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“An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.”     Thomas Paine,    Dissertation on First Principles of Government

December 5, 2006

Happy Repeal Day

by Doug Mataconis

It was 73 years ago today that America’s thirteen year history with alcohol prohibition came to a merciful end.

Unfortunately, it appears that we’re still far away from the day when we’ll be able to celebrate even the first anniversary of the end of America’s other insane war on (some) drugs.

H/T: Outside The Beltway and The Club For Growth

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