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- From: ARCHER@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer)
- Subject: Re: drug dealers
- Message-ID: <ARCHER.881.728084822@utkvm1.utk.edu>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 21:47:02 GMT
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- In article <lmb0n7INNnm7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
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- >From: williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums)
- >Newsgroups: rec.nude
- >Subject: Re: drug dealers
- >Date: 26 Jan 1993 18:28:55 GMT
- >Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
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- >Reply-To: williamt@athena.Eng.sun.com (Dances with Drums)
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- >In article <19986@mindlink.bc.ca> Rob_Prior@mindlink.bc.ca (Rob Prior) writes:
- >>Anyone who sells drugs is most certainly a lower form of life
- >---
- > Really?
- >
- > I look at drug dealers as freedom fighters. They are risking
- >their lives and property for allowing people the freedom to *choose*
- >what they want to do with their minds and bodies -- despite government
- >desire to control our bodies and minds.
- >
- > Everytime I hear of a drug dealer sent to jail, I feel a sense
- >that someone on the side of freedom has been captured and is now
- >a POW. The war on drugs is a war on the american people, and those
- >jailed are prisoners of war.
- >
- Oh please. Drug dealers are in it for the money, not for ideals. They are
- no more freedom fighters than slave traders were in the 1700's. They have
- the same motive: profit. Now, I do not deny the validity of the profit
- motive, nor the natural right of people to do what they want, so long as
- they harm no one but themselves.
-
- As far as I am concerned, if someone wants to turn their brain to tapioca,
- that's fine with me. Just don't expect me to pay for rehabilitation, or to
- feed them when they can no longer take care of themselves.
-
- I now officially declare this thread beyond the charter of rec.nude, and
- invite any follow-ups to go to talk.politics.misc. (I can't, my newreader
- is differently-abled.)
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