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Priorities, Priorities: Terrorism, Not Pot
Posted by FoM on November 02, 2001 at 08:45:34 PT
By Perskie
Source: PressPlus
Two recent items in the news suggest that some people in positions of authority still don't get it: Last month in California, a state where voters legalized marijuana use for people who are sick or dying, federal agents uprooted a marijuana garden run by patients, seized the records of a doctor who recommended the drug and raided a West Hollywood "cannabis club" that city officials had helped set up.
The raids are "indicative that we have not lost our priorities in other areas since Sept. 11," a U.S. Justice Department spokeswoman said.No?Then there's this item: Six Middle Eastern men carrying box cutters and photographs of both a nuclear-power plant in Florida and the Trans-Alaska Pipeline were stopped by police in the Midwest last week and then - incredibly - released by Immigration and Naturalization Service agents. FBI Director Robert Mueller was said to be furious. FBI agents are now searching for the men.These news stories are unrelated - except in this respect: This nation is in a fight for its continued existence, and some people who should know better still don't get it.Yes, federal drug laws do supersede the pro-marijuana voter initiatives in eight states - but certainly, the U.S. Justice Department has more important things to do right now than bust sick people for smoking marijuana.Furthermore, the simple fact that this nation has legions of dogs specially trained to detect marijuana but only a fraction of the vaccine doses that would be needed to protect the country in the event of a smallpox attack speaks volumes about how skewed priorities have been for some time.Our advice: Lay off the cannabis clubs for the moment and dispatch those federal agents (and maybe the pot-sniffing dogs) to the search for the six Middle Eastern men with box cutters and photographs of the nuclear power plant and the Alaskan pipeline.To borrow a phrase from a presidential campaign of yore: It's the terrorism, stupid. Press Plus (NJ) Published: November 2, 2001Copyright: 1998-2001 South Jersey Publishing Co. Contact: letters pressplus.com Website: http://www.pressplus.com/Related Articles & Web Site:Medicinal Cannabis Research Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/research.htmThe Other War - LA Weekly http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11233.shtmlDrug Raids are a Waste of Time http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11229.shtmlUS Cracks Down on Med. Marijuana in California http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread11227.shtml
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Comment #12 posted by Lehder on November 03, 2001 at 15:05:35 PT
supression of dissent
the idea in busting nancy is to supress dissent. clearly this kind of harassment is illegal. and she has legal recourse. she can sue. the green party can retain lawyers to establish the right to travel and stay in hotel rooms. but this costs a lot of money! and takes a lot of time! so by continuing to harass green party memebers and officials - many of them - the government can bankrupt the green party, and any other third party, and eliminate political discussion. after all, why is any discussion needed when george bush has all the answeres? And that is totalitarianism. don't try to argue with me about it either!!
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Comment #11 posted by Rambler on November 03, 2001 at 14:51:41 PT
Right On Lehder
Here's a bit of Orwell for ya; indifference to objective truth is encouraged
by the sealing off of one part of the world
from another, which makes it harder and
harder to discover what is actually
happening. There can often be doubt about the
most enormous events... .The calamities that
are constantly being reported -- battles,
massacres, famines, revolutions -- tend to
inspire in the average person a feeling of
unreality. One has no way of verifying the
facts, one is not even fully certain that
they have happened, and one is always
presented with totally different
interpretations from different sources.
Probably the truth is undiscoverable but the
facts will be so dishonestly set forth in
that the ordinary reader can be forgiven
either for swallowing lies or for failing to
form an opinion ...
