, psilocybin, etc.
Completely give up on the "WAR on DRUGS", which does not work at all except to build power empires for drug lords and dealers and DEA, CIA, FBI, and state and local police, which are inevitably corrupted by the immense amount of money involved in the "black market" price. The price should be an agricultural free-market price, with possibly some small amount of government oversight as to product quality, but NO TAXATION!! I do not want to see an "Elliot Ness- like beaureaucracy develop like what still exists against "moonshine" alcohol. Just let the people be free on this issue. Try it for 10 years, and if we as a society are not far better off, considering the money saved by the taxpayers on narcotics agents; jails; prison guards; judges; court time; public defenders; etc.,etc.; and considering the total number of "abusers" who need and then get treatment paid for by taxpayers, in a socialized medical system of some kind; considering those costs, and I suppose a "guesstimate" of the human cost as far as the total number of "addicts" in the current system vs. the "new" way (I think some people call it "harm reduction"). After 10 years, have a nationwide debate, and consider changing to the old WAR on DRUGS way, or staying with the "new" way, or any third or fourth way that anyone can dream up!!
More later, gotta go
Thanks for listening
Peace and Love
Loudmouth Karaoke Brad, a Seattle "occupier"
Last edited by bradnk; 21st November 2011 at 03:00. Reason: want to sign off for now with a message
welcome mate good to hear you're involved with the occupy movement sorry to hear you still think capitalism can work
^This. Welcome to the boards.
So far I think the majority of RevLeft would be in total agreement with you. The "war against drugs" is a war against poor people.
More important than that though is how do you feel about what some call "worker's democracy"? Most of us believe the means of production, all workplaces, should be democratically run by the worker's themselves, not by bosses who's role is to extract surplus value out of us for the reproduction of capital.Right now there are two important social classes, the bourgoiuse, those who own capital and control the means of production, and the working class, those who are forced to be wage slaves, make their lives into commodities for the owners of capital.We wamt to abolish class society.
BTW Have you witnessed any police brutality at OS?
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