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To: budweeder who wrote (4229)	9/26/2000 11:54:03 AM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (1) of 13056

Perhaps it is the core issue for some people because it is the clearest and most obvious example (well, along with the recoveed-memory-child-abuse crowd) of the intrusiveness of the government into what should be private decisions. If the government were to fight against the right to read poetry by violating the civil rights of thousands of people, declaring a War on Poetry, breaking down doors of people suspected of owing a page of a poetry book, and spending billions of dollars to jail people for reading or selling poetry, that would probably become the defining issue of the LP. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. The point of greatest government intrusion on the rights of the people gets the most attention from those who believe in individual liberties. It isn't about drugs. It's about every liberty of the people. Drugs just happens to be the one the government has chosen to come down hardest on. (Certain drugs, that is; not, of course, the drugs of choice for congressmen and women and their spouses--tobacco, alcohol, Valium, and Prozac are all legal, naturally.)

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