tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post7350333324432886323..comments2024-01-30T09:22:08.167+00:00Comments on Newmania In Lewes: The game's afoot:Newmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-67637704815618673182007-10-06T23:38:00.000+01:002007-10-06T23:38:00.000+01:00"I deplore drugs"Why? Are you aware alcohol is a p..."I deplore drugs"<BR/><BR/>Why? Are you aware alcohol is a psychoactive drug which kills more people and ruins more lives than all the presently illegal drugs put together.<BR/><BR/>For most of recorded time, all drugs were legal yet civilisation did not fall about. Prohibition began around 80 years ago as a direct result of the US Temperance movement with their tradition of Puritanism. <BR/><BR/>That tradition is strong in the Labour party, esp Gordon Brown. Why import that into the Conservatives?<BR/><BR/>There are 4.5 million recreational drug users in this country who regularly break the law - the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 - brought in by the Callaghan Government. <BR/><BR/>The Classical Liberal tradition states that personal freedom is paramount - the State does not own your mind or body. Unlike with the Left.<BR/><BR/>The default Conservative position should be liberalisation and legalisation - as is happening in much of Western Europe. It is the Patrician Right that seeks to condemn drug use - the same element of Conservatism that has made the party so unelectable in the past. Ignore them and ignore the Daily Mail. There are 4.5 million votes in it, not to mention the benefits of taxation of an otherwise untaxed and unregulated market plus the bonus of massively reduced acquisitive crime and freed up prison places for proper criminals. <BR/><BR/>It's so f**king obvious and everyone knows it. The first party to come and actually say it - Legalise, Tax and Regulate Recreational Drugs - will win by a landslide.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-50790862330837470452007-10-05T11:57:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:57:00.000+01:00Eh what ? I deplore drugsThat\'s very civil of you...Eh what ? I deplore drugs<BR/><BR/>That\'s very civil of you Newman. You are a nice guy under all that blusterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-83969123163246318882007-10-05T11:53:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:53:00.000+01:00I only had to say \"BOO\", Yah, writ, lawyer and t...I only had to say \"BOO\", Yah, writ, lawyer and the Google machinery went berserk. Couldn\'t apologize enoughAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-690865103379362982007-10-05T11:51:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:51:00.000+01:00I fought the big Google machine and I won, HA, HA,...I fought the big Google machine and I won, HA, HA, HA, HA losersAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-22560861189997947272007-10-05T11:49:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:49:00.000+01:00You are sad, sad people living in a sad sad world....You are sad, sad people living in a sad sad world. Just sayin\' that\'s all. Hitch\'s blog has been possessed by the possessors, mine went same way only I sued the bastardsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-38986967307690652772007-10-05T11:48:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:48:00.000+01:00Eh what ? I deplore drugsEh what ? I deplore drugsNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-91663971045980301632007-10-05T11:44:00.000+01:002007-10-05T11:44:00.000+01:00GHOST OF HITCH SITE is all about Heroin. Click it...GHOST OF HITCH SITE is all about Heroin. Click it and check for yourself. Tsk, tsk. There\'s a whole band of bandits waiting to pounce as soon as you close your Google blog and it gets taken over by this band of hackers. Happens to the best of people.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-939536650511420482007-10-05T10:13:00.000+01:002007-10-05T10:13:00.000+01:00Hmm not wishing to split hairs but I thought you d...Hmm not wishing to split hairs but I thought you didn't like localism because quite often left wing councils screwed things up. Which of course they do and would in the future but should be punished at the ballot box not by central government...<BR/><BR/>Thanks Philipa, always good to be agreed with!Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-15901817326582740472007-10-05T09:57:00.000+01:002007-10-05T09:57:00.000+01:00Ee wuz bent ya know - Larry I mean. Anyway, wot Ed...Ee wuz bent ya know - Larry I mean. <BR/>Anyway, wot Ed said.Philipahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440234602399886097noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-64063880314136688862007-10-05T09:44:00.000+01:002007-10-05T09:44:00.000+01:00glad to see you catching up N :-)It is my passion ...glad to see you catching up N :-)<BR/><BR/><BR/>It is my passion !!:)Newmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-55939360804580618282007-10-05T09:24:00.000+01:002007-10-05T09:24:00.000+01:00I have been banging the localist drum for ever and...I have been banging the localist drum for ever and a day, glad to see you catching up N :-)<BR/><BR/>Also proper liberalism. The great fraud of the post-60s era is for left-wing authoritarians to claim that they are "liberals". The Tory party should return to its liberal roots and restore true localism. That is a powerful formula.Old BEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06974090439936326476noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-69453689111854778472007-10-05T02:03:00.000+01:002007-10-05T02:03:00.000+01:00I would, however, question your view of Marx. Ridd...I would, however, question your view of Marx. Riddled with faults as the man and his work were, like him or loathe him, Marx was wee bit of a genius.<BR/><BR/>His theory of Commodity Fetishism, for example, is stunning.<BR/><BR/>Who else (in the 1840s?) would have seen a table in the following manner:<BR/><BR/>As soon as an ordinary wooden table ‘steps forth as a commodity, it is changed into something transcendent. It not only stands with its feet on the ground, but, in relation to all other commodities, it stands on its head, and evolves out of its wooden brain grotesque ideas, far more wonderful than “table-turning” ever was.’<BR/><BR/>Not only did Marx discover the sinister power of commodities over humanity - that this damn table and a whole world of commodities come stalking us - he understood what gives commodities such perverse, secret power: our alienated labour or alientated human powers. <BR/><BR/>And it's that which makes us akin to cave dwellers, we still worship idols and fetishes. Or, in other words, consumerism is modern humanity's religious experience. <BR/><BR/>Just as there were apparently two Thatchers, there were also apparently two Marxs. Both Marx and Thatcher degenerated from bright young visionaries into miserable old gits with their minds rigidly set in cement. Though in my view the transformation in both of them was more apparent than real. The seeds of what was to come were always there.<BR/><BR/>Auntie Flo'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-54632244325771326632007-10-05T01:24:00.000+01:002007-10-05T01:24:00.000+01:00CLAP, CLAP, CLAP :) You definitely a rapturous ova...CLAP, CLAP, CLAP :) You definitely a rapturous ovation for that, n. <BR/><BR/>Auntie Flo'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com