Those new anti-drug ads

From: Zantippy Socrates
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Thu, Feb 7, 2002

Maybe my memory is hazy here... but I thought the Bin Ladin family got
its money from petroleum.
"Ever wonder where terrorists get their money? If you drive a car...
maybe they got it from you."
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From: usenet@butter.toast.net (Birmingham Gremlin)

On Thu, 07 Feb 2002 11:29:58 -0800, Zantippy Socrates wrote:
> Maybe my memory is hazy here... but I thought the Bin Ladin family got
> its money from petroleum.

Construction.

--
Birmingham Gremlin
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From: slaac@yahoo.com (Rev. Lemuel Atom)

Zantippy Socrates wrote in message news:<3C62D5B5.CC932BA1@hotmail.com>...
> Maybe my memory is hazy here... but I thought the Bin Ladin family got
> its money from petroleum.
> "Ever wonder where terrorists get their money? If you drive a car...
> maybe they got it from you."

Actually, they made their money in construction.

"If you've ever been inside a concrete building..."
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From: kconvery@ioma.com (The Bishop)

Zantippy Socrates wrote in message news:<3C62D5B5.CC932BA1@hotmail.com>...
> Maybe my memory is hazy here... but I thought the Bin Ladin family got
> its money from petroleum.
> "Ever wonder where terrorists get their money? If you drive a car...
> maybe they got it from you."

Wicked good point. What really burned me was the way they don't talk
about how before 1931, there were no illegal drugs. They tried it with
alcohol, and what happened? The criminalization of much of the
country, and the rise of a whole new unprecedented criminal class,
which we still have problems with today.

The message isn't false, it's just being played for the wrong
audience. It's Congress that needs to see it, over and over, until
they get it. When something's legal, it's sold by businesspeople. When
it's contraband, it's sold by criminals. Businesspeople pay taxes,
uphold standards of hygiene and quality, and are accountable.
Criminals make deals with terrorists, for a variety of reasons.

It's one thing to say heroin is bad, mmmkay? But not even being
willing to CONSIDER taking pot off Schedule 1--not legalizing it, just
lowering the penalties, so one out of every ten federal jail cells
isn't occupied by a marijuana-only offender--is what makes these
messages so hypocritical. You want to have the support of most people
in opposing life-sucking hard drugs like crack and heroin? Stop
criminalizing pot smokers, and spreading propaganda that "drug users"
are all the same. Remember the graphics they used to use when
announcing drug busts on the news? They would have a needle, some
pills, lines of blow and a razor, and a pot leaf. Now, next time
there's a huge heroin or coke bust in your town, check the graphic.
Chances are, you'll see a pot leaf, a pot pipe with rising smoke, a
joint, and some loose buds. Gee, they aren't trying to influence our
thinking, are they?!

By the way, would pot, once legalized, go up or down in quality? I
say way up, because booze quality during Prohibition, unless you got
some Canadian, was pretty poor by all accounts.

Interesting pot fact: Phillip Morris has 2,000 acres lying fallow in
anticipation of the day pot is legal. They have special hybridized
seeds ready to plant. Phillip Morris is a major contributor to both
major political parties.
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From: "Bryan J. Maloney"

In article ,
kconvery@ioma.com (The Bishop) wrote:

>
> Wicked good point. What really burned me was the way they don't talk
> about how before 1931, there were no illegal drugs. They tried it with
> alcohol, and what happened? The criminalization of much of the
> country, and the rise of a whole new unprecedented criminal class,
> which we still have problems with today.

And the other thing the don't talk about is that the first drugs besides
alcohol targeted for criminalization was seen as a "Mexican weed"--it
was considered to be the hallmark of an "inferior race".

> in opposing life-sucking hard drugs like crack and heroin? Stop
> criminalizing pot smokers, and spreading propaganda that "drug users"
> are all the same. Remember the graphics they used to use when

Exactly. It's another example of demonization destroying credibility.

