From: rscharfy@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy)
Subject: Re: Good Neighbor Political Hypocrisy Test
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In article <stevethC5nwnn.49t@netcom.com> steveth@netcom.com (Steve Thomas) wri
tes:
>In article <1993Apr18.001338.21323@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> rscharfy@magnus.
acs.ohio-state.edu (Ryan C Scharfy) writes:
>>>No social problem, however great, is worth destroying the freedom in America
.
>>>The destruction of freedom is never an answer to any social problem.
>>
>>You can't even walk down the street at night alone in America because of drug
s.
>>Freedom my ass.
>>
>>Ryan
>
>Why exactely can't you walk down the street safely?  It it because somebody
>will jump out from behind a shadow, and, SELL YOU DRUGS?  Hardly.

Or mug me.
>  On the
>other hand, it's certainly possible that you are walking down the steet of
>a bustling lawless part of your metropolitan area.  Lawless and bustling: read
>underground economy.

Why must you pursue this fantasy that all crime is derived from "underground 
economies".

>  There, it may not be a very safe place to be at all.
>Unless of course you're there to buy some drugs...
>
>I explained how the WOD is a major cause of large-scale crime in America.  The
>head of the Guardian Angles agrees with me: legalize drugs and watch violent
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Haaahaaaahaaaa

>crimes significantly decrease.
>
>As for me, well, I think I'll go take a walk tonight--alone.  I feel safe.  I
>just hope the FDA/FBI/DEA/BATF isn't back at my apartment confiscating all my
>property because they found my phone number written on a phone booth that was
>also used by a drug dealer. 

Yeah buddy, this happens all the time.  Tell me, HAS IT EVERY REALLY HAPPENED 
TO YOU?   That's what I thought.

> In that sense, I don't feel safe.  I'm an honest,
>law-abiding citizen (drug laws included, FTM), why is it that I fear the
>government more than I fear criminals?
>

Your foolish.

>Freedom MY ass.  This is NOT what the founding fathers (some of whom would be
>thrown in prison under today's drug laws) had in mind.  All of these problems
>you come up with pale in comparison to the fact that the very fiber of our
>country--the US Constitution--is being destroyed.  What good would it do
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Must I ask again, what part?

>even IF the WOD actually reduced crime: we just created a new class of
>criminals, headed up the gang's current leader: Bill Clinton.  The DEA, etc.
>are private armies that answer directly to the president.  They possess
>advanced weapons and survailance technology.  Does this sound familiar to
>anybody?
>
>Do you support "Mein Furher Clinton"?  Hmmmmmm?  You seem to have come out
>against the current adminstration: why are you eager to endow it with
>even MORE power?  (Power of the most dangerous kind, too).
>

All I ask is that drugs stay illegal.  I don't think it's too much to ask.


Ryan
