Subject: Re: from TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - No 9
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Another interesting position, members of TRP!
And exactly which drugs do you intend to legalize?
Don't you people understand that the state IS US and WE ARE THE STATE?
(At least in non-totalitarian regimes) . . .
The state exists to protect and nurture its citizens, not oppress them.
Legalizing drugs would do more to infringe on the rights of each individual
than outlawing drugs ever could. but in your scenario, it would not be the
state infringing on our rights, it would be our fellow citizens!
How would legalizing heroin affect the rate of vehicular homicide? Think, man,
think!
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Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 06:36:35 -0500
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To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: from TRANSNATIONAL - Satyagraha - No 9
ANTI-PROHIBITIONISM, STARTING FROM DRUGS
When the State pretends to define the behavior of citizens, it brakes into
the private area of everyone's freedom; thus every individual looses the
dignity to be part of an organized society. Also, talking about drugs, it
is becoming more and more evident that the current prohibitionist policy is
the main cause of so many drugs-related deaths and the enormous power of
narco-traffickers.
By supporting and encouraging National initiatives for the reduction of
social and sanitary harm as a consequence of prohibitionism, the Radical
Party has also put forward a political proposal (along with the necessary
means to pursue it) to launch a world campaign for the revision of UN
Conventions on drugs. As now, the current National policies on drugs are
based on a few UN Conventions promoted for the goal of opposing the use of
specific substances (considered dangerous in themselves). However, those
Conventions ended up with the opposite result: people using those
substances were forced to become criminals; cities have became very
dangerous places, while the big criminal organizations have taken control
over the world monopoly of those illegal substances.
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