> [Ws:] That is an intersting empirical question which,
> unfortunately, we cannot answer because we are not in
> a situation that everyone is making the right
> decisions - so we cannot observe what would happen.
Actually, it is more than that. We cannot know the answer because the institutions involved - the criminal justice system, the prison system, those in collusion and who benefit from the drug war - like religious instutions, police, local governments, legal drug corporations, bomb manufacturers, pesticide makers - all of them involved in some way - would have to
**COMPLETELY DISAPPEAR**
As long as they are there, then it is impossible for a world to exist where people *ARE ABLE* to "make the right choices". Rest assured that these institutions will find a way to convince you that someone, somewhere, is making a wrong choice.
How so?
Simply redefine what the "wrong choices" are.
Matt
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Let me close by telling you what I hope to get out of the national dialogue that these committees are fostering. I am not really helped by being reminded that I need more Arabic linguists or by someone second-guessing an obscure intercept sitting in our files that may make more sense today than it did two years ago. What I really need you to do is to talk to your constituents and find out where the American people want that line between security and liberty to be.
-NSA Director Michael Hayden, statement before Congress