Without knowing the individuals personally, but knowing people that appear to be like them, we can conclude that they did indeed want both Peter McWilliams and Steve Kubby dead, because those dissenters, like many libertarians, are a challenge to the career, institutions, and belief systems into which they have invested their lives. It is a tribal thing, a factional interest, what we sometimes call in legal discussions "reliance interests", reliance in continuing some practice, and resistance to those who try to change it. Of course, they would deny a desire for those dissenters' deaths, and might even feel regret such outcomes at some level, but by and large they just don't care. They imagine themselves as the center of the Universe, on which All Good Things Depend, without whom Darkness will Descend on the World. For such True Believers those who resist them, and challenge their authority and position, are Evil that Must be Destroyed, and thereby to be dismissed as not really human or worthy of compassion or protection. Keep in mind that this is not about ridding society of the Scourge of Drugs. The Drug Warriors are intimately involved with the Drug Lords, not only because without the Drug Lords they would have no role to play, but also because they are complicit in the distribution of narcotics, and profit from it as co-conspirators as well as for fighting it. Their problem with McWilliams and Kubby is not that they encourage the use of drugs, but that they encourage the use of drugs their people aren't supplying. People who grow their own are competitors to the Warriors' own business. So were they actively pursuing the dissenters' deaths? Of course, whether consciously or not. Probably mostly unconsciously, because these are not reflective people. If they really reflected on what they are doing they would probably leave the field. They exhibit that callousness and indifference to reflection that is the reason that reason doesn't prevent wars of mutual extermination, and that attribute of humanity that inspired my epitaph for humanity: "They were smart enough to create problems for themselves they weren't smart enough to solve."
Geof Gibson wrote: >Are you saying that law enforcement officials wanted Peter, or want >Steve dead? Are you accusing them of actively pursing Peter's death? > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Our efforts depend on donations from people like you. Directions for donors are at http://www.constitution.org/whatucando.htm Constitution Society 7793 Burnet Road #37, Austin, TX 78757 512/374-9585 www.constitution.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------- ForumWebSiteAt http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Libertarian/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
