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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Poet who wrote (32602)	10/13/2001 8:02:33 PM
From: Mac Con Ulaidh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Uhm, before I head off to watch football... why should someone be in jail for "public drukenness"? That doesn't imply wrong doing, just sloppiness. And it doesn't imply that someone has a drinking problem. They got drunk that day. And to humiliate them for it as someone would do by shackling them in the town square? I think it is bad enough to have friends tell you what you did the next day. And I can testify that they make stuff up just to embarrass you worse. I am quite sure I never did half of what they say I did. Now... if you were drunk in public and knocked a little old lady off her feet cause you were weaving down the sidewalk... maybe a little time for that to think about sticking to country lanes next time you get publicly drunk.

To: Poet who wrote (32602)	10/13/2001 8:11:04 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I would like to see people able to use any drugs they want as long as they are of age. I think it is an unnecessary interference with their freedom, and a huge drag on our society, to chase people around and incarcerate them for drug use. It didn't work with alcohol and it won't work for anything else. Of course our idiotic leaders learned nothing from prohibition. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

To: Poet who wrote (32602)	10/13/2001 10:08:42 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Getting fundamental psychological changes in people absolutely requires that they must want it and be willing to struggle and fight for it. Forcing them into a "corrective" 12-step program against their will violates that requirement. You and I and the county sheriff can't make them want to change. Only they can do that. There will be a price to be paid for legalizing drugs. That will also result in ruined lives and dead bodies. Will it be worse than the current situation? I don't know, but I doubt it.