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|  #1 Posted on 25.2.03 1011.10 | Okay, we're about to go to war in Iraq and we face a contast threat of domestic terrorism. Now, how does the Bush administration spend the limited resources of the Justice Department? Fighting "head shops (usdoj.gov)
(I also feel compelled to point out that there was a local crack down on stores selling bongs as "water pipes" about five years ago and, when I was last in Tela Ropa no more than a month ago, the closest things to drug paraphanelia they were selling consisted of blacklight posters and hackey sacks.)
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Scrapple
Since: 11.7.02
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| #2 Posted on 25.2.03 1024.48 | Instant Rating: 7.29 | Hey, it is the job of DOJ to enforce the law, regardless of whether we're fighting a war or not.
Uh...what's a 'head shop'?
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- Theodore Roosevelt, Ocotber 12, 1915 | Pool-Boy
Lap cheong
Since: 1.8.02
From: Huntington Beach, CA
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| #3 Posted on 25.2.03 1032.55 | Sooooooo.... since we are about to go to war, the Justice Department is just supposed to STOP EVERYTHING and focus solely on the terrorists...
Riiight...
Besides, I thought some liberals claimed that if you smoked pot, you were supporting terrorism? Maybe Ashcroft thinks that too!
Head Shop- place to buy marijuana accessories... basically a smoke shop, with more of an emphasis on the bong...
(edited by Pool-Boy on 25.2.03 0833)
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| Jaguar
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Since: 23.1.02
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| #4 Posted on 25.2.03 1104.37 | Poor potheads. Pot is so widespread, that you would think that any political figure running on a pro-pot platform would easily be able to grab a decent amount of votes. Except for the fact that most people just don't give a fuck when they're high.
-Jag
No matter how obvious the trap, you can't complete the game unless you fall into it. | Corajudo
Frankfurter
Since: 7.11.02
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| #5 Posted on 25.2.03 1211.54 |
Originally posted by Jaguar
Poor potheads. Pot is so widespread, that you would think that any political figure running on a pro-pot platform would easily be able to grab a decent amount of votes. Except for the fact that most people just don't give a fuck when they're high.
-Jag
That's funny. At the same time, you may have hit on why pot is not legal and why there is no serious attempt at legalization. It seems that most people support its legalization but the people who would actively vote for a pro-pot candidate do not have enough zeal to counteract the zeal of the prohibition group. Hell, it's hard just get them off the couch to pay the pizza guy, much less vote. | Jaguar
Knackwurst
Since: 23.1.02
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| #6 Posted on 25.2.03 1259.03 | You also have to take into account the reasons why it's so easy to go to war against the potheads: They don't fight back.
Many of the other hardcore drugs are controlled by specific parties (such as drug cartels) and can throw the money they make into arming convoys and buying congressmen. However, the majority of pot (as far as I can tell) is homegrown and distributed by people who don't carry guns. So cracking down on the pot dealers is a hell of a lot easier than going after the dope smugglers.
-Jag
No matter how obvious the trap, you can't complete the game unless you fall into it. | MoeGates
Andouille
Since: 6.1.02
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| #7 Posted on 25.2.03 1336.14 | Instant Rating: 6.73 | Besides, I thought some liberals claimed that if you smoked pot, you were supporting terrorism? Maybe Ashcroft thinks that too!
Liberals claimed this? Do you just blame everything you think is silly on "Liberals?"
It seems that I am - in no particular order - Zack Morris, John Adams, a Siren, Janeane Garofalo, Cheer Bear, Aphrodite, a Chihuahua, Data, Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel, Amy-Wynn Pastor, Hydrogen, Bjork, Spider-Man, Boston, and a Chaotic Good Elvin Bard-Mage. | Pool-Boy
Lap cheong
Since: 1.8.02
From: Huntington Beach, CA
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| #8 Posted on 25.2.03 1349.25 | Originally posted by MoeGates
Besides, I thought some liberals claimed that if you smoked pot, you were supporting terrorism? Maybe Ashcroft thinks that too!
Liberals claimed this? Do you just blame everything you think is silly on "Liberals?"
Yup. Because unlike my non-Liberal leftist friends... Liberals tend to make the most outlandish claims that are totally unsupported by fact. You know, like Bush is in Iraq for Oil (if that were the case, it would be far easier and cheaper to just push for the sanctions to be lifted), and "The Rain Forest is the Lungs of the world" (when any dilhole knows that the Rain Forest is a net consumser of oxygen, and the so called "lungs of the Earth" is actually our oceans), oh, and my most recent favorite "Inspections work, war does not." Gotta love the way that argument just flies in the face of all of human history...
