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 From: LC@dinkerson.com 
  
 In article <37hgs1dq3qvivfo5gut8biihgmkvfvmmhj@4ax.com>, penny@pen.rhys 
 says... 
 > 
 >On Fri, 13 Jan 2006 14:44:06 GMT, "pcourterelle"  
 >wrote: 
 > 
 >>"penny"  wrote in message 
 >>news:1ju7s1d9l5t2opccph9gt0nch2u9fgbekf@4ax.com... 
 >>> On Tue, 10 Jan 2006 11:42:53 GMT, "Tom Morrison" 
 >>>  wrote: 
 >> 
 >> 
 >>>>As stated earlier, I don't believe the size of the market has anything to 
 >>>>do with the effectiveness of any prohibition. 
 >>> 
 >>> It does in a democracy. 
 >> 
 >>State precisely by what mechanism a democracy limits the effectiveness of 
 >>black markets? 
 > 
 >Democracies have laws that protect the people from being ripped off. 
 >One example is "price controls". 
 > 
 >The black market in Pharmaceutical Drugs  on the Internet is thriving 
 >in  America.    Here in Canada we have "price controls" on 
 >pharmaceuticals so even though our drug prices are high they are 
 >nowhere close to the prices in the US. That's why American seniors are 
 >pouring over our borders to buy our drugs or are buying from Canadian 
 >pharmacists on the Net. 
 > 
  
 Well since USA is a democracy, obviously price controls on pharmacuticals 
 have 
 nothing to do with democracy, and if anything, if democracy had some 
 relationship with freedom, which it doesn't, then the freedom to be able to 
 charge whatever you want for your drugs would be more 'democratic' than not 
 being able to. 
  
 Just quit using the word 'democracy', fools.  It's not as powerful as you 
 think 
 it is, and it doesn't mean whatever you want it to mean. 
  
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