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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: CYBERKEN who wrote (169959)	8/10/2001 3:53:00 PM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I tend to agree that the drug war is wrong headed. I am also deeply troubled by the trampling of the constitution in the process. I'm not sure you can attribute it to conservative or liberal, since Reagan, Bush Clinton and all of the congresses during there terms all passed laws and funded the efforts. But let us consider some political realities. Lets go back, to the 80's. Crack cocaine becomes a cheap high, and infiltrates and devastates the inner city. There are loud cries to do something. I remember inner city leaders proclaiming that the government is racist because no one cares about them. States and the feds rush to pass new laws. (Now the same leaders say the crack laws are racist because they punish a black person more heavily than a white person, but thats another story). So if we relax the effort against drugs, it undoubtedly will have a larger negative impact on the inner cities. So then, would we be racists for neglecting that which destroys the inner city ? Another reality is public acceptance of such a change in policy. I think it could be sold to the public, but how effective would the opposition rhetoric be ? i dunno.