He's full of shit. The reason he thinks that it is a good idea to punish people for smoking weed is not that it says so in some law. The reason it makes him feel "unsafe" is that smoking weed is associated with the people he doesn't like; young people, poor people, ethnic minorities etc.
All of these law and order fetichists are only on board with the police state as long as the law targets the people they feel superior to. They turn anarchists the moment they get as much as a parking ticket themselves.
To fascists it's not about the corruption of law, but of purity. They don't care when their own politicians lie or accept bribes - their politicians are on the side of the in-group.
He's full of shit. The reason he thinks that it is a good idea to punish people for smoking weed is not that it says so in some law. The reason it makes him feel "unsafe" is that smoking weed is associated with the people he doesn't like; young people, poor people, ethnic minorities etc.
All of these law and order fetichists are only on board with the police state as long as the law targets the people they feel superior to. They turn anarchists the moment they get as much as a parking ticket themselves.
To fascists it's not about the corruption of law, but of purity. They don't care when their own politicians lie or accept bribes - their politicians are on the side of the in-group.
the rule of law applies to every crime a white middle class suburban person could not see themselves commit and only those