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Joanne98 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 04:05 PM
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The Communist/Socialist/Fascist Reagan's "Turn your parents over to the state"
Edited on Mon Sep-07-09 04:05 PM by Joanne98
The war on drugs is a pretext for replacing loyalty to family and friends with loyalty to the Therapeutic State. For example, after listening to an anti-drug lecture, a junior high school student walks into the police station carrying a trash can bag containing an ounce of cocaine, small amounts of marijuana, and some pills. By sunrise, her father and mother are arrested and jailed. Then First Lady Nancy Reagan explained: "She must have loved her parents a great deal." A 12-year-old girl turns her parents in to the police for growing marijuana and using cocaine. Declares a spokesman for the police: "She did the right thing. We don't see this as turning in parents. We would rather view this as someone requesting help for their parents and for themselves." The media report all this as if it were as ordinary as a weather forecast for a sunny summer day.


Betraying one's parents was not enough. When he was the drug czar, William Bennett instructed high school students to tell on their friends "It isn't snitching or betrayal to tell an adult that a friend of yours is using drugs and needs help. It's an act of true loyalty -- of true friendship."


http://www.szasz.com/iol1.html

I don't remember the conservative filth removing their children from these influences.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 04:11 PM
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1. That is exactly what the D.A.R.E. program has always been about.
"DARE: I sent my parents to prison and all I got was this lousy t-shirt"
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 04:18 PM
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3. D.A.R.E. to think for yourself..
seen that bumper sticker a couple of times.
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DefenseLawyer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 04:46 PM
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4. DARE to fend for yourself n/t
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Jeep789 Donating Member (935 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-07-09 04:12 PM
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2. I might agree with them if what they offered was real help
instead of felony charges and prison time. As anyone who has dealt with the problem knows, there is very little help available at all.
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