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To: conservativecorner

"As long as they want felons to vote and legalizing recreational drugs in this country, they can sure as hell count me out."

That makes you a big government supporter. The "war on drugs" has eroded the 4th Amendment, lead to rampant government spending, and limits personal liberty. Moreover, the black market in drugs leads to a spike in real crime associated with that market. If people want to get high, just let them. Do you want to ban alcohol next? Alcohol is a recreational drug, so I guess you want to interfere with my 23rd Amendment rights? You are anti-constitution!

My guess is you lack sufficient faith in yourself to not do drugs, so you want the government to play daddy.


13 posted on 02/24/2005 6:48:11 AM PST by New Orleans Slim
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To: New Orleans Slim
"That makes you a big government supporter. My guess is you lack sufficient faith in yourself to not do drugs, so you want the government to play daddy."

That makes you a kook. Disagreements on drug policy are expected. But immediately flailing into such exaggerations and personal accusations with so little evidence is absurd. It’s a sign of immaturity at best or perhaps emotional problems. Either way, it’s counter productive to promoting your beliefs.

39 posted on 02/24/2005 7:08:13 AM PST by elfman2
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To: New Orleans Slim
That makes you a big government supporter. The "war on drugs" has eroded the 4th Amendment, lead to rampant government spending, and limits personal liberty. Moreover, the black market in drugs leads to a spike in real crime associated with that market. If people want to get high, just let them. Do you want to ban alcohol next? Alcohol is a recreational drug, so I guess you want to interfere with my 23rd Amendment rights? You are anti-constitution!

Robert Bork calls this position radical Individualism and rightly calls it a rot on true liberty. Read Slouching Toward Gomorra.

91 posted on 02/24/2005 8:27:12 AM PST by frgoff
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To: New Orleans Slim
My guess is you lack sufficient faith in yourself to not do drugs, so you want the government to play daddy.

A lot of weird people like that.

My friend's mother (a lifelong pro-life Republican), thought seatbelts were a good idea -- but she never used them. She did, however, support a seatbelt law, because she needed that "incentive" to wear seatbelts. She wanted to wear them, but wouldn't until it was the law, so she hoped the law would pass soon.

Like I said, weird.

246 posted on 02/25/2005 11:15:20 PM PST by Commie Basher
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