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From: jj@alice.UUCP
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Subject: on Drugs-free markets--exeunt this sophistry, please!
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Date: Wed, 20-Mar-85 10:52:47 EST
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<> In light of the fact that the "consumer" cannot have market information,
<> cannot go to a different supplier (in most cases, however parts of
<> Ca. are indeed different as regards ONE such substance, but not
<> others) the "seller" is at risk of death and/or incarceration,
<> and the distribution method is EXPECTED to have significant losses,
<> it's clear that the "drug market" isn't anything close to a free
<> market.
<
<Since the majority of this statement is wrong (with the exception of a
<degree of risk), I won't bother with it.
No, sir, YOU ASSERT (and call your assertions fact) that the majority of
this statement is wrong.  You quote the popular press for support,
and expect me to grant 20/20 credibility, and to ignore the information
available for one's own watching.  I do not doubt your examples, however,
I completely reject your contention that paranoia and fear for
one's life aren't part of the job. Without being more specific,
let me say that people in law enforcement have much experience with
secondary crime caused by the paranoia (leaving out, for the time
being, the intent to control a market) related to drug dealing.
<> The argument that 1% of drug trafficers are affected by the law
<> or organized crime simply ignores the effects of illegality
<> completely, when indeed the necessity  to avoid publicity and legal
<> entanglements is itself  a compelling reason to disqualify the drug market as
<> even slightly "free".
<
<A free market does not have "the necessity to avoid publicity and legal
<entanglements"?  How interesting.
Mr. Z's context-free quote is just that, context free.  Furthermore,
his use of a context-free quote to provide a rhetorical straw man
unrelated (in fact opposed) to what was originally said sheds 
light on his rhetorical honesty and intent.
-- 
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