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To: Teacher317
You seem to be indicating that it is the job of government to regulate, criminalize, or control almost any inanimate object that could injure the user when it is used or abused. Many here disagree, wanting the government to have as little to do with our daily lives as possible.

No. What I am saying is legalizing drugs will only get more people killed. You think it is bad dealing with drunk drivers? Try someone plowing into a school bus filled with kids because they could not miss their morning dose of LSD.

What I am saying is I have had it up to here with people that are of the opinion the "war on drugs" is not winnable, so we should just surrender and give up. That is just like saying instead of trying harder to protect our borders (like by placing a military presence there), we should just give in and let everybody come completely freely (never mind the higher crime rate and the people flying planes into heavily populated buildings). Or perhaps deciding at Normandy Beach we were not going to take the Nazis, so we should throw up the white flag (of course, none of us would have been born).

That is not merely completely f*cking crazy, that is unbelievably f*cking stupid.

64 posted on 12/05/2002 3:42:15 PM PST by Houmatt
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To: Houmatt
What I am saying is I have had it up to here with people that are of the opinion the "war on drugs" is not winnable, so we should just surrender and give up.

The problem is not that it is not winnable (although it isn't... you can't legislate a preference, no matter how many liberals wish we could). The problem is the extra-Constitutional methods that are being created to fight it. These will almost certainly be expanded, and eventually used in other law enforcement efforts.

69 posted on 12/05/2002 4:15:16 PM PST by Teacher317
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