Posted on 07/17/2003 6:46:28 AM PDT by coloradan
The illegal drug trade has established thousands of underground people to serve as distributors of illicit substances, which people by the millions, lacking any knowledge, other than the assurances of criminals, about the exact contents of what they are ingesting, knowinginly inhale and inject into their bodies.
The caves of Afghanistan were found to contain heroin, as well as weapons and other customary tools of terrorists. America also supported the Taliban's efforts of drug eradication.
Suppose some shipments of drugs were assembled that had been spiked with anthrax or smallpox or other bioweapon.
Some of these would be intercepted, but likely much would not be - given the present price and consumption of drugs today. Some would certainly make it through and be consumed, especially in inner cities with high population density. This is the ideal point for introduction of contagious disease, and such an attack would nearly simultaneouly hit many major cities at once.
The Drug Warriors ensure that reputable, accountable companies with quality control procedures and inventory control are prohibited from manufacturing these drugs; they are banned for the children, for the addict's own good, etc.
But this leaves a giant opening of attack for a terrorist operation: the War On (some) Drugs produces a clandestine distribution network filled with people who already are well-trained (or, selected) to avoid law enforcement and who may also avoid seeking medical treatment for fear of getting busted.
The ability to spike a product that many people willingingly sniff or inject without knowing what, exactly it is, represents a huge security risk that may outweigh the present drug prohibition, and there are already proven links between drugs and terrorists as it is.
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To the Drug Warriors, of course it is, anything to ensure that next govt. teat, er, I mean check, gets deposited.
The Drug Warriors should adopt the motto 'A steady paycheck at all costs!!'
You have GOT to be kidding me!
There are terrorists who when planting a bomb get blown up by their own infernal machine. We have said that bomb-making on the kitchen table is illegal, but some do it none the less, and get hurt in the process. Supposedly we need to legalize bomb-making, and have trained staff hold their hands so that they don't hurt themselves in the process, all in a socialist harm-reduction scheme, of course.
Let's make poetic justice illegal!
Stop the presses! People who do things they shouldn't be doing, who do things which God says not to do, are getting hurt!
The moral-liberal's motto: "Allow me to be irresponsible, and I'll allow you all to pay for the consequences of my irresponsibility."
On the contrary, "Disallow me from facing the direct consequences of my own irresponsibility, and thereby create a terrorist opportunity like none before."
And wasn't it posted on this board where Canada is opening up these "Compassion Centers Centres" where drug addicts can safely inject heroin with clean needles and under medical supervision?
Oh yeah, let's hope this idea catches on in the U.S. Next they'll be supplying the heroin (known content vs. impure "street" heroin), and will even provide it free to those who cannot afford it (ala the Swiss study, 1994-97).
I suppose these same people were the ones who told us that the way to deal with out-of-wedlock teen pregnancy was to provide the mothers with free health care, free housing, free food, free baby formula, and a monthly welfare check. That worked so well, let's do the same for drug users.
So you're suggesting that they would intentionally forego billions of dollars in drug profits in exchange for tainting the supply and killing off their source of revenue?
Did you come up with this idea while you were on drugs? Sounds like it.
Anthrax contagious? What?
Drug dealers don't care if a user of their product dies, there will always be another to take their place. And the billions on profits you mention is because of the WOD.
In Los Angeles the leftists on the city council (in other words, the city council) has a program to distribute "free" needles to the junkies.
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