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(Boston Globe) Obvious At last, progress in the War on Drugs: potential dealers are turning to pimping and human trafficking instead. Mission accomplished   (boston.com) divider line 30
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peon36 2008-10-26 08:54:16 AM  
"The girl has become the new drug,"

I've always thought so.

 
The Laughing Kookaburra 2008-10-26 08:56:28 AM  
You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

 
LarryDan43 2008-10-26 08:58:14 AM  
I guess we just need to legalize drugs and prostitution.

 
ZAZ [TotalFark] 2008-10-26 09:05:59 AM  
Love is the Drug?

 
HipsterHolocaust 2008-10-26 09:08:30 AM  
I smell an epic thread

 
CruJones 2008-10-26 09:09:43 AM  
The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

This. Or that. Whatever.

I'm fully in favor of legalizing some drugs, but this was not a good point to make.

 
Bfett20 2008-10-26 09:10:17 AM  
I want a new drug.

 
Joker you diabolical... 2008-10-26 09:14:11 AM  
I'm snorting coke off of a hooker's thigh, so I'm getting a real... yow.

 
Seacop 2008-10-26 09:28:22 AM  
HipsterHolocaust: I smell an epic thread

Really? On a Sunday?

/making popcorn

 
cryinoutloud [TotalFark] 2008-10-26 09:31:04 AM  
And all those 'love slaves' are on drugs too, so actually there's no progress being made.

 
Musicology101 [TotalFark] 2008-10-26 09:44:17 AM  
Yes, because we didn't have pimping and human trafficing before.

 
Mr Squirrel 2008-10-26 09:45:57 AM  
Criminalizing drugs supports terrorism. Just say no to drug laws.

 
rfant 2008-10-26 09:58:50 AM  
www.mygtv.net approves

 
Ow My Balls 2008-10-26 09:59:47 AM  
The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallaciousfellacious point, Submidiot.

FTFY

 
Owone 2008-10-26 10:13:53 AM  
wow. Epic indeed.

 
Winktologist [TotalFark] 2008-10-26 10:18:09 AM  
The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

Point taken: criminals will always be criminals, so making drugs illegal just ruins them for the rest of us. The war on drugs is pointless!

 
michaeld5 2008-10-26 10:19:25 AM  
Legalization of prostitution?
I'm all for it.

news.bbc.co.uk

 
Oldiron_79 2008-10-26 10:29:10 AM  
Pimpin' ain't easy.

 
Malinki 2008-10-26 10:30:39 AM  
www.projo.com

Not amused.

 
golden_apple-corps 2008-10-26 10:48:28 AM  
Guillermo

García

Gómez

 
nmemkha 2008-10-26 11:07:10 AM  
GIS for "British Whore":

farm1.static.flickr.com

/Me so horny?

 
hienekenftw 2008-10-26 11:09:16 AM  
The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

Ah yeah, and if prostitution was legalized after drugs, the criminals would still move on to other things.

And then human trafficking is legalized and they still move on . . .

 
The Laughing Kookaburra 2008-10-26 11:26:42 AM  
hienekenftw: The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

Ah yeah, and if prostitution was legalized after drugs, the criminals would still move on to other things.

And then human trafficking is legalized and they still move on . . .


Wrong. Decriminalize and regulate drugs and whores. Then we can focus on crime that involves victims. But please accept this lovely Samsonite luggage for trying to play.

 
The_Pole_Of_Justice 2008-10-26 11:34:18 AM  
hienekenftw: The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

Ah yeah, and if prostitution was legalized after drugs, the criminals would still move on to other things.

And then human trafficking is legalized and they still move on . . .


Human trafficking does not involve consent.

It amazes me how some people's sense of right and wrong is so utterly detached from a functioning understanding of morality.

 
farkeruk 2008-10-26 11:51:13 AM  
OK, then you need to make prostitution for consenting adults legal.

One of the impact of legalising porn was that people in the industry started shopping people involved in non-consentual porn (they were afraid to come forward before that).

 
Vangor [TotalFark] 2008-10-26 12:11:45 PM  
The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

No one is making the point that if drugs or prostitution were legalized that criminals would simply disintegrate like vampires in the sun.

Can you give a proper reason for criminalization of victimless crimes (considering regulated drugs and prostitution) besides arresting people who would take advantage of those criminalized markets? May as well criminalize the production of Frosted Mini-wheats.

 
Dictatorial_Flair 2008-10-26 12:27:22 PM  
hienekenftw: The Laughing Kookaburra: You are making a fallacious point, Submidiot. This just proves that if drugs were legalized, the criminals would just move onto other things.

Ah yeah, and if prostitution was legalized after drugs, the criminals would still move on to other things.

And then human trafficking is legalized and they still move on . . .


The fact that career criminals will continue to try to be criminals is a pretty sorry excuse to continue something that creates hundreds of thousands of "criminals" every year from people who are either completely fine and not harming anyone or who need medical and psych help, not imprisonment with the worst aspects of our farked up society. Then there's the whole issue of law enforcement abusing the hell out of their drug war powers to shiat all over any kind of privacy we had and get away with things that cause large swaths of the public to despise them.

I seriously doubt most drug dealing criminal orgs could come anywhere close to the kind of money they get from drugs by doing anything else, which would likely take away quite a bit of their p0wah. Seemed to do the trick of kneecapping the Mob when we ended alcohol prohibition, they weren't gone but they also weren't murdering people in the streets over booze.

 
casual_sex 2008-10-26 10:50:35 PM  
First they came for the drug dealers, but I said nothing because I was not a drug dealer. Then they came for the pimps, and again I said nothing because I was not a pimp. Then they came for the trolls, and that was awesome.

 
PLaCiDShaDoW 2008-10-27 08:16:59 AM  
www.glossynews.com

 
evilstein 2008-10-27 05:49:12 PM  
Interesting. I clicked the boston.com link and got a page for that insidious piece of crap "Antivirus XP" claiming that I needed a "security scan." I clicked "cancel" on the popup and still got their farking "scanning now" page.

I have a Mac. There are no viruses. It cannot scan anything via the web browser anyway.

Where the heck did that interstitial come from?!

 
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