[LloydofDSS]

>>Most members seemed more interested in drug legalization and less interested in talking about Hayek etc.<<

In my case, the reason I am drawn to drug legalization as a primary focus of my passion is because 600,000 Americans are sitting in jail right now for doing something which did not violate anyones rights in any way. I can relate to the passion felt by anti-slavery activists in 1830-1860, and the passion felt by those who tried to stop Hitler from slaughtering millions of Jews. I realize those cases were much more severe than the shameful way we are treating our fellow Americans today, but this is the reason I am motivated to speak out year after year on the issue of drug legalization.

[nopardons]

That's one of the most misplaced emotions / confused / erronious filled I think that I have ever seen here.

For starters, a great many people, jailed on drug charges, are there because they copped a plea to a lesser charge. They have done something egregiously horrid, but like Al Capon, it was the lesser charge that put them away and/or their lawyer set up the plea bargin. Then, you are assuming that those peoeple are first or even second time offenders. That's incorrect. Your emotional, irrational " reasoning " about this, doesn't match up with your equating slavery and the Holochaust ( or were you only talking about discrimination, here in America, against the Jews ? ) at all. Those thrown into jail, on drug charges, did it to themselves. THEY BROKE THE LAW ! Salvery is now to be equated with " driving while black " ? Being Jewish is akin to being whacked out on some illegal substance now ?

Please spare us all your imagined " righteousness " about dopers and slavery and Jewish murders.