Posted on 11/22/2001 10:26:32 AM PST by runningbear
EUROPE-WIDE ALARM FOR HEROIN CUT WITH ANTHRAX
According to a report broadcast by "Cadena Ser," a private Spanish radio station, laboratory analysts of Europol issued a warning to all drug squads in Europe, alerting the police to the arrival of heroin cut with anthrax, originating from Afghanistan. Traces of anthrax were found in the body of a Norwegian drug addict, who died of an overdose.
Indeed. Why would they kill their own supporters. Dopers and lefties are two over-lapping, almost identical sets of people.
Also, seriously, would they kill their CUSTOMERS for the drug trade?
So that's why Harry Brown's been in such a tizzy as of late....
Yes, some can be rehabbed, although the recividism rate is sky high. The number who get clean and stay clean is correspondingly low. The number who go back to the drugS and die of infection, hepatitis, pancreatitis, pneumonia , malnutrition, accidents, overdose or by violent means also are too dead to get with the rehab program. May I point out to you that their deaths are deaths that they themselves chose to pursue?
Second, the arguments you make regarding heroin use could also be used to describe alcoholics. Would murdering them be equally morally acceptable?
Yours is a straw man argument. Did I say that putting anthrax in heroin was morally acceptable? No, I did not, and I challenge you to show me where I wrote that. I wrote that it was morally unacceptable to put anthrax into heroin; but it is also morally unacceptable to put heroin into your body.
And yes, the argument can certainly be made that alcoholics are as much addicts as heroin users. Any honest alcoholic will tell you that. Of course there are profound differences between these two substances. One is legal and one is not. One is regulated and quality controlled and the other is not. One is far more addictive on the first exposure than the other. One is more incapacitating than the other for many many reasons - because dosage and purity are so difficult to control, because route of administration changes potency of the dose, because CNS effects are variable from batch to batch, because of the immediate action of injected drugs vs ingested drugs, because the substances themselves have different pharmalogical effects. One causes respiratory depression almost immediately; the other does not, for instance. I could go on, but I think you get my drift. It's a bit disingenuous to compare these two substances, IMO. What they have in common is that folks can get addicted to either of them. Of course, folks can get addicted to other things as well - credit cards, food, cigarettes, money, even air. Do you want to throw those in, too?
Finally, not all users are addicts. There is always that first time use - generally at a fairly young age. Here's a real fact - kids do stupid things. Maybe that first time is a youthful (though very dumb) lark, or peer pressure at a party, etc. After that first time, some will eventually become addicts. Others will choose never to try it again. Death precludes that choice. What parent are you willing to look in the face, and tell that their child deserved to die from a horrible disease because in one moment of curiosity and really bad judgment they chose to murder themselves anyway?
You know, I live in a place that had a really bad problem with high schoolers dying from taking chiva. I mean a REALLY BAD PROBLEM. The youngest one to die was sixteen, I believe. She died from aspirating her own stomach contents after taking chiva by mouth. She took the pill, it knocked her out and made her nauseous, she threw up while sedated, and choked to death on her own vomitus. She was a first time user. Are you prepared to look her mother in the eye and tell her it was just a moment of youthful curiosity? I'm not. What I am prepared to say is that drugs are a terrible scourge, that we should do all in our power to cleanse our country of them, that they pose a health risk to anyone who comes in contact with them, even once, and that ANY user of these things is assuming much, too much, risk when they indulge. If the dope is cut with drain cleaner, baby laxative, antihistamines, rat poison or anthrax, that is a risk that any drug user assumes each and every time they use. One more risk, right up there with AIDS and hepatitis. Sounds like a great argument to stay off drugs, huh? If people do it anyway, that's a risk they evidently are willing to take. They choose their own deaths, and that is a simple fact. No one is holding a gun to their head and making them do it.
Geez. Guess what? Addicts don't live in a vacuum. They share needles. They have unprotected sex. They spit on the ground. They get into violent situations, they rob people to support their habits, they have regular contact with slimeball dealers. When they are shot up or OD'd, they go to the hospital and expose all the hospital workers to their body fluids. They have children and pass on their diseases (if the kid is lucky enough to survive birth.) In fact, lots of innocent people anywhere near an addict are at high risk for getting the big hurt. When you think about all of that, is it still okey-dokey to use?
BTW, Murder of your fellow citizens by Anthrax poisoning: for or against?
Why wait or bother, the WOD saints might become infected, just go out and start killing them with your gun, knike, car, whatever, can't have those friggin' marijuana smokers living around here, now go to it black&blue!
So you support Terrorists murdering some of your fellow citizens with Anthrax. Wow! Drug Warriors usually just want to imprison them. Perhaps you should petition your government to simply put Anthrax in every bit of drugs they seize and then redistribute it amongst the "idiots".
Sorry to be so "self-righteous " about it, but hey, some of us just don't support murdering dug users. I guess I just don't have the strength of character you possess.
If someone put Anthrax into the American alcohol supply, not one of you "who cares if junkies die" advocates would take the postion that alcohol drinkers are simply getting what they deserve for making poor choices. You'd scream "Murder" from the rooftops and demand that Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Sudan, etc., be nuked wholesale! Why? What's the difference?
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