Date: Sun, 12 May 1996 09:03:23 -0400 To: webmaster@dare.org Subject: Information Please Status: RO Sirs: I enjoy your page and find it informative. I will be checking out several of the articles you reference. I am trying to find an article published with in the last 18-24 months in the Wall Street Journal that also criticized DARE's purported effectiveness. I have had difficulty obtaining this article. Do you have any suggestions as to how I could proceed. The Journal's indexes are limited and have not proved successful. Thank you. XXXXX XXXXXXXXX Webmaster Response: I'm glad you found our page informative. Sadly, I don't know how to find the article you refer to. To my knowledge, the only article in the Wall St. Journal concerning DARE was about a schoolgirl in Maine, who was used as an informant by the local police against her parents through the agency of the DARE program. The episode was entirely sordid. A member of our group spoke with her mother around a year ago, and she told him the child has been permanently traumatized for life, and that the experience destroyed their family. Perhaps one of our readers could e-mail us the answer to webmaster@dare.org
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Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:33:21 -0400 Message-ID: <960623193320_141226725@emout18.mail.aol.com> To: webmaster@dare.org Subject: Web Page Visit Dear Webmaster, I would think that with all of the horrible things going on in this world which cry out for action, you would have something better to sharpen your pen (or keyboard) on than D.A.R.E. It seems clear to me from reading your webpage that you are obviously pushing another agenda-- legalization perhaps. If that is the case, why not just say so? This is a free country, isn't it? Or are you afraid of some kind of reprisal by the vast majority of Americans who do not favor a legalization answer to the drug problem? If you still are bent on knocking the D.A.R.E. program, you, at the very least, should make sure that the information that you present is accurate. There are a lot of flaws and fallacies contained on your page, which I could point out to you-- but it's your page, so the research is your job. "I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it." Voltaire spoke these words, and they ring true to me today. I just wish that you would focus your energy on something other than a program which has the best of intentions, delivered by teachers and cops who only wish to make the world a better place for kids to grow up in.
Webmaster Response: Don't think for a minute that all we do is this one DARE page. We are not pushing legalization - we are pushing for effective programs for our children. The information on our pages is really very slim. The actual information from our website is actually contained in the links to other people's sites, so we can't take responsibility for the research that the original authors worked on. The program may have the best of intentions, but it costs us over 700 million dollars a year, and the studies DARE has commissioned on itself have shown it to be ineffective at its stated goals. I don't know how much simpler it can get than that.
X-Mailer: GNNmessenger 1.3 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 10 Jul 1996 21:23:55 From: XXXXXXXXXX@gnn.com (Timothy XXXXX) To: webmaster@dare.org Subject: DARE Articles It really upsets me when I read some of the articles that are published in this DARE page. You publish all the bad things that you can think of when it comes to DARE. Apparently you have not taught a DARE class and watched these kids learn about what drugs to do to their lives. I would be willing to bet that some of the people writing these articles are not drug free..... Webmaster Response: Sorry that the truth hurts. If you have any questions about the 'drug free' status of the writers at the various newspapers whose articles we link to, then write to them, not us. It's certainly not our job to enforce your morals on them.
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 16:14:21 -0700 Subject: A suggestion for the D.A.R.E. site To: webmaster@dare.org Organization: none Here's an idea. Why don't you guys post a list of questions that can be asked of D.A.R.E. officers by people who hear them speak. Surely the teacher cannot refuse to be asked a question without looking really bad. The questions should be phrased in such a way that they either state the truth about drug use in the question, or make the officer look like an idiot. For example: "Sir, the editors of the prestigious British medical journal 'Lancet' wrote in 1994 that, based on a review of the medical literature, they conclude that marijuana is safe to use in moderation, even over the long term. Can you direct me to the medical study or studies which shows why this group of doctors is wrong?" "Sir, why is it that the Partnership for a Drug Free America is mainly financially sponsored by manufacturers of beer and cigarettes?" etc. in the same vein. People visiting the site can download the questions and keep them in store for when they need them.
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 17:05:22 +0000
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Date: Sun, 25 Aug 96 22:09:24 -0700
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 1996 07:40:46 -0700
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Subject: dare pages
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I just wanted to say that I think that your pages are really wonderfully
put together.. I've sent the url to many of my friends..
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Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 12:21:40 -0700
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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 22:03:32 -0600
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