On May 8, 2007, at 9:45 AM, graywolf wrote: > "Everything not prohibited is mandatory!" The only reason drugs were > made illegal in the US is because good old J Edgar Hoover blackmailed > them into making them illegal so he would not have to disband the FBI > when prohibition was ended. Orwell had no imagination.
They should have listened to Abe Lincoln: "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. ...for it goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded" -- Abraham Lincoln -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
