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hopkins@jaxnet.com wrote:
: The true issue here is weather or not we the people have a right to live 
: our lives and raise our kids without interfearence from government, 
: special interst, or religious dogma controlling our very actions and 
: thoughts.

: Question: Why do you think drugs are "bad"?
: Answer: Because you were told so many times, over and over by propganda.

  And yet why do people still do them?  Drugs, including alcohol and 
Tobacco spew just as much propaganda as the 'clean body' set.  
Totalitarianism is caused when the option of counter propaganda is lost.  
In this country everybody throws their stories out and what the public 
likes sticks.
  Do you really think a product like Tobacco could make it WITHOUT 
propaganda?  Or a product like Heroin?  Yes the product has a built in 
addiction that all but garantees return customers, but the first time the 
consumer must be convinced to use it.

: The answer above is in reality the answer to many of our laws proposed 
: long ago by state sponsored or religous propaganda.

: You mission should you decide to accept it is to separate out the
: propaganda based laws and decide the issue for YOURSELF!

  Both these statements are fairly meaningless in a culture where more 
people can sing the "Big Mac Song" than can identify their State Reps.
  Adverstising.  Marketing.  That's where the real power in America 
lies.  I'm not making any moral or ethical judgments on that, it's just 
the truth.
  Laws mean very little in the face of superior marketing- look at the 
projected revenues of illegal drugs in this country for and then look at 
the projected budgets of the agencies set to deal with them.

: I remain a free mind

  And I'm sure that you can recite the "Big Mac Song" from heart.  Now 
who are those State Reps?  (Not a flame, but ask 10 people the same two 
questions.)

: There are two sides to everything.

  But one always has to come out on top.  Pity, isn't it?

  Catch you later,

  Jim Davis,  Webmaster Depressed Press / Virtually Boston
      http://www.cybercom.net/~kiwicove/