I keep harping on this but it’s important to understand that “progressive” is code for “liberal” or “liberal-left”. Sometimes far left.
The socialist NDP calls itself “progressive”, and former Liberal leader and failed Prime Minister Paul Martin famously called upon all “progressives” to join together to defeat the non-“progressive” Conservative Party, in the last election. I’d mentioned at the time he brought that up that having gone and looked at the Communist Party of Canada’s web site, they too call themselves “progressives”, and I wondered if Martin wanted to join with them too. (My guess was and is yes.)
And as we know, one of the things that “progressives” advocate is drug legalization. They think that that is one of the ways to attract the best and brightest to this country and to move our country forward. Our country is intolerable the way it is now. It’s way easier to tolerate when we’re all high on drugs.
Fox Decides Not to Sign Drug Legalization Bill
By Sam Enriquez, Times Staff Writer
May 4, 2006MEXICO CITY — President Vicente Fox reversed course Wednesday and decided not to sign a drug legalization bill that critics on both sides of the border said would turn Mexico into a narcotics haven.
Fox administration officials had said Tuesday that the president would sign the bill, which set generous limits for the possession of cocaine, heroin, marijuana, opium, amphetamines and several natural and synthetic hallucinogens.
Late Wednesday, the Fox administration said in a news release that the president would return the bill to Congress to “make the needed corrections so it is absolutely clear in our country the possession of drugs and their consumption are, and will continue to be, a criminal offense.”
The legislation was intended to close loopholes in current law that grant judges discretion to waive prison sentences for addicts. Judges have exploited the loopholes on behalf of traffickers, officials said.
But rather than apply only to addicts, the bill — which Mexico’s Congress approved early Friday at the end of its 2005-06 legislative session — was amended to include anyone older than 18.
News that Mexico would allow any adult to possess and use opiates, marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy and peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus, drew international criticism.
Recreational drug users hailed it as the one of the most progressive laws in the world.
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They don’t actually name any recreational drug users, they just report it as a given. But yes, I’m sure after passing the story around the newsroom, they all agreed. Legally consuming “opiates, marijuana, LSD, Ecstasy and peyote, a hallucinogenic cactus,” are all good ways to go for “progressives”. Especially when there’s hookers around! That’s liberal. That’s progressive.
Vote liberal.
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