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Posted: 3/24/2017 4:56:09 AM EDT
Grandma was one of them...
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Posted: 3/24/2017 5:05:41 AM EDT
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My fathers grandfather was, same time same place my mothers grandfather was the country sheriff.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 5:07:00 AM EDT
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I consider them entrepreneurs. It's the same as weed, crack or heroin to me. A business transaction between consenting adults. If you don't like it don't buy it.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 5:19:41 AM EDT
[#3]
Heroes
Except for the NASCAR thing 
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Posted: 3/24/2017 5:25:02 AM EDT
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That's how my dad's dad learned how to drive, before he was actually legally old enough to drive.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 5:29:24 AM EDT
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Guess it depends on who you're talking about. If you were just distilling/brewing and selling then I say great. Such a person certainly would've been my hero. If you murdered someone over it then you're straight up criminal. It's kind of the difference between Popcorn Sutton and Al Capone.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:31:31 AM EDT
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What If prohibition was still in place and war on alcohol was part of the war on drugs? Still support breaking the law like marijuana users are doing now?
Just a hypothetical, I'm in the legalize drugs category. Prohibition is dumb. And really my point is, does your answer change now that we know prohibition on alcohol was repealed? What about ppl not following nfa laws? Criminals now, but heroes after/if ever repealed? |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:44:49 AM EDT
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Everyone should be able to brew, distill, and ferment and sell what they make same as any other product.
If you have never had summerwine, You have no idea what the fucking government is depriving you of. Same goes for non pasturized cheeses and smoke cured dried meats. A glass of elder berry summerwine, some fresh sour dough bread, some aged unpasturized cheeses, and a hunk of dried sausage and thin sliced 3 year old ham.... That is a fucking life changing experience. above all other things, the government has ruined the pallet of Americans, and robbed from them what a real food experience is. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:45:36 AM EDT
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Shiners were folks who were working to feed their families. That's how I see them.
The .gov hates competition. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:50:28 AM EDT
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Shiners were folks who were working to feed their families. That's how I see them. The .gov hates competition.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:53:30 AM EDT
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Just folks trying to get by. Long as no one is harmed, I don't give a shit what they do.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 6:55:42 AM EDT
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Heroes. Prohibition on anything, especially based on what a religious groups is pushing for, is ridiculous and should be regarded as such.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:04:17 AM EDT
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My grand-dad dabbled in it running whiskey down from Canada.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:22:32 AM EDT
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I don't consider them heroes. I put them on a level with the "Will Not Comply" folks and I don't consider myself any sort of hero.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:24:28 AM EDT
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I consider them entrepreneurs. It's the same as weed, crack or heroin to me. A business transaction between consenting adults. If you don't like it don't buy it. 
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:25:10 AM EDT
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Booze running didn't stop with the end of Prohibition.
Up until the 80's Coors beer was virtually unobtainable outside of Colorado and "running" Coors to other parts of the country was the premise of at least one major movie. 
I may, or may not, have known several people involved in this practice operating between Colorado and Texas in the late 60's and early 70's.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:33:44 AM EDT
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if they weren't blinding people, then heroes
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:39:13 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Everyone should be able to brew, distill, and ferment and sell what they make same as any other product. If you have never had summerwine, You have no idea what the fucking government is depriving you of. Same goes for non pasturized cheeses and smoke cured dried meats. A glass of elder berry summerwine, some fresh sour dough bread, some aged unpasturized cheeses, and a hunk of dried sausage and thin sliced 3 year old ham.... That is a fucking life changing experience. above all other things, the government has ruined the pallet of Americans, and robbed from them what a real food experience is. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:42:12 AM EDT
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Druggies do druggie things. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:44:06 AM EDT
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 Robert Mitchum - Thunder Road |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 7:48:23 AM EDT
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/wouldn't call them crooks, but something about George Washington some thing something war and tax, or whatever
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Posted: 3/24/2017 8:06:27 AM EDT
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Neither. Just Americans working to make a buck.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 8:11:50 AM EDT
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Heroes.
Fuck government overreach and nanny-state legislated morality in all its forms. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 8:14:58 AM EDT
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If you have Netflix watch Ken Burns's documentary "Prohibition" and see how fucked-up the run-up to prohibition was.
