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- From: thomasr@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com (G. Thomas Rush)
- Subject: Re: drug dealers
- Organization: Compaq Computer Corp
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 17:26:01 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1IwFD.I5I@cpqhou.se.hou.compaq.com>
- Followup-To: talk.politics.misc
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- In article <ARCHER.881.728084822@utkvm1.utk.edu> ARCHER@utkvm1.utk.edu (T. Archer) writes:
- >In article <lmb0n7INNnm7@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> williamt@athena.Eng.Sun.COM (Dances with Drums) writes:
- >>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.
-
- Remember an event called the Boston Tea Party? There was a revolution
- in this country fought as much for money as for ideals. I'm glad we
- won that one; I hope we win this one, too.
-
- Can you separate the economic issues from the personal freedom issues?
- I don't think so.
-
- >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.
-
- And I don't. The revolution's about responsibility as well as freedom
- (as you well know).
-
- >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.)
-
- Done.
-
-
- thomas rush compaq computer corporation
- thomasr@cpqhou.compaq.com their employee, not their opinions.
- By my belief that government should be minimized, I swear to oppose
- the unrequested intrusion of government into the lives of individuals
-