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To: Wolfie
I still vote for the recreational use of narcotics to remain illegal.

If twisted liberals ask questions in convoluted ways, they'll always get the answers they're looking for and percentages that appear to support their positions. How many times do we have to witness their spin techniques? Yeah, and 60% of the U.S. electorate wanted Gore.

Would everyone in the USA that wants to cede their way of life to a bad decision made by the stoned voters among the 20 million, or so, citizens of Belgium and the Netherlands please light up? That's insane. No?

What lesson do we really learn from this? If we don't prosecute drug offenders and, at least, revoke their right to vote, all of our elections will be decided by a bunch of addicts. Just like in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The drug culture has succeeded in making addicts out of enough of the populations of Belgium and the Netherlands to win elections. That's insidious. No?

They're trying to do the same thing here!

Our Forefathers ran away from the insanity that was Europe. Now, 500+ years later, the liberal drug addicts want us to emulate their drug policies. Ridiculous. No?

Bush should move to militarize the borders, immediately, then get to work eradicating the U.S. of it's domestic, illegal narcotics producers.

We're at war with the smugglers and our military should be authorized to win this war at our borders.

5 posted on 01/08/2002 5:24:54 AM PST by 4Freedom
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To: 4Freedom
Care to provide documentaion of the addiction rate of Belgium and the Netherlands?
6 posted on 01/08/2002 5:32:34 AM PST by Wolfie
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To: 4Freedom
What a riot - your philosophy contradicts your FR name. You are for freedom only when it suits you.
7 posted on 01/08/2002 5:38:19 AM PST by corkoman
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To: 4Freedom
If twisted liberals ask questions in convoluted ways, they'll always get the answers they're looking for and percentages that appear to support their positions. How many times do we have to witness their spin techniques? Yeah, and 60% of the U.S. electorate wanted Gore.

Would everyone in the USA that wants to cede their way of life to a bad decision made by the stoned voters among the 20 million, or so, citizens of Belgium and the Netherlands please light up? That's insane. No?

What lesson do we really learn from this? If we don't prosecute drug offenders and, at least, revoke their right to vote, all of our elections will be decided by a bunch of addicts. Just like in Belgium and the Netherlands.

The drug culture has succeeded in making addicts out of enough of the populations of Belgium and the Netherlands to win elections. That's insidious. No?

Asking questions in convoluted ways may be the domain of the twisted, but it is not exclusive to liberals.

8 posted on 01/08/2002 5:44:07 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: 4Freedom
The drug culture has succeeded in making addicts out of enough of the populations of Belgium and the Netherlands to win elections. That's insidious. No?

Considering they have less addicts per capita than we do, your ramblings make less sense than usual....

34 posted on 01/08/2002 7:24:26 AM PST by Nate505
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To: 4Freedom
Your screen name and the views you post on these threads are 100% opposite. Perhaps you should consider 4SomeFreedom or 4LimitedFreedom or 4StateControlofBodies. Your current moniker doesn't fit.
37 posted on 01/08/2002 7:29:36 AM PST by jimt
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To: 4Freedom
We're at war with the smugglers and our military should be authorized to win this war at our borders.

But what fun is that, when it's much more necessary for local police departments to confiscate drug money for their own budgetary requirements?

Small matter that the possibility exists that occasionally they accidentally stage no-knock raids on the wrong house, and occasionally kill the wrong people.

And if you tick off somebody who'd like to get even by passing false information to your local police department, you might even be next on their list.

Nahhh, that could never happen, could it...?

51 posted on 01/08/2002 8:12:17 AM PST by CubicleGuy
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To: 4Freedom
I can assume your screenname refers only to WASP boozehounds...
63 posted on 01/08/2002 9:03:00 AM PST by fod
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To: 4Freedom
One need be neither a Euro-socialist nor libertarian to think, quite sensibly, that the government has no real business telling people they cannot wreck their lives. Seat belt laws, helmet laws, ridiculously low speed limits, and anti-smoking laws all assume that the state has the right to tell Joe Citizen, "You cannot make bad choices." It's like making suicide a prosecutable crime. I happen to live with three very genial stoners who pose little or no threat to society at large. Indeed, one has a MA in Journalism (though he's working as a restaraunt shift manager since he doesn't want to have to pee in a cup wherever he works), the other has just finished his BA in political science and is now looking for work, while the third works a solid forty hour week. All of these men are hard workers, decent room-mates, and no real threat to the social fabric that I can see (well, except for the fact that they voted for Gore and Nader).

This is not to deny that certain folks can be turned into shiftless layabouts due to the stuff, but a bad alcohol habit can turn a man into a layabout who lives only for his next binge as well. We tried illegalizing alcohol and the treatment was worse than the sickness. The thing to remember is that its just bad policy to have a government telling people what they can't do with their own brains. The whole point of conservatism is that of personal responsibility, not a government nanny looking out for you. Well, as long as I'm at it, let me continue. The reason certain intoxicants are sold by decidedly unsavory characters is because it is illegal, which automatically precludes decent people from growing, manufacturing, etc. Drugs are used and sold by criminals because that's what our laws have necessitated.

72 posted on 01/08/2002 11:48:06 AM PST by AndrewSshi
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