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Comment #10 posted by Lehder on November 03, 2001 at 14:22:51 PT
buckle your seat belts: it's our law
I know you to be a good citizen, Rambler, who understands the law and his Rights. The new law says that either you are with George or you are against George. If you are against him, then you are subject to the same attack as any terrorist or terrorist-harboring country. Internationally, George now has the power to make war on any country of his choice without further reference to Congress. That's the law. I brought with me for you to ponder an example of the thinking behind these new laws. It is a quote by James Woolsey, former CIA Director, taken from yesterday's Inv. Bus. Daily: Either we will be held in contempt by people like Saddam and bin Laden as we are now, or we will be feared and respected throughout the Middle East. In between being held in contempt and being feared and respected, there is nothing. Is this guy married?I can remember in the 7th grade how my friend and I wrote pages of such crazy epigrams and traded them back and forth, laughing, and trying not to burst out in mirth during class. The teacher took them away from us and gravely pronounced that these writings could get us into trouble. Little did we know that we could, in fact, have been directing the CIA.Here are some more from the same article:
(Please don't laugh.)Newt Gingrich wants to attack Iraq within days:An Iraqi campaign would instantly say to the Middle East, this is not a game, this is not business as usual, you're either with the Americans or you're at risk, and that ought to be our policy. [...uh......'scuse me here a second, please, I think I got a little jism in my eye............ ....................................]Yeah, okay, but the Golden Bastinado Award goes to Michael Ledeen, a fellow of the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington, D.C. think tank for 7th graders, and author of the book Machiavelli on Modern Leadership(1999). He says: This is a total war. We're fighting a variety of enemies. There are lots of them out here. ....and.... We are one great revolutionary society in the world, and we want revolution, we don't want stability.They make George sound pretty reasonable - "We are a peaceful nation, but...."Anyway, you see, if you disagree with this crap then you get busted at the airport like Nancy Oden. Good luck.By the way, I think there is a baseball game tonight, and this will be my best chance to see the new Paxil commercial in in entirety. Perhaps I'll have a report for you tomorrow.Also, in closing, and to offer you and all my friends some sweet dreams, I have collected a few random phrases from various articles on the site of your linked article, Counterpunch. Here are the phrases I copied:meat contaminated by fecal matter and subjected to 75 million chest x-rays Yum Yum; radioactive mail; peace activist surrounded by military with machine guns; CIA instruction film - how to torture women; contact lenses that show commercials; operation infinite disaster;"Bush has...such powers that Congress should be little worry to him"; ....Niight.
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Comment #9 posted by Rambler on November 03, 2001 at 13:22:13 PT
Chilling Indeed ,Lehder
And it becomes far more chillng,when we wake up,and realize,that the law has been passed.It's not something that's going to happen,or might happen, It HAPPENED! All it takes, is for the feds to bestow the "terrorist" label on you,and you instantly fall under all the anti-terror laws.No if,ands,or buts,all the laws that they just passed that apply to terrorist,apply to you.You are instantly neutalized,and stripped of your rights!I'm not kidding.It's real,now,today.You are guilty of being a terrorist because some federal lunatic says so,and,YOU CANNOT BE PROVEN INNOCENT! I know,it sounds like fiction,I know it's hard to believe,but it's true!The law does not require any hearing before a judge.A lawyer cannot help you,unless you got enough money to put Ashcroft on retainer.I doubt Johnny Cochran,or Robert Shapiro could even help you.Welcome the nightmare of todays Amerika.
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Comment #8 posted by Lehder on November 03, 2001 at 12:38:16 PT
political repression
"Oden, a long-time organic farmer and peace activist in northern Maine, was ordered away from the plane. Military personnel with automatic weapons surrounded Oden and instructed all airlines to deny her passage on any flight."
http://www.counterpunch.org/oden1.html yes, that's a shocker all right, Rambler. Usually these harassments make me angry, but this one gave me chills. Usually they're directed against drug users - we're used to seeing that. Now this is something new altogether. This is the harassment of a law-abiding woman in an airport by machinegun-toting thugs of the U.S. government. And only because she disagrees politically with George Bush. This is Nazism.Nancy Oden: http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=%22Nancy+Oden%22&hc=0&hs=0This must be the problem:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alaskagreenparty/message/736
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Comment #7 posted by FoM on November 03, 2001 at 11:27:01 PT
Living in a Mine
Maybe we should all go and announce we want to live in the Manitoba Mine! We're afraid down here and a mine like that would do just fine! We all could live there forever I bet! LOL!
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Comment #6 posted by Lehder on November 03, 2001 at 11:15:06 PT
Let's Bomb Canada
What is Canada's biggest esport?Marijuana.Are you with me? No? Then I gotta bomb your children too.
