[WyldKard]

Well, this is all great, but who is it really going to convince that isn't already?

All that is going to happen here on FR is that Kevin Curry, Cultural Jihad, CA Vawhateverthehheck, LadyDoc, and the rest of the Socialists-in-NeoCon-Clothing Brigade will pop on and use their mystical, magical powers of Strawman Creation, Character Assassination, and Avoiding The Actual Issue to "debate" the article.

Not one of them will

A) Read the entire text of the article.
B) Come up with a well-thought out and reasoned couter-argument.

However, in the world of realpolitik, I think this is going to go a long way towards convincing fence sitters in America what a good idea ending the socialist WoD is...

[dirtboy]

All that is going to happen here on FR is that Kevin Curry, Cultural Jihad, CA Vawhateverthehheck, LadyDoc, and the rest of the Socialists-in-NeoCon-Clothing Brigade will pop on and use their mystical, magical powers of Strawman Creation, Character Assassination, and Avoiding The Actual Issue to "debate" the article.

And, now that you have called them in and goaded them, a few anti-WOD posters will then complain about the resultant food fight. Takes two to tango in this viper's dance (oh, and BTW, I am anti-WOD)...

[Houmatt]

All that is going to happen here on FR is that Kevin Curry, Cultural Jihad, CA Vawhateverthehheck, LadyDoc, and the rest of the Socialists-in-NeoCon-Clothing Brigade will pop on and use their mystical, magical powers of Strawman Creation, Character Assassination, and Avoiding The Actual Issue to "debate" the article.

Not one of them will:

A) Read the entire text of the article.

B) Come up with a well-thought out and reasoned couter-argument.

However, in the world of realpolitik, I think this is going to go a long way towards convincing fence sitters in America what a good idea ending the socialist WoD is...

So the so-called "War on Drugs" is "socialist", huh? (snicker)

Seriously, nobody needs to read the article to know what a piece of crap idea it is to just throw up our hands and give up.

Do you think just ending it is going to save lives? One may argue this, citing the number of people who die each year from smoking or drinking, as opposed to illicit drug use. The problem is, more people die from smoking and drinking BECAUSE it is legal, not in spite of it. Common sense dictates legalizing illicit drugs will only bring death rates higher.