On Sat, 27 Sep 1997, Mark Rogaski wrote:

: That vile salamander Gingrich, squeaker of the : House, is slobbering about a drug-free America : by the year 2001. What a dreary prospect! Of : course this does not include alcohol and tobacco, :

That should read: ... free of drugs that cannot be taxed or patented. I have one of the red ribbons they give to school kids during DARE week. It reads "Live healthy and drug free. Sponsored by Thrifty Drug Store".

The analysis is obvious. -- Lucky Green PGP encrypted email preferred. "Tonga? Where the hell is Tonga? They have Cypherpunks there?"

At 9:59 AM -0700 9/27/97, Lucky Green wrote:

I have one of the red ribbons they give to school kids during DARE week. It reads "Live healthy and drug free. Sponsored by Thrifty Drug Store".

Many of you have seen my "D.A.R.E." t-shirt that I wear occasionally to Bay Area parties and events. For those who haven't: (in large red letters) D.A.R.E. I turned in my parents and all I got was this stupid t-shirt (I bought this t-shirt from an ad in alt.drugs, a group started by our own John Gilmore, if I recall correctly, and one of the many groups banned at many sites.) A reference of course to the D.A.R.E. (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) program in America's elementary (grammar) schools, wherein children are encouraged to inform their teachers and the school administrators about "drugs" being used in their homes. This has resulted in a bunch of raids of private homes, the imprisonment of some persons, the removal of children from homes, etc. Oh, and a whole lot of "investigations" that turned up wine and beer as the "drugs" the kiddies were squealing about. Some schools are rethinking their participation in the D.A.R.E. program. They've discovered the unsurprising fact that kids are smarter than the narcs think they are, and don't believe the propaganda. Just as kids in my cohort rejected the "LSD will make you think you can fly" nonsense, pace the death of daytime television fixture Art Linkletter's daughter...he admitted decades later that her suicide had nothing to do with LSD, that she jumped out of a window for her own reasons, and that he was just going along with the LSD theory to help the Drug War and to give his daughter's death some meaning. This is how the narcs think. Several years ago on the Extropians list I expressed my desire to get a t-shirt made up with a provocative slogan, "D.A.R.E.--Drugs Are Reality Enhancers," to wear to public events so as to tweak the noses of the Drug Warriors and the parents who form the Just Say No Brigade of Reserve Forces. Kennita Watson sent me a t-shirt decal with this on it, to put on a t-shirt. Someday maybe I will. --Tim May The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."

Tim May wrote:

(in large red letters) D.A.R.E.

I turned in my parents and all I got was this stupid t-shirt

I wonder what is a good place -- in realspace of through the internet -- to look for funny bumperstickers or t shirts of similar kind. Thank you. - Igor.