CDR: Re: Parties

[Jim Choate]

On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, A. Melon wrote:

>     Spoken like a true fascist. What the fuck do you think executive pardon 
> is but just another "checks and balances"? The fact is that it's the criminal
> scum in power at the moment who are fucking the constitution with their dirty
> little "war on some drugs". Basic 1st Amemdment freedom of religion went 
> right down the drain with the very first drug law. It's religious persecution
> pure and simple, nothing more, nothing less. Harry Browne should go further,
> if elected he should not only pardon every person ever convicted of a drug or
> gun offense, but he should order the immediate arrest of anyone who ever voted 
> for a drug or gun law, and who ever enforced these despicable illegal laws.
>     Take your stupid babbling about your phoney politics elsewhere -- it has no
> relativity to cypherpunks. 

Actualy you mis-represent. The fundamental issues that trouble this
country are not an effect of the war on drugs, but rather it an effect of
them. There are many.

A few,

The acceptance by the rank and file of Lincoln's 'fundamental law of
nations'. This has laid the basic groundwork for the ever
increasing 'federalism' (and as a consequence socialism/fascism). 

The change in life style (e.g. loss of state power) we see a loss of
power in one of the fundamental component pieces of our democracy.

An increase in technology that has placed the ability to harm a large
group of poeple in the hands of the individual like no previous time in
history.

etc.

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