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The drug war vs. the war on terror
Chicago Tribune ^ | December 13, 2001 | Steve Chapman

Posted on 12/13/2001 3:32:50 AM PST by CrossCheck

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:47 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Twodees
He also had time to stop citizens in Oregon from getting a doctors help to die with dignity.

Try to figure why the feds have jurisdiction in a case like that. - Boggles the mind.

41 posted on 12/13/2001 4:54:15 AM PST by tpaine
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To: Wolfie
Not interested in heroin, free or otherwise, and I can smoke all the weed I want right here in the good ol' USA.

But Wolfie, this country only belongs to Dane and people who think like him. How dare you think you have rights!

43 posted on 12/13/2001 5:00:38 AM PST by FreeTally
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To: FreeTally
But Wolfie, this country only belongs to Dane and people who think like him. How dare you think you have rights!

Yeah, how dare anybody think it is their right to live in a low crime drug free enviroment.

44 posted on 12/13/2001 5:09:36 AM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
Ahh, the Neo-Puritans.

What's it like being from the same culture that produces a ban on Santa Claus and indoor smoking?

In your reading of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (if you lower yourself to even consider a humanist's Noel experience) is Ole Fezziwig the antagonist in your eyes?

45 posted on 12/13/2001 5:17:05 AM PST by JohnGalt
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To: Dane
Yeah, how dare anybody think it is their right to live in a low crime drug free enviroment.

You have that right, Dane - its called YOUR PRIVATE PROPERTY!! Get it?

46 posted on 12/13/2001 5:18:43 AM PST by FreeTally
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To: VA Advogado
I have no problem with Jack booted thugs when they're used against the right people. --VA Advogado
47 posted on 12/13/2001 5:23:36 AM PST by fod
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To: Dane
Yeah, how dare anybody think it is their right to live in a low crime drug free enviroment.

Thanks to Congresses use of createive semantics in interpreting the Commerce Clause, you don't have the "right" to live anywhere. The authority they claim to give them the power to wage the War on Drugs gives them the same power to wage a war on land owners, gun owners, home schoolers, or pea farmers.

48 posted on 12/13/2001 5:24:44 AM PST by tacticalogic
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To: JohnGalt
What's it like being from the same culture that produces a ban on Santa Claus and indoor smoking?

The old liberal trick of painting with the broad brush, I see. I think that Montgomery County, Maryland is a nut house, but you go right ahead and put Santa Claus on the same moral plane as marijuana, crack, and heroin.

49 posted on 12/13/2001 5:25:54 AM PST by Dane
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To: tacticalogic
The authority they claim to give them the power to wage the War on Drugs gives them the same power to wage a war on land owners, gun owners, home schoolers, or pea farmers,

You also are a person who puts drugs users on the same moral plane as land owners, firearms owners, home schoolers, and pea farmers.

Sheesh you Libertarians will insult anyone to justify the use of drugs. That's why you all are at 0.5%.

51 posted on 12/13/2001 5:30:12 AM PST by Dane
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To: malador
You're expecting to much of these people, expecting them to understand human nature and historical precedent.
52 posted on 12/13/2001 5:31:02 AM PST by Dakmar
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To: VA Advogado
Cokeheads and dope smokers, whatever their shortcomings, don't have that mission.

That's right, they don't want to kill us all, they just want a steady harvest of our car stereos and wallets and our teenagers money. Other than that they are really decent people.

53 posted on 12/13/2001 5:33:26 AM PST by biblewonk
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To: Dane
I'm a land owner, firearms owner, and occasional pea farmer and pot smoker, so I guess there is a bit of equivalence.
54 posted on 12/13/2001 5:33:44 AM PST by Dakmar
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To: biblewonk
I've never stolen anything in my life and woludn't start just because they legalized marijuana. Do you folks actually think about what you're saying, or does it just all come out by rote?
55 posted on 12/13/2001 5:36:06 AM PST by Dakmar
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To: Dakmar
I'm a land owner, firearms owner, and occasional pea farmer and pot smoker, so I guess there is a bit of equivalence.

I guess you are an "occasional" pea farmer because you are to busy making "munchy runs" and laughing at your hand after toking on the bong all day.

56 posted on 12/13/2001 5:37:20 AM PST by Dane
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To: Dane
Hmm, Rudolph Guiliani got the pot smokers and crackheads off the streets and crime plummeted in New York City.

He did? Really? So now it's not possible for any kid in NY schools to get cannabis or Koke? Or any member of the NY prison system to get the same? Maybe he got 'em "oof the street" but the trade just moved inside.

What are you smoking?

57 posted on 12/13/2001 5:38:05 AM PST by William Terrell
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To: VA Advogado
The main reason the drug business was so profitable for the Taliban is that it's illegal: Prices are always higher in black markets than in legal ones.

I'd be interested in your take on this statement. True,false?

58 posted on 12/13/2001 5:41:01 AM PST by William Terrell
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To: Dane
Sure you are from the Conservative end of the Neo-Puritans; I don't deny you that. Or perhaps, you are on the Left of the Fundamentalist side, tolerating Santa, but certainly not whatever your neighbor chooses to injest. Perhaps you are a moderate centrist, turned off by the 'extremes' of the particular culture that you come from.

But I was asking a question about what it was like...apologies, perhaps that was too open ended. How bout: what toxins are 'okay' for ingestion, what is not okay?

If you can tolerate Santa, than I figure your fixation is in ingested substances-- correct me if I'm wrong.

59 posted on 12/13/2001 5:42:58 AM PST by JohnGalt
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To: William Terrell
He did? Really? So now it's not possible for any kid in NY schools to get cannabis or Koke? Or any member of the NY prison system to get the same? Maybe he got 'em "oof the street" but the trade just moved inside.

What are you smoking?

Yawn Billy. Anybody who has lived in the city in the last eight years will tell it has improved 1000% in Guiliani's administration.

I know that you have to ignore the fact that Guiliani's tactics of taking your precious potheads and crackheads off the street was a major factor in the transformation of NYC, but what else is new when arguing with a Libertarian.

60 posted on 12/13/2001 5:44:00 AM PST by Dane
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