"We the People are the rightful master of both congress and the courts -
not to overthrow the Constitution,
but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
-- Abraham Lincoln
Kill the Messenger
Cover-Ups, Prevarications, Subversions & Sabotage
Demonizing Drugs
“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither”
- Thomas Jefferson
COPsAgainstGanjawar
CrazyCalvinaFay
WomansWackyVengeance Union
Fascists Piss Tasters
Con Flicts of Interest Bush Barthwell & Drugs
Health regulators have sent an uncompromising message that smoked cannabis will not be approved for use by MS sufferers, leaving the way open for GW's under-the-tongue spray version of the drug.
Former Deputy Drug Czar Andrea Barthwell is the new spokesperson for getting GW Pharmaceuticals' Sativex approved for use in the United States. Bayer and GW Pharmaceuticals announce marketing agreement on pioneering new cannabis-based treatment.
"The people who are advancing marijuana as a medicine are perpetuating a cruel hoax that exploits our compassion for the sick. They are using patients' pain and suffering in an attempt to change America's drug control policy. Marijuana is a crude plant product that most definitely is not a medicine."
Andrea Barthwell - Former Deputy Drug Czar (Bush II)
US Government Patents Medical Pot
Cannabis extract made by Parke, Davis & Co. circa 1910
GanjaExtract
Souder Orders to FDA Backfiring!
Boy, I wonder if anyone at the FDA foresaw this. The FDA statement against medical marijuana has been received around the nation (and even the world), as if NASA had proclaimed that the earth is flat.
F.D.A. Misses Medical Benefit From Marijuana
A Lie College Students Might Want To Tell (Souder Thread)
Souder Fungus Déjà Vu!
US PRAISES THAI DRUG WAR!
Drug War Bodies Are Piling Up in Mexico
Bush's Faustian Deal With the Taliban
Power is sweet; it is a drug,
the desire for which increases with a habit.
-- Bertrand Russell, 1951
Stop SWAT-Style Drug Raids
Ask the U.S. Conference of Mayors to support an end to violent, SWAT-style police raids like the one that left a D.C.-area mayor handcuffed in his boxer shorts while his family's two dogs bled to death at his feet.
Blessed is the Police State
Blessed are the Peacemakers
DWR: Pete Guither Monday, September 1, 2008
Radley Balko notes another community that has gone ultra-militarized (and, as he says, "Who wants to set an over under on the first time they use this thing to bust a pot dealer?")
Police Mag (March, 2008)
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The Richland County (S.C.) Sheriff's Department has acquired an armored personnel carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun for its Special Response Team.
Sheriff Leon Lott told the Columbia State newspaper that he hoped the vehicle, named "The Peacemaker," would let the bad guys know that his officers are serious.
"We don't look at this as a killing machine," Lott told the paper. "It's going to keep the peace. We hope the fact that we have this is going to save lives. When something like this rolls up, it's time to give up."
Of course, such an article really demands a
picture. I was looking to see if they had an image of the APC, but I didn't expect this dramatic pose (although I should have -- they sure love to pose with their military toys).
Sheriff Lott stated that the name selected from the entries will be "The Peacemaker" because that is the APC's purpose and the bible refers to law enforcement in Matthew 5:9 "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God".
Wow.
You know, I was raised studying the Bible and had a special interest in the Sermon on the Mount. In all my reading of the beatitudes, I never once imagined Christ astride an Armored Personnel Carrier complete with a turret-mounted .50-caliber belt-fed machine gun, surrounded by apostles in SWAT gear, as he said to the crowd "Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God."
Anger Spills Over at Killing of Kathryn Johnston
Reefer Madness the Burning of Rainbow farm
OiNkDeCePtion Is Flying Blind
It's back... Florida Reinfested With McKillum
Q. How many states have a life sentence for marijuana crimes?
A. In at least thirteen states you can get a life sentence for marijuana.
They had a contest to name the armored personnel carrier
and decided on "The Police State."