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From: rdz@ccice5.UUCP (Robert D. Zarcone)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: on Drugs-free markets--exeunt this sophistry, please!
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Date: Fri, 22-Mar-85 12:36:10 EST
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> 
> 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.

You reject my "assertions" because they are from the "popular press" (and
media).  You then allude to some knowledge that you have but can/will not
give us.  I assume that I am supposed to know what "the information available
for one's own watching" is.  I don't.  But I do know what facts are available
through the various forms of media and news reporting agencies.  I can also
be pretty much asured of their "credibility".

> 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.
> -- 

If you wantn to call someone a liar, just say it.  I don't feel a need to
use multisylabic words unless they're necessary.  I also don't feel a need
to win a debate.  I am just trying to enlighten those who will allow them-
selves to be enlightened.  You do not appear to be one of those people.

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