Comments on: Heath Jackson Wins Escambia (Ala.) Sheriff Republican Primary

By: ??????

?????? — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 13:45:56 +0000

Good Luck Mr Jackson

By: hey

hey — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 01:57:16 +0000

As I have said before and will continue to say as long as God gives me breath YOUR ACTION JACKSON IS NO DIFFERENT THAN YOUR GROVER SMITH HE TURNS THE BLIND EYE just the same.people better wake up and stop looking for someone to save our towns cause they are just getting dirtier unless you have friends in the right places or your dirty and want to make a deal to save your own butt. I have met one cop in flomaton that I like cause he was honest enough to say they are all dirty and tangled together and he can’t waite to transfer cause the northend is crazy

By: Billy

Billy — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 22:41:33 +0000

Reader,

Deputy’s don’t have a Jackson sign in their front yard because they would get FIRED. I have yet to speak to anyone in law enforcement in the entire county who doesn’t support Jackson for sheriff. Its pretty bad when the chief law officer in the county doesn’t have the respect of the other 100 officers in the county. There is a huge problem and it hasn’t just started.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:47:33 +0000

I never meant to imply that doing drugs is right. My point is that making drugs illegal does not help anyone or fix anything. I also never said it would solve the drug problem. It WOULD however solve the problem of the violence that goes along with the illegal drug trade. Drugs are a problem in this country. We are just going about trying to fix that problem the WRONG way. Many people have serious addictions to drugs, just like alcohol. They don’t need to rot in prison, they need help. Drug addiction should be treated more like a sickness than a crime. Because drugs are so overpriced due to their illegality, people are forced to rob and steal to support their addictions. If drugs were legal, they would be MUCH cheaper, and addicts would not have to resort to crime to feed their addiction. And, they would not be as stigmatised, so it would be easier for them to get help without having to worry about spending time locked up.

And legalizing drugs WILL put “drug dealers” (as we think of them) out of business. They won’t have a black market product to sell at ridiculously high prices. The violence that comes from the illegal drug trade would end. Why is all of the violence with the drug cartels in Mexico happening? It’s because drugs are illegal. If the buying and selling of drugs was legal, what would they have to fight about? There would be no “turf wars”. Bad people make tons of money off drugs. If drugs were legalized, they would lose their source of income.

By: jlh

jlh — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:19:22 +0000

True, the Gov’t cant always be trusted. True, prohibition didn’t work, but my point is that legalizing them wont “put them out of business” and “end the drug problem.” And we are doing right now isnt working, that means we need to CHANGE what we are doing. Driving under the influence of drugs/alcohol is illegal, but just because thousands of Americans do it every year doesn’t mean we need to make it legal. Just because a lot of people do it doesn’t mean it is right.

By: Reader

Reader — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:11:14 +0000

Vicki,
You need to do a little more research before you make comments like that. First off there is a huge difference between a Sheriff Deputy and a City Police officer. You may see a Heath Jackson sign in a yard of a City Police Department Officer, but you will not see a Heath Jackson sign in the yard of a Escambia County Sheriff Dept. Heath Jackson is a good guy but know what you are talking about before you post something like that. Not all City Police Officers have Heath Jackson signs either.

By: traci

traci — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:50:26 +0000

This guy is to young and trigger happy.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:08:05 +0000

P.S.

“Do you really think we need more intoxicants in the streets? Really, think about that!”

Do you really think that outlawing drugs prevents use? Do you know anyone who has said “you know I really want to try some crack, but I can’t because it’s illegal”. HA! Absolute nonsense. Anybody that wants to try crack can and will. Those of us who choose not to, will not.

If crack was legal, would you try it? I know I wouldn’t. And I know nobody would who wouldn’t try it anyway, legal or not. Prohibition does NOT prevent use. Just look at your favorite example, alcohol prohibition. When alcohol was outlawed, PEOPLE DRANK ANYWAY.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 01:00:55 +0000

jlh,

first of all, you’re using a GOVERNMENT site to make your point. The government has so much money and effort invested in the drug war, do you think they’re going to admit that all that time and money was wasted??

It’s funny that you use alcohol prohibition to argue FOR drug prohibition. Do you realize that alcohol prohibition is what spawned organized crime in this country? If alcohol had never been outlawed, folks like Al Capone would be just another guy, not the crime kingpin we all know him as.

Alcohol prohibition was a DISMAL FAILURE, and the “war on drugs” is no different. When alcohol was illegal, PEOPLE STILL DRANK. Drugs are illegal. PEOPLE STILL USE THEM.

If drugs were legalized, people wouldn’t have to buy them from shady criminals, they could buy them from retail stores. Nobody would get shot from a “drug deal gone bad”, and nobody would get shot because they owed a drug dealer money. We wouldn’t have shady characters with guns selling drugs on the street corner. We wouldn’t have recreational marijuana users taking up bedspace in prison just because they choose to use a PLANT.

You want ME to learn from history??? I am learning from history, alcohol prohibition FAILED. The war on drugs HAS FAILED, IS FAILING, and will CONTINUE TO FAIL.

So keep on with your prohibition. The definition of insanity is to try something, fail, and then continue to try the same exact thing over and over again. That is what we are doing with the “war on drugs”.

By: Vicki

Vicki — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:01:56 +0000

Hey Fred, you need to get your facts straight. If you think that there isn’t a difference between a Grover and a Jackson sheriff department just ask any police officer in Escambia County! Every yard in the entire area with a police car under the carport has a Jackson sign in the yard. That tells you everything you need to know.