XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, talk.politics.misc, alt.politics
XPost: alt.politics.usa
From: bliss@sfo.com
B Sellers wrote:
> M_P wrote:
>> On Oct 27, 6:06 pm, MagneticEnergy wrote:
And MagneticEnergy was the person I was replying to as I guess I have
him blocked directly, not to M_P who is a fine laborer in the Drug Law
Reform
field.
>>
>>> When there is no hope in a corrupt government people turn to drugs to
>>> escape the corruption? That would explain the rise in drug use in
>>> Mexico?
>>
>> What's with all the question marks? "That would explain ..." is a
>> statement, not a question.
>>
>>> Well then, under that argument, a war with Mexico to stamp out
>>> corruption would solve that issue?
>>
>> First we need to stamp out corruption in Chicago.
>>
>> I can't decide which is a sillier idea: a "war on corruption" or the
>> "war on drugs."
>>
>>> And who is asking that question,
>>> certainly not the press? And if the question is not asked, then that
>>> possibility will never be known?
>>>
>>> The alternative? Drug use removes the moral guilt for committing
>>> hideous crimes? Isn't that why we are at war in Iraq and Afghanistan,
>>> Islamic militants high on hash and heroine?
>>
>> They sell it ... but where's the evidence that they use it?
>>
>>> Do prisoners going to jail get drug tests? Or you don't want to know
>>> how many jail birds are idiot potheads?
>>
>> More of them are boozers, according to government statistics.
>>
>>> So, you want to legalize
>>> drugs? Who is going to supervise these people using recreational
>>> drugs to ensure control, and safety?
>>
>> Who supervises drinkers?
>>
>>> Will you control drugs by
>>> requiring people to go to bars to get high?
>>
>> Are people required to go to bars to get drunk? Or can they do it in
>> the safety of their own homes?
>>
>>> Gee, those are staffed by
>>> the brightest people, and people never get shot at bars?
>>>
>>> Any more bright ideas?
>>>
>>> At a time they want to reduce health care costs, they want to legalize
>>> recreational drugs that chemically remove people's sense of right and
>>> wrong?
>>
>> Have any evidence for this very suspicious claim?
>>
>>> You are kidding, right? Record high school drop out rates, with drugs
>>> being illegal will do what if you make them legal?
>>
>> Teens report that they can get marijuana more easily than beer or
>> cigarettes; it looks like the best way to keep a drug out of teen
>> hands is to make it legal for adults (so sellers have more to lose by
>> selling to minors than to adults).
>>
>>> That's what they
>>> want to do to high school drop outs, get them hooked on drugs so they
>>> don't notice the poverty? That's what free health care is really
>>> about?
>>>
>>> Every job should be paying $30K a year to prevent social problems
>>> that tease people into trying drugs?
>
> It isn't social problems that tease people into trying drugs but
> simply life itself and the legal drugs like alcohol and even tobacco,
> coffee and chocolate that tease people into trying illegal drugs.
> Lots of people learn that they cannot drink without harm to their
> health and try other ways of getting high.
> But the need to alter consciousness is built into mammals
> and most of them will eat fermented food. Elephants will do it
> as deliberately as human children will spin in circles to get
> dizzy(an alteration in consciousness).
>
> You sound like your dad is a DEA agent blowing smoke
> up you to sound good to himself and family.
>
later
bliss
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