<story><title>Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?hp&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Well, honestly, drugs should not be legal to sell and to purchase.&lt;p&gt;What world are you living in? Do you think these guys deal weed? Have you seen what (crack) cocaine does to people?&lt;p&gt;These cocaine pushers are in the business of destroying people, and they certainly should be apprehended.</text></item><item><author>legutierr</author><text>Is this an argument in favor of the practice?  Because, honestly, drugs should be legal to sell and to purchase.  If all drugs should be legal and if the trade in drugs should be legal, then how can any program like this designed solely to enforce drug laws be justified?  In that event, who cares what drug &amp;quot;pushers&amp;quot; and users know?</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Maybe they don&amp;#x27;t want drug pushers and users to know they have this either?</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>From the document:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Protecting the Hemisphere program is a formidable challenge. 
We have taken the following steps to try and keep the program 
under the radar...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that our government creates and then goes to such great lengths to hide programs that it knows the public (and most likely the courts) will vehemently object to shows the level of contempt that government officials and employees have for the very people they were hired to serve.  I don&amp;#x27;t know that it can be fixed, but it is a very serious problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>betterunix</author><text>&amp;quot;Well, honestly, drugs should not be legal to sell and to purchase.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Care to cite any reasons here?  See, when it comes to cocaine, Congress has not revisited the debate since people said these sort of things:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F70F1EFA3A5A15738DDDAB0894D0405B888CF1D3&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;query.nytimes.com&amp;#x2F;gst&amp;#x2F;abstract.html?res=F70F1EFA3A5A1...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/history/negro_cocaine_fiends.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.druglibrary.org&amp;#x2F;schaffer&amp;#x2F;history&amp;#x2F;negro_cocaine_fi...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yeah, you read that correctly.  &lt;i&gt;Black guys&lt;/i&gt; who use cocaine become &lt;i&gt;more accurate with a gun&lt;/i&gt; and will attack &lt;i&gt;white women&lt;/i&gt;!  Also, Jews are selling it.  Cocaine also makes it nearly impossible to kill a black man using a standard issue handgun, so let&amp;#x27;s upgrade the caliber.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Have you seen what (crack) cocaine does to people?&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;Yes:  I have seen the children of the wealthy doing cocaine at college parties, then going on to get high-paying jobs on Wall St.  Truly ruinous, truly!&lt;p&gt;How about we drop the boogeyman and drop the anecdotes and start citing some sources?  You claim that cocaine destroys people; let&amp;#x27;s see the proof.</text></comment>
<story><title>Drug Agents Use Vast Phone Trove Eclipsing N.S.A.’s</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/02/us/drug-agents-use-vast-phone-trove-eclipsing-nsas.html?hp&amp;_r=0&amp;pagewanted=all</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tinco</author><text>Well, honestly, drugs should not be legal to sell and to purchase.&lt;p&gt;What world are you living in? Do you think these guys deal weed? Have you seen what (crack) cocaine does to people?&lt;p&gt;These cocaine pushers are in the business of destroying people, and they certainly should be apprehended.</text></item><item><author>legutierr</author><text>Is this an argument in favor of the practice?  Because, honestly, drugs should be legal to sell and to purchase.  If all drugs should be legal and if the trade in drugs should be legal, then how can any program like this designed solely to enforce drug laws be justified?  In that event, who cares what drug &amp;quot;pushers&amp;quot; and users know?</text></item><item><author>willvarfar</author><text>Maybe they don&amp;#x27;t want drug pushers and users to know they have this either?</text></item><item><author>downandout</author><text>From the document:&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Protecting the Hemisphere program is a formidable challenge. 
We have taken the following steps to try and keep the program 
under the radar...&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;The fact that our government creates and then goes to such great lengths to hide programs that it knows the public (and most likely the courts) will vehemently object to shows the level of contempt that government officials and employees have for the very people they were hired to serve.  I don&amp;#x27;t know that it can be fixed, but it is a very serious problem.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>TausAmmer</author><text>Might be beating dead horse, but people want to drink alcohol snort coke or shoot up heroin. 
Put as many laws as you want, that is not a way to solve problem, never will.&lt;p&gt;You can&amp;#x27;t forbid people being stupid by law. Also, abuse of narcotics is a side-effect for bigger problems, ones that is easier to ignore. Will we get there when we are able to speak about it, I wonder, I wonder my friend.</text></comment>