So yeah, I find absolutely silly ideas to usually come from Liberals. So I might be wrong on the specifics on this one, (who really knows), but it is a safe bet nonetheless. Don't those commercials come from the same eco-freaks who claim that driving an SUV contributes to terrorism?
(edited by Pool-Boy on 25.2.03 1151)
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| oldschoolhero
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Since: 2.1.02
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|  #9 Posted on 25.2.03 1428.17 | "Yup. Because unlike my non-Liberal leftist friends... Liberals tend to make the most outlandish claims that are totally unsupported by fact. You know, like Bush is in Iraq for Oil (if that were the case, it would be far easier and cheaper to just push for the sanctions to be lifted), and "The Rain Forest is the Lungs of the world" (when any dilhole knows that the Rain Forest is a net consumser of oxygen, and the so called "lungs of the Earth" is actually our oceans), oh, and my most recent favorite "Inspections work, war does not." Gotta love the way that argument just flies in the face of all of human history..."
Don't forget crazy notions like "George Bush is an illiterate drunk-driver" and "the US sells arms to foreign countries when it suits them"! Oh, wait...
Hail To The King, Baby | MoeGates
Andouille
Since: 6.1.02
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| #10 Posted on 25.2.03 1431.29 | Instant Rating: 6.73 | Yup. Because unlike my non-Liberal leftist friends... Liberals tend to make the most outlandish claims that are totally unsupported by fact.
What's the difference between non-Liberal leftists and Liberal leftists? I'm not being a schmuk, I'm genuinly curious as to what your definition is. I can give you the campus lefty definition, but I'm pretty sure it's different from yours.
It seems that I am - in no particular order - Zack Morris, John Adams, a Siren, Janeane Garofalo, Cheer Bear, Aphrodite, a Chihuahua, Data, Cletus the Slack Jawed Yokel, Amy-Wynn Pastor, Hydrogen, Bjork, Spider-Man, Boston, and a Chaotic Good Elvin Bard-Mage. | Pool-Boy
Lap cheong
Since: 1.8.02
From: Huntington Beach, CA
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| #11 Posted on 25.2.03 1438.57 | Yup- Bush is an illiterate drunk driver definitly qualifies.
I mean, first off, the man clearly is not illiterate. Sure, he is not the best public speaker, but who gives a rats ass about that? Personally, that was one of the WORST things about Clinton and Gore... they were too polished, too fake. When Bush speaks, it is more like a REGULAR PERSON. I don't have a clue when that became a bad thing...
The "drunk driver" part simply astounds me. He is hounded by something he did in his YOUTH (damn, Republicans did not harp on the whole pot thing NEARLY this bad, and pot is not even legal), and he is clean now. It is simply incredible that the Liberal ideology espouses "forgiveness" and the notion that you can be rehabilitated from anything, and thusly they proceed to forgive every crack-whore, drugged up Mom, AA member, viloent criminal in jail who has found God, but they can't forget or forgive the decades past drunkeness of a Republican President. Because, you know, he is not a Liberal, therefore not worthy of forgiveness.
Hypocrites.
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| oldschoolhero
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| #12 Posted on 25.2.03 1450.33 | "It is simply incredible that the Liberal ideology espouses "forgiveness" and the notion that you can be rehabilitated from anything"
And there's your problem. Yeah, it's the iberal standpoint, but not the Republican one, the PARTY HE'S THE HEAD OF.
If I were a smaller man, I COULD point you in the direction of the gun control thread a coupla months back which contained several Republican folk proclaiming all those that break the law deserving of severe consequences. I COULD do that. I could also point out that he's not only been arrested just once, but THREE TIMES-including dirsorderly conduct at a baseball game. A friggin' baseball game! You'd have to really go some to get cuffed and carted there. I could talk about his churlish, "can't-make-me-admit-I'm-telling-you" attitude to allegations of cocaine use in his youth. I could also, of course, point to Bushs' exceptionally poor academic career and wonder how this man could be considered a fit candidate for leader of the free world status.
But of course, I'm a bigger man than that, so I won't. 
And for the last time, I'm not a Republican, I'm not a Democrat, I'm ENGLISH. I'm sure you can use that to disqualify me because I know nothing about your coutnry, and if you do then I'll happily remind you of that next you comment on any place outside the US.
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