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If you oppose drug legalization, you support terrorism!
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Mon, 4 Feb 2002 14:17:05 GMT
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The White House Office of Drug Control Policy has started an ad campaign in
which they are attempting a clever diversion through the logical
equivalent of smoke and mirrors. Their assertion is that by consuming product
(cocaine) from places like Colombia, you are promoting terrorism by providing
the economy needed by violent drug lords to commit all manner of atrocities.
The truth is that, there is enough money in cocaine production that people are
willing to be bad, only because the great and wealthy nations of the world have
artificially inflated the price of the product through trade barriers. If
cocaine bacame legal in the US, violence in Colombia would settle. The 30-year
(or whatever) revolution funded by the drug lords would run out of steam with
no new monetary influx.
These advertisements constitute an outrageous attempt to place the blame for
third-world terror (which rests clearly on the laps of anti-drug folks (in this
case)) on the drug consumers. It is a twisted attempt to dehumanize those who
choose to self-medicate.
When will the madness end?
Chris
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