--
"A 'Cape Cod Salsa' just isn't right."
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From: write2mrs_babymash@yahoo.com (Mrs Babymash)

Fuck me swinging if The Bishop didn't just say...:

> By the way, would pot, once legalized, go up or down in quality?

After gumamint regulation? It would become uniformly lower in quality.

> Interesting pot fact: Phillip Morris has 2,000 acres lying fallow in
>anticipation of the day pot is legal. They have special hybridized
>seeds ready to plant. Phillip Morris is a major contributor to both
>major political parties.

Interesting pot fact #2: Whenever mary j'wana plantations are found in
Australia they are destroyed with much pomp and ceremony for the news
media to film and photograph. Seized shipments of drugs such as heroin
and cocaine OTOH are laid out on tables for the media to photograph
before being spirited away to customs HQ. I have never once seen any
confiscated drug besides pot publicly destroyed. On a related note, an
audit a few years ago of Federal Police warehouses (which store
confiscated contraband) revealed that 70 TONS of seized heroin and
cocaine had "gone missing". No follow-up report of this ever appeared
in the media though one assumes the auditing firm was the same one
used by Enron...
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"God, grant me SERENITY to deal with problems I can't change,
COURAGE to face the challenges of all other problems and
WISDOM to hide the bodies of those who fuck with me."

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From: "palimpsest"

"Birmingham Gremlin" wrote in message
news:slrna65pc8.6i6.usenet@localhost.localdomain...
>
> Construction.
>

father started the business; first job was refurbishing Mecca...

here's how it looked before the work, in 1880:
http://www.islam.org/Culture/MOSQUES/Makkah/Kaaba_1297AH.htm

just before b-l co. began construction, in 1952:
http://www.islam.org/Culture/MOSQUES/Makkah/Kaaba_1371AH.htm

recently, daytime:
http://www.islam.org/Culture/MOSQUES/Makkah/amakkah.htm

and at night:
http://www.islam.org/Culture/MOSQUES/Makkah/haram3.htm

and a bunch of contemporary shots, including the sacred stone yoni, which
must be kissed, blarney-stone-stylee, by the pilgrims at hajj...which starts
in 'bout a week...
http://www.islam.org/Culture/MOSQUES/Makkah/images.htm
folks are already arriving at airports in Arabia, getting eye-scanned by the
latest fab-tech-sec shit, administered by a 'private' US security firm.
(the yoni is the upper right corner image on the above-linked page)

'imp'
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From: "Siegfried The Red"

Using drugs doesn't cause crime or terrorism.

The War on Drugs does.

I've been smokin frop for over 10 yrs now and I haven't blown a single thing
up. Except for ... oh, never mind, pinks don't count.

"Zantippy Socrates" wrote in message
news:3C62D5B5.CC932BA1@hotmail.com...
> Maybe my memory is hazy here... but I thought the Bin Ladin family got
> its money from petroleum.
> "Ever wonder where terrorists get their money? If you drive a car...
> maybe they got it from you."
>
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From: Kevan

On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 05:10:24 GMT, "Siegfried The Red"
from The Order of Orson wrote:

>Using drugs doesn't cause crime or terrorism.

Yes. It does.

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Look! A ladder! Maybe it leads to heaven, or a sandwich! 1:10:40 AM 9 February 2002
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From: HellPope Huey

In article <27sa6u85q00pqt3tbmro3s8pvpjrlh59u2@4ax.com>, Kevan says...

>Blessings on all you do today.

Guzzle piss, babboon boy.

HellPope Huey, hellpopehuey@subgenius.com
Time to make up some cocktail
for those damned Christacians

"You're a creature of the NIGHT!
Wait 'til MOM finds out!"
- "The Lost Boys"

"I'm sure you're all with me when I say
'Congratulations, you son of a bitch.'"
- "Family Guy"

"I like throwin' a bucket o' HATE out there!"
-Conan O'Brien
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From: mshotz@aol.comnospam (James T. Rex King of the Monsters)

>father started the business; first job was refurbishing Mecca...

