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To: LindyBill who wrote (2799)	11/11/2002 1:02:26 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6901

Lindy, if I had a pet Taniwha and the tourists wanted to get the hair on the back of their neck raised, for a fee, I'd be happy to oblige too. But Maoris aren't sharing their Taniwhas or koha around. Meanwhile, the idea of the USA having some parallels with Hitler's ideals meets reality: <In a state where about 22 percent of adults smoke, only 30 percent of the electorate voted against the smoking ban. Let's assume smokers did not go to the polls in disproportionate numbers to oppose the initiative, and let's forget about the nonsmokers in the hospitality industry who had an economic interest in defeating it. The results still suggest that fewer than one in 10 Floridians is prepared to defend property rights as a matter of principle.> reason.com There'll have to be sly-fagging restaurants now. Booze legal, tobacco illegal. Here we are, back to the beginnings of the 20th century, when smoking was legal, [and so was cocaine in Coca Cola, dope was dopey but legal and old Chinese smoked opium, but were ignored], but sly-grogging and Prohibition loomed large. Tobacco is the new Prohibition Bad Boy. The USA is NOT looking like the Land of the Free and Home of the Brave kyrene.org It's interesting that when dope was legal and so was cocaine, far fewer people were interested in them. Illegal is cool in a cottonwool suffocating society. Mqurice