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Re: Timothy Leary- destroyer of LSD



an459027@anon.penet.fi wrote:
: ychedelics,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,alt.politics.correct,alt.politics.usa.republican,alt.rush-limbaugh

: Red Snapper (bi931250@cranfield.ac.uk) wrote:

: : I'll get round to reading "Flashbacks" one of these days to get the "inside"
: : story.  However, don't you think its possible that Leary is trying to
: : put the blame for his daughter's death on to the government because he
: : doesn't want to admit that it might have been his fault?  IOW, Leary was
: : probably in denial about the whole thing and he just found that particular
: : incident a convienient excuss to make the authorities the scape goat for
: : his own parental failures and just because he claims his daughter's
: : suicide was linked to this one event doesn't prove anything.

: I'm sure that Leary had alot of faults but when you look at what the U.S. 
: government did to him and his family I think you'd have to put alot of 
: the blame on the U.S. 

: 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!


Generally, it doesn't seem that a lot of people who get harassed by the
government commit suicide, even if they get stuck in prison.  The fact that
Leary's wife (I dunno if it was his first or not) and then his daughter
committed suicide is circumstantial evidence to me that Leary's family was
a wee bit disfunctional.  Maybe their suicides had nothing to do with Leary
and their famial lifestyle, btu that seems highly unlikely to me.

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