Agorism
05-16-2011, 08:48 PM
Mitch Daniels' Disappearing Felony.
The making of a Drug Warrior.
http://reason.com/assets/mc/jsullum/2011_02/Mitch-Daniels.jpg
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/444/530/Mitch_Daniels_Disappearing_Felony.html
Officers found enough marijuana in his room to fill two size 12 shoe boxes, reports of the incident say. He and the other inhabitants of the room were also charged with possession of LSD and prescription drugs without a prescription. Daniels and his two roommates in 111 Cuyler Hall, Marc Stuart '71 and Richard Stockton '71, were arrested and, after plea bargaining, Daniels eventually escaped with a $350 fine for "maintaining a common nuisance." The charges against Stockton were eventually dropped.
"unfortunate confluence of my wild oats period and America's libertine apogee," writing:
On my college campus, just as on most college campuses, marijuana was as easy to obtain as Budweiser beer and was viewed with equal complacency. For a time, I was a carefree consumer of both.
His logic seems be this: When the police found me with a huge amount of drugs, I was given a slap on the wrist, and I then went on to a productive life. Which shows that kids today who did what I did ought to have to leave school and get chucked in jail with murderers and rapists.
Daniels' whitewash is especially troubling in light of the policy recommendations he made in that 1989 op-ed piece, which he wrote when he was president of the Hudson Institute:
In calling for enforcement of drug laws against even casual users—publicizing the names of arrestees, at least minimal fines or jail time for those convicted and requiring no-use policies from colleges and other beneficiaries of government funds and so on—[drug czar] William Bennett is exactly right. The threshold test of seriousness on the drug issue—for President Bush in reviewing the plan and for your congressman in reacting to it—will be their enthusiasm for these sections. In my opinion, any public official who shrinks from user sanctions should be disqualified from further participation in the drug debate.
The making of a Drug Warrior.
http://reason.com/assets/mc/jsullum/2011_02/Mitch-Daniels.jpg
http://beforeitsnews.com/story/444/530/Mitch_Daniels_Disappearing_Felony.html
Officers found enough marijuana in his room to fill two size 12 shoe boxes, reports of the incident say. He and the other inhabitants of the room were also charged with possession of LSD and prescription drugs without a prescription. Daniels and his two roommates in 111 Cuyler Hall, Marc Stuart '71 and Richard Stockton '71, were arrested and, after plea bargaining, Daniels eventually escaped with a $350 fine for "maintaining a common nuisance." The charges against Stockton were eventually dropped.
"unfortunate confluence of my wild oats period and America's libertine apogee," writing:
On my college campus, just as on most college campuses, marijuana was as easy to obtain as Budweiser beer and was viewed with equal complacency. For a time, I was a carefree consumer of both.
His logic seems be this: When the police found me with a huge amount of drugs, I was given a slap on the wrist, and I then went on to a productive life. Which shows that kids today who did what I did ought to have to leave school and get chucked in jail with murderers and rapists.
Daniels' whitewash is especially troubling in light of the policy recommendations he made in that 1989 op-ed piece, which he wrote when he was president of the Hudson Institute:
In calling for enforcement of drug laws against even casual users—publicizing the names of arrestees, at least minimal fines or jail time for those convicted and requiring no-use policies from colleges and other beneficiaries of government funds and so on—[drug czar] William Bennett is exactly right. The threshold test of seriousness on the drug issue—for President Bush in reviewing the plan and for your congressman in reacting to it—will be their enthusiasm for these sections. In my opinion, any public official who shrinks from user sanctions should be disqualified from further participation in the drug debate.