sandstone | March 24, 2010
They say great minds think alike.
Well, I’ve been thinking about Prohibition since Obama Care passed and the propaganda started in MSM about the impossibility of repealing this piece junk legislation. So has Jeffery Lord at The American Spectator.
Take the time to read his article and take heart. Obama Care can and will be overturned! Here are a few excerpts from his article:
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Not unlike today’s promises about Obama Care, the view of a Utopian America without alcohol were extravagant.
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So confident were Prohibitionists in the invincibility of the 18th Amendment that one congressional supporter swooned: “There is as much chance of repealing the Eighteenth Amendment as there is for a hummingbird to fly to the planet Mars with the Washington Monument tied to its tail.”
In a page that might be ripped from today’s headlines about Americans’ furious reaction to Obama Care, a backlash began immediately — and built.
In spite of repeated assurances from Prohibition supporters, all manner of unintended consequences began showing up. Instead of positive change, America underwent a case of the national bends.
What once were legitimate businesses were instantly replaced by gangsters, the quite legal business of selling alcohol now the sole province of a smuggler’s black market paradise. No longer was the nation’s attention focused on the likes of Carry Nation, who in fact had died in 1911 as the cause she was devoted to began picking up political steam. New names were being heard.
Al Capone, Bugsy Moran, the “speakeasy,” “bootlegging,” “moonshine,” and “bathtub gin” became household names and terms. Alcohol poisoning is said to have risen some 400% because a lot of the illegal booze was considerably impure.
Support for repeal began to take legitimate shape. Journalist H.L. Mencken trenchantly observed:
Five years of prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None of the great boons and usufructs that were to follow the passage of the Eighteenth Amendment has come to pass. There is not less drunkenness in the Republic but more. There is not less crime, but more. There is not less insanity, but more. The cost of government is not smaller, but vastly greater. Respect for law has not increased, but diminished. (emphasis mine)
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