The Designer of teh WTC had worked for Bin LAden's father for about ten years.
HE did several major buildings in Saudi.

The WTC was the first work he had done back int eh US after doing Suadi's
International Airport. The trim on the WTC formed arc simular to those used in
Arabian Buildings.

Ironic ain't it!
MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man

"Just think, the next time I shoot someone I could get arrested!"

Lt. Frank Dredin, "The Naked Gun"
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From: mshotz@aol.comnospam (James T. Rex King of the Monsters)

>Businesspeople pay taxes,
>uphold standards of hygiene and quality, and are accountable.

Except those who are friends with the Bushes, they can streal all they want!
Just ask the enron stockowners!

>But not even being
>willing to CONSIDER taking pot off Schedule 1--not legalizing it, just
>lowering the penalties, so one out of every ten federal jail cells
>isn't occupied by a marijuana-only offender--is what makes these
>messages so hypocritical.

At the last job I worked at, they got a guy on a pee test for pot. They fired
him for using "norcotics"

He challanged it in court. The case is still pending. The reason: Pot is NOT a
narcotic! By defination, Narcotics are any drug based on Heroin. Morphine is a
narcotic. So he is sueing for being fired under false prefixes.

MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man

"Just think, the next time I shoot someone I could get arrested!"

Lt. Frank Dredin, "The Naked Gun"
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From: mshotz@aol.comnospam (James T. Rex King of the Monsters)

>On a related note, an
>audit a few years ago of Federal Police warehouses (which store
>confiscated contraband) revealed that 70 TONS of seized heroin and
>cocaine had "gone missing". No follow-up report of this ever appeared

Every few years around here, we get news reports of Cops being busted in
Philly, Jersey etc for stealing drugs from the evidence lockers and wither
selling them on the street or using them themselves.

MSHOTZ: The Post Post Modern Man

"Just think, the next time I shoot someone I could get arrested!"

Lt. Frank Dredin, "The Naked Gun"
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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang"

In article <27sa6u85q00pqt3tbmro3s8pvpjrlh59u2@4ax.com>, Kevan
wrote:

> On Sat, 09 Feb 2002 13:34:21 -0500, "Rev. Ivan Stang"
> from
> http://extra.newsguy.com wrote:
>
>

>
> Blessings on all you do today.

Like another Jesus, a Ghandi, a veritable Martin Luther King Jr., He
is. The sheer sincerity glowing from the Grand Forgivings of Kevan's,
why, it fair blinds those who would gaze upon His forgiving Words.

And in only a week, He went to blessing me from telling me "Fuck you."
That's how swiftly the Mercy of K'Vahn descends, subsequent to His
awful Wrath.

I can't wait to see His latest bestowal of Article Stats. I understand
that yesterday, almost 70% didn't go to the trouble of calling Him an
asshole. This will ease the pressure on His Forgivenes Bladder, I hope.
So many have put a strain on It lately, some even accusing saintly
K'Vahn of such sins as hypocricy or insincerity.

Imagine the fierce power of SARCASM in the hands of The Key Vain One!
Thank Him that He has spared us that weapon.

--
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Resurrected
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 140306, Dallas, TX 75214
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com PRABOB
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From: Arbane the Terrible

Ke''n wrote:

>
> Yeah? Watch ....
>
> *PLONK*

I think you proved Joe's point quite a while back, actually.

What was that comedy show with the "I'm crushing your head!!!" guy?
Plonking reminds me of that, a bit.
(Mind you, when T*m S*tter was in his prime, I WAS sorely tempted to shell
out for Agent Deluxe, just so I wouldn't have to listen to his blatherings.
With a little more effort, K'''n, you could be just as irritating and inane
as HE was!)

--
"Remember, the plural of 'moron' is 'focus group'."
-- James A. Wolf

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