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Bush also hailed DEA agents as &#8220;the greatest freedom fighters any nation could have, people who provide freedom from violence and freedom from drugs and freedom from fear.&#8221; But people were killing each other over drugs not because of the drugs themselves but because of the illegal nature of the drug business. Drug laws epitomize how government punishment of a victimless crime makes life less safe for almost all Americans.\u00a0 But admitting such truths would not have been a net plus for Bush&#8217;s 1992 reelection campaign. (From <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lost-Rights-Destruction-American-Liberty\/dp\/0312123337\">Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty,<\/a> 1994)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lost-Rights-cover-and-GHW-Bush-portraitcombo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12780\" src=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lost-Rights-cover-and-GHW-Bush-portraitcombo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"740\" height=\"527\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lost-Rights-cover-and-GHW-Bush-portraitcombo.jpg 740w, https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/Lost-Rights-cover-and-GHW-Bush-portraitcombo-150x107.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 740px) 100vw, 740px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late President George H.W. 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Bush also hailed DEA agents as &#8220;the greatest freedom fighters any nation could have, people who provide freedom from violence and freedom from drugs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12780,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,1783,113,1828,1830,1819,1829],"class_list":["post-12779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-demagoguery","tag-drug-enforcement-administration","tag-drug-war","tag-freedom-fighters","tag-gentler","tag-george-h-w-bush","tag-kinder"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>President George H.W. 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