[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
I don't think it's too hard to understand.
A drug addict can be upset at the dealers selling the drugs yet still buying them...

Well, that's kind of offensive equating legal products and services with the drug trade. But it's a prefect example of my point. Many people and shortsighted politicians in my country get up in arms about the drug trade. They want to blame the countries supplying the drugs like Columbia when in fact the problem is our demand for the drugs in the first place. We criticize those countries for being unable to stop the supply, when it is our money funding the cartels and corrupting and coercing the legal system in those countries to the point where the bad guys basically run the show down there. Although from what I hear it's getting some better in recent years, but a lot of innocent Columbians died in the process.

Look in a mirror. The consumer is king folks. You want it, if Americans didn't supply it, someone else would.

Geoschmo