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- From: weisstr%lavc3.dnet@smithkline.com (Terry Weiss)
- Subject: Re: Surprise. You've made the evening news again.
- Message-ID: <9207271659.AA20570@smithkline.com>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 08:59:22 GMT
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- >>Well, I'm all for dealing harshly with murderers and politicians who
- >>don't properly represent, but why did he lump cocaine importers in
- >>with those? Geez, importing cocaine is no worse than brewing beer.
- >>You get bags of cocaine and take them from point A to point B. No
- >>one's rights get trampled by that. Let's not compare them to murderers
- >>and crooked politicians.
- >>
- >>Sean Casey
- >----------------------------------
- >My god, you're totally right, Sean, I can't imagine what came over me.
- >I enjoyed Noriega getting his because he's such a fascist little
- >bastard, but I think we should legalize cocaine. That would take all
- >the crime and danger out of it, not to mention the profit. What would
- >the poor compasinos do then? I completely lost my head for a minute.
- >We had a drive-by shooting on the next block the other day over crack,
- >so I simply went into react mode instead of logic mode. Haven't done
- >that in ages. My apologies.
- >- Steve Walz
-
- As usual, Steve, your sarcasm skews the issue. People don't kill each
- other for drugs, they kill each other for money. The issue is freedom-
- what I want to do with my body is up to me, if it involves ONLY my body.
- Any paternilistic system, that seeks to regulate your rights under the
- assumption that they know better creates that sort of violence because it
- inherently is violent in that it violates a person's rights and sensibilties.
- You don't escape the violence by making the drugs illegal (the evidence for
- that is any urban area), or even by eliminating the drugs altogether by a
- "war on drugs". Don't be fooled, it's smoke; drugs were never the issue -
- poverty, empowerment, and truth are.
-
-
- -Terry
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