"There's nothing good about drug use… We know it. It destroys individuals. It destroys families. Drug use destroys societies. Drug use, some might say, is destroying this country. And we have laws against selling drugs, pushing drugs, using drugs, importing drugs. And the laws are good because we know what happens to people in societies and neighborhoods which become consumed by them. And so if people are violating the law by doing drugs, they ought to be accused and they ought to be convicted and they ought to be sent up."
1. I don't think that's what you claimed he said;
2. I don't know that he said it (has he affirmed this remark, or at least, how does Ellis Hennican, an extreme liberal, happen to have this quote around (and why does the link to it not work now, if it was a legitimate quote)?
3. Even if he said it, perhaps having battled addiction on his own he has a different view of it, which would be totally appropriate.
Having seen what drug addiction can do to people, I would certainly not disparage a person who has dealt with it and been able to crawl out of it. But that's the difference between a conservative, who believes in lifting people up, and a liberal, who believes in bashing and personal destruction of one's foes. |
