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Jobs May Go To Pot
Posted by CN Staff on May 09, 2003 at 08:05:30 PT
By Ian McDougall -- Toronto Sun
Source: Toronto Sun 
Laid-back pot laws could lead to economic meltdown in southern Ontario if U.S. border checks choke off traffic, warns a Liberal MP who has vowed to vote against decriminalizing weed. Dan McTeague said reports that Americans will tighten the border to Canadian traffic shouldn't go unheeded. "Your employers won't be bluffing when they tell you you don't have a job," he said explaining late deliveries of Canadian goods to the U.S. will likely mean fewer orders and fewer jobs. 
He was reacting to a U.S. media report on the Bush administration's consideration of border measures that could slow the movement of goods south. "The Bush administration is hinting that it could make it more difficult for Canadian goods to get into this country if Canada's Parliament moves ahead with a proposal to drop criminal penalties for possession of small amount of marijuana," yesterday's USA Today reported. "I think we should look before we leap," McTeague said, adding there needs to be a national debate on the issue. "People are underestimating the significance; there are a number of pitfalls here." Note: MP opposes laid-back drug law.  Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)Author:  Ian McDougall -- Toronto SunPublished: Friday, May 9, 2003 Copyright: 2003 Canoe Limited PartnershipContact: editor sunpub.comWebsite: http://www.fyitoronto.com/torsun.shtmlRelated Articles & Web Site:Cannabis News Canadian Linkshttp://freedomtoexhale.com/can.htmPot Bill Could Bog Down Borderhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16230.shtmlFor Sensible Marijuana Policy, Go Northhttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16225.shtmlU.S., Canada Clash on Pot Laws http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16221.shtmlUS Says Canada Cares Too Much About Liberties http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread16130.shtml 
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Comment #5 posted by Lehder on May 10, 2003 at 08:12:16 PT
their mad plan
The laws can be left unchanged, and border security will be tightened; the laws can be liberalized, and border security will be tightened. Exactly as in the U.S., U.S. interference in Canadian affairs has succeeded in creating a phony illusion of democracy, a "debate" that is not a debate. Whatever the new or old policy, the U.S. will succeed in further polarizing Canadians and increasing the level of violence and insecurity in which Canadians must live. If enforcement or penalties for cultivation and distribution are enhanced, then the cultivators and the distributors will only be replaced by more fearless and violent criminals. Many of them will arrive from the U.S. to profit from new opportunities in Canada - passing straightaway through the newly secured border and arriving with lots of weapons. Canada, despite its strict gun control, will spawn heavily armed criminals, many of them trained in American prisons, to carry out the tasks that today are handled by toughs and biker gangs, and that were twenty years ago attended by hippies and potheads.Whatever the drug and marijuana policies become or remain, Canadians will find themselves enmeshed in an ever more virulent and unreasoning controversy until, like Americans, they are unable to discuss any issue at all without immediately silencing each other with character attacks and accusations of criminality and treason. That is the plan, simple, obvious, offensive and irrestible.The war on drugs and many other U.S. policies are designed to atomize society, to weaken and destroy all social bonds and institutions, and to subjugate the lives and minds of all the people of the world to ever more personal and ever more complete control of corporate and government power. Once the seed of a new destructive policy takes root, it is fertilized with economic incentives and then flourishes like the fraghmiti(?) you see clogging the roadsides.So far this formula has worked marvellously for one and all who promote it. Look at its results over the past 30 years. Go to the center of your city, if you dare, and see shat it has wrought, or try to find reasonable medical care if you are an undesirable type who is not employed, directly or indirectly, by the government. There are only two ways in which the program of destruction and control will be arrested. 1) Enough people will recognize its mad mechanism and refuse to buy into it, bringing a peaceful collapse of central power as we witnessed in Russia and Eastern Europe. 2) Continuing social destruction coupled with mass brainwashing by the media and growing international contentiousness will bring war and economic collapse.If you think you can passively wait another two years in the hope that a Democrat will replace the current administration (see, I didn't say it, FoM) then take a look at the pathetic political prostration of the leading ( the moneyed) candidates. Besides, the current leaders will not be ousted; and when they have successfully esconced themselves in Washington and in your hearts and minds for another four years, well, then look out. Because then their drunkeness of power will know no restraint and will deliver war, detention, persecution and killing until they have destroyed themselves too.
