Parliament of Whores by P.J. O'Rourke

Author:P.J. O'Rourke [O'Rourke, P.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Philosophy, Politics, Non-Fiction, Humour, Writing
ISBN: 9780871134554
Amazon: B000HM2XG0
Goodreads: 44781
Publisher: Grove Press
Published: 1991-04-14T22:00:00+00:00

As soon as he gets out, he can tell everybody how cool it was that he walked right up to the police and said, "I lives here. Can I go in?"

Maybe the drug laws should be changed. But drug laws aren't immoral laws the way the laws of segregation were. They aren't the laws of an unjust system the way the laws of East Germany were. Drug laws don't cry out for acts of civil disobedience. Read Thoreau, Gandhi and Martin Luther King, and you won't find any of them going to jail or fasting or getting smacked on the head so mankind can do tootski.

This is a democracy. We're free to change what our government does any time we want. All we have to do is vote on it. In the meantime, if people like me-rich, white, privileged, happy-cannot even bother to abide by the legal standards of their freely constituted society, of a society that has provided them with everything a civilization can be expected to provide, then those people deserve their drug problems and everybody else's drug problems, too. They deserve- I deserve-to have every crack addict in the country knocking on the front door saying, "I lives here.

Can I go in?"

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