Midterm: what my classmates thought about the law...

While I read through what my fellow classmates had to say about the way the felt about our wonderful government I took the time to read an observe this quote “I think that all drugs should be made legal and it should be a matter of personal responsibility, not a matter of law. If a person decides to be addicted to drugs, and is able to buy those drugs on the open market like alcohol, tobacco, or pharmaceuticals, it would reduce the huge number of subsequent drug related crimes. I think it's an issue of personal responsibility and not something the law should have any bearing over, besides making rules and regulations like they do for alcohol or pharmaceuticals. And luckily there are already agencies in place to do so”- Jonathan Boyer. While I don’t fully agree with this statement I do find it to be a just statement. Its true our government tells us what we can destroy ourselves with and how much and it seems like there is a serious double standard with what is legal and what is not, such as alcohol and tobacco products. On the other side I have to disagree because let’s face it people are stupid. This also runs into an argument that I have with others about the lack of education, but I won’t get into that. It’s true a lot of Americans are dumb sheep who love being told what to do how and how to do it. They need to be told how to do things constantly and with force because they are sheep. That’s why we have speed limits, and traffic lights and retaining walls on the free way, a lot of people are stupid and need to be guided so allowing these people to have full access to buy hardcore drugs is a horrible idea. I then took the time and read Dianne’s blog entry it was short but I did agree with her on this that also makes me mad “I understand that we have to have laws for everything but it seems that every law has an exception to everything so if you have a good attorney those exceptions will come in handy” -Dianne Polo. I hate that there are criminals that slip through the cracks of the justice system and get free just because of the loop hole or some minor detail. Just like that O.J murder trial from the 90’s, we all knew he was guilty but yet because of some minor discrepancy he walked free. I found this wuote next that stated something I believe in very strongly. “The legal Officials need more training on how to carry out the law. There are always complaints. Whilst you cannot please everyone, there still should be some form of strict recourse to the ones who corrupt the system and place a bad reputation on the system as a whole.” -Stacia Woody. It seems way too often you hear about some government official or some judge doing something above the law and just getting the smallest of punishments. Of politicians committing horrendous crime and getting the tisk tisk finger wagged at them. That is some bullshit. If you are a law maker or enforcer and you feel so above the law that you can break it and you get caught, you should be punished to the full extent of the law. They are making our country and our justice system look bad and we can’t have that anymore. No one is above the law. I believe that the system is getting to where it needs to be, we are a young country with a new system and it takes time to work it out. But it seems like some of these corrupt law makers are setting us all back and hurting the system.