My drugs advice to William? You’ve been duped, you dope!
PRINCE WILLIAM has been duped by the drug legalisation lobby. I can only assume he was misled by foolish or unsuitable advisers or lobbyists, who sought to use him. But he should have known better.
When people who are supposed to be impartial want to take sides, they have a number of tricks for smuggling t heir opinions i nto public view.
BBC j ournalists fi nish t heir ‘unbiased’ reports by saying ‘but many believe…’ and then sticking their own opinion on the end.
People who want to boost a cause but lack the courage to say so openly will call for a ‘debate’ on an issue where most of us are quite happy with the way things are. The ‘debate’ will then give a platform to those who want radical change. That is its aim. Dissidents will be first bullied and mocked, and then excluded completely.
Sometimes previously respected bodies, quietly captured by fanatics, will mysteriously produce so-called ‘reports’. They turn out to contain nothing but carefully selected onesided facts and arguments in favour of, yes, radical change.
And then there are the people who ask a ‘ question’, as William asked a ‘question’ about drug legalisation. Question, my foot. They ask it of people whose response they can easily predict, in this case drug abusers. Like the debatemongers, they choose a subject where, yet again, there is a busy campaign for radical change.
Right now, the subject is almost always the legalisation of drugs, especially cannabis, a horrible, desperately dangerous objective which is alarmingly close to succeeding. You should wonder why.
This has not just happened out of the blue. It is the result of powerful, quiet and expensive lobbying, of the sort which Left-wing radicals usually l oathe. Yet those who denounce the fast-food and softdrinks giants, or attack Big Tobacco for seeking to profit from misery, are strangely relaxed about the Global Big Dope lobby.
And that lobby loves the way nobody has noticed it is a lobby.
But now a very rich, very ruthless minority scent victory after years of hard work and big spending. Media types who view marijuana and cocaine as normal, and let their children smoke dope at home, are part of this. They have combined with crazed ‘libertarians’ who think we should all be free to destroy ourselves, even if we destroy our families and neighbours in the process.
BUT they would be nothing without the backing of those who see an opportunity for gigantic profits from drugs openly sold on high streets and on the internet, and advertised on TV, radio and in newspapers.
Years of heavily funded campaigning have been dominated by the arch ‘ libertarian’ billionaire George Soros and his Open Society Foundations. Mr Soros is said by American media to have spent at least $80 million on this issue.
In California, the recent dope legalisation campaign, Proposition 64, also got the support of the ultra-rich. Former Facebook president and technology billionaire Sean Parker gave almost $9 million to this unpleasant cause.
Alongside people such as these, who are presumably motivated by misplaced f r eedom- l oving idealism, are other less-idealistic rich people who just want to be richer and long to rake in the big profits to be made. And a growing number of amoral politicians see the chance of raising billions in taxes on human misery, so badly needed by the empty treasuries of Western nations. Why, the cash might even replace the revenue lost as cigarette smokers (literally) die out.
Poor William was such a sucker when he went on his visit to a ‘ rehab’ facility. He swallowed whole the fiction that drug abuse is a disease and needs ‘treatment’. This is pure tripe. Drug use is voluntary. Diseases are compulsory.
I know there are people who like to make excuses for illegal drug use. But they are a faction, with a political aim. Their claims are dubious, to put it mildly. Heirs to the throne have no business taking sides with them.
And who told William that former drug abusers were ‘key people’ to ask? The real sufferers from the collapse of our drug laws are those who live in areas where drug abuse is routine, thanks to police inaction, and those whose children have ruined their lives and health by drug abuse. When will he ask them? There are no shiny, fashionable and well-funded clinics, patronised by royalty, for such people.
And how can William be so clueless as to think that men and women are still sent to prison for using drugs? The singer Pete Doherty was caught with heroin in his pockets in a criminal court building and didn’t go to prison, for heaven’s sake. The tragic billionairess Eva Rausing (now dead) was caught trying to take crack cocaine and heroin into the US Embassy in London, and was let off with a meaningless caution.
If this sort of thing goes on, I shall become a republican.