What A Difference A Day Makes!

https://www.ksat.com/news/politics/2021/10/18/oregon-illegal-pot-grows-more-calls-to-send-national-guard/

SALEM, Ore. – On the same day last week that a southern Oregon county declared a state of emergency amid a sharp increase in illegal cannabis farms, police raided a site that had about 2 tons of processed marijuana and 17,500 pot plants.

The raid illustrates that the proliferation of industrial-scale marijuana farms has gotten so bad and so brazen that Jackson County Commissioners asked Gov. Kate Brown to send in the Oregon National Guard “to assist, as able, in the enforcement of laws related to the production of cannabis.” They also directly appealed to Oregon Senate President Peter Courtney and House Speaker Tina Kotek for help getting additional funding to tackle the problem.

Remember when the politicians and the dopers said:

But, But, But…. legalizing pot sales will put an end to illegal marijuana growing operations.

It is immoral to jail people for growing pot.

It is a waste of money. The war on drugs has failed. Money could be better spent elsewhere.

So Oregon legalized pot. The state got into the marijuana regulating business. The sold licenses. Required inspections, issued fines for regulatory faux pas. The state also collected taxes on pot sales. But a funny thing happened.

Illegal marijuana growers didn’t join the ranks of the regulated. They didn’t buy licenses. They didn’t pay taxes on sales.

The good liberals in Oregon government have a solution:

Declare an Emergency

Mobilize the National Guard, Posse Comitias Be damned!

Those pot growing bastards are not paying the taxes we are due!

I learned a long time ago that dope is about power. The power that devolves to the possessor varies with the individual. A seventeen year old in a MacDonald’s in charge of French fries is a nonentity. Let it be known that the fry cook has a dope connection and he becomes a superstar within his circle. So it is with politicians. Marijuana subject to fees, and taxes represents power to the politicians. When grower avoid the taxes and fees, they are stealing from the politicians and that cannot stand!

I have pointed out previously that when I first started in law enforcement there was a familiar saying. “He could fuck up a box with a rubber mallet.” It was a pejorative directed at an individual who demonstrated a level of incompetence that defied description. It was meant as a disparaging term. The saying no longer has the same meaning.

First off, “he” is sexist and fails because it does not include “she” and any of the other fifty-seven gender varieties. Secondly, it fails to account for good intentions. Credit is due, if the process was slavishly adhered to and intentions were pure. No matter how ignoble the failure.

Maybe we are asking the wrong question. Every time a liberal comes up with one of these social engineering bombshells ask yourself. If this guy designed an airplane, would I fly in it?