Whether alcohol is used by chefs isn't the point. People under the influence of alcohol commit crimes, too.
Posted on 12/14/2001 10:15:53 AM PST by Native American Female Vet
No longer 'Just Say No': Bush says quit drugs and fight terrorism
By Associated Press, 12/14/2001 13:52
WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said Friday that drug users aid terrorists who get their money from global trafficking in narcotics. ''If you quit drugs, you join the fight against terrorism,'' he said.
Bush offered a new argument in the fight against drugs while signing a bill to expand a federal anti-drug program over the next five years.
''Drug abuse threatens everything, everything that is best about our country,'' he said. ''It breaks the bond between parent and child. It turns productive citizens into addicts. It transforms schools into places of violence and chaos. It makes playgrounds into crime scenes. It supports gangs at home.''
''And abroad, it's important for Americans to know that trafficking of drugs finances the world of terror, sustaining terrorists,'' the president said. The administration has linked the al-Qaida network in Afghanistan to heroin trafficking. The terrorist group, led by Osama bin Laden, is suspected in the Sept. 11 attacks on America.
The bill signed by Bush expands the Drug-Free Communities Support Program, which helps community groups reduce illegal drugs. The program's budget is about $50 million, and would almost double in five years under the bill.
''Over time, drugs rob men, women and children of their dignity and of their character,'' Bush said.
''Illegal drugs are the enemies of ambition and hope and when we fight against drugs we fight for the souls of our fellow Americans.''
Hundreds of thousands of times every year, the gov't. destroys the lives of hard-working, tax-paying recreational drug users, robbing them of their property, their liberty and sometimes their life.
'Our' gov't has been fighting a declared, brutal war against a large percentage of us for many years. Heck, if the taliban was exclusively targeting the gov't, I'd be pulling for THEM!
Whether alcohol is used by chefs isn't the point. People under the influence of alcohol commit crimes, too.
For now, you can say the same thing for tobacco, but not for long. Along with prohibition, artificially inflating the cost of a product via outrageously high taxes also will create a black market. With the price of a pack of cigs approaching $5 a pack for a product that costs less than 10% of that to produce, how long before we see 'dealers' dealing tobacco?
Why not? They fund terrorists with tax money taken from them at gunpoint. At least their drug use is voluntary, and most get some pleasure from it.
Marijuana is the fuse, LSD is the bomb.
It was also founded as a Republic, as in representative government. We elect representatives to represent the will of the people. And the people means all of the people and not just a small minority.
The individual has rights as long as those rights do not interfere with the rights of others. A society is built of many individuals, not just one person.
That is like pedophiles saying the War on Pedophilia is destroying the Right of Free Speech.
Dead, I don't debate Libertoids.
What a cutesy wootsy name! Did you make that up?
The LP is a lost cause, not because I say so, but because it's an obvious fact born out by the evidence.
What evidence?
The evidence that I said so!
Give it up! Ron Paul has!
I’m a registered Republican and have been my whole life. And unlike drug warriors like yourself, I value the constitution, support individual liberty, and want to shrink the power and influence of the federal government in everybody’s lives.
You may wonder why I remain a Republican. I often wonder the same thing myself.
They won't like that. You will be a disruptor, an instigator of hate and disharmony, a nazi, and just a plain wierd person. You know, its worth it to rattle their chains.
That was an erudite response, if I've ever heard one.
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