 Roots of PROHIBITION The Time is Now |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 8:17:19 AM EDT
[#24]
Dopers, drug smugglers, period.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 8:19:00 AM EDT
[#25]
Law breakers. If you dont like a law fight to get it changed legally.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:00:22 AM EDT
[#26]
...or boring reality show
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:12:32 AM EDT
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What is summer wine? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Everyone should be able to brew, distill, and ferment and sell what they make same as any other product. If you have never had summerwine, You have no idea what the fucking government is depriving you of. Same goes for non pasturized cheeses and smoke cured dried meats. A glass of elder berry summerwine, some fresh sour dough bread, some aged unpasturized cheeses, and a hunk of dried sausage and thin sliced 3 year old ham.... That is a fucking life changing experience. above all other things, the government has ruined the pallet of Americans, and robbed from them what a real food experience is. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:13:54 AM EDT
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:17:57 AM EDT
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Moonshiners created an American institution that became mainstream in the 50's and 60's -- the hot rod.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:21:35 AM EDT
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Law breakers. If you dont like a law fight to get it changed legally. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:26:51 AM EDT
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we do know George Washington was the one who taxed home distillers? Our first "civil war" was US Troops against
Scot Irish moon shiners, making booze and selling it with out paying the FedCoats their due? An army led by POTUS Washington? of course some say it was a war over a land dispute with GW and the Shiners that went back before the war of English aggression... |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:51:18 AM EDT
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Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God.
Thomas Jefferson |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:54:41 AM EDT
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Shiners were folks who were working to feed their families. That's how I see them. The .gov hates competition. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 9:57:18 AM EDT
[#34]
Heroes.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:05:10 AM EDT
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Heroes
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:27:41 AM EDT
[#36]
Not heroes, but certainly helped people get what they wanted.
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:29:33 AM EDT
[#37]
The coal mine, moonshine or moving on down the line.
My dad's side of the family Scots-Irish |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:30:19 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
we do know George Washington was the one who taxed home distillers? Our first "civil war" was US Troops against Scot Irish moon shiners, making booze and selling it with out paying the FedCoats their due? An army led by POTUS Washington? of course some say it was a war over a land dispute with GW and the Shiners that went back before the war of English aggression... |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:31:52 AM EDT
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Just good Americans, making due with the resources, ingenuity and skills available to them - to get by and make a living.
A.W.D. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:39:11 AM EDT
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Crooks...but nobody really gives a fuck, man!
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:40:19 AM EDT
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Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson Not against you bro, just saying... |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:45:42 AM EDT
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What If prohibition was still in place and war on alcohol was part of the war on drugs? Still support breaking the law like marijuana users are doing now? Just a hypothetical, I'm in the legalize drugs category. Prohibition is dumb. And really my point is, does your answer change now that we know prohibition on alcohol was repealed? What about ppl not following nfa laws? Criminals now, but heroes after/if ever repealed? |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 10:57:59 AM EDT
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Then the same is to be said for drug smugglers. Not against you bro, just saying... Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Disobedience to tyrants is obedience to God. Thomas Jefferson Not against you bro, just saying... |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:00:56 AM EDT
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Criminals, outlaws, or characters (or a combination) but definitely not heroes.
A lot of moonshiners killed innocent people, rivals, cops, revenooers, etc. And they didn't sell their shine for local orphanages, they sold it to fill their own pockets. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:04:29 AM EDT
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Illegal Aliens, crooks or American Heros?
Hey, they sneak cross the border to be part of the American Dream! Millions upon millions, selling cocaine y marijuana to consenting adults, they only kill each other, they just want to get a job and go to school! We don' need no stinking laws! |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:08:10 AM EDT
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if they weren't blinding people, then heroes |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:10:01 AM EDT
[#47]
heroes, just like the patriots that run weed from Colorado to other states.
amirite? |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:11:03 AM EDT
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Wasn't that mostly the government poisoning the booze? Quote HistoryQuoted:
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if they weren't blinding people, then heroes 
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:12:37 AM EDT
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Cause that's what the founders did. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Law breakers. If you dont like a law fight to get it changed legally. |
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Posted: 3/24/2017 11:13:33 AM EDT
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Since you still (heh) can't make it even for your own use...it is still prohibited.
I can see some tax and oversight for selling it, but forbidding making it for yourself is stupid. |
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