@mmnin:
1) The drug cartel phenomenon you are talking about is actually a phenomenon CAUSED by government intrusion into our lives. The government made drugs illegal. Therefore, they created an extremely lucrative black market for drugs. You are mixing up your causes and effects there. Not to mention the "war on drugs" has been a miserable failure.
2) You are citing a ton of things without any evidence whatsoever. Lawyers will take all kinds of cases from all kinds of clients. I don't see this phenomenon you are talking about that they are turning down poor plaintiffs. That is many attorney's bread and butter.
3) You are right to a certain degree about the government giving the average consumer the shaft fairly recently, but the only party who is going to do anything about that (assuming something should be done about it) is the pro-choice party. I don't really see how as a practical matter what you are suggesting will get done AND abortion be outlawed. The parties are split on those issues.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
