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From: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: The war on drugs
Message-ID: <2014@sequent.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 18:17:51 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 16 18:17:51 1986
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Reply-To: brian@sequent.UUCP (Brian Godfrey)
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>Has anyone considered the possibility that the war on drugs is being
>staged as a diversion from real government issues like increased
>military spending? The amount of propaganda I've read in the past two
>weeks is enough to flood the conscious stream of the average ignorant
>american. I have yet to see any accurate analysis of the problem.

   Yeah. I sometimes wonder how silly we must look to people in other parts
of the world, too. Uncle Ronny Rayguns and Nanny Nancy coming on TV, declaring
"War" on drugs. We go around bullying the drug making countries into helping
us. We send troops to Bolivia (and, I presume, places yet to be determined)
to invade drug country and raid the producers. And all this because we can't
cure our own problem. The problem is drug use, not drug manufacture. I am
embarrassed that we can't seem to cure this problem at home before going out
and attacking the rest of the world for selling us what we demand.

>PSS. I do not use illegal drugs.

   Me neither.

--Brian