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From: bts@unc.UUCP (Bruce Smith)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Re: drugs and criminals (unc.5883)
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Date: Mon, 19-Sep-83 08:44:40 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 19 08:44:40 1983
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     I hate respond to a flame, but I had to say something
about unc!tim's comments in "Re: drugs and criminals"
(unc.5883).  Tim says

     When one makes a thing illegal, one hands control of it
     to criminals.  Is that too hard for you to see?  Once
     the criminals are in control, then of course the busi-
     ness will be associated with the normal criminal metho-
     dology, as exemplified by the machine-gun tactics of Al
     Capone.  The truth of this is so clearly attested to in
     this nation's recent history that I cannot understand
     your blindness to it.

Tim, you're offending a lot of people on the net when you
refer to drug dealers as "criminals"!  I'm not a libertarian
myself, but according to the principles those members of our
community believe-- and love to preach to the rest of us--
drug dealers are just honest businessmen, unfairly res-
trained by government from making a profit.  If elementary
school children have money, why shouldn't drug dealers be
able to make a living selling them heroin?

     I can't do justice to the arguments, I'm afraid.
Will one of our libertarians speak up and set unc!tim
straight?