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Old 03-26-2007, 03:28 AM   #2 (permalink)
johso
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Stop Scaring People

I'd stop scaring people. I live in Denmark, and ever since 9/11 there has been way to much focus on terror. Sure, things could happen. But come on, terror existed before 2001 too. I'm not saying that you should totally ignore the threat completely, but when every if every show on the TV is related to terror in one way or another, people are going to be more and more paranoid. And the innately stupid and nonsensical bills there are passed 'in order to protect the public against terror'--there's not a thing that the government can't get away with as long as they fit in the word terror somewhere along the road.

Same goes for drugs. I was really happy to read the news last friday, because of this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6474053.stm
A group of experts have been consulted, and it clearly shows how a drug-scale would look if there was any science (and common sense) behind it.
It's just sad that so much money is wasted on catching small-time dealers and users, when the drugs aren't that dangerous anyway. A friend of mine even got fined for an 'intend to resell weed' even though the police never found anything in his house. I don't get just how it's legal, but I just think it's lame that weed is illegal in the first place.
Of course, I think all drugs should be legal, good or bad, but that probably wouldn't work out in the kind of society we live in.
And all the stories you hear about ecstasy... Makes me sick to hear that people die and stuff from just taking a pill. Piles of lies upon piles of lies.

It's practically the same thing when they tell lies about drugs and when they scare us with terror threats. It doesn't do any good, and the people that know the truth just stop trusting the government. But what it does do is to widen the gap between immigrants and natives--which is a very bad thing in a multi-cultural society.

That said, it would probably be easier to start a new country, 'cause changing what has already been established would be a humongous hassle. ^^

Last edited by johso; 03-26-2007 at 07:08 AM.. Reason: Corrections
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