Annoyed!

The drug warriors know they're ridiculous. They know it.

They know the War on Drugs is a failure. But they're addicted to their own propaganda, so to speak, and there's no signs of the war ebbing. If the drug war was successful, we wouldn't have seen the rise of meth in the current decade.

From what a defender of the Rockefeller drug law against cold and allergy medicine said this week, you can tell they know the whole thing has gotten way out of hand. Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan, a staunch DLCer, held a gargantuan press conference to praise her state's version of the law. She boasted that the law "required us to annoyingly show an ID and sign a log when we purchased those types of medications."

"Annoyingly show an ID"??? You got that right, Lisa, because I'm annoyed at being forced to mortgage my Fourth Amendment rights in the name of a war that was known 15 years ago to be a failure. Like I've said before, this law hurts only the innocent, and the log is in effect a warrantless search.

Or maybe Madigan meant the law requires us to show an ID in an annoying fashion. So that I shall do. If I ever buy allergy or cold medicine, I shall display my ID, throw it in the air, make fake fart noises, then make the ID dance the Lambada, like I used to do with the salt shaker at family meals.

Would that be annoying? Damn fucking right it would!

I'm not even going to link to the TV station's story where I found Lisa Madigan's quote, because most of the story was just so brazenly dedicated to repeating politicians' made-up and unsourced bullshit about how great the law is. With the law being such a failure elsewhere, why would Illinois be an exception? (In other places, the law has been followed by an increase in meth labs.)

School uniforms have a new rival in the category of right-wing ideas that people aren't allowed to criticize.

Like the rest of the Bill of Rights, the Fourth Amendment - which is violated by the requirement that buyers sign a log - embodies rights that weren't created anew with the amendment's passage. These rights already existed and are possessed by everyone in the world. We all love the Bill of Rights, but it didn't take this great document to establish that the right existed. The Bill of Rights lists and guards our rights; it didn't create them.

We must repeal the new Rockefeller drug laws at once. It's a shame the major political parties are so wrapped up in superstition and delusion now that they can't even see their pet cause is a failure.