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From: gnome@oliveb.UUCP (Gary)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Re: The war on drugs
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Date: Wed, 17-Sep-86 21:38:15 EDT
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> Xref: hplabs net.followup:2153 talk.politics.misc:124
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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 ...
> 
> 	Sorry folks, but I know more yuppie types that would fail
> 	tests for drugs (including alcohol), than punks.  I have the
> 	feeling that we are indeed being manipulated by major
> 	propoganda ploy.
> Rob Vetter

Not only is it a good way to ride the media wave into public office,
the "war on drugs" may have a very high casualty count.  I'll be there,
dressed in black, when they bring home our civil rights in a body-bag.

So far, what I have heard suggested is -

1) 'Relieving' the laws governing formerly "inadmissible" evidence.
   "You do NOT have the right to remain silent..."
2) Encouraging children to turn-in their parents for using drugs.
   "Hey, Johnny!  You wanna really get back at your Dad?  Take
    this baggie home, drop it in his dresser drawer, and call the
    cops!  They won't mess with YOU again!"
3) Negating all disputes between employers who want to run drug tests
    and employees that don't.  The Employer gets the nod.  If you
    don't piss in the jar, in front of the Personnel Screening
    Supervisor, you can be fired.  "I am NOT a number!! -- I'm a vial
    of piss!!"
4) Set up special prosecution branches at the state level for dealing
   with "this explosive problem".   Kind of like looking for impartiality
   from the Meese Commission -- when you're Hugh Hefner.   IE:  If
   Johnny DOES "drop a baggie" on you, kiss your ass goodby!
5) Stop and search ALL passengers coming into the country from any
   suspicious country.  Strip searches not excluded.
   For this, they want to use the army..."Be all that you can be --
   Ok, mister, pull down yer pants!"
   Casper Weinberger thinks using the army would be a big mistake.

Plus a whole lot more!!!

Why is this election year filled with more stupidity than usual?
It will never dawn on them that the reason why there is N billion
dollars worth of drugs coming into the country is because there is
N billion dollars worth of DEMAND in the country.

So, instead of stopping the problem where it counts (with the people
using drugs) by way of drug treatment programs, they are going to
waste hundreds of millions of dollars searching sailboats off Florida
and paying paranoid public officials to rewrite the laws that govern your
life.

Just like Prohabition, drugs will just get real expensive, "special" cops
will bust-down lots of doors,  and a lot of people will get thrown in prison
or killed (you decide which is worse).

I think they should have to apply the "drug killing death penalty" to
all of the people that are involved in fatality drunk-driving accidents.
If they are going to go after mind-altering drugs, why should they
discriminate?   "Boy!  Writing-up this anti-drug attack plan is really
tough -- let's break it off and go to O'Callahan's..."


Gary
HASA (repacking cans of worms a speciality)
Heathen Division