OSAMA IS DEAD

[Jakey LIAF]

WE'LL PUT A BOOT IN YOUR ASS
IT'S THE AMERICAN WAY

[brianutatx]

now that Osama is dead, in light of what a good job's been done to fight the war on terror, what progress, do people get some rights back?

We haven't gotten our rights back from the fucking prohibition era.

What about drinking legally.

One war down now we just got the war on drugs, the border war, and GWAR.

[Pete > You]

What about drinking legally.

Nominally. It's not like it was before prohibition. Think about it. Alcohol is about as legal in America as weed is in Amsterdam. You can only purchase it in places that have a license to sell it. You can only consume it in the privacy of your own home, or an establishment with a license that allows you to drink.

The whole industry is heavily regulated, and it's just now starting to get to where it was pre-prohibition with things like regional breweries and distilleries. It'll probably take 100 years (assuming we get that far) for it to recover.

Let's not forget about all the ancillary laws that were passed back then that we still have to live with. Cabaret laws? The 1934 NFA? Shit's nuts man.

[brianutatx]

What about drinking legally.

Nominally. It's not like it was before prohibition. Think about it. Alcohol is about as legal in America as weed is in Amsterdam. You can only purchase it in places that have a license to sell it. You can only consume it in the privacy of your own home, or an establishment with a license that allows you to drink.

This regulation seems necessary, since alcohol is consumed it needs to be carefully regulated to make sure it is safe to drink. It's similar to how food establishments need to acquire licences to sell food, mainly because of health concerns. There Are plenty of places where you can drink alcohol in my city where the establishment doesn't have a license, these places are typically called BYOB restaurants or bars etc. Usually any place that is privately owned it is legal to drink there. The issue comes with alcohol sales rather than consumption. Really the only place it's not legal to drink are public spaces.

And if you want to make a case for drinking and driving please feel free to look up the relationship between alcohol and impairment it does on ones senses. This ones really a no brainer drinking and operating motor vehicles doesn't make sense.

I think all drugs and alcohol should be legal to consume just about any where as long as it's not directly affecting the safety of those around the individual that is consuming drugs or alcohol ie: driving cars, operating heavy machinery.

For real though the freedom to drink should be one of the last things on your list of things that need to change when it comes to freedom.

I think one of the easiest pro freedom changes that could be made in the USA is FCC laws. We still can't say Fuck, Tits, Piss, etc. legally on the radio, those laws are stuck in the 1950s.

[plagueship]

what the f you guys? i thought this thread was supposed to be about being super american and stomping everyone and not interfering with my god-given right to abuse substances?

anyway... the taiwanese animated news is all over this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cw0AXjAa ... e=youtu.be

[BROOTALPOODLE]

someone posted a picture of saddam on facebook and said "rip osama"
i thought that was clever

[thievesguild]

why is it that i get the feeling that there will be a backlash soon... and inevitably, it will be a european country or ally that will endure it

[Pete > You]

This regulation seems necessary, since alcohol is consumed it needs to be carefully regulated to make sure it is safe to drink. It's similar to how food establishments need to acquire licences to sell food, mainly because of health concerns. There Are plenty of places where you can drink alcohol in my city where the establishment doesn't have a license, these places are typically called BYOB restaurants or bars etc. Usually any place that is privately owned it is legal to drink there. The issue comes with alcohol sales rather than consumption. Really the only place it's not legal to drink are public spaces.

Oh. Okay, you're just a brutal authoritarian. Got ya.

For real though the freedom to drink should be one of the last things on your list of things that need to change when it comes to freedom.

It wasn't an example of something I feel strongly about, just the longest-lasting example of "WE NEED TO REMOVE YOUR RIGHTS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" type shit I could think of. My point wasn't that we don't have these specific rights, but rather the fact that we almost never any of them back once they're gone, even if the impetus behind why they were removed in the first place no longer exists

[buckytoole]

It wasn't an example of something I feel strongly about, just the longest-lasting example of "WE NEED TO REMOVE YOUR RIGHTS TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS! THINK OF THE CHILDREN!" type shit I could think of. My point wasn't that we don't have these specific rights, but rather the fact that we almost never any of them back once they're gone, even if the impetus behind why they were removed in the first place no longer exists

impetus is important. i think of it every time i speed but like, really, i'm awesome and got space to go faster than these assholes... my argument for police.

conservatives won majority in canada tonight (yeah, elections, crazy)
pretty weak.

[kunoichi]

In the Philippines we had quite a similar scenario. Leaders of Abu Sayyaf (SE Azn Islamic separatists linked to Al Qaeda) got killed but some dudes just moved up the ranks. Back to normal. End of story. They're still around taking random people hostage and bombing malls 'cause that's what terrorists do.