Meshugginah posts, and other things sundry

[jester]

At 01:09 PM 07/07/1997 -0500, you wrote:
>At 12:57 PM 07/7/97 -0400, Jules wrote, responding to Peter Giordano:
>>Jester,
>>I wonder if you also think it's B*LLSH*T when people compare
>>the arrest and prosecution of drug dealers 
>users, too>
>>to the arrest and
>>prosecution of Jews in Nazi Germany
>You might also note that most of those actually doing time for drug offenses
>are either black or hispanic

Maybe.  But comparing it to the Holocaust is bullshit.  That is an entirely
different animal.  I would admit that there are similarities, but it's
propoganda to use words with such obvious emotional connotations as
Holocaust in an argument/debate about drug use.

Let's face it.  There's alot of money to be made by government by keeping
pot illegal.  As for the other drugs, they are entirely destructive and
people peddling in them and destroying our children SHOULD be locked away.
If pot were legal, I believe it would cut down on other drug usage, and the
demand for ANY street drugs would be way down.  Oh, but then what would all
the inner-city men, many of them black and hispanic, do for cash?  Maybe
they'll loot your fucking suburban houses, that's what! Think about it.  But
don't get me started talking about the Welfare Reform fiasco!

See, I live in the inner-city.  I know "drug dealers" personally.  Some of
them are good people.  Many of them are victims of the System.  Most of them
are just trying to survive, get a piece of that promised American-Pie
they've been lied to about for years.  If you ask me, the drug business is
the result of our capitalist society (among other things).  Everyone wants
new sneakers, new clothes, not just the rich.  If urban youth can make big
$$$ easily by passing off small plastic bags in the local 7-Eleven parking
lot rather than slinging Slurpees for minimum wage, how the hell can you
blame them -- especially when 3/4 of their clientele are suburban whites.  I
see it every day.  No propoganda here, no opinion.  Fact.

Besides that, who says most drug dealers are black or hispanic or urban?  I
can recall a recent ABC special re: Pot which showed a grwoing number of
white suburban/rural growers/sellers.  Sure, the inner city minorities may
be on your TV screen more often, but can't you see, that's just propoganda
too -- from the System, from the boobies who want you to remember the "Good
Ole' Days" that never were?  Now who's talking about selective nostalgia?

JJ "Jester"