Subject: Re: [drugwar] (OT really) Re: War is the life blood of the State . Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2003 22:49:04 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 19:31:44 -0500, Jules Siegel wrote: >=A0on 7/14/03 7:17 PM, Libby at baystatebar@yahoo.com wrote: >=A0>=A0Bob Armstrong =A0wrote: >=A0>>=A0The vast majority of their agricultural chemicals are used >=A0>>=A0for just that - to increase food production . > >=A0>=A0I've been a farmer. You're talking about fertilizers, not= herbicides. No . From what I browsed in their annual report their Ag chem= division is mainly insecticides and some herbicides . GM crops with built in= resistance is reducing some of those markets . > > The US=A0gov is dropping barrels of defoliants on huge tracts= of land > > indiscriminately.=A0The indigenous people being sprayed did not= buy > > it, they are sick and dying=A0from it. There is no argument that the US government is doing horrendous= things in the their war of terror against the growers of their targeted= plants . Paraquat was their big tool a decade or two ago . Whether they buy their herbicides from Dow or from some other= supplier around the globe , IT IS THE US GOVERNMENT who are the terroists= . >=A0Just highlighting this to make sure that Bob reads it and tries= to begin >=A0understanding what's going on here. > >=A0The presumption that government runs business is at best= suspect. It's the >=A0other way around. ( The relationship is customer - dealer , not either running= the other ) So Bush and Ashcroft and Hutchinson and Barr and Biden , and= Clinton and McCafery and who all before them are just weak willys under= the thumbs of herbicide and helicopter and gunboat and black-suit= and what all manufacturers ? And somehow the manufacturers organize battalions and squads of= special ops - totally internal to the government - just to sell small= fractions of their total product line ? Give me a break . It is the State that is the aggressor . It is the State that is dangerous to your health . The US government is as addicted to their Drug War as any addict= is to their drug of choice . Take away one supplier of their tools= and they will find another or just start manufacturing it themselves= . --=A0 =A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com =A02003/07/14 10:18:51 PM