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DdC · 05-07-2003, 02:43 PM

I dont think he even gives a fuck about morality and virtue. Its just an easy avenue to get rich.

You've just described the entire Khrishun Koalition Klubs Bushit administration and all of their GOPerverted punk jive ass Liberty phobic blind followers...
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of D.E.A.th!
DdC

Won't You Come Home, Bill Bennett?

There once was a Drug Czar named Bennett
Whose every remark was a tenet
His pomposity
Plus his hypocrisy
Outweighed the United States Senate

So William Bennett is a big-time compulsive gambler who holes up at casinos for three-day binges... perfect! And his social poker game includes Judges Scalia, Bork, and the Chief Junkie, Rehnquist (who's addicted to Fentanyl but defines himself as a normie because he checks into a rehab spa every summer)! Some world-class bluffers... Newsweek and the Washington Monthly broke the Bennett story, and in case you missed it, in the last decade the former Drug Czar (under George H.W. Bush) and Secretary of Education (under Reagan) has blown at least $8 million at the tables and slot machines. Profits from "The Book of Virtues" and its many best-selling spin-offs, plus $50,000 speaking fees, enabled him to pay.

The Republican Damage Control Team is trying to put a lid on the story, employing some of the same arguments that Bennett's Drug War victims used in vain to fend off persecution. "Why is it anybody's business?" asks the effete Billy Kristol. "He did no one any harm," says Tony Blakely (himself a compulsive overeater). "He has taken personal responsibility," declares Anne Coulter (brushing back a strand of hair thinned by excessive bleaching). "It's between him and his family," says another blonde who's had some bad work done on her lips. Playing up the family angle, the RDCT told poor Mrs. Bennett to announce that she would not let Bill do any more gambling -a nice "human" touch.

Other arguments that have been splashed on the flames by these Friends of Bill: gambling isn't a sin to Catholics, gambling is legal, he didn't go into debt. It's all a misdirection play. What's reprehensible about Bill Bennett is not his gambling but his monumental hypocrisy. When someone who understands the force of compulsion tells the world that compulsion can easily overcome by will, it's a conscious lie. To imprison people behind that lie is completely immoral.

A source at a casino told Joshua Green of the Washington Monthly that Bennett tries to slink around unseen. "He'll usually call a host and let us know when he's coming. We can limo him in. He prefers the high-limit room, where he's less likely to be seen and where he can play the $500-a-pull slots. He usually plays very late at night or early in the morning -usually between midnight and 6 a.m."

The rightwing pundits imply that anybody pursuing the Bennett story lacks compassion. C'Notes says call in The Enquirer and the Globe, the investigators with serious budgets, and let's find out if the casinos sent girls up to Big Bill's room (assuming girls are his preference) along with all the food and liquor.

Bennett's role as Drug Czar is described in Smoke & Mirrors, an excellent history of the war on drugs from the '60s through the mid-'90s by Dan Baum. Bennett brought with him a squad of rightwing-ideologue assistants who'd served under him at the Dept. of Education, including his chief of staff, John Walters, our present drug czar. Bennett's crew, according to Baum, "achieved the most radical recasting of the country's 'drug problem' yet. Drugs would no longer be discussed as a health problem. If the drug issue was going to serve the Bennettistas' decade-long crusade to police the nation's character, drug abuse needed to be placed in the same category as offensive art, multicultural teaching, and ethical relativism: a matter of morality.

" 'The simple fact is that drug use is wrong,' Bennett decreed. 'And the moral argument, in the end, is the most compelling argument.'" Bennett urged prosecutors' to go after casual users whose lives were not falling apart because their example might send a confusing signal. He promoted public hospitals' drug-testing of pregnant women for drugs, which resulted in many moms losing their kids! (Poor women have to rely on public hospitals.) Bennett's biggest accomplishment as drug czar was to increase the budget 52%. After 18 months he declared victory and resigned unexpectedly. He served briefly as chairman of the Republican National Committee, but quit the $125,000/year gig when it turned out that he couldn't pocket the speaking proceeds. "I didn't take a vow of poverty," Bennett said at the time. It seemed venal and gross, but now we understand.

Rosie heard Bennett pontificating on TV recently to the effect that parents should never tell their kids that they had smoked marijuana and found it to be harmless. "He said that hypocrisy is better than honesty because it shows you have moral standards. I don't know about his Catholic schools, but in my Catholic schools we received a moral education, we read philosophers and discussed them, and were taught that you don't lie and that hypocrisy is completely immoral. Jesus said, 'You hypocrite, take the beam out of your own eye before you talk about the splinter in someone else's.'"

To the bum said the man of great virtue
I can't house or feed but I'll church you:
Gambling's like booze
If you've millions to lose
Then losing millions can't hurt you.

