[Orangedog]

…yet the thread is rapidly devolving into a WoD thread.

It's simply the biggest target and the longest running excuse for the government to infringe on our privacy and freedoms. Don't worry...if that mistake in governing is corrected we'll move on to opposing they next threat to freedom. Probably abolishing the department t of homeland security and taking away the department of education's SWAT teams.

[shego]

It's simply the biggest target and the longest running excuse for the government to infringe on our privacy and freedoms.

True, though the "War on Terror" is catching up (and is showing the Keystone Kop incompetence of the government in even sharper relief -- they spy on everything and can't find people they were specifically warned about).

[jboot]

In other words drugs are the most important thing to Libertarians, to be dwelt upon ad nauseum even in the face of looming national crisis.

Thank you for making my point.