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Comment #4 posted by Kegan on May 10, 2003 at 07:07:04 PT
Play Ball
Lemme see if I got this straight......Canada should continue to kiss the US ass, NOT because they are right, or true, or good, or well-managed, or well-meaning, or well-informed, or progressive, or racially tolerant...... But because they are bigger and stronger than us. Even if they are wrong, and racist, and xenophobic, and living in the dark-ages.... we better do what they say, because they are bigger and stronger than us.Ever watch the movie Braveheart with Mel Gibson?
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Comment #3 posted by John Tyler on May 10, 2003 at 06:41:12 PT
Cross border business
Canadian trade with the US is not a one way street. The trucks that cross the border don't just disappear, they deliver goods to US businesses that distribute them across the country. The threat of a big border slowdown to punish Canada will have a negative effect on US businesses also.
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Comment #2 posted by Lehder on May 09, 2003 at 12:16:52 PT
let's hear from another Canadian
two paragraphs fromhttp://scienceforpeace.sa.utoronto.ca/Special_Activities/McMurtry_Page.html"Since the commitments of a society to safeguard the lives of its members and to ensure they are able
to express themselves as human is the measure of its civilization, this global corporate program is not
merely uncivilized. It is, beneath recognition, terrorist in its meaning. For if we recognize the real
meaning of “terrorism” - to instill in innocent people fear for their life security to coerce their
compliance to an armed faction’s demands - we see its pattern increasingly at work across world life
organization. Under the financial dictates of the corporate market backed by rising extremes of
armed force, citizens everywhere are subjected to a low-intensity campaign of destabilization and
fear that leaves no aspect of their lives secure.2Even in Canada, one of the world’s most well-off societies, the silent terror grows. Its vast water
heritage is so in peril that people unprecedentedly die from for its pollution, while our governments
sign its future away to U.S.-engineered trade-and-investment dictates. The minds of our young are
so shackled by a culture of violence and demands to buy that their capacity to think is stunted, while
their public education is increasingly structured as a marketing site to reproduce students as
compliant servo-mechanisms. The rule of law is cumulatively overridden by transnational trade edicts
to subjugate all that exists for corporate profit. Riot squads club and gas unarmed opponents, and civil
liberties are stripped by Orwellian “security” machinations."------The title of this presentation is "How Should Canada Respond to Terrorism and War." It was delivered by John McMurtry, a Canadian professor of philosophy. His article does not mention the word "drug" at all, but his message applies to corporate America's domestic wars as well as to its wars of aggression. Domestic and foreign wars serve the same purpose and no distinction between them is made by global corporate fascism. More from McMurtry:"The most notorious characteristic of totalitarianism is “the big lie” - a pervasive overriding of the
distinction between fact and fiction by saturating mass media falsehoods. In the familiar forms of
totalitarianism, “the big lie” occurs in a moving, ad hoc form - typically targeting an internal group for
systematic attack by brutal persecution, and filling the news with false portrayals of an external
enemy. The traditional form of the big lie targets a highly symbolic event (the Reichstag fire or the
U.S. Trade Centre attack), or a claimed enemy of the populace (“communists” or “Islamic
extremists”). Global corporate totalitarianism, however, is not plausibly distinguishable as totalitarian
in this way - although the targeting in the U.S. and its Latin American “backyard” of falsely alleged
“Soviet-led communists” to justify the violent persecution of hundreds of thousands of people by
death-squads and orchestrated military pogroms was certainly a lead-up to the present corporate
system. What interests us here, however, is a more routine and pervasive form of “the big lie”. The
big lie - in the sense of omnipervasive lie - is disseminated by round-the-clock, centrally controlled
multi-media which are watched, read or heard by people across the globe day and night without
break in the occupation of public consciousness instead of national territories. Group-think, not soil, is
the breeding ground of the new totalitarianism."The last half of a newsletter by Dave McGowan consists of a commentary on McMurtry's presentation with many quotes:http://davesweb.cnchost.com/nwsltr16.html 
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Comment #1 posted by Big Trees on May 09, 2003 at 08:27:52 PT
ya who gives a shit....
about all the people getting criminal records for a harmless plant if it gets in the way of big business. You sir are a moron.
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