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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (6256)	9/16/2007 1:11:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13056

Its more than semantics. Drug dealers are often murders as well, but they are rarely revolutionaries. They don't generally try to overthrow the government or destabilize society and they aren't killing for killing sake. They are trying to make money. They usually don't want to fight the police, and its rare indeed that they would go on the offense against police (rare but not unheard of, I know you can point to examples, I can to). Most often their violence is against competitors or against someone who defrauded them or stole from them. That doesn't make them something positive, or something that isn't a problem, but it does mean that they generally aren't at war against the government or society and there is no need to treat them as if they are aggressively waging war against us. You arrest them for their crimes, you don't literally wage war against them. The "war on drugs" (if it should be kept at all) shouldn't generally involve air strikes.