Re: Portland fentanyl emergency proves lefty drug and crime policies are killing American cities

On 21 Feb 2022, Lefty Lundquist <[email protected]> posted some
news:[email protected]: 

> Make the progressives take samples of the illegal drugs to ensure they
> are safe for drug dealers to sell.  That will solve three problems in
> the event of failure.  The drug user will die, the progressive will
> die and the drug dealer loses a customer.  Win! Win! 

Portland, Oregon, has reached a new low thanks to pro-crime policies
from the city and state: It’s declared a state of emergency over the
fentanyl crisis blighting the city. 

Who could’ve seen this coming? Only every thinking person. 

In 2020, Portland made drug use — even of hard drugs — de facto legal
via Measure 110. 

Crime-loving progressives within the City of Roses and around the nation
greeted the move with shouts of approval. 

Oops: Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids, driven by fentanyl, jumped
533% in Multnomah County from 2018 to 2022. 

In other words, the “Let’s encourage everyone to kill themselves” law
didn’t solve the city’s drug problem, but drastically deepened it. 

At first, woke city officials went in for “harm reduction,” handing out
snorting kits, tin foil and smoking straws to the users who litter the
streets. 

Surprise, surprise: Didn’t help a bit. 

Now Portland’s mayor, and the state’s governor and legislature, finally
admit the problem. 

“Everything’s on the table,” said a Democratic state senator. 

The real question is: How many times will great American cities have to
go through this? 

San Francisco, which made drug use de facto legal, saw the same results
and declared its own state of emergency. 

Look at Philly, where fentanyl has zombified its most vulnerable
citizens. 

Or New York, where the Health Department encourages people to use heroin
and tranq. 

This isn’t rocket science. 

If you encourage deadly drugs, you get more deadly drug use and all the
attendant violence and property crime that go with it: death,
degradation and social decay (and plenty of lefty nonprofits swooping in
to hoover up taxpayer bucks). 

This is patently obvious to anyone willing to look.

Some of Portland’s woke politicos seem to have opened their eyes.

But unless there’s a full accounting and rollback of these awful
policies, the tragedy will only continue. 

https://nypost.com/2024/02/01/opinion/portland-fentanyl-emergency-proves-
lefty-policies-kill-cities/