[Dynagroove] end this - people don't get it... IT'S BAD TO HARVEST =P.E.R...

[BadIYE at aol.com]

In a message dated 4/9/04 12:16:05 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
aaron at groovetickets.com writes:

> The RAVE ACT was the product of many things, not just one promoter.  And if 
> you think about the core of this act, it is really meant to protect people.  
> There are a lot of shady ass promoters that knowingly have drugs at their 
> events and even see some profit from it.  This is BAD just like harvesting 
> emails.

Whoaaaa!!!

The RAVE act is not about protecting people.  It's about puritans trying to 
proliferate their morality upon everyone else.    It has now been exposed 
(latest time was Peter Jennings' very recent show) that the Government lied about 
the dangers of MDMA, which you will agree, I'm sure, was/is the drug of choice 
in this scene.  The reality is, there's been only 2 deaths directly related to 
MDMA last year in New York.  There was an estimated 100 million hits of E 
taken in that same period!  ASPIRIN has killed ten times more people!  The 
so-called "permanent effect" of MDMA on seratonin depletion is now being shown to be 
minimal AND most likely reversible.  

Sen. Biden, the originator (and a Democrat to boot!) of the RAVE act has 
refused to respond to Jennings or to OC Weekly's expose on the same subject, now 
that the Government "studies" justifying this Act have been proven doctored and 
completely unreliable.  If they are "protecting" us from something, what 
exactly is it?  that some lowlife promoter or drug dealer would sell you something 
other than MDMA under the name Ecstacy to make a profit?  that's a danger 
that exists PRECISELY because the government made MDMA illegal, not the other way 
around.  And let's not start comparing the health effects of Alcohol and 
Tobacco, all legal last I checked, to those of MDMA.  Mind you, I find alcohol and 
the occasional puff of nicotine utterly charming, even though I know they are 
baaaaad for me.  So why am I not being protected from those evils by some 
"well meaning" legislation?

The Reagan gov. didn't even have the decency to make MDMA a Schedule III 
narcotic so that, at the very least, (1) it can be prescribed by psychiatrist for 
patients who previously benefited from taken it, and (2) we can actually do 
real human research on it.   Making it a Schedule 1 immediately was an act of 
pure moralizing about the drug's "evil" nature (the "Just say no" campaign).  

The definition of a Puritan according to H. L. Mencken  is "someone with a 
haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy".    Now tell me, is that 
NOT the true core of the RAVE act? it's fine for us to congregate in a church, 
but dancing in communal happiness, even if it is, for some or many, chemically 
enhanced?...no way, no how they would allow THAT!!

Please, for the love of the resurrected christ, no defending the 
indefensible.  Please call a spade a spade.   The RAVE act is a complete full frontal 
assault on several our individual rights supposedly guarranteed by the 
constitution.  That's BAD.  Compared to that, harvesting e-mails is like jay walking in 
Manhattan.  

Thanks for listening.

Imad.