...Donald Trump will protect this country and whoever threatens this country will have to pay a consequence. He will send armed forces in that country. We also will destroy them with our arm forces, no country should be threaten. We will fight them tell they want to surrender. I’m sick and tired of Obama say ‘’That he will get things done with ISIS’’ did it happen yet? No it didn't happen we need a leader to get things done. And we need a leader that sticks up for this country and not sit around and kid around with Joe Biden. And I hope that America gets better and we have a good president that sticks up for us. Also i think Donald smells the coffee and he wants to get this country on track. Donald Trump is also a christian and we need one...
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...When I first saw this article, I thought it was just going to be about another celebrity ranting against president Trump in a public setting. It did start out that way by describing how Meryl Streep brought many of her fans and fellow celebrities to tears by describing how heart broken she was by Trump’s actions. The example she used was when Donald Trump was recorded mocking a disabled reporter. Trump of course denied the rumour and many fans of Trump stated that Streep was what was wrong with the “liberal elite”. However, these comments against Meryl by Trump supporters was not the main point of this argument. The article then continued to go into how many people from the disabled community actually spoke up against her to reveal a shocking...
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...legalizing it and therefore taking away the drug cartels number one source of income. The U.S. Office of National Drug Control Policy ... says that more than 60 percent of the profits reaped by Mexican drug lords are derived from the exportation and sale of cannabis to the American market (Armentano2). It is ridiculous to think that the United States can put out a statistic like this and ignore the fact that if they legalized the drug there would be less violence because there would be no point for Mexican drug cartels to try and smuggle the drug into the U.S. In the article “Blame Prohibition, Not Pot Smokers for Violence in Mexico”, published by AlterNet.org, Tony Newman tells us how the people who run the “Just Say No” campaign against drugs have a new scheme in which they plan to blame people who smoke pot for the violence in Mexico. They are hoping to stop younger people from smoking marijuana if they associate it with the murder of people by the drug cartels in Mexico. There are a few problems with these campaigns: They are inaccurate in some cases, and downright dishonest in others.Office of National Drug Control Policy It is disingenuous to connect the average American's marijuana consumption to the horrific violence of Mexico's drug war. The average pot smoker's growing and purchasing of marijuana has no relationship to the violence along the border that is the result of large-scale drug trafficking. It isn’t hard to understand that the legalization of marijuana...
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...Position Paper Khadijah Shabazz CNSL 5203 Dr. Sampson Prairie View A&M University 9/20/2015 The legalization of drugs is one of the most controversial and debated topics of the 21st century. There are both negative and positive reasons to legalize them as well as negative and positive reasons to keep them prohibited. According to LEAP, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, drug prohibition is the true cause of much of the social and personal damage that has historically been attributed to drug use. It is prohibition that makes these drugs so valuable – while giving criminals a monopoly over their supply ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP").LEAP goes on to say that criminal gangs are driven by the huge profits from this monopoly, criminal gangs bribe and kill each other, law enforcers, and children and as such their trade is unregulated and they are, therefore, beyond our control ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). It is LEAP’s belief that by eliminating prohibition of all drugs for adults and establishing appropriate regulation and standards for distribution and use, law enforcement could focus more on crimes of violence, such as rape, aggravated assault, child abuse and murder, making our communities much safer ("Why Legalize Drugs? | LEAP"). Another positive aspect of the legalization of drugs is financial gains. According to the International Business Times in a study for the Cato Institute, Jeffrey A. Miron, senior lecturer on economics at Harvard University and a senior...
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... But there have always been varying ulterior motives. According to Baylor University Professor of Sociology, Dr. Diana Kendall, the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 was passed solely to criminalize marijuana by taxing it; this would dissuade migrant Mexican workers who smoked marijuana to seek employment elsewhere and not take jobs from U.S. citizens as the country struggled during the Great Depression (Kendall, 2010). Last year, voters in Colorado and Washington State approved legislation that supported the commercial growth, sale, possession and use of recreational marijuana. In response, United States Department of Justice, Deputy Attorney General James Cole, promulgated policy that established the posture for enforcing marijuana laws against people or organizations to that: Distribution of marijuana to minors; revenue from the sale of marijuana from going to criminal enterprises, gangs and cartels; the diversion of marijuana from states where it is legal under state law in some...
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...Global Politics: The feasibility of universal drug liberalization as an emerging phenomenon RWaterhouse Globalization & The War on Drugs: Assessing alternatives to criminalization The purpose of this paper is to address universal drug liberalization as a feasible alternative to the current drug control regime specifically in North America and potentially applicable elsewhere. With an in depth analysis of the historical regulation, implementation of law, and resulting consequences we will be able to see how nations are effected by complex drug politics and why there has been a global paradigm shift in looking spiritedly at the ideal of decriminalization. I argue in favor of liberalization by bringing to attention the violence associated with the commodification of illegal drugs, what the re-directed costs of control could mean for domestic investment into proactive drug awareness education, and finally recognizing Portugal’s success and weaknesses in the adoption of a compete legalization agenda. Following will be a discussion of concluding thoughts centered on the efficacy and feasibility of universal liberalization in today’s globalized world. Historical Context Libertarianism has almost always had position in political discourse but has been majorly popularized through public attention within the era of globalization. (article) Control of drug consumption has always been a contemporary ingredient in the political reform of Canada and the America’s and...
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...The so-called “War on Drugs,” as declared by the Nixon administration in the signing of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, marked the beginning of the current era of mandatory minimum sentencing, racism, privatized prisons, and a powerful constituency that profits as a result of the prohibition of drugs. Psychoactive substances have been apart of the human experience as long as humans have walked the earth. There is little hope that drug production will ever be curtailed, so long as there is a demand; a demand that has remained steady even though it has been forty years since the beginning of said war. As Judge James P. Gray from the Superior Court of Orange County has so plainly put it: “Where did this policy come from? Unfortunately I have conducted an inquiry into this and I have determined that drug prohibition laws came for reasons of racism, empire building, and ignorance.”(Booth) The War on Drugs is politically motivated as a means of profiting. One may ask them self how government can financially benefit from such policies. In fact, they benefit in a myriad of ways. The government spends an exorbitant amount of money in an attempt to combat drug production and drug usage. The U.S. government has spent over a trillion—that’s right a trillion—dollars in its attempt to eradicate the drug problem. With so much time, effort and money there should be something to show, right? Wrong. Today drugs are more prevalent, more potent and cheaper than...
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...Introduction: I don't think we should build a wall because it would cost too much. And that will throw the U.S in a even bigger debt than it already is and break families apart. And he is making good people stay in a bad place not all immigrants are bad. Counter argument introduction: Many people believe just because Donald Trump isn’t qualified to be president — and just because much of his agenda is hateful and undesirable — doesn’t mean that everything he says is automatically wrong. Counter argument A wall probably represents our best chance of reaching broad agreement on immigration policy, a subject that has frustrated Congress and the last two presidents. Without a wall, it’s doubtful that Republicans will enter into meaningful negotiations...
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...quite the popularity and is already acting as if she will be the next president. Bernie Sanders managed to get some wins but not enough to beat Hillary. It is not looking too good for Bernie Sanders. Republicans: On the republican side, we have three representatives. Donald Trump, Marko Rubio and Ted Cruz. Donald Trump is in the big lead right now, and it seems more likely that he will be the candidate for the Republican Party. Second in lead after Trump is Ted Cruz. Marko Rubio is also gaining some traction now after Super Tuesday, but has a long to go if he wants to beat Trump. What seems likely now after Super Tuesday is that from the Democratic Party we will see Hillary Clinton, and from the Republican Party we will see Donald Trump. * Donald Trump has done much better than generally expected: Discuss possible reasons for Trump`s success: I think that the number one reason for Trump’s success is that he is a businessperson more than he is a politician, which means a lot to some people in the US. “Make America great again” is a quote that Trump is famous for. Trump has made many promises and proposed many solutions to existing problems that resides in the US, and therefore many people support Trump because of his promises. The UK and the EU: * Why do many Brits seem quite negative to the EU /”Europe”? Many Brits are negative to the EU because they feel that the EU is...
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...Different terms have different connotations, and even if they are synonymous, they can have differing impacts. An “illegal alien” and an “undocumented migrant” are the same thing, but they have different implications and evoke a different tone. Which term a news outlet uses may show where the bias lies. Some news outlets may avoid certain words altogether: BBC, for example, refrains from designating someone as a “terrorist” because it contains “political overtones” (“Terrorism”). BBC is a British news source but it widely used and trusted by Americans and it is worth noting. American news sources can be much more toxic in the words they use. It has long been an argument from conservatives that the media are “politically correct” and refrain from telling the whole truth by using euphemisms (Weigel). Journalists are not supposed to let their opinions get in the way of the news they are reporting, but the words they use, or refrain from using, can hide the unfeigned, unfiltered truth from the public. Take, for instance, the Fox News article “Seven Highlights from Bombshell IG Report on the DOJ, FBI Clinton Email Probe.” The article is blatantly biased towards conservatives- even the title, calling supposedly incriminating evidence in the case regarding Hillary Clinton’s Emails a “Bombshell” (Re). The article claims that those being investigated had “escaped...
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...Trump is wrong on climate Change Although the argument has changed over the last 20 years from global warming to climate change, the one thing that has been consistent over time has been on the science aspect of it. This year, Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the Paris Climate Agreement, in which over 170 countries pledged their commitment to cutting carbon emissions. In his announcement, President Trump shifted the discussion away from the science of fossil fuel’s effect on the environment toward economics: “The Paris climate accord disadvantages the United States, to the exclusive benefit of other countries, leaving American workers, who I love, and taxpayers to absorb the cost in terms of lost jobs, lower wages, shuttered factories and...
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...Donald Trump has many followers not only because he is president but because he is a well-known entrepreneur. Before Donald Trump was elected as president, he was just known as a man that owned successful businesses, as well as a televisions personality. Donald Trump is the 45th and current president of the United States of America. He borrowed a similar slogan from Reagan “Make America Great Again”, or in my terms “Make America Racists again”. In the Saturday night live sketch “Voters for Trump Ad,” people are sarcastically explaining why they love and support Trump. There are many different sides throughout the video portraying different points of view, including Nazis, Ku Klux Klan, white power, and Muslim banning. The video is depicting...
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...In the article “Obama talks about terrorism and demagoguery” the author Amy Davidson bring ups the points and solutions that Obama proposes. He brings up points that ever since he became presidents of the United States he has committed himself to stop terrorism abroad. The recent shooting has caused people to turn against the muslim people, on of the front runner for president is Donald Trump, he wants to get eliminate the entire muslim population from the United States, yet Obama states “Muslim Americans are our friends and our neighbors, our coworkers, our sports heroes—and, yes, they are our men and women in uniform who are willing to die in defense of our country. We have to remember that” (obama). Trump takes a stance against Obama After...
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...Pipeline For many political and environmentally significant reasons I am against the Dakota Access Pipeline. For instance, our president Donald Trump has had stocks in the pipeline, and sold them off last summer to avoid a conflict of interest. However, the chief executive Kelcy Warren, of the pipeline company, Energy Transfer Partners (ETP), has made generous contributions to his political campaign. It appears Trump deliberately made the stocks for this company soar (Mufson, 2016). Secondly, the pipeline runs through sacred land according to the Sioux tribe and there are concerns it will contaminate their drinking water (Worland, 2016). Many protesters were arrested for their diligence in standing with the Sioux tribe in Standing...
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...According to Politifact, What President Obama and President Trump did were only similar in “the most superficial ways.” According to to Politifact, one of main differences with President Obama’s policy is that it was in a direct response to a threat facing the nation. Politifact says that Two people living in the United States were sending money, weapons, and explosives to Iraq and were trying to assist terrorism. The two people who were later arrested by the FBI, entered this country as refugees. The Countries targeted in President Trump’s executive order “has not been implicated in any fatal terrorist attack in the United States.” (Politifact) Another Major difference according to Politifact, is the “scope” of the two policies of both Presidents. Politifact says that President Obama put a “pause” on refugees, but President Donald Trump policy halts “all non-U.S. visitors.” (from the Seven Countries listed on the executive order) It goes on to say that President Obama still admitted Iraqi refugees in every month of 2011. Presidents have put halts on immigration before but they have been a reaction to an issue. (Politifact) Politifact says the comparison to what President Obama did and what President Trump is doing is “mostly...
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