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  1. Xref: sparky alt.activism:19817 alt.politics.usa.misc:728 talk.politics.misc:65287
  2. Newsgroups: alt.activism,alt.politics.usa.misc,talk.politics.misc
  3. Path: sparky!uunet!psgrain!m2xenix!mtek!bud
  4. From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
  5. Subject: Re: What is United States of America like?
  6. Reply-To: bud@mtek.com
  7. Organization: MTEK International, Inc.
  8. Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 00:58:10 GMT
  9. Message-ID: <1992Dec24.005810.2005@mtek.com>
  10. References: <1992Dec19.232619.6118@nntp.hut.fi> <BzM9Eo.Jvt@unix.amherst.edu>     <1992Dec23.004340.23957@nntp.hut.fi> <bob1.725129827@cos> <MATT.92Dec23125859@physics2.berkeley.edu>
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  13. matt@physics2.berkeley.edu (Matt Austern) writes:
  14.  
  15. >Maybe khat is a lot worse than coffee: maybe so.  Maybe it's so
  16. >incredibly bad, in fact, that it's as dangerous as that well-known
  17. >killer drug, ethanol.
  18.  
  19. >But wouldn't you feel a trifle resentful if Somalia, or some other
  20. >Moslem country, demanded that American drug-users stop using ethanol,
  21. >and if they started to enforce that demand by military might?
  22.  
  23. Excellent point.
  24.  
  25. Next time the Somalis have to invade to keep the street gangs from
  26. ripping off all food going into our cities, we will certainly have
  27. to keep this question fully in mind. Especially whether 15-year-old
  28. American kids bearing automatic weapons should not be allowed to con-
  29. tinue with their "traditional" use of alcohol while the Somalis have
  30. their own troops in there attempting to restore order at minimum
  31. loss of life.
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