Pubdate: Tue, 14 May 2002
Source: Journal-Standard, The (IL)
Copyright: The Journal-Standard 2002
Website: www.journalstandard.com
Contact:  P.O. Box 330, Freeport, IL 61032
Phone: (815) 232-1171
Author: Bill Smeathers

GAS, NOT DRUGS, SUPPORTS TERRORISM

I am writing to voice my opinion about the "drugs/terrorist" commercials 
now running amok. It is disgusting to say that everyone who buys marijuana 
has some part in the funding of international terrorism. The rationale 
behind this allows our government to take away our rights, makes us pay 
mindless fines, increases defense spending and builds prisons (human 
warehouses) for pot smokers.

The point well worth making here is, each and everyone who purchases 
gasoline from companies that purchase oil from "terrorist nations" are 
actually doing more to fund terrorism than pot buyers. Last check, this was 
virtually "every" major oil company in the United States, so everyone who 
buys gas from them is directly responsible for funding terrorist attacks 
against the United States of America.

I wonder, is it the dollars a pot smoker spends on a bag of cannabis, 
produced by a local grower, which funds terrorism, or is it the dollars 
which "you" spend for gasoline derived from the crude oil purchased from 
Saddam Hussein?

Bill Smeathers

Freeport
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