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To: Hugin

People who are on psychoactive drugs are easy to control. This thread is about legalization, not illegalization.

Perhaps that will clear it up.

On your point:

” Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against... We’re after power and we mean it... There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt. Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.

—Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged


64 posted on 03/14/2019 3:38:42 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: American in Israel

My real life experience contradicts your theory.


65 posted on 03/14/2019 3:45:23 PM PDT by Hugin ("Not one step from his weapons should a traveler take"...Havamal 38)
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To: American in Israel
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them.

Sounds like a pro-legalization statement to me.

66 posted on 03/14/2019 3:54:21 PM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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