Jim Finnel
Fallen Cannabis Warrior & Ex News Moderator
Just when you thought he couldn’t lower himself any further in the eyes of the public, much-despised governor and former bad actor Arnold Schwarzenegger goes ahead and pulls a stunt like this: writing an op-ed, published in the Los Angeles Times, blasting the SEIU for supporting California’s Proposition 19, which would legalize marijuana. Among his dishonest reasons for arguing against marijuana legalization is that it would "make California a laughing stock."
You’d know all about that, wouldn’t you, Arnold?
Now, it is a fact proven time and time again that the elites in American society are giant hypocrites. They believe they can do anything they want, no matter how illegal and destructive, and get away with it while everyone else is forbidden from indulging and has to pay a stiff penalty for daring to follow the example set by their "betters". Just ask Eddie Long, the disgraced (and disgraceful) megachurch pastor and public homophobe, who was recently accused of trying to seduce men.
But the thing is, most people refuse to accept this societal double standard. What is allowable for the elite of society should not be disallowable for everyone else, and what is disallowable for everyone else should not be allowable for the elite. The founders of America waged their revolution against England chiefly because they were sick of enduring the rule of a monarch who held himself above the law while everyone else had to suffer under it. It’s the notion that has served as the bedrock of American society for more than two centuries, though that bedrock has been worn away.
So when a guy who is famous for, among other things, indulging in the occasional bit of reefer madness, goes ahead and claims that the state he has misgoverned into ruin would be a laughing stock if it legalizes the very thing he did illegally more than thirty years ago, that is what sane human beings call hypocrisy. And we do not have to accept it. Marijuana has yet to cause any significant number of deaths in the United States. Meanwhile, alcohol and tobacco — proven killers that are highly addictive — remain perfectly legal, regulated by the government and taxed to bring in revenue. There is no legitimate reason why a known lawbreaker should be heeded when he rants and raves against unions in his anti-marijuana scrawlings.
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Author: Michael Kwiatkowski
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Website: Pot-Head Schwarzenegger Blasts SEIU for Supporting Marijuana Legalization | The Seminal
You’d know all about that, wouldn’t you, Arnold?
Now, it is a fact proven time and time again that the elites in American society are giant hypocrites. They believe they can do anything they want, no matter how illegal and destructive, and get away with it while everyone else is forbidden from indulging and has to pay a stiff penalty for daring to follow the example set by their "betters". Just ask Eddie Long, the disgraced (and disgraceful) megachurch pastor and public homophobe, who was recently accused of trying to seduce men.
But the thing is, most people refuse to accept this societal double standard. What is allowable for the elite of society should not be disallowable for everyone else, and what is disallowable for everyone else should not be allowable for the elite. The founders of America waged their revolution against England chiefly because they were sick of enduring the rule of a monarch who held himself above the law while everyone else had to suffer under it. It’s the notion that has served as the bedrock of American society for more than two centuries, though that bedrock has been worn away.
So when a guy who is famous for, among other things, indulging in the occasional bit of reefer madness, goes ahead and claims that the state he has misgoverned into ruin would be a laughing stock if it legalizes the very thing he did illegally more than thirty years ago, that is what sane human beings call hypocrisy. And we do not have to accept it. Marijuana has yet to cause any significant number of deaths in the United States. Meanwhile, alcohol and tobacco — proven killers that are highly addictive — remain perfectly legal, regulated by the government and taxed to bring in revenue. There is no legitimate reason why a known lawbreaker should be heeded when he rants and raves against unions in his anti-marijuana scrawlings.
NewsHawk: User: 420 MAGAZINE
Source: firedoglake.com
Author: Michael Kwiatkowski
Copyright: 2010 firedoglake.com
Contact: Send Us Your Tips | The Seminal
Website: Pot-Head Schwarzenegger Blasts SEIU for Supporting Marijuana Legalization | The Seminal