Reply #21: Really?

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I guess it depends on who you believe. Fun Facts

The people who were Pro-Prohibition had many ideas on just how 'drinkers' should be punished:

One suggested that the government distribute poisoned alcohol beverages through bootleggers (sellers of illegal alcohol) and acknowledged that several hundred thousand Americans would die as a result, but thought the cost well worth the enforcement of Prohibition. Others suggested that those who drank should be:

* hung by the tongue beneath an airplane and flown over the country
* exiled to concentration camps in the Aleutian Islands
* excluded from any and all churches
* forbidden to marry
* tortured
* branded
* whipped
* sterilized
* tattooed
* placed in bottle-shaped cages in public squares
* forced to swallow two ounces of caster oil
* executed, as well as their progeny to the fourth generation.

It's true. What they say. You know. "There's nothing new under the sun."