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To: MarkL
Actually, it often seems that the laws against "victimless crimes" actually create more "victims" than they proport to protect.

Hmmm. I know that people who commit, crimes create victims. Tell me how a law against the selling of psychoactive, highly addictive drugs creates victims?

321 posted on 07/05/2005 6:09:16 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: FreeReign
Hmmm. I know that people who commit, crimes create victims. Tell me how a law against the selling of psychoactive, highly addictive drugs creates victims?

Do you mean "highly addictive" drugs like marijuana, or highly addictive drugs like alcohol, nicotine, and caffeine?

And there's an entire thread about how these laws create victims. Thanks to drug prohibition, we have violent turf wars where innocent bystanders get gunned down in the streets. Thanks to drug prohibition, every single one of us has seen his Fourth Amendment right to be free of unreasonable search and seizure eroded to the point of nothingness. Thanks to drug prohibition, people die because violent criminals have to be released early to make room in the prisons for drug offenders. Is that enough victimization for you, or shall I go on?

328 posted on 07/05/2005 6:29:34 PM PDT by Politicalities (http://www.politicalities.com)
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