From: sdw@lig.net (Stephen D. Williams)
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 94 10:25:21 PST
To: perry@imsi.com
Subject: Re: Admiral Inman
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> I am unwilling to sell my birthright for a mess of pottage. We are
> sacrificing billions of dollars and all our civil rights for NOTHING
> VISIBLE AT ALL. Even were you correct that drugs were an intolerable
> menace to society it has long been obvious that drug law enforcement
> does no good whatsoever in lowering the rate of drug "crime" and if
> anything causes harm by driving the price up and creating a huge
> profit opportunity for the unscrupulous.
> 
> Perry

You forgot: QED

Between the rediculous amount of money and things like the RICO laws
that practically wipe out rights through loopholes we'd better
wake up and remember prohibition and other lessons of history.


sdw
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