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Death Camp Opera: it happens!


The movie that should be on every channel from now on… Once a while, anyway...
For those who want to grow their heart, their mind and their will.
See this film and you'll have the rare opportunity to choose your own morality.
A unique kind of cinema, more than that, a real human experience through art or art through a real human experience. Grow up and harmonize yourself with this movie! If you can feel it! If you can see it!!

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Exellent example of the atrocities that the government commits against its citizens. Although the events in this "documentary" have not actually happened, similar egregious violations of individual liberties occur on a regular basis, mainly as a result of the so-called war on drugs, which is really a war against individuals who have harmed no one and violated the rights of no one but instead have violated immoral laws based on political oppression.

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Right. I believe in the unconditional legalization of all drugs and open sale of prescription medications. People should be free to use their own judgement about what is best for their lives. The war on drugs is a war on freedom and an excuse to lock up minorities (while letting whites off). Nothing more. Nothing less. It wastes billions of dollars and destroys more lives than drugs. If the drugs were legal, there would be far less crime. Think about it. During Prohibition, crime sky-rocketed. Make drugs legal and the bottom would fall out of the market. They would be affordable, clean, and safe. The government could tax them and regulate them. Prostitution and gambling should be legalized for the same reasons.

I haven't heard of anyone stealing cars to buy alcohol. I've never heard of them breaking into houses to buy tobacco. They don't hold up stores to get junk food. Drug addiction would be manageable if you didn't need hundreds (or thousands) of dollars a day to buy the drugs. Plus, when drugs are legal, the police will have more time to focus on catching the violent criminals and thieves.

BTW, tobacco is more addictive than heroin, according to users who have tried to quit. Cigarettes and alcohol kill more people each year than all drugs combined. The drug war stands for hypocrisy, double standards, and wasted resources.

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british zombie writes : ''people shouldn't be allowed to judge what they do and take?''

why are you so worried about people 'tripping' and not progressing society - do your own work. I'm going to take a wild guess and say these people probably wouldn't be 'progressing' society (whatever that means) in the first place. People should have that choice, if they want to destroy their lives with heroin, thats their call. Why the hell should I be concerned about that? Its that person's life, I mean obviously I would rather them not do it, but its not my life, so how can I dictate what he/she should do?

By your arguement, aren't you angry that alcohol is legal as well? Doesn't that make you 'drunk' and when you are drunk how can you be a productive member of society? ??? Both drugs (by drugs i mean the hard stuff) and alcohols are poisons, but I don't get this double standard...

do you think everyone will be doing drugs if they are legalized? I think the productive members of society realize they have to do a job, and you can't do a job when drugged up...

PS also you can go kill in the name of this country at the ripe old age of 18, but can't smoke a joint. yep yep yep. what the hell is that message? ?

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