If Tomatoes Were Made Illegal Today, People Would Be Killed Over Them Tomorrow

[20score]

The Occupy Movement is about fairness. Economics, justice, health care, wars, living standards, etc., and if I could throw in just one more thing into the pot, it would be to end the war on drugs.

The only people who should be unfamiliar with the arguments against prohibition are people who have been in a coma for the past forty years or so. And even that is a lame excuse for supporting the Drug War. They just haven’t given it the ten minutes of critical thought it deserved. No one has ever overdosed on marijuana; in a free country adults should be able to make their own choices. Prohibition doesn’t work, makes the country a one of hypocrites and causes far more damage than the substances being banned. Many of the people making and supporting laws that put people in jail and damage lives have at least tried marijuana. That is the type of hypocrisy that makes Larry Craig’s hypocrisy seem damned near wholesome. And the list goes on and on.

It’s far past the time to end this failed, morally bankrupt policy. It doesn’t matter what the substance is that is being prohibited, if people think they have a right to it, there will be a black-market and the prohibition will do more harm than good. We’ve put tens of thousands of people in jail who don’t belong there, ruined countless of families, made the country a more unsafe place to live, given up many of our rights and spent a trillion dollars doing it. Since this movement is about fairness, what say we demand an end to the drug war? Or is this asking too much?

[RoccoR5955]

1. If tomatoes are outlawed, only outlaws will have tomatoes!

They would have to pull my tomatoes out of my cold dead hands before I would give them up.

Heck, they'd have to drain my veins. As an Italian-American who loves his pasta and tomato sauce, It's my life blood.

[20score]

2. That's funny!

[tech5270]

5. I'm prepared, I've got my grow lights in the basement

I couldn't and wouldn't want to live without fresh tomatoes.

[Uncle Joe]

3. And the price of tomatoes would go through the roof as well.

The DEA or in this case FEA and corporate media would boast/report the destroying of ten - twenty cherry tomato plants as representing five - ten thousand dollars worth of high grade illegal tomatoes, justifying the taxpayer expense of keeping said FEA operating.

Thanks for the thread, 20score.

[20score]

10. Thank you, Uncle Joe!

[suede1]

4. "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" would have a new meaning.

And everything you said is true. There would be a negative campaign against tomatoes, at our expense.(They used to believe tomatoes were poisonous, in case anyone didn't know.)

[MilesColtrane]

6. Only home grown tomatoes are worth dying for.

Those red, spheroid objects they sell in grocery stores ain't tomatoes.

[Bake]

13. They may LOOK like tomatos, but they surely don't TASTE like tomatos!

:hi:

Bake

[punkin87]

16. You got that right!

[punkin87]

7. Very true! Hope people start talking about it.

[msongs]

8. and the Obama mob would shut down medical tomato clinics to justify their own jobs lol nt

[ihavenobias]

9. + 17 n/t

[Suich]

11. Nothing about the war on drugs has ever made any sense to me.

Why is Holder waging war on the MMJ outlets in California and Oregon?

I don't get it...:shrug:

As to your last question, of course it's asking too much!



:hi:

[20score]

12. Hello Suich!

[Kurmudgeon]

17. It's about profit and power, the authorities are addicted to that and can't quit.

[Aerows]

23. It was also a convenient excuse

to erode our civil liberties. The Patriot Act has uncovered 15 terrorists, but over 1500 people for drugs.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

14. You say To-may-toes... I say contraband.

[OneTenthofOnePercent]

15. I wonder if the Topsy Turvy® would be considered drug paraphernalia? (n/t)

[suede1]

18. I'm going to use that line.

[20score]

22. Cool

[RainDog]

19. k&r n/t

[20score]

20. As I'll try to do often - highly recommend Current TV.

[me b zola]

21. But if you juggle tomatoes while driving you could wreck your car

...so I think tomatoes should be illegal.

[bvar22]

24. Thay can have our tomatoes...

...when they pry them from our cold, dead hands!!!!

:hippie:



Solidarity99!
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[suede1]

25. Kick!

[socialindependocrat]

26. Carlin says...

The worst would be that teenage boys would drive too slow.

Why do they outlaw a stupid weed that makes you laugh???



It's one reason for our failed economy:

They threw a lot of entrepreneurs in jail over the past 40 years.
So much for their value of small business!!!

[socialindependocrat]

27. It's one reason for our failed economy:

They threw a lot of entrepreneurs in jail over the past 40 years.