Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:39:46 -0700 From: xiliffx@juno.com Subject: [AZHumanists] Quotes To: AZHumanists@yahoogroups.com Reply-To: AZHumanists@yahoogroups.com
1. From a letter to the Editor: "Unfortunately, there are some bottom feeders (lawyers) who would contaminate a cesspool."
2. Sheriff Bill Masters in Colorado: ".. the drug war itself is an addiction - and that drug prohibition is more damaging to the fabric of American society that drugs could ever be."
3. Cato Senior Fellow Doug Bandow writes that Saudi Arabia is among Washington's most dubious allies, "a corrupt and totalitarian regime at sharp variance with America's most cherished values, including religious liberty." The U.S. presence, he says, will continue to inflame Islamic extremists and encourage future terrorist attacks. Despite years of support for the Saudi regime, the United States has gotten nothing in return, Bandow says. As well as obstructing investigations, he argues the Saudi regime has also financed the Taliban and madrassa fundamentalists academies in Pakistan, and has nurtured political extremism and terrorism within Saudi Arabia itself.
4. Economist Lord Peter Bauer was recently the first winner of the Milton Friedman Prize for Advancing Liberty. Back in the 50's, he incurred scorn by arguing that state planning for developing economies would be a disaster and that foreign aid could perpetuate poverty by supporting corrupt and oppressive governments.
George W.
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