Socialist Candidate Leads Bolivia Voting

Associated Press ^ | 19 December, 2005 | FIONA SMITH

[eleni121]

It's time to take on the responsibility of cutting demand here at home rather than relying on military action abroad.
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Both actions are needed. A deliberate state policy of coca production anywhere reveals a strategy of aggression against this nation.

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Can you imagine France fire bombing a Monsanto field in the U.S. because they do not want our G.M. foods?
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Monsanto products are not illegal in France. If and when they became so and if and when our govt. intended to illegally export these products into France, contravening French state policy, I would support more aggressive action even firebombing. As this is highly unlikely, your analogy falls flat.

[Liberty Valance]

On Sunday, Morales, 46, an Aymara Indian and former coca farmer who also promises to roll back American-prescribed economic changes, garnered up to 51 percent of the vote, according to televised quick-count polls, which tally a sample of votes at polling places and are considered highly accurate...

hmmmmmm.
All hail the coca gods? We've all seen the marvelous way coca production has made Columbia a beacon of democracy...maybe Bolivia can be just as ...as.....fun!

[eleni121]

If only these psycho types like Morales didn't last long...then again they've got support from their left wing whackos all over the world including right here.

Yeah...post Cold war...new world order...hasn't turned out that way.

[drjimmy]

We need to take this guy out quick. To those bleeding hearts who may disagree with me; good for you. I make no apologies.

Yup. Screw that "Democracy on the March" crap!

[The Old Hoosier]

Hate to break it to you but shifting personal responsibility from the one choosing to use (us as a nation) it to the producer (them as a nation) is the liberal point of view.

Oh yeah? Tell that to the next person shot or stabbed by some junkie who is high from smoking crack made from Bolivian cocaine. Tell that to those of us who get accosted by drugged-out beggars every day.

[ndt]

"Oh yeah? Tell that to the next person shot or stabbed by some junkie who is high from smoking crack made from Bolivian cocaine. Tell that to those of us who get accosted by drugged-out beggars every day."

With a U.S. made gun no doubt. Are you suggesting we close down gun manufacturing too? You seem to be all for lack of personal responsibility, so why not. Yes, this is sarcasm.

I'm not saying that we should legalize cocaine nor that we should stop trying to limit importation. I am saying that our current approach to minimizing the damage from drugs does not work, as should be evident by the fact we spend billions of dollars and you're still afraid of being gunned or stabbed by a crack head.

I do believe in a prevention and treatment vs. incarceration and military incursions method of dealing with it. So if you want to criticize that great we can continue.

P.S. Cocaine and cocaine manufacture is STILL illegal in Bolivia. It is just traditional use of coca that he is legitimizing the production of.

[The Old Hoosier]

You seem to be all for lack of personal responsibility

No, I'm all for not endangering the public, that's part of why governments exist. I don't care whose responsibility it is, I want people who act like rabid animals, slaves to dangerous, mind-altering addictions, to be locked up and far away from me and my family.

I can't see what you're talking about in terms of responsibility, unless you are implying that it's my responsibility if one of these people kills me.