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To: Hacksaw
Support of keeping drugs illegal does not make one a liberal.

There are reasonable conservative arguments in favor of keeping drugs illegal (not that you've made any). But your liberal tendencies are indicated by your statements that those who oppose government involvement in drugs lack morality and compassion. This is precisely equivalent to the inane liberal accusations that conservatives are greedy and selfish because they oppose bloated welfare programs.

I would suspect that the Drug Advocates, allied with socialists and the Mumias, are a bit to the left.

Yeah, those pesky leftists like William Buckley, Walter Williams, Milton Friedman, and the Cato Institute. Thank God we have good conservatives like Bill Clinton who broke the record for number of nonviolent drug offenders imprisoned.

90 posted on 01/25/2003 10:32:40 AM PST by ThinkDifferent
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To: ThinkDifferent
Yeah, those pesky leftists like William Buckley, Walter Williams, Milton Friedman, and the Cato Institute. Thank God we have good conservatives like Bill Clinton who broke the record for number of nonviolent drug offenders imprisoned.

I have not seen any of these people write articles on how weed makes one a better driver. They write about drugs as a freedom issue, not of how wonderful they are, like many on this forum. I disagree with them.

And again, the pro drug crowd are much more closely allied with the liberals than I am. Nations like Canada, cities like Copenhagen and Amsterdam, and states like California are not exactly conservative areas. Yet - in true "doublethink" fashion, this is dismissed. It is a classical example of projection.

As for you statement that I do not make arguments in favor of keeping drugs illegal - detailing the societal and personal damage they do, I have in the past, and they were summarily ignored. Why should I bother now? My concern now is the Orwellianism among a large part of the legalize crowd.

What is actually funny is when the pro drug crowd calls an opponent a liberal and a Nazi in the same post. Saturday Night Live material.

102 posted on 01/26/2003 6:58:45 AM PST by Hacksaw
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