Date: Wed, 07 May 2003
From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@crrh.org
Source: Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA)
Contact: mailto: ava@pacific.net
Details: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/media/2667" target="_blank">http ://www.mapinc.org/media/2667</A>
Author: Fred Gardner
Bookmark: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/find?115>http://www.mapinc.org/find?115" target="_blank">http ://www.mapinc.org/find?115>http://www.mapinc.org/find?115</A>
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05-07-2003, 02:43 PM	#5 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,088 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 47 Thanked 570 Times in 378 Posts	I dont think he even gives a fuck about morality and virtue. Its just an easy avenue to get rich. You've just described the entire Khrishun Koalition Klubs Bushit administration and all of their GOPerverted punk jive ass Liberty phobic blind followers... Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of D.E.A.th! DdC Won't You Come Home, Bill Bennett? There once was a Drug Czar named Bennett Whose every remark was a tenet His pomposity Plus his hypocrisy Outweighed the United States Senate So William Bennett is a big-time compulsive gambler who holes up at casinos for three-day binges... perfect! And his social poker game includes Judges Scalia, Bork, and the Chief Junkie, Rehnquist (who's addicted to Fentanyl but defines himself as a normie because he checks into a rehab spa every summer)! Some world-class bluffers... Newsweek and the Washington Monthly broke the Bennett story, and in case you missed it, in the last decade the former Drug Czar (under George H.W. Bush) and Secretary of Education (under Reagan) has blown at least $8 million at the tables and slot machines. Profits from "The Book of Virtues" and its many best-selling spin-offs, plus $50,000 speaking fees, enabled him to pay. The Republican Damage Control Team is trying to put a lid on the story, employing some of the same arguments that Bennett's Drug War victims used in vain to fend off persecution. "Why is it anybody's business?" asks the effete Billy Kristol. "He did no one any harm," says Tony Blakely (himself a compulsive overeater). "He has taken personal responsibility," declares Anne Coulter (brushing back a strand of hair thinned by excessive bleaching). "It's between him and his family," says another blonde who's had some bad work done on her lips. Playing up the family angle, the RDCT told poor Mrs. Bennett to announce that she would not let Bill do any more gambling -a nice "human" touch. Other arguments that have been splashed on the flames by these Friends of Bill: gambling isn't a sin to Catholics, gambling is legal, he didn't go into debt. It's all a misdirection play. What's reprehensible about Bill Bennett is not his gambling but his monumental hypocrisy. When someone who understands the force of compulsion tells the world that compulsion can easily overcome by will, it's a conscious lie. To imprison people behind that lie is completely immoral. A source at a casino told Joshua Green of the Washington Monthly that Bennett tries to slink around unseen. "He'll usually call a host and let us know when he's coming. We can limo him in. He prefers the high-limit room, where he's less likely to be seen and where he can play the $500-a-pull slots. He usually plays very late at night or early in the morning -usually between midnight and 6 a.m." The rightwing pundits imply that anybody pursuing the Bennett story lacks compassion. C'Notes says call in The Enquirer and the Globe, the investigators with serious budgets, and let's find out if the casinos sent girls up to Big Bill's room (assuming girls are his preference) along with all the food and liquor. Bennett's role as Drug Czar is described in Smoke & Mirrors, an excellent history of the war on drugs from the '60s through the mid-'90s by Dan Baum. Bennett brought with him a squad of rightwing-ideologue assistants who'd served under him at the Dept. of Education, including his chief of staff, John Walters, our present drug czar. Bennett's crew, according to Baum, "achieved the most radical recasting of the country's 'drug problem' yet. Drugs would no longer be discussed as a health problem. If the drug issue was going to serve the Bennettistas' decade-long crusade to police the nation's character, drug abuse needed to be placed in the same category as offensive art, multicultural teaching, and ethical relativism: a matter of morality. " 'The simple fact is that drug use is wrong,' Bennett decreed. 'And the moral argument, in the end, is the most compelling argument.'" Bennett urged prosecutors' to go after casual users whose lives were not falling apart because their example might send a confusing signal. He promoted public hospitals' drug-testing of pregnant women for drugs, which resulted in many moms losing their kids! (Poor women have to rely on public hospitals.) Bennett's biggest accomplishment as drug czar was to increase the budget 52%. After 18 months he declared victory and resigned unexpectedly. He served briefly as chairman of the Republican National Committee, but quit the $125,000/year gig when it turned out that he couldn't pocket the speaking proceeds. "I didn't take a vow of poverty," Bennett said at the time. It seemed venal and gross, but now we understand. Rosie heard Bennett pontificating on TV recently to the effect that parents should never tell their kids that they had smoked marijuana and found it to be harmless. "He said that hypocrisy is better than honesty because it shows you have moral standards. I don't know about his Catholic schools, but in my Catholic schools we received a moral education, we read philosophers and discussed them, and were taught that you don't lie and that hypocrisy is completely immoral. Jesus said, 'You hypocrite, take the beam out of your own eye before you talk about the splinter in someone else's.'" To the bum said the man of great virtue I can't house or feed but I'll church you: Gambling's like booze If you've millions to lose Then losing millions can't hurt you. Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 From: "D. Paul Stanford" stanford@crrh.org Source: Anderson Valley Advertiser (CA) Contact: mailto: ava@pacific.net Details: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/media/2667" target="_blank">http ://www.mapinc.org/media/2667</A> Author: Fred Gardner Bookmark: <a href="http://www.mapinc.org/find?115>http://www.mapinc.org/find?115" target="_blank">http ://www.mapinc.org/find?115>http://www.mapinc.org/find?115</A> (Cannabis - California) Cannabis News Search: Bill Bennett <a href="http://www.cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=bill+ben nett" target="_blank">http ://www.cannabisnews.com/thcgi/search.pl?K=bill+ben nett</A> __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.