Not near equal to deaths but look at the arrest and imprisonment of Americans on drugs and non victim crimes. In 2003 over 13.6 millin people were arrested in the US, around 600,00 were serious violent crimes, 1.2 million lessor assualts, Around 2 million to 2.5 million various property and fraud crimes so over 9 million arrests were for victimless crimes in 2003 alone, even if all of the 3.6 million crimes listed under " other" were agressive acts that would still leave over 5 million arrests for victimless crimes, over 1.6 million for drugs, nearly 11,000 for gambling, 75,000 for prostitution, 612,000 for liquor law violation such as licence, making moonshine etc, 116,000 for carring or possesing weapons, 136,000 for curfew violations. In 2204 there were nearly 1.5 million people in prison.--- In [email protected], "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Quoth Eric Dondero: > > > You know Mark, I could almost agree with you. If crazed DEA Agents > > (or even Colombian Drug Lords) all of a sudden were hijacking jet > > planes and flying them into the Sears Tower in Chicago and the > > Library Building in LA, and the White House in Washington, DC, > > killing thousands of our fellow citizens, then I'd gladly be at your > > side shouting, "The Drug War is just as big of a threat to our civil > > liberties as Muslim Terrorism." > > The Muslim terrorists killed about 3,000 on September 11th, and have > killed a few hundred Americans before and since (excluding military > operations deaths in Afghanistan and Iraq). > > 80,000 Americans died of second strokes while waiting for the FDA to > approve _one drug_ that would probably have prevented those strokes. > Another 120,000 died while the FDA sat on cardiac stents that would > have saved their lives. > > You do the fucking math and tell me whether al Qaeda or the US > government is the more deadly enemy of Americans. > > Tom Knapp >
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