Re: The Intellectual Origins Of America-Bashing By Lee Harris

From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Tue 10 Dec 2002 - 17:49:11 GMT

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    > At 12:29 AM 10/12/02 -0600, you wrote:
    > >> At 08:11 AM 9/12/02 -0500, you wrote:
    > >> Snip........Alfred wrote:
    > >> >And, of course, it's not just the left that supports
    > >> >terrorism...it's drug addicts, too. commercials have shown, by
    > >> >association, that drugs are sold by dealers who get their drugs
    > >> >from people who finance terrorists. associative equation:
    > >> >drugs=supports terrorism.
    > >> >
    > >> Jeremy:
    > >> Correct me here if I am wrong here but hasn't the CIA been shown to
    > >> be one of the biggest importers of drugs into the US? And didn't
    > >> they run drugs out of Cambodia to finance terrorism, train
    > >> terrorists and supply arms for right-wing insurgents who even
    > >> murdered US citizens in South America? Jeremy
    > >>
    > >More than that; there is testimony that they used CIA planes to bring
    > > cocaine into the US so its sale would multiply available covert US
    > >funds to arm the contras. In my opinion, Iran-Contra was as
    > >dangerous to the US democracy as Watergate ever was; in one case, we
    > >had a sitting president of one major party bugging the other major
    > >party's campaign headquarters, and in the other, we had a shadow
    > >government operating for the sole purpose of pursuing a presidential
    > >policy that had expressly been forbidden by Congress. Both happened
    > >during Republican administrations; lying about a Democratic
    > >presidential-intern blowjob tryst or two pales into pastels by
    > >comparison.
    >
    > This is my understanding too Joe. I have heard that England (opium
    > introduced to China) and USAnia are the two all-time biggest
    > drug-runners of all time. As a long time casual pot smoker it makes me
    > madder than hell that they are the two most anti-drug nations. It is
    > hypocritical in the extreme. They talk of harm minimisation, ie the
    > avoidance of a few thousand deaths of consenting junkies in the West,
    > but ignore the millions who will die violently, or from HIV, as a
    > result of the 'war on drugs'. IMO they are just trying to keep the
    > price up and siphon off cash from an artificially created social
    > underbelly. Still keepin the niggers down in the good ol USofA. Jeremy
    >
    But nigger is no longer is defined by complexion; it is defined by class status and behavior.
    >
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