[rollei_list] Re: OT: War On Drugs
- From: Bob Haight <rhaightjr@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:12:15 -0700 (PDT)
Brings to mind the passage in the New Testament when
Jesus told his disciples there will always be the
poor.
--- Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> At 02:14 PM 3/18/2008, Rob Pritchett wrote:
> >Well, I agree... The government's "war on drugs"
> has been quite
> >successful... at least successful in that drugs
> are more plentiful and
> >cheaper than before "we" started spending billions
> of dollars on creating
> >the world's greatest prison population. It's been
> just as successful as
> >their "war on poverty" - and for that matter -
> the war on Iraq.
>
> Legalize all drugs, every one. We would have a=20
> 90-day period of having to pay for a LOT of=20
> "Potter's Field Funerals" (to the non-USian in=20
> our number, these are public-charge interments=20
> for those who die destitute) and, afterwards, we=20
> would have arguments over whether Cocaine from=20
> one drug company gave a better kick than that=20
> from another. So waht? The idiots would kill=20
> themselves, as they do today, and our public=20
> treasury would be relieved of billions of dollars=20
> in futile efforts to prevent folks from what they
> are intending to do.
>
> As to the "War on Poverty", well, I AM the=20
> Freemaster of the King Canute Society. That says=20
> it all trying to fight poverty is as futile as=20
> attempting to sweep back the tide,.
>
> Marc
>
>
> msmall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cha robh b=E0s fir gun ghr=E0s fir!
>
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