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To: robertpaulsen

No, the author is suggesting that the drug war isn’t about “protecting” people at all - it’s about increasing the power of the state.

Free man will sometimes make bad choices. Those may be tragic, but that does not mean the state has a right to make choices for everyone.

10 posted on 10/05/2007 7:45:29 AM PDT by highball ("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)

To: highball

"Free man will sometimes make bad choices. Those may be tragic, but that does not mean the state has a right to make choices for everyone."

I hope you wore your kevlar today...and a spittle shield. Common sense and WOD threads do not mix.

14 posted on 10/05/2007 7:57:23 AM PDT by sweet_diane (Turn off the radio and get back to work Senator Reid.)

To: highball

"it’s about increasing the power of the state."

If true, it's a lousy way to do it. If people stopped doing recreational drugs, the state would have no power.

15 posted on 10/05/2007 7:58:20 AM PDT by robertpaulsen

To: highball; All

My own beef with Reagan is that he increased the Government with the War on Drugs...

231 posted on 10/07/2007 11:06:04 AM PDT by KevinDavis (Mitt Romney 08)

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