+ I’ll leave it to others to figure out why monoculture is somehow the magic ingredient. Does it have to do with "is" being very different from [. . .]
+ No man, lets do the full Monty. Lets have economic freedom, plenty of resource extraction, and private ownership of capital along with the cradle to grave [. . .]
+ You skipped a step. “OK, lets have a Nordic style social welfare system.”
Fine. That's lots of economic freedom, monoculturalism, and resource (i.e. oil) extraction. [. . .]
“OK, lets have a Nordic style social welfare system.” Fine. That's lots of economic freedom, monoculturalism, and resource (i.e. oil) extraction. It's also private ownership of capital.
No, I don't want any of that. I want command and control Socialism but let's call it Nordic style anyway. “That’s Socialism which never works!”
+ In addition to admiralty law, there is also the common-law of public nuisances, that essentially authorize a thing injurious to the public good to be [. . .]
In addition to admiralty law, there is also the common-law of public nuisances, that essentially authorize a thing injurious to the public good to be subject to an abatement lawsuit, which can include seizure of the nuisance. Nuisances could traditionally be houses of ill-repute, slaughterhouses, and various obstructions in road and waterways. I believe in West Virginia, prosecutors are arguing that certain distributors of opioids are public nuisances.
Nuisance principles have been the basis of public health and environment laws that impose civil penalties, and by characterizing them as civil proceedings, they avoid requirements of due process, juries or judges, requirements of fault, etc. So, I guess some of the issues are not just old, but they are broader than the war on drugs, and if this piece of yarn is pulled hard enough, a lot might fall out.
Though I don't expect a lot to fall out. I think that some of the most disproportionate cases will no longer happen and/or the government will document the basis for its actions better.
Booze, no doubt.
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