Date:         Sat, 9 Mar 2002 19:09:08 -0500
Reply-To:     Tim & Kim Dayton <5days@PRODIGY.NET>
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From:         Tim & Kim Dayton <5days@PRODIGY.NET>
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Subject:      right on Rich
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One more comment and I will let it go (besides if it was big Bill being criticized, most would be thoroughly upset & reactive)  

Rich says:


Oh what strange days.  I recall Rumfield's words early on: something to the
effect that we do not know who the enemy is, where the theater will be and we
do not have a timeline, BUT WE ARE GOING TO WAR!  Hallelujah!  War sweet war.
 Someone once said to be loved by the Great Unwashed, all a leader has to do
is to create some horror, real or imagined, from which to deliver them.  It
is starting to appear that this "War on Terrorism" may have the hypnotic
power to justify anything.

What is particularly scary to me is that over the past few years I gotten to
know the guys who were fighting the "War on Drugs" (but not on snow days or
when their kids had a soccer game or any Federal holiday or on rainy
Mondays...) who are now assigned to our new threat.  Believe me, you can
count on them to calculate how many minutes of service it takes to retire
from the government, but there are two things you do NOT want to depend on
them to protect: your Constitution or your ass.

Rich

You are right on the money with this one.  I had a neighbor, that has since move to a upscaled neighborhood, that is a state police officer working with illegal drug investagations.  The state provides him a car to drive and many times he uses it for non-drug inforcement reasons (he tells me that's how I know).  Admitingly, he takes more vacation than Bill Clinton did.  On top of that his wife is a elementary teacher (who doesn't have a teaching degree, works 10 months a year, and took a class to learn how to put up a bulletin board) and she feels she is underpaid to put a television in front of her students.  She says she voted for Bill Clinton because he was good looking and knew nothing of his politics.  Her husband frequently discussed his future retirement and how the state would pay his health insurance, etc.  He and his wife are suckling off of the tit of socialism.  I have always told him our failed drug policy in America has created a government industry providing unnecessary jobs at tax payer expense.  The drug war is a failure making people wealthy.  We should decriminalize marijuana and sell it in the ABC store like alcohol and make money from it all of the while driving vanagons (had to make it somewhat relevant).