Police Terrorize Students in Ill-Conceived Drug Raid
National Student Group Condemns Heavy-Handed Tactics
Excerpt: WASHINGTON, D.C. - On Wednesday, fourteen Goose Creek police officers occupied Stratford High School in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Police stormed the school and detained 107 students at gunpoint, demanding they lie on the ground and submit to an extensive search involving drug-sniffing dogs. No drugs were found.
Collateral Consequences by Robin Levi & Judith Appel
Denial of Basic Social Services Based Upon Drug Use
Prepared by Office of Legal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance June 13, 2003
Excerpted: Ineligibility applies to all forms of federal financial aid, including grants, student loans,
and work-study. According to the bill’s author, Congressman Mark Souder (R-IN), the bill was intended to apply only to students who are convicted while they are in college, not students who were convicted before they got to school. Nonetheless, all students with drug convictions, regardless of when they occurred, have lost benefits under this provision.
Drug Warpor Rep. Mark Souder Takes Questions on Radio Netherlands
THE DEMONIZATION OF MARIHUANA
Human Rights and the WoD
November Coalition
(FAMM Foundation)
Families Against Mandatory Minimums Foundation
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WAMM
Cannabis News
MAP Inc.Org.
Drug Sense
Mark Souder Can Suck It
Casualties of the War on Drugs by marc schanz
You can murder, maim and molest and still get federal financial aid for college.
But get caught smoking a joint, and you have to pay your own way; if you can afford it, that is.
The Higher Education Act was established in 1965 as one of President Lyndon Johnson's "Great Society" initiatives. It created federal programs such as the Perkins and Plus Loans, Pell Grants and work-study programs.
The goal was to provide enough financial assistance to those unable to afford college to have the financial resources necessary to attend school and seek a degree.
It did not deny aid based on drug use; if it had, many of today's leaders in politics, business and social reform never would have passed the test.
When Bill Clinton was President, students were able to avoid the issue altogether. The question on their financial aid applications asked whether the student had "never been convicted of any illegal drug offense." Many considered the wording of the question confusing, and around 279,000 applicants left the question blank.
The Clinton Administration simply opted not to enforce the provision and let the blanks count as "no." But to those who checked "yes" on the form, 9,114 lost their aid.
But the Bush Administration recently announced it would begin to enforce the law. The recently revamped financial aid applications now have a bold flag: DO NOT LEAVE QUESTION 35 BLANK
Of course there is one way to beat the system.
Lie.
Very few applications are checked at the federal level and financial aid administrators at individual colleges and universities often don't have the resources to conduct criminal background checks.
PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS
The Racist Ganjawar
Souder the Flip Flopping Hypocrite, yes. But not necessarily with Immigration.
It's priorities. As long as it's a scam to thwart drugs coming into the country Souder wants a wall. If it's too lessen the amount of cheap labor for his agrobuddies, then he's a liberal. His Higher Ed Ax seems to open the job market for those "potheads" not ligible for college assistance, they can pick Souders donators crops...
Souder Voted in 1996 to continue chain migration
Rep. Souder in 1996 voted for the Chrysler-Berman Amendment to H.R.2202. It was a vote in favor of a chain migration system that has been the primary cause of annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today. Rep. Souder supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives. Then each of those relatives can send for their and their spouse's adult relatives, creating a never-ending and ever-growing chain.
Souder Tried to create massive new foreign agriculture worker program in 1996
Rep. Souder voted IN FAVOR of the Pombo Amendment to H.R.2202. He was voting for a massive new program that would have allowed agri-business to import up to 250,000 foreign farm workers each year for a period of service of less than a year.
Souder Voted to authorize the use of troops on the border in 1999
Rep. Souder voted in favor of the Traficant amendment to H.R. 1401. This amendment authorized the Secretary of Defense, under certain circumstances, to assign members of the Armed Forces to assist the Border Patrol and Customs Service only in drug interdiction and counter terrorism activities along our borders. The Traficant amendment passed by a vote of 242 to 181.
Souder Opposed mandatory workplace verification programs in 1996
"At the end of every shift, one hears officers extolling the virtues of apprehending a 'hype,' 'junkie'or 'druggie.' Since these tools for financial benefit, career advancement, and peer status are no longer valued as people, officers need not trouble themselves with ethical questions."
- Gil Puder, Vancouver Police Officer, 1998
Marijuana Smokers are Filling Jails
with Cheap Labour for Corporate Profit
By Reverend Damuzi (Cannabis Culture Magazine)
The United States has a new form of slavery. SWAT teams are conducting military "cleansings" of poor, minority and marijuana-growing neighbourhoods under the guise of drug raids that particularly target women, black people and members of the cannabis culture.
Prisons are being privatized and converted into sweat-shops were, for example, pot huffers might find themselves in an ironic hell on earth, a dark cave where they are forced to answer unending calls for a travel agency for the rest of their lives. The entire operation is being coordinated by multinational corporate interests that reach deep into the heart and pockets of the White House. Imprisoning pot smokers.
"We are talking about despotism.
The USA PATRIOT Act is as despotic as anything Hitler came up with--
--even using much of the same language."
- GORE VIDAL
