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Quote of the Day
Apr 10, 2008 | 9:48 AM
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Quote of the Day:

"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."
-- H.L. Mencken

Fact of the Day:

U.S. policy is at war with itself in Afghanistan. The Afghan army is destroying poppy fields in the service of America's "war on drugs." Meanwhile, the American army is fighting the Taliban to protect the Afghan government, and Afghan farmers are paying the Taliban to protect their poppy fields from the Afghan army. Thus, the harder we fight the "war on drugs" in Afghanistan the harder it becomes to win the war against the Taliban. Source: Newsweek, April 7, 2008

Blind, arrogant obedience to the militaristic leadership has led to the situation we are now in.

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Gorilla read my blog
Apr 12, 2008 | 12:33 PM

There's the underlying truth.
Its not about oil or Osama in Afghanistan.
Its the massive profits from opiates.
It is hard to tax what is grown easily, easier to tax "legal drugs" if manufactured.
The "underground" drug economy is only underground to the media-influenced.

Does it matter who points a gun at you?





It is much safer to be high than drunk.
zbert read my blog
Apr 12, 2008 | 8:19 PM

Gorilla, I admire your wisdom among the fools.

One difference, though. There is more money to be made when something is illegal. During Prohibition alcoholic beverages still flowed freely in places that payed off the right officials.
Gorilla read my blog
Apr 13, 2008 | 1:25 PM

Much appreciated, blessings to you as well.

500 yds to a field and if your not dead already, your being shot at.
Taliban don't care about the U.S., all they care about is their huge investment, and protecting the huge amount of money growing in the sun.

We invade their country and burn their fields, there is an army on your ass, if they don't die shooting at you they'll die explaining what happened to the crop.

Opium is no where near as popular here. I read Dragonwings in 5th grade, THAT was my first drug influence.
Reagans "war on drugs" is a waste of tax-payer money. It's a never-ending battle that will never stop. They decide to do it legally and a whole industry was birthed. There are more people in jail on non-violent drug charges then anything else. Thats a lot of money a year being spent for no reason. They're jones'n for 2 years, odds are they're buying at least a sack within 1 day of being released.

Legalize Marijuana!!! Everybody smokes.
zbert read my blog
Apr 13, 2008 | 2:10 PM

I agree with you avout the war on drugs.

The Taliban almost had the entire poppy crop eradicated before we invaded. When they were chased out the farmers went back to growing it.
Their ambition is to get us out.
PegasusWing read my blog view my photos
Apr 14, 2008 | 1:06 PM

So, why doesn't the US send in defoliant crop dusters over poppy fields?
We know where the fields are from satellite photos--all over the world, in fact.
I still say we fight terrorists in the Mid East and let them walk across our southern boarder. Too stupid for words.
zbert read my blog
Apr 14, 2008 | 1:49 PM

If they did that the uprising would have us running for the border. The farmers are siding with the Taliban. So are most of the tribal leaders.
zbert read my blog
Apr 14, 2008 | 1:50 PM

Another answer: Read the Quote of the Day.
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I am a home-based Cruise Agent. I am a long time Libertarian from Babylon, Long Island. Got tired of the lies and dirty tricks of the Demopublicans and Republicrats. I beleive the Constitution was put in place to chain up the Federal Government. The Bill of Rights should be called the Bill of NO Rights. It clearly says what the Federal Government has NO right to do. If you ignore a part of the Constitution without an ammendment, that makes you a traitor, especially if you are an elected official. Anyone elected to the Federal Government takes an oath to Protect and Defend the CONSTITUTION of the United States, not the government, country or people. If you don't defend the Constitution, there is no United States. Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. They were written by very wise people.

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