Fat Lines Of Coke

[poliphilo]

Unless I've missed something, the stories about George Osborne, his friend the dominatrix and the fat lines of coke she says they shared have been received with wipespread shrugging. No-one is particularly surprised, no-one is particularly shocked. We live in a society that has become very relaxed about recreational drug-taking. 

So when is the law going to catch up with public opinion?

Comments

[burkesworks.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, when the economy is being forced to bend over it cannot shout "Louise!"

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You'd have to be a masochist to want to be Chancellor in times like these.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

when they figure out how to tax it

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Well they should hurry up and do it. Think of the revenue. Think of the savings on law enforcement.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

they see law enforcement as a way of employing control freaks
the prisons support towns with no other income.
3/4ths of the folks in prison would have to come out find work
and homes and it would raise unemployment and homeless numbers.
making the US look worse(as if that isn't possible)

they've got a whole underground off illegal activity they make money on~
that cia doesn't do~supposedly-
if it was legal the cost would go down and they'd loose profits!

they're trying to out law tobacco too
unaltered tobacco is not carcinogenic
its the other additives and sugar that makes it that way.

grumble...

republicans can't seem to think peace can be profitable
they use wars as a way to "help" the people
but most of them (Cheney and BUSH)
are attached to companies like Haliburton(arms makers )
its really to stuff their over stuffed purses- how many millions does a person need!

The war on drugs is just a war on the lower and middle class
i'm such a cynic or is it a realist ;8^P
but i can see a scam when i see it
grumble grumble

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

People like drugs.

The war on drugs is a war on human nature- unwinnable.

[faunhaert.livejournal.com]

they don't care
its a smoke screen

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Exactly. It has nothing to do with drugs and drug use, per se, and everything to do with the police state, class warfare and extra-budgetary funding for black ops.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Assuming that there are similar dynamics on both side of the Atlantic, it's okay if you're conservative.

Not everyone, obviously, but the public tends to be outraged by what they are told is outrageous. There is no reason for the editors and producers of this world to hold one of their own class accountable so long as they still serve the interests of that class. Over here, we had a Republican Congress critter whose sexual activities, arranged sometimes by telephone from the Senate floor, involved a wet suit and dildo, according to his madam. He had no difficulty whatsoever being reelected.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We're polarised, but not as violently polarised as you are.
Would Osborne be getting more grief if he were a Labour man? I don't think so. John Prescott- the Labour deputy Prime Minister- was involved in a ugly sex scandal a few years back- and he seems to have weathered it serenely.

[michaleen.livejournal.com]

Yes, extreme political polarization is certainly one aspect, over here, but that ultimately reflects class polarization as well. Even wealthy white Democrats are treated by the conservative press with the same contempt as poor blacks. It's a sort of guilt by association inflicted on them for betraying the interests of their class.