I was just reading ARIADNE'S CLEW, by J.P. Befumo (an ass-kicking book, 
btw), and came cross the following excerpt that really made me stop and 
think.  Here it is:





            Melanie hesitated, then said, "I admit you may have gotten a raw 
deal, but overall, you have to see how the intent of establishing a 
drug-free society is basically justified-"

            "Drug-free society?" he shouted. "What utter bullshit! Open your 
eyes, for Christ's sake! We made token moves against cigarettes, until the 
price reached four dollars a pack, most of which represents federal taxes. 
We have no problem selling alcohol, even targeting specific advertisements 
to inner-city minorities. We put our kids on Ritalin because we can't take 
the time to deal with their behavior problems. We gobble our Rogaine because 
our hair is falling out. We push Viagra to those whose overall poor health 
and mental imbalances have made them impotent. We stuff our faces full of 
Prexal because we can't function socially. We live on Prozac because we can't 
cope with life in general. Whom do you think these hypocrites are 
protecting? Kids on the street? Or is it the big drug companies, the big 
alcohol companies, and the tobacco companies, all of which pour millions of 
dollars into buying their agendas in Washington? And oh by the way, do you 
know why marijuana was originally illegalized? It was done to provide law 
enforcement officers in the southwest with a convenient excuse for 
discriminating against Mexican Americans. So don't you dare talk to me about 
a drug-free society! What we really need is a hypocrite-free society.





This brought to mind another interesting historical fact:



                From 1840 to 1880, Great Britain enforced a prohibition 
against the drinking of gin. Not drinking in general, mind you; just gin. 
Why would a country prohibit just the drinking of gin, not the drinking of 
anything else for forty years? Because the rich people drank whiskey, and 
the poor people drank what?.gin. The same is true today in America.

                If we're rich, then we greedily consume our Ritalin, our 
Rogaine, our Viagra, our Prexal, and our Prozac. Sure, we want a 'drug-free 
society'-but only for THEM. And who concocts and sells these permissible 
pharmaceuticals? Why, the big drug companies, of course. They don't want 
people using something they could easily grow in their back yard, or, 
indeed, anything for which they don't hold an exclusive patent. Bribing the 
government and the media to push their agenda is easily affordable, and 
money well spent, and every 'Republicrat' is demonstrably on their take.

                (Of course, when it turns out that they've been knowingly 
selling arthritis medication that causes heart-attacks and strokes, the 
government they have purchased conveniently looks the other way.)

Whom do you think these hypocrites are protecting? Kids on the street? Or is 
it the big drug companies, the big alcohol companies, and the tobacco 
companies, all of which pour millions of dollars into buying their agendas 
in Washington?

            So much for our drug-free society!

                For those unaware of the history of drug laws, the first 
laws against opium in the U.S. were really attempts to discriminate against 
Chinese immigrants who smoked opium. Cocaine was outlawed largely because of 
fears that superhuman Negro cocaine fiends would go on a violent rampage, 
raping white women and shooting white men. Marijuana was outlawed because 
"all Mexicans are crazy, and marijuana is what makes them crazy." Today, the 
main impetus for opposing marijuana is that, unlike those who use alcohol, 
marijuana smokers tend to think, and are more prone than those dulled by 
booze to question authority.

                The international illicit drug business generates as much as 
$400 billion in trade annually according to the United Nations International 
Drug Control Program. That amounts to 8% of all international trade, and is 
comparable to the annual turnover in textiles, according to the study. 
Taxing legalized drugs could solve our Social Security crisis, provide 
universal heath care, or pay to secure our borders. Instead, we turn 
harmless citizens into political prisoners.

                The bottom line here is that there are entirely too many 
people in this country worrying about minding OTHER people's business, 
instead of raising their children, imparting values that will keep them from 
turning to drugs, and living their own lives.

                The most recent figures available from the Office of 
National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) indicate that, in 1999, federal 
expenditures on control of illegal drugs surpassed $17 billion, while the 
combined expenditures by federal, state, and local governments exceeded $30 
billion. What is more, the nation's so-called 'drug war' is a protracted 
one. The country has spent roughly this amount annually throughout the 
1990s." (Source:  National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 
"Informing America's Policy on Illegal Drugs: What We Don't Know Keeps 
Hurting Us" [Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001], p. 1.)

            How many more wars can we afford to fight? Americans would do a 
lot better to stop waging wars, stop installing brutal right-wing dictators, 
stop trying to topple sovereign governments, and instead, turn our attention 
toward our own very real, and very pressing problems. We'd find that by so 
doing, we'd attract a lot less rancor from crazed zealots bent on jihad.

            Once again, the ONLY way we're going to take back our country is 
to STOP voting Republicrat.  Personally, I would vote for ANY third-party 
candidate, from the far left to the far right, than any Republicrat. At 
least you know that this is a candidate that stands for something other than 
getting him- or her-self elected. Hey, they did it in Minnesota, and almost 
did it with Ross Perot, before the men in black intimidated him into 
withdrawing.

HONEST thinkers from the right (e.g. William F. Buckley) to the left have 
taken the stand that drugs should be legalized. Who opposes it? Corrupt 
politicians, and busybodies who can't learn to mind their own business.



            Most recently, the Supreme Court has even gone so far as to 
abrogate the 10th amendment, by overthrowing the medicinal marijuana laws of 
California, and several other states. In the days of the founding fathers, 
this would have been termed "taxation without representation," and by my 
reckoning, every Californian would be well within their rights to refrain 
from paying federal income taxes.

This just goes to prove that the legitimate, constitutional government of 
the United States has been overthrown by these Republicrat scoundrels, and 
it's high time we from both the right and the left put aside our differences 
and took it back!



Hollis,

http://www.AmericanJunta.com