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Comment #5 posted by Patrick on November 03, 2001 at 10:24:42 PT
Hey dddd
Shouldn't the U.S. be on the list too? Afterall, the Feds say we are one of the biggest consumers of illegal drugs. Seems to reason that drugs "transit" all over this country!!!
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Comment #4 posted by dddd on November 03, 2001 at 09:40:07 PT
Holland
From Ramblers link.....notice,,Holland is not on the list!,,yet it is identified as a major source of exstacy,,not to mention it's Marijuana laws..?>"WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following is the text of
a letter from the President to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of
the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, the House
Committee on International Relations, and the Senate Committee on
Foreign Relations: November 1, 2001 Dear Mr. Chairman:
(Dear Representative:)
(Dear Senator:) In accordance with section 490(h) of the Foreign Assistance Act of
1961, as amended (FAA), I have determined that the following
countries are major illicit drug-producing or major drug-transit
countries: Afghanistan, the Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Burma, China,
Colombia, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Haiti, India,
Jamaica, Laos, Mexico, Nigeria, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
Thailand, Venezuela, and Vietnam. I note that a country's presence on the list of major drug-transit
countries is not an adverse reflection on its government's
counternarcotics efforts or on the level of its cooperation with the
United States. Consistent with the statutory definition of a major
drug-transit country set forth in section 481(e)(5) of the FAA, among
the reasons that major drug-transit countries are placed on the list
is the combination of geographical, commercial, and economic factors
that allow drugs to transit despite the most assiduous enforcement
measures of the government concerned. In recent years, we have seen rapidly rising quantities of illegal
synthetic drugs entering the United States, especially MDMA (Ecstasy)
from Europe. MDMA abuse is an emerging problem that we are studying
closely. Because much of the Ecstasy consumed in Europe and the
United States is manufactured clandestinely in the Netherlands, we
are working closely with Dutch authorities to stop the production and
export of the drug. I commend the Government of the Netherlands for
its excellent cooperation with the Government of the United States.
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Comment #3 posted by Rambler on November 02, 2001 at 23:27:35 PT
I guarantee you'll like this one!
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/Current_Releases/1102-151.html
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Comment #2 posted by Rambler on November 02, 2001 at 18:30:28 PT
A Shocker!!
What about this?http://www.counterpunch.org/oden1.html
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Comment #1 posted by qqqq on November 02, 2001 at 16:36:20 PT
Here's What I Think is Going On..
...I think there was a strategy meeting,,,and an advisor said;"Gentlemen,,I think we need to bring the West coast in on all this.The anthrax thing has worked very well here on the East coast,but our studies show that we are starting to lose support out West....After meeting with homeland security officials,,we have determined that an announcement of an undefined threat to several major bridges on the West coast,would be a very effective way to enhance the publics perception of a terrorist threat.We have advised the fbi to contact state officials in California,with news of a general threat to four major bridges in that state.The benifits of this plan are twofold;in addition to enhancing the support for the war on terror in the West,this plan will also allow the deployment of law enforcement,and military personell on these major thoroughfares ,and allow for a minimalizing of public objections to the eventual deployment of homeland security vehicle checkpoints."
....Gimme a break,,,does anyone really believe,that terrorists would actually write a letter to warn of a certain threat,?..saying things like,"during rush hour",and dates,"from November 2 to November 7th..".
Just think about it for a minute..."seeding" the "news",with this tidbit,,greatly simplifies the justification of all manner of roadblocks,checkpoints,and normalization of a police state,under the flag of "homeland security".......As Angus McSheeple pulls his flag flyin' SUV,up to a "homeland security checkpoint",with his "united we stand" bumper sticker.......blindly joining the rest of the flock,in believing that anti-terror checkpoints are a necessary part of being a patriotic,"free" American citizen....unfortunately,,Mr McSheeple never stopped to think,,that once the law enforcement/military infrastructure is established,and deployed,,it will be there to stay...People just assume,,that somehow,there will come a day when the war on terror is won,and there will be a national celebration of the glorious victory over terror,and all the police,and military security measures will be stopped.,,,the checkpoints will come down,the cops will go back to doing what they did before,and the laws involving survielance,and Constitutional exceptions will all be repealed..........It aint gonna happen.......WAKE UP,ANGUS McSHEEPLE .......Gong....Gong...Gong!
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