Please take a look at this post, and reflect upon the fact that Brownlee will defend your privacy rights.

http://www.spankthatdonkey.com/spankthatdonkey2/2008/3/10/trial-lawyers-victorious-hb-172-passes-house-senate.html

When one refers to non-violent offenses, this does not equate exclusively to drug crimes, although many people who are addicted are often convicted for theft and burglary as they attempt to feed their habits. It is interesting that the coward who posts under “Anon” erroneously concluded that the original post was exclusively about drugs, which was not the case at all.

As to the challenge about having drug addicted neighbors, if we examine any typical American community, we find citizens addicted to many forms of drugs, from alcohol, prescription meds, so-called recreational drugs, various performance enhancers, and even some “hard” “street” drug users.

Recently, I was made aware of the rather significant problem among some of our most wealthy citizens, many of whom who are quite active as benefactors of politicians, where these rich folk have stables of physicians who prescribe for them everything from Adderall (Speed), Beta-blockers, Steroids, HGH and various “downers” like Zoloft and Prozac. I was surprised to learn that some of our most prominent citizens spend much of their time in a drug induced haze. It perhaps explains previously inexplicable phenomena, like support from these White suburban elitists for politicians who say nothing of substance, but only spout proclamations about “family values” (on the Republican side) and “change” by that champion of inanity, Obama.

These rich folks, just like their street drug using counterparts need treatment, not incarceration.

I do not advocate the legalization of all drugs, nor am I in agreement with the Libertarian Party on the idea of no regulation of addictive substances. However, what we are doing now, the status quo for which both Republicans stand, is not working.

We need candidates and leaders who will take on the real challenges that we face. When is the last time any Republican spoke out about restoring government back to within its Constitutional limits? When has any candidate proposed strong anti-trust action against the multinational oligopolies who are looting our nation? When has any politician done anything to help restore our strategic manufacturing base and create domestic jobs? When have we heard from any of them, real ideas and solutions instead of a bunch of talking points regurgitated in eight second sound bites?

Bob Marshall and Ron Paul were rare exceptions to the purveyors of spun platitudes, yet they were labeled by the GOP “old guard” as kooks and deemed “unelectable” by establishment figures who are themselves owned by the big money interests.

With Cuccinelli and Brownlee, so far, they offer nothing but slightly different mixes of the same, tired, theme: scare the Sally Soccermoms by claiming that if they don’t vote for you, then someone will steal their fat little kid while in line at McDonald’s, pledge to lock more people up; never mind what for, or if they are even guilty, just get more convictions and Justice, be damned.

We need a Republican candidate for AG who will pledge to work to help ENHANCE our Liberty, not come up with ever increasing ways to destroy our freedom.

NEITHER of the Republican contenders has ever offered any ideas to expand and promote Liberty.

Virginia, as well as the United States warehouses too much of our population for non-violent offenses, when many of these people locked away could be contributing to our economy as steady, full time employees, rather than being a drain on our public accounts.

Neither of these guys offers any new ideas and both represent the anti-civil libertarian, status quo of ever greater government power and increased constraints on the freedom of our citizens.