Drugs and terrorism and insulting ads

Boston Globe ^ | 1/13/2003 | Cathy Young

[MrLeRoy]

IT WAS ONLY a matter of time: A new television ad campaign suggests that if you drive a sport -utility vehicle, you are helping terrorism by putting money in the pockets of oil-producing, terrorism-sponsoring countries like Saudi Arabia and Iraq. One of the commercials cuts from a man at a gas station to a map of the Middle East to video footage of a terrorist training camp, while a little girl's voice says, ''These are the terrorists who get money from those countries every time George fills up his SUV.''

[robertpaulsen]

Well, you certainly can't refer to morality anymore(who are you to judge me?). That leaves us with evil, cruel, callousness/disregard, mean-spiritedness, Nazi-like, etc.

If you disagree civilly, you are not to be taken seriously. Where's your passion?

[steve-b]

I will second that. Drug advocates like LeRoy try to imply that drugs other than alchohol and tobacco are not harmful (evidence: note how he _only_ refers to alcohol and tobacco as "deadly and addictive").

By this "logic", anyone who repeatedly refers to Clowntoon and Shrillary as "crooks" is denying that any other person in all of human history was a crook.

[robertpaulsen]

I re-read my post and it comes across the opposite of what I meant to say. I agree with your post. Removing morality as an argument forces issue advocates to go to extremes to make their case.

[steve-b]

I am laid off

If your former job required the ability to reason and argue logically, this was bound to happen sooner or later.

[MrLeRoy]

By this "logic", anyone who repeatedly refers to Clowntoon and Shrillary as "crooks" is denying that any other person in all of human history was a crook.

If logic was gasoline, Jackdaw (like most Drug Warriors) wouldn't have enough to drive a piss-ant's go-kart around the inside of a Cheerio.

[jmc813]

I know that you wouldn't rip the heads off cute little kittens, and you certainly wouldn't advocate others doing that, but do you think it should be legal?

Yes.

Leroy, call me a PETA wacko, but you and I are in 100% disagreement here. Do you not support any animal cruelty laws?

[MrLeRoy]

Do you not support any animal cruelty laws?

As loathsome a practice as animal torture is, I don't see any sustainable basis for granting animals rights, nor for making illegal any act that violates no rights. (If I knew an animal torturer lived in my community, I'd be more than happy to spearhead a campaign of organized condemnation and ostracism.)

[Hacksaw]

If your former job required the ability to reason and argue logically, this was bound to happen sooner or later.

Nope - my division was sold to a Scotland bank who has all their programmers in RI. And I still work for a living. Not like people who abuse their employers to spew propoganda.

[Protagoras]

Are you going to post the proof of your allegations against another freeper or withdraw your charges?

[philman_36]

I knew I should've added that /sarcasm...

[Hacksaw]

Are you going to post the proof of your allegations against another freeper or withdraw your charges

Posting history is proof. Feel free to do your worst.

[Protagoras]

You lose, you accused, you can't deliver. You won't go through all the posts to prove what you said, but you expect others to do it. What a load of crap.

You lied. Feel free to refute it with proof.

[MrLeRoy]

You won't go through all the posts to prove what you said, but you expect others to do it.

Jackdaw is a lying, lazy coward.

[Hacksaw]

Jackdaw is a lying, lazy coward.

Eat it, buddy. Stay away from children.

[Hacksaw]

You lose, you accused, you can't deliver. You won't go through all the posts to prove what you said, but you expect others to do it. What a load of crap. You lied. Feel free to refute it with proof.

That is exactly right pops - I will no longer do your homework for you. Self searching on posts is quite easy. Parasite.

[Protagoras]

You made the charge, it's yours to prove. You can't because you lied. Scumbag

[Hacksaw]

You made the charge, it's yours to prove. You can't because you lied. Scumbag

Nope. All you have to do is a self search. I am not doing homework for any more of the parasites (Libertarians) on this forum. You people only lie to yourselves.

[lonewacko_dot_com]

"Legal domestic production would mean zero profit for thugs around the globe."

Not entirely. What about the countries where drugs are still illegal? What about the teenage drug user market? What about really bad drugs, like PCP?

Unless you made all drugs legal for all people, there'd be some sort of market for illegal drugs.

[Protagoras]

Self search? Now you are saying I advocated it?

After today, this nonsense will stop. Tonight you have a pass you little POS, but tomorrow, if you pull this crap again, management will be notified and the game will be up. Now crawl back into your hole you POS.

[thepitts]

Dane is that you?