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5. This was a truly shameful moment

Thu Jan 19, 2012, 02:39 AM

Jan 2012

Because it is absolutely proof that prohibition is killing people in this nation for no reason other than pigheadedness.

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His Enemy Was Intransigence: how Peter McWilliams died [View all] RainDog Dec 2011 OP

I think I could but RainDog Jan 2012 #2

Systemic and public cruelty is part and parcel of prohibition... SteveW Jan 2012 #4

This was a truly shameful moment RainDog Jan 2012 #5

It's more than pigheadedness. I think Huxley summed it up best: SteveW Jan 2012 #6

I'm going to use your quote for my sig line RainDog Feb 2014 #8

Murdered by the cops... gymshoes Jan 2012 #7