On the first page of this thread I made a comment.

Put a bumper sticker on your vehicle advocating the legalization of "drugs" and see how long it takes to get pulled over and your car ransacked.

Is a bumper sticker a form of "speech"?

Actually I have an even better test of my theory.. Try to hire a black man to drive around with such a sticker on his car.

Something like "FREE DRUGS" should do nicely.

Everyone knows a big part of the answer to ending the violence.

But no one wants to admit it, because you know it won't happen.

End the drug war.

The nineteenth and twenty first amendments are a mere thirteen years apart.

Why might that be?

One third of black men will go to prison in their lifetimes, thanks in large measure to the drug war.

And then someone wonders why the homicide rate is so high in the black community?

McFly? McFly?

Anybody home?

And I never really understand the idea that forcing someone not to engage in Behavior x -- or punishing them for doing so -- somehow "teaches" them that it's wrong. Is that how you learn? By having authorities force you to do things or not do them until, by virtue of the compulsion, you come to accept their wisdom?

Please don't take me the wrong way, and I know you'll be tempted.

It's blindingly obvious you have not raised children.

You have to mete out both positive and negative reinforcement to kids. Positive obviously when the do well, but you also have to administer punishment when they do wrong.

There are a lot of people who never become truly rational, trying to deal with them on a rational basis just doesn't work.

Go and argue theology with a fundie if you doubt me.

I was hoping to make this point without having to drive it home with a sledgehammer.

As usual, the hope is forlorn.

A few questions;

Is passing an amendment an easy thing or a hard thing?

Why would public opinion swing so far so fast?

Why is alcohol special, why is it not a drug?

Why is it that one in three black men will go to prison and not a single liberal will even bother to comment on it?

In the case of these comment threads common courtesy would be not to hijack threads, or not to harangue and harass an individual poster or repeatedly demand something from a poster.

Ah, you mean to demand someone clarify a derogatory remark which they have made about another poster?

You say something unclear and yet derogatory about me and I'm going repeatedly demand that you either clarify or retract your remark.

You simply wish to be free from getting called on your defamatory remarks about others.

This is a problem that is endemic to our society. The cries of "judicial activism" are as reflective of this disinterest as they are of the any decision I don't like must be wrong mindset of right wing political pundits.

A conclusion I had long ago reached.

On Joan's thread yesterday about the shooting at her daughter's high school I twice posted that one in three black men will go to prison in their lifetimes as an at least partial explanation for the apparent overwhelming level of black on black violence in our culture.

Not one single "liberal" bothered to address the point, not even to tell me I was wrong.

Thinking is hard work for the great majority of people and they will go to any lengths to avoid that work.

the man is, as one of the authoritarian commenters in this forum so incisively and eloquently puts it, a "nutjob."

But that commenter is "serious", unlike you and I..

And hence his words carry gravitas, unlike those of we chattering little "unserious" monkeys.

Perhaps this is a case of the great majority of posters in that thread 1) already possessing a full understanding the point you twice raised and 2) after doing the "hard work" of considering its relevance to the issue at hand, viewing your conclusion as Off Topic?

The "topic" was violence, the results and causes of it.

I mentioned a major cause and was ignored.

Quit being a thread nanny..

I've already stated that if Glenn asks me to leave I will do so.

Until then I will post what I wish when I wish.

Actually I kind of like being ignored, it means I can make any point I please without fear of being called on any illogical or incorrect statements I might make.

I long ago figured out that the better my post the fewer replies I get.

Just like I enjoy personal attacks.. It means those making the attacks have no heavier ammunition because if they did they would use it.

Keep it up y'all, you are giving me the attention I so desperately crave..

Just because you get no response, even to something that may be wrong, doesn't mean your comments are not read or thought about. When you consider silence as thoughtless or ignoring you, an insulting tone doesn't invite thoughtful commenters to respond.

You think I'm complaining of being ignored when I'm simply stating a fact.

I know my posts are being read and thought about, why else would I state that the better my post the fewer replies I get?

The great majority of those who read my posts wish to prove me wrong, mainly because my thrust is that they should be ashamed of what they have allowed to happen in "the land of the free".

The silence in the face of my posts is not a comfortable one and I certainly do not intend for it to be so.