[Storm Orphan]

Reason bump.

[Storm Orphan]

Okay... so the Drug War has been such a success that most people don't even know what marijuana
looks like, so we should apply this same winning, liberty-enhancing strategy to fighting terrorism.

go back into my bomb shelter now to hide. this is really scary.

[js1138]

The war on drugs doesn't work because a significant minority of people want drugs and will do anything to get them. Last time I looked there were few voluntary consumers for exploding jet fuel.

[BenR2]

As an evangelical-fundy type, I must say that Ashcroft DEEPLY disappoints in this matter.

Apparently he has learned nothing in his long public service career about the lunacy of calling for FedGov trampling of our freedoms in order to defend them.

[Roy Tucker]

Good article and I think most people are concerned about the permanence of a cabinet position of Homeland Defense. I hope it disappears when the terrorist threat abates. I do doubt it. A legitimate function of any state is to protect its citzenry from attack from outside. I believe we should be on a war-time footing and our enemies have no rights in our country. If these people arrested are found guilty of aiding and abetting the terrorists they should be executed as spies and their property siezed.

[annalex]

Misguided indeed. "Stupid" is another term that comes to mind.

Reasonable people see no offense to others in doing drugs. No reasonable person would dispute the offense of a terrorist act.

Normal people respond to the temptation of pleasure, that drugs offer. Most resist the temptation, but it is there, hence drugs are so difficult to eradicate. No normal person sees the attraction of killing human beings.

The drug lords would gladly leave you alone unless you are a customer. The reasong of being of a terrorist is not to leave you alone.

I don't have any reason to question Mr. Ashcroft's innate mental prowess. We have to conclude that proximity to power does something to human intelligence, worse than cocain.