Re: A Prison State, If Not a Police State

From: Quirk (quirk_at_syntac.net)
Date: 02/28/05 

Date: 28 Feb 2005 02:09:13 -0800

robert j. kolker wrote:

> Quirk wrote:
> > Backwards IMO, whatever popularity they have is because of
deliberate
> > propaganda from the ruling class, to whom the drug laws are a
usefull
> > tool of oppression.

> That is a very arrogant assumption. You assume over 150,000,000 are
***
> stupid. They may be self interested and narrow in their views, but
> stupid? I think not.

Now that is *** stupid, however I hope most Americans are smarter than
you.

People are influenced by propaganda, not only the stupid, this is well
understood by everyone from socialogist to advertisers to Macheavelian
despots.

> > And despite this, they are not that popular, a good portion, if not
the
> > majority of the US support some degree of liberlization of the drug
> > laws.

> You have just contradicted yourself. The People are both enslaved by
> propaganda and not enslaved by propaganda. Which is it?

No contradiction, while support for drug laws is higher that it may be
in absence of propaganda, it is still not that high.

What is so hard to understand?