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Heck, I hope it works a *lot* better. Drugs are as available now as they
were before the "war on drugs" was declared. Combine that with the
financial and social costs and clearly we are not doing too well.

So, if this "war" on terrorism, if things go the same way, will cost us
billions of dollars and could result in serious reductions of freedoms and
rights, and maybe not even disrupt the terrorists operations?

And why did General Downing really quit?


"bender" wrote in message
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> On 30 Jun 2002 05:00:23 GMT, stellastar@aol.com (StellaStar) wrote:
>
> >>Like drug free school zones. Sure you and I know that putting up those
> >>signs does not create a magical force field that keeps drugs out of
> >>schools.
> >
> >That was never the point. Nobody thought declaring them "drug free" would
> >magically keep drugs out. It just gives prosecutors another charge to
pile on
> >a dealer when hes caught. And it works. They get more and/or longer
> >sentences.
>
> Which does nothing. Im sure new dealers prompty take over the same
> "territory", while the taxpayers now shell out another 30,000 a year
> for X*2 years. I hope the "war" on terrorism ends up working a little
> better than this social experiment.
>
>

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