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The old money, the big money, the trans-national corporations.

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>> ^Lolthien:
What kind of world do we live in where that WON'T happen?


It's happening anyway.

Given that we have honest, compassionate people watching over things--and in America, that's never going to happen--legalization would give us the control instead of leaving it to the syndicates and, yes, the banks and other "legal" institutions who thrive on the profits of illegal drugs.

The CIA and other dirtbags make a lot of money off heroin, and they use it as a weapon, too.

Nothing is going to change because as with the Democrats and the Republicans, the difference between the DEA and the drug cartels is just an illusion, a front for the people who are really in charge.

Enlighten me, who are the people really in charge?

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The King's English is sometimes over-rated.

you realize he is australian. last time i checked that is not the "king's" english

It's a figure of speech. I was implying that just because he wasn't as eloquent or as precise with his words as Hitchens or Rushdie, that his point was no less valid.

It would be like me discounting your sentence above because it wasn't capitalized or punctuated according to the rules.