I thought it would be good to thoroughly hash out Newt Gingrich's disturbing views on personal freedom, privacy, and capital punishment regarding drugs.
In this interview, Bill O'Reilly explains that the War on Drugs isn't working. Of course his idea of a system that "works" is to point to a fascist Nanny State that searches anyone it wants without a warrant and executes people for non-violent activities. Singapore, really?! They cane people to death in Singapore!!
Gingrich responds by saying that America needs to "get the stomach" for Singapore-style tyranny. He cares so much about your health and sobriety that he is willing to turn the United States into a totalitarian police state. He loves you that much. And his record backs up that he means this 100%.
Newt Gingrich: Let the Drug testing Begin
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In this interview, Bill O'Reilly explains that the War on Drugs isn't working. Of course his idea of a system that "works" is to point to a fascist Nanny State that searches anyone it wants without a warrant and executes people for non-violent activities. Singapore, really?! They cane people to death in Singapore!!
Gingrich responds by saying that America needs to "get the stomach" for Singapore-style tyranny. He cares so much about your health and sobriety that he is willing to turn the United States into a totalitarian police state. He loves you that much. And his record backs up that he means this 100%.
Newt Gingrich: Let the Drug testing Begin
ORLY: I don't know whether you know this, but I did one of my papers at Harvard on this -- on how to reduce demand for drugs. But the United States has never figured it out. You can't lock up drug users, I mean, that doesn't work. And you can't force them into rehab, you have to want rehab, and even if you want it, it's very hard to get off hard drugs and alcohol. Very hard.
What you can do, though, is sanction people along the way. And this is what they do in Singapore. If you're caught possessing drugs -- and that means drugs in your bloodstream, they have a little hair thing, and they put it in there -- then you have to go to mandatory rehab. And they have centers where you go. Now, they have no drug problem in Singapore at all, number one, because they hang drug dealers -- they execute them. And number two, the market is very thin, because when they catch you using, you go away with a mandatory rehab. You go to some rehab center, which they have, which the government has built.
The United States does not have the stomach for that. We don't have the stomach for that, Mr. Speaker.
GINGRICH: Well, I think it's time we get the stomach for that, Bill. And I think we need a program -- I would dramatically expand testing. I think we have -- and I agree with you. I would try to use rehabilitation, I'd make it mandatory. And I think we have every right as a country to demand of our citizens that they quit doing illegal things which are funding, both in Afghanistan and in Mexico and in Colombia, people who are destroying civilization.
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