Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!

[DdC]

...His book, The Dream and the Nightmare: The Sixties' Legacy to the Underclass (Encounter Books, 1999) argues that the radical transformation of American culture that took place in the 1960s brought the underclass into being. Changes in beliefs and values at the top of American society produced catastrophic changes in behavior at the bottom. President-elect George W. Bush told the Wall Street Journal that it was the most important book he'd ever read after the Bible, and Bush strategist Karl Rove calls The Dream and the Nightmare a roadmap to the president-elects "compassionate conservatism." Hilton Kramer called the book "an indispensable guide to the outstanding question of the day," columnist Mona Charen deemed it "the book of the decade," and the Wall Street Journal remarked that "many writers have addressed this topic [of the underclass] but few have done so with more wisdom or more passion.
Poverty? Dubya Says Blame the Hippies!
Wed, 15 Oct 2003

"The struggle between the two worlds [Fascism and Democracy]
can permit no compromises. It's either Us or Them!"
Benito Mussolini Address, from Palazzo Venezia balcony October 27, 1930

The Dream and the Nightmare: Sixties’ Legacy to the Underclass
(William Morrow, 1993; Encounter Books, 2000) by Myron Magnet

"Marihuana leads to pacifism and communist brainwashing"
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1948

A locker-room mentality dominates the spirit of many contemporary discourses on poverty and welfare in America. Intellectual jocks bandy loose talk about women (and some men) as lesser beings, subject to odd sexual whims and antisocial behaviors and, more generally, as so many objects for experiment. Facts need not get in the way--they can be (and are) marshaled to suit the moment. Myron Magnet's The Dream and the Nightmare is no exception. In his chapter on "Victimizing the Poor," he cites twenty-six "real" men (and one fictional [man]) as evidentiary elements of his central argument that poor people have been victimized by being said to have been victimized. Not a single female is called upon to prove a point. Yet the chapter is largely about people on welfare--94 percent of whom are single mothers and their children.
Theresa Funiciello

"It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error;
it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error."
U.S. Supreme Court, in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

The book that helped shape Bush’s message by Dave McNeely
Austin American-Statesman 1- 27-99

The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist

"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?
Richard Nixon missing tapes

On the right there is complete, indeed even gleeful, agreement of this dismal portrait, imagery of fast, losing ground, except that the road to racial hell has been paved by the very policies intended to help to solve the problem are painted by the dream and the nightmare of cultural changes in the 60s and overbreeding and educational integration of the inferior African - Americans and low class whites and genetically situated on the wrong tail of the IQ bell curve. [LAUGHTER] Orlando Patterson



The godfathers of 'compassionate conservatism' ;
Authors' works have helped shape candidate Bush's core philosophy by Bill Minutaglio
The Dallas Morning Star 4-16-00

"Reefer makes darkies think they're as good as white men."
Federal Bureau of Narcotics Chief Harry J. Anslinger, 1929

CIA Think Tank to Head Bush Religion Initiative
The NY Times article below describes the two men Bush is putting in charge of his religion plan, John J. DiIulio Jr. and Stephen Goldsmith. Both men are senior fellows of the CIA's Manhattan Institute and are colleagues of Charles Murray, author of the classic text of scientific racism, The Bell Curve.
Most of Bush's advisors are also associated with the Bell Curve. As just one of many examples, Murray was a consultant on Tommy Thompsons' Wisconsin Welfare Reform program, which Bush will make the national model. Following the Times article you will find quotes from the NY Times and the Manhattan Institute's own website to substantiate the CIA origin of the Manhattan Institute, its influence on GW Bush and its very close decade-long association with Charles Murray, who wrote The Bell Curve while a research fellow at The Manhattan Institute.
Whether you are a fundamentalist Christian, an Orthodox Jew, a devout Muslim or an atheist you might question what part the CIA rightfully has in a multi-billion dollar "religion initiative" or in any domestic US policy decisions. The best known modern example of government sponsored religion-based initiatives is Nazi Germany.
Robert Lederman artistpres@aol.com

"A popular government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy - or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own Governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives." - James Madison



"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it. Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935

"Reefer Crazed Teens Cause Terror Alert"
Marijuana - Assassin of Youth JULY 1937 by H.J.Anslinger

How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups, burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it causes each year, especially among the young, can be only conjectured. The sweeping march of its addiction has been so insidious that, in numerous communities, it thrives almost unmolested, largely because of official ignorance of its effects. Anslinger

Bush's Cabinet: John J. DiIulio, Jr. and His Change of Heart
"PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8 - From his perch as the director of the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives, which he believes will help uplift many needy people but particularly the most troubled teenagers, John J. Dilulio Jr. conceded today that he wished he had never become the 1990's intellectual pillar for putting violent juveniles in prison and condemning them as 'superpredators.' That alarm was raised in "Body Count" (Simon & Schuster, 1996), written with William J. Bennett and John P. Walters, which advanced the theory, since disproved, that these superpredators would sharply increase the level of teenage violence by the turn of this century. His prediction wasn't just wrong, it was exactly the opposite,' said Franklin E. Zimring, professor of law at the University of California at Berkeley and director of the university's Earl Warren Legal Institute.'His theories on superpredators were utter madness.'

