On Mon, 10 Oct 2011 09:11:08 -0400, Kevin Alfred Strom
wrote:


Mencken said that Prohibition was absolutely perfect. The moralists
got all the laws they wanted -- and the drinkers got all the booze
they wanted.

And the crime syndicates ran crazy. Not quite as crazy as the drug
lords in Mexico are - but the USAmerican market has much more money
today to fund them.

--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison