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To: southern rock
What all the pro-WOD posters always ignore is that anyone that wants to take an illegal drug can do so at anytime they want to, even if they are incarcerated in prison. So the WOD does absolutely nothing to prevent the use of illegal drugs or the creation of addicts. What it does do is drive up the price of those drugs so that addicts must commit crimes, sometimes violent, to satisfy their habits, create a new economic elite composed of criminals that influence our judicial, legislative, and executive branches of government, make illegal drugs more accessible to minors, continually erode the constitutional rights of all Americans, turn otherwise honest cops into professional perjurers, create a self-perpetuating criminal justice bureaucracy that costs taxpayers trillions of dollars, introduces marijuana smokers to dealers in harder drugs, makes cocaine easier to obtain for children than alcohol, and causes pervasive disrespect for the men we should most respect in our communities--the police.

In short, how do you explain to your child who is faced with a lifelong felony conviction for doing something that the Governor of Florida and the last two Presidents of the United States have done why he will be treated differently than them.

I can find no logical basis for the position of those who continue to favor the WOD. Their refusal to abandon a position that on all logical counts is destroying this country as gravely as did slavery, and I make this charge not lightly, is beyond foolishness. It is beyond insanity. It is hatred, pure and simple, for what they see as an alternative culture. Blind, bloody, hatred, with no regard for the future of this nation.

585 posted on 12/31/2001 2:36:52 PM PST by stryker
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To: stryker
It is completely understandable if you look at it from the perspective of CONTROL. For that is what it's about. All of them understand there is no Constitutional basis for it, but they want to CONTROL the people of this country. They view government as a growth industry and the Constitution as a SUGGESTION. It's not about drugs and never really was. It has ALWAYS been about controlling one or another segment of the populace. Since Nixon, it's no longer segmented; they want control over ALL OF US and this is the pretext.
586 posted on 12/31/2001 2:55:19 PM PST by dcwusmc
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