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Re: Timothy Leary- destroyer of LSD
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Subject: Re: Timothy Leary- destroyer of LSD
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From: bwoods@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Bradley B. Woods)
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Date: 18 Jun 1996 20:36:39 GMT
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Tony Goddard (cat@animal.u-net.com) wrote:
: an459027@anon.penet.fi says
: <some stuff deleted>
: |Why should people be arguing that Leary should have known better than to
: |let his daughter carry Marijuana? Leary's house was raided over 50 times
: |by G. Gordon Liddy. Leary had a religious belief in what he was
: |doing--(he was a bona-fide member of a Hindu sect which used Marijuana
: |as a Sacrament)--and he should have had the right to do it. There shouldn't
: |be an argument about this. Leary was persecuted for his religious beliefs
: |and he and his family were destroyed by the U.S. government.
: |
: |If a catholic's house was raided over 50 times for being a catholic, and
: |then the person's daughter committed suicide, no one would be questioning
: |whether or not it was the catholic's fault for not being better at hiding!
: |
: This is a key issue. Islamic states such as Sudan and Iran have used
: alcohol as an excuse to harass christian priests. After all alcohol is
: forbidden in islam, although it is a moot point as to whether the
: prohibition applies to unbelievers with a strict interpretation of the
: koran.
: Nevertheles the USA government is all too willing to condemn
: Iran and Sudan, (but not Saudi Arabia) without holding up the mirror
: to their own policies.
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The Mormons and Rastafarians (sp) don't get much respect either. Nor did
the Native American Church for a long time, not to mention the Branch
Davidians. So don't go thinking that Leary got such a raw deal from the U.S.
government on religious legal grounds.
Basically only religions with a lot of active voters get any respect for
some reason.
B
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