America’s New Drug Pusher John P Walters
WoD Articles Liberty Removal

"[Marijuana is taken by] musicians.
And I'm not speaking about good musicians, but the jazz type..."
Harry J. Anslinger Federal Bureau of Narcotics 1948



Snake-Oil Salesmen
The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) — whose anti-pot road show blew through Boston last week — wants you to believe that everything about marijuana is bad, bad, bad. That the plant’s promising medicinal benefits are simply a "Trojan-horse issue," perpetrated by drug-reform advocates who are taking advantage of sick and dying people to advance a decriminalization agenda. That legalizing medical marijuana would confuse the "just say no" message for adolescents and cause them to glamorize debilitating diseases like cancer, AIDS, and multiple sclerosis.

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Reefer Madness, Redux
Behind Closed Doors
WoD Junkie DEAth Worshipers

Racism Resurgent:
How Media Let The Bell Curve's Pseudo-Science Define the Agenda on Race
The Bell Curve was accorded attention totally disproportionate to the merits of the book or the novelty of its thesis. The book and its dubious claims set the agenda for discussions. As well they might. Nearly all the research that Murray and Herrnstein relied on for their central claims about race and IQ was funded by the Pioneer Fund, described by the London Sunday Telegraph (3/12/89) as a "neo-Nazi organization closely integrated with the far right in American politics."
The fund's mission is to promote eugenics, a philosophy that maintains that "genetically unfit" individuals or races are a threat to society.

A Review of the Bell Curve: Bad Science Makes for Bad Conclusions
by William J. Matthews, Ph.D.



PREJUDICE: MARIJUANA AND JIM CROW LAWS

John DiIulio to D.C.
Last Monday, President George Bush appointed criminologist and political scientist Dr. John J. DiIulio, Jr., to direct the new White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives--the first federal office intended to promote the integration of religious groups into federally financed social services. Dr. DiIulio is the Frederick Fox Leadership Professor of Politics, Religion and Civil Society in SAS. In the newly created position he will oversee the President's effort to have religious and community organizations, using government subsidies, assume a bigger role in combating social problems such as drug abuse and juvenile delinquency. The new initiative, if approved by Congress, will allow religious charities to compete for government grants alongside secular organizations. President Bush described Dr. DiIulio as "one of the most influential social entrepreneurs in America. I can't tell you how honored I am for him to leave his post in academia to join us." He went on to say, "He has been a major force in mobilizing the city of Philadelphia to support faith-based and community groups."

"Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger."
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Nazi Air Force (Luftwaffe) commander, the Nuremberg Trials

Tough Guys excerpted
Given the fame of its authors, its provocative title, and its contentious rhetoric, Body Count seems destined to be a best-seller, popular with the Republican right. The former drug czar and secretary of education William J. Bennett here joins with John J. DiIulio, Jr., a Princeton University political scientist, and John P. Walters, a former deputy to Bennett in the drug war, to warn Americans of an impending wave of violent crime and to urge an expanded war on drugs, tougher policing, longer sentences, more imprisonment, and—not to be forgotten—more religion.
RACE AND CRIME
Body Count focuses on crime by young black males, who are disproportionately the perpetrators and victims of violent crime and therefore an appropriate focal point for the book. But it is distressing that the authors introduce the "morally impoverished" youth criminal as an alien. They never explicitly link young black males with the "superpredator" label, but the connection is unmistakable.

Juvenile Crime, Adult Time: Why are we so afraid of our kids?
The United States also is among the select few nations that execute child offenders. Amnesty International has documented 19 executions of child offenders since 1990 in six countries: Iran, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and the United States (Yemen has since outlawed the practice). Ten were killed in the United States, which "has earned the shameful distinction of leading a tiny and dwindling group of perpetrator states" that still execute children, in the words of a December Amnesty report. Since October 1997, the report notes, all four children known to have been put to death in the world were killed in this country.
Templeton traces the trend for harsher juvenile penalties back to the "superpredator" thesis of former Princeton professor and current Brookings Institute ideologue John Dilulio. Combining demographic projections with his notion that institutions that produce decent character are disintegrating, Dilulio forecast a "rising wave of superpredators" primed to prey on society like never before. Dilulio's 1996 book Body Count, which he co-authored with former Drug Czar William Bennett and John P. Walters, warned of thickening ranks of juvenile sociopaths, "radically impulsive, brutally remorseless youngsