Arab terrorists use Drug money to fund Terrorism

World Tribune.com ^ | Friday, July 26, 2002 | GEOSTRATEGY-DIRECT

[breakem]

Commodity issue: first of all your scenario is more tolerable than the wod and still easier on the economy. Secondly, it is your predicition and I'll not wager on it happening that way.

[weikel]

Adultery is more common then you believe I think just my suspiscion( the Middle Class is largely free but if you look at the lower and upper class its pretty rampant).

[mlocher]

i think we are in violent agreement on this. islamic religion has no concept of gospel; they do what they do because of the law. they think they are moral, but they are condemned.

[mlocher]

i know of no industry that is immune to the 'rule of 3.' to think that a government-free drug industry will somehow escape this scenario is perhaps a bit naive.

[breakem]

I welcome your stats and your source. The basic point stands where the citizens do good of their own volition the country is more moral than the country where the gov kills you for immoral behavior.

[breakem]

The "drug industry" under decriminalization may be unlike the most common models, unless, and I know it's a big unless, the government heavilly regulates production for personal use.

[Crispy]

Yeah, and those Chile farmers are just raking in the dough. lol.

[mlocher]

you just re-iterated my point. people who are basically poor will be able to produce drugs much cheaper. by their standards they will be rolling in the dough. by our standards they will be well below the poverty line.

why is your screen name crispy?

[mlocher]

there have been many studies on the supply--demand curve on drugs. conventional wisdom says that drugs do not apply to this curve because if someone is hooked, then they gotta have drugs no matter what the cost. unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, conventional wisdom appears to be wrong.

when the price of a drug reaches a certain threshhold, people turn to crime or they at the very least ruin their life. it is true that this threshhold differs by person. when someone is ruining his life, often times a caring friend or neighbor intervenes and sees to it that the person gets help. while drug price is not the determining reason for providing the help, there is a correlation between high price and caring intervention.

when someone turns to crime, sooner or later they get caught. they can get blown away in a shoot out or they get arrested and incarcerated. either way their drug use is curtailed (although for completeness sake i must state that drugs are still available in prison).

hence, when the price is too high, drug usage goes down. but you must look at averages, not individual cases and sales.

drugs cannot escape the laws of the invisible hand.

[lewislynn]

If drugs were legal, there would be a lot more people growing them all over the world. The supply would be way higher than demand which would make them dirt cheap. It would be like buying a pound of flour or a bag of rice.

Or cigarettes.

[Crispy]

"you just re-iterated my point. people who are basically poor will be able to produce drugs much cheaper. by their standards they will be rolling in the dough. by our standards they will be well below the poverty line."

I agree to them they will be rolling in the dough. I am just saying the money will not be used to finance terror any more than tobacco money is used to finance terror.

"why is your screen name crispy?"

I forget my reasoning at the time. I assure you it has nothing to do with drugs.

[Robert_Paulson2]

picking at my hurried spelling misses the point... as did your apparent failure of reading of the article....

the 911 arab terrorists did NOT use marijuana money as the "superbowl" advertisement implied, (go back and read the article) which makes that advertisement or "spot" ad, an outright lie... neither did they use money gleaned from the production or sale of coccaine... Surely you are not confusing FARC with Mujahadeen?

the arabs used opium... the justice department ad showing the kid smoking a joint and claiming THAT paid the way for 911 was a lie. Plain and simple...

Love and support for the wod must NOT supercede our commitment to telling the truth and not pandering to agendas with more and more unbelievable lies.

... my rotten spelling notwithstanding.

hemp grows in america... our constitution was printed on it. I don't smoke it. Never bought any of it. I just know that it GROWS here naturally, some folks like it... and using it, if they do is NONE of my business....

THEY did NOT pay for the killers to come here... opium users the world around did... including pharmaceutical companies that use it to make pain killers... and YOU and I paid for them BIG TIME when we filled up our tanks with gasoline... Saudi Arab petrodollars paid for virtually ALL the terrorist infrastructure, and continues to do so today via there continual propagation of the madrassa system and direct support and cash payments to terrorists...

YOU and I paid them to kill our people, when we refused to drill for oil during the clinton years... NOT suzy q, with the pot plant growing in her back yard...

Insisting on that being true, is a lie. We need to stop lying about things that promote our agenda... just because we can. Conservatives CLAIM to have a commitment to truth... and apparently we will flush truth if it promotes an agenda WE want...

That is not right. period.