Hey, one teensy weensy little flaw in your comparison. Perhaps you learned this in High School Geography class, bit in case not, the United States of America is not an Island.
The USA is bordered by two huge neighbors; Canada on the North and Mexico on the South. We have completely open borders with both of our friendly neighbors, and drugs not available in the USA are mostly completely available in Canada and Mexico. I can't really speak for Canada, but I know for a fact, you can get any prescription drug your little heart desires south of the border. How hard would it have been for any of those "80,000" to catch a flight to Mexico City to gain access to these drugs you talk of? --- 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 > 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/
