A whole High School was searched and NO drugs were found? Lesson: Keep them in your pocket, where your rights still exist, and not in your locker, where they belong to the school. At least the kids know that.

But that is some fucked up reasoning. I imagine the parents aren't going to be too happy about the premise.

Vote with your feet

The Left party has voted to support the "long-term legalisation of all drugs" in its first official policy programme, which members were considering on Saturday during a party congress.

Delegates for the hard-line socialist Left, Die Linke, voted 211 in favour and 173 against, with 29 abstentions, to endorse a full-legalisation policy.

"We advocate a rational and humane drug policy," German daily Die Welt quoted the program as stating, including a "decriminalization of drug use."

The vote marked a departure from a proposal put forth by party leadership, which had suggested only allowing the use of milder illegal drugs, such as hashish.

Though most experts consider harder drugs like heroin and cocaine especially dangerous due to their addictive potential and effects on the brain, delegates opted not to distinguish between "hard" and "soft" drugs.

The Left's first comprehensive policy document has been four years in the making.

The party's endorsement was met with staunch criticism from the conservative camp. Stephan Mayer, a domestic policy spokesman for the Bavarian conservatives, the Christian Social Union, described it as "preposterous," calling it a "completely wrong signal for prevention efforts."

"With this, the Left party has again provided proof that it cannot and may not take on any governmental responsibility," Mayer said.

George Orr wrote:

I've said it before and I'll say it again:  The kids did learn an extremely valuable lesson:  The authorities will lie to you at any time they find it convenient to do so, and then dress up the deception with more lies.

That knowledge is priceless.

God Yes.  From my first bust, I learned that the Police will, plant evidence, give false testimony, and beat the shit out you or kill you if they don't like you, or the way you look.

Tall Paul wrote:

You might be able to trust a cop, if you know him and if he knows you, but never trust The Cops. And don't even THINK about trusting The Man. This was indeed a valuable lesson to learn.

Few and far between in practice. The entire system that cops live in corrupts men.

Listen to this case. These are amazing candid recordings of police falsifying evidence against the public and then the same recorder capturing railroading against cops who threaten to expose it.

http://www.thisamericanlife.org/play_fu … =414&act=2

When I was a teenager there was a cop we all knew was a good guy. He was respected professional and was part of the social circle of our parents. He was a friend and mentor to the kids in the neighborhood.

And then we realized he was swiping the mary jane confiscated from the kids for himself. Selling it back to his buddies and our parents.

Dmtdust wrote:

God Yes.  From my first bust, I learned that the Police will, plant evidence, give false testimony, and beat the shit out you or kill you if they don't like you, or the way you look.

I learned pretty much the same lesson, pretty much the same way.  They also invent charges in an effort to force you into a plea bargain.