Re: Austin or LA?

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From: Richard Shannon
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 00:00

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> Oh but wait!  There's probably a good reason why this hasn't happened;
> drug suppliers know by donating money to the right politicos and tipping
> them off to competitors at the same time, they can remain in power
> indefinitely.  AS LONG AS DRUGS ARE ILLEGAL.

And of course, there's all those Police-men (and women) that specialise in
Drug Enforcement that would be out of business. All those employees of
various drug-enforcement agencies, and of course, all that money and
property police departments get to keep because of forfiture laws. 

No, no, there's just too much money in drug enforcement. And too much
control over large segments of the population. 

And let's not forget all that money the C.I.A. (and probably others) have
made channeling illegal drugs from right-wing third-world dictators through
US Mafia connections gives them a lever over the third worlders (look at
Noriega) and secret funding for special projects... 

- Richard

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From: "Richard Shannon" <rshannon@mail.utexas.edu>
Subject: Re: Austin or LA?
Date: 1997/04/10
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