Deliver the reformer politician's speech
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Originally Posted by daksya
DdC, please take it as given that a major politician has decided to finally follow his conscience and speak out against the drug war. What will he say?
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The Art of War - Sun Tzu
To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands.
But the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.
If you know the enemy, and know yourself, you need not fear the outcome of a hundred battles.
If you know yourself, but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer defeat.
If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Until we realize, and act on why the Ganjawar is fought,
we will continue fighting the enemy
by hurling great sums of money, dignity and blood at them.
* The Ganjawar profits corporations, tax collectors, prisons, media and police budgets.
* Corporations shelter taxes in drugczar non profit collection agencies to fund antipot commercials and groups.
* Ganja and hemp could replace many of the products these corporations sell.
* So these corporations pay no taxes and get free advertising keeping Ganja medicine and Hemp Food, Fuel and Fiber competition off the free trade market.
They lie. Not isolated lies. Lies. Justified to obtain a goal they believe will either be best for all or more than likely be best for the corporations they have invested in, held positions in or receive campaign funding from.
* The Ganjawar has nothing to do with keeping kids off drugs.
* 99% of the "marijuana" eradicated is non psychoactive ditchweed hemp.
* One trillion tax dollars have been given to a handful of corporations and DEAth agencies since the 1937 marihuana tax ax. * About the same amount given by the Ganja users under the table from taxes, do to prohibition.
When we have homeless, predominately veterans and mentally ill. Hungry kids and uneducated adults. Poor health care and solely treatment based at that, and then forced FDA synthetic corporate based "drugs" while busting alternative and preventive medicines..
Same as the meat and bread pyramid the government pushed. Same meat and grain industries that donated funds to add hempseed to the schedule #1 narcotics list.
Or the so called doing no harm politidocs shrugging off science, backing up Ganja being scheduled a dangerous narcotic, let alone nutritional hempseed.
Nixon rejected the Schafer Commission report requesting decriminalization. Reagans included their investments in urine testing, while mandating it to anyone getting government contracts. The test is illogical for Ganja but it does profit these unregulated testing facilities. Same ones putting innocents in cages for violent crimes to be overturned later at great expense to the government and still having the criminal walking the streets just to win the case. Shalala sat on the IOM report and Bush Ashcroft Souder Walters Bennett and $20 billion a year have literally tried to make their fiction book Body Count come to life.
Anslinger-Bush-Hearst-Nixon-Hitler- Jüs Déjå vü!!!
* $20 billion/yr undocumented funding for security reasons.
When this government permits certain industries leeway's at the risk and health of the citizens. They have perverted their authority. When checks and balances are considered acts of terrorism, that is a sign of covering something up. Closed door energy policy? Closed door wars, hot or cold. Closed door laws permitting torture and peeping in windows and snooping in your home, bank, medical and workplace. The Ganjawar is illegal. To "compromise" in it means you participate in it. Expose it for what it is and the money it takes from necessary programs and the Americans it oppresses and maybe, just maybe the great opiated dumbshit masses will understand and remove this abomination prohibition.
Peace, Love and Liberty or the Merchants of DEAth
DdC
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