From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 20:09:37 MST
Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:
>
> Likewise, the text of the constitution that did not allow
> Congress to prohibit alcohol without an amendment in the 20s is
> precisely the same text that for some reason now does allow
> Congress to prohibit other drugs. Nothing has changed except
> the fact the people with guns now think prohibition is OK.
"Ideology counts. But usually, when it counts, it does the counting
with a sword."
-- "The Steel, the Mist, and the Blazing Sun", Christopher Anvil
--
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