Officers Opposing Drug War Fired

Should police officers or border patrol agents lose their jobs because they openly support legalizing drugs in America? Ana Kasparian, Dave Koller and guest host Michael Shure discuss on The Young Turks.

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/03/us/officers-punished-for-supporting-eased-d...

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[SirSneakE]

its easyer for me to sell drugs then to get a real job. why would i want then to make it legal. its tax free kids look up to me wanna be cool like me. and all i got to do to make a living it wake up at 12 and make some calls and get fucked up. thx president Nixon you have created a bad ass job market. i love sneakin on cops. crime pays in america

[GhostInTheShell29]

@mueygringo Umm... I just showed you the last time we decriminalized a drug it massively reduced homicide, accidental deaths, police shootings, corruption, and organized crime.

But sure just straw man my argument :p because you don't know history, and you don't know what logical fallacies are either so have fun being stupid.

[BELLYBUTTONPRODUCION]

@SirSneakE its even easier when cops dont really do anything

[Kariakas]

@thedailyblazer People will smoke it either way, with it being illegal you create a black market and a cartel that has no issues selling to people underage. It's exactly the same with alcohol, with prohibition they created crime lords with a ton of power, Al Capone being one of them. If it's legalized then that whole black market dries up, government gets to tax it like it does with alcohol and it becomes much harder for underaged people to purchase it. Private prisons would lose profits.

[thedailyblazer]

weed shouldn't be legalized. it wouldn't change anything. people will still get stoned and be lazy, legal or not so what's the point? It has good medicinal purposes but it shouldn't be legalized to support people's abuses.

[MrWartorn]

Yeah, let's fire the cops with common sense.

[baretings1]

Exactly, i think its got to the point where the US gov are just being arrogant idiots just out of ignorance. They must not be this stupid to think that the drug war is working? there is obviously some crooked shit going on behind it..

[baretings1]

love this show.

But why are all the subtitles completely wrong...?

[TheUnknownGrower]

ana.........................l

[MyTemporaryAccount88]

I'm sorry but I can't stand the first amendment being brought up in the most ridiculous ways. Getting fired for something you say isn't what the first amendment is about. The first amendment is about protecting people like OWS from what the cops did to them.

This is simply the story of a man being fired for being too intelligent, and overqualified for his job ^^

[Saaduk92]

Freedom of speech? What freedom of speech?

[philateliceun]

@SirSneakE indeed, once was almost tempted to do small time drug dealing cause I knew someone who worked in it. Had to do 2 drops of stash every week and payed me around 60K a month. Never did it because I didn't want to get involved in that world but it was very tempting and can totally understand why some do it.