timothyallan wrote:The really sad thing is that the people who actually smuggle the drugs think that the financial payoff is worth the risk. It's more stupid than sad really.
Yeah. I am sure the payoff must have been pretty high, much higher than say smuggling the same amount into the states. Risk proportionate.
I'm not a supporter of the death penalty, and as much as it sucks for him, and for his family, I agree that he knew the risks that were involved. He made the decision and got caught.
Celtic wrote:I'll tell you what's barbaric. Scum like him selling a filthy drug like heroin to fund an easy lifestyle. If he wants money he should earn it like the rest of us and pay in to the tax system. Not avoid paying tax by selling a life wrecking drug like heroin for cash off hopeless addicts.
Nah, I disagree. Like Yellow said, supply and demand. The demand will always be there and will never go away. People are always going to get high and people will always supply that demand. And selling drugs certainly isn't an "easy life" as you may believe. You know what the life expectancy of drug dealer is? It's an entirely different world.
Also, I don't think people sell drugs to avoid paying taxes, besides, how would one go about declaring that income? People sell drugs for a number of reasons, but primarilly because of the huge profits involved.
And addicts aren't helpless and they certainly are not victims. Maybe victims of policy, but not victims of drug dealers. Addicts get high because they want to - yes at some point they get high because they need to, but there is always a choice. I'm a recovering heroin addict, I know.
I thik the real problem is the policies. I think all of this shit should be legal, controlled, but legal. If people want to smoke opium, or shoot dope, let them. Why should they be put in jail. I don't blame the dealers either I blame the policies. the policies create the criminal aspect and all of the violence associated. legalize it, legalize it all. Then we can charge them taxes. legalize and educate I say, not criminalize and propogandize.
"It's the stick of law enforcement that creates the carrot of huge profit that is economic truth."