RE: (idm) reynolds vs reynolds, the hyde park remixes

From Alex Reynolds
Sent Tue, Apr 13th 1999, 20:27

>Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 17:32:03 -0400
>From: Rjyan C Kidwell <xxxxxxxx@xxxx.xxx>
>Subject: RE: (idm) reynolds vs reynolds
>
>it's one thing to do drugs, it's another thing entirely to say that
>your drug use is a revolutionary political statement.  how can
>you stand up for what you believe in if you can't stand up?

That's the quote of the year, in my book.

The narcotics economy is best described as 'trickle-up.' Poor addicts
funnel cash up to the wealthy -- and the cash is usually obtained by
ripping off people who live in the same low-income neighborhood, doubling
the repressive political effects.

If anything, the drug economy perpetuates itself by concentrating tax-free,
high-interest money and power in the hands of people who have every
motivation to maintain the status quo.

If you want proof that fighting addiction by opening needle clinics and
channeling addicts into programs works, look at the fact that it just isn't
done, that we're still a couple decades into Bennett's high-calibre Drug
War.

Politicians and bankers profit nothing when the poor aren't distracted or
thrown into prison on drug offenses. Let's not even get into the fact that
once you have a record, you're not allowed to vote.

There's nothing rebellious about transferring your money (or someone else's
money) into some rich asshole's Swiss bank accounts.

Off the soapbox and heading for the showers...

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