On 04-29-98 Steve Kemp wrote to Guy Distaffen... 
 
 GD>If the gang members are loitering on a street corner and selling 
 GD>drugs out in the open, then call the police.  The police can take 
 GD>all the information over the phone, and they won't do anything to 
 GD>you. 
 
 SK> I don't believe in drug laws. 
 
So what does that have to do with stopping a gang from taking up 
residence on your street corner.  The police still consider the law 
to be valid, and will enforce it. 
 
 GD>The gang members won't know that it was you, who called the police, 
 GD>either. 
 
 SK> _I_ will know. 
 
How?  By listening to a scanner?  Then you have broken another law. 
Besides, are you telling me that you are involved in a gang? 
 
 GD>I don't see what your arguement is, but most people have a phone. 
 GD>I have seen in some rare instances where people don't have phones, 
 GD>but overall, most people do. 
 
 SK> You missed my point. 
 
 GD>Again, I don't understand why you would have to worry about what the 
 GD>police would do to you, if you were calling them to report a drug 
 GD>sale on the corner, in front of your house, or to report several 
 GD>people  loitering near your home. 
 
 SK> I don't. 
 
 SK> I worry about the police...not the drug dealers. 
 
 SK> The drug laws have taken more of peoples money, more of peoples 
 SK> property, more of peoples freedom, and MORE LIVES than drugs. 
How do you figure? 
 
 SK> Drug laws are the problem. 
 
 SK> Laws that take freedom are the problem. 
 
What freedom? 
 
 SK> If there isn't a victim there isn't a crime. 
 
No victim? 
 
 SK> Ollie North and Reagan used the drug laws to sell crack to the black 
 SK> communities and transfer funds to the Contra's...just as Ollie sold 
 SK> weapon's that killed our OWN people on our OWN naval vessels. Drugs 
 SK> are 
 SK> the money line of the government to support illegal actions around the 
 SK> world.
 
I see, you believe in the conspiracy theory.  Now you make perfect sense. 
 
 
 SK> BUST THE FEDS! If you are against drugs! THEY are the biggest drug 
 SK> dealers! But, NO...bust the penny-anty street punks. Bull-Crap! 
 
 SK> There is NO justice...just the status quo. 
 
 SK> The Chief gets bought off by the biggest dealer's and the street cops 
 SK> bust the dealers that don't pay their protection money. 
 
 SK> THAT is a fact! 
 
I would hate to live in a world where that was fact and the case 
everywhere.  I am not doubting that it doesn't happen, but I would 
have to say that it happens in very few instances, and is not the case 
in most of the U.S. 
 
Guy 
 
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