“I don’t need no drugs in my system ’cause my dancing and didge sets me free.”- Bruce AKA Boy BC.
Reading through the material the Australian government has provided to the public as part of various drug campaigns has been very effective in both testing my patience and draining my hope that policy disgraces of this variety can’t persist for much longer. The fact that these campaigns are not subject to any serious scrutiny seems to suggest a level of misinformation about drugs that surprises even me. How anyone could process this shit and not be left at the very least confused is something I am having difficulty comprehending. To better illustrate what exactly I mean, here’s some of the content on heroin from the most recent government mindfuck, entitled “Where’s Your Head At?” (An understandable question).
Heroin is an ‘opioid’, which is a term that refers to substances similar to the drug morphine. Street heroin is mixed with other substances, such as glucose, caffeine, sugar and paracetamol. These additives can be dangerous when added to heroin.
Hold your questions, there’s more…
Because there’s no way to tell the purity of heroin being used, users can’t gauge the amount they are taking and can accidentally overdose. Heroin overdose is one of the leading causes of death in Australia in 18 to 34 year-olds, and non-fatal overdoses are common amongst heroin users.
Other than perhaps the imprecise definition contained within the first sentence, this is accurate information. That is, information about the heroin supplied illegally under current conditions. It conveniently ignores two simple questions. Why is street heroin mixed with other dangerous substances, and why is there no way to tell the purity of heroin being used? The answers to these questions are simple (The market is furious), yet they expose the huge flaws in the conclusions that the government is attempting to convince the reader to accept. From that point, the real causes of the drug problem that don’t receive any form of acknowledgement in the campaign materials at all become easily identifiable. The agenda falls apart from there, and the most important question of all eventually arises-
Wouldn’t it be more effective to legalise all drugs?
Of course, getting that far also means the realisation that by maintaining a policy of drug prohibition the government is willingly causing countless preventable deaths. Oh dear!
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Election Debrief 02-A: I see the future
Nov 25
Posted by Captain Hero in Cronyism, Election 2007, Freedom, Hacks, Hero, Howard, Hypocrisy, Jingoism, News and Commentary, Rudd | Comments
Against my better judgement, it seems a lot of Australians have voted in favour of Labor in this election.
By which I mean to say that my judgement is better than a lot of Australians, and that some (presumably large) proportion of those same Australians cast votes contrary to the requirements for action based on my judgement. Ten thousand comedians are excited.
Currently, my home seat of Bennelong is under serious contention by invading Labo[u]r forces. With 77% of the ballots counted, Labo[u]r’s ’star candidate’ under the guise of one recently-respectable Maxine McKew is polling with a 5.3% swing in her favour. The ABC have decided this is sufficient to call the seat hers, though the very experts they broadcast state such a swing is necessary only for her to be in the running, with 6.1% or greater required for a win. In truth though, postal votes will decide this seat at some indeterminate but comparatively distant point in time.
It is the collective will of the social majority that their government be changed to something new and exciting, because they are bored of John Howard’s administration. Their will shall be done, courtesy of the AEC. That being a given, observe the future:
Rudd will keep his election promises because, while it isn’t hard to keep promises when they take the form of broad generalisations almost completely encompassing current government policy, he also appears to be a witless mannequin with no idea what’s going on. I hope I’m wrong, really – I want the country in which I live to be as viable as possible – but all indications so far indicate a lack of comprehension on the part of Labo[u]r with regards to what keeps an economy afloat.
The next three years will see wideranging social reforms, which is code for exorbitant spending. Because of this, Rudd will win the 2011/12 election. Depending on his rate of economic deforestation/the effectiveness with which the Liberals point out his many colourful violations of sound governance principles, he may or may not gain a further majority.
Finally, in 2013/14 there will be a landmark election in which there is a severe victory for the Liberals over the corpse of Rudd’s popularity. The leader of the Liberal Party and elected Prime Minister will be Joe Hockey. Do you know why? Allow me to end by enlightening you:
You’ll vote for this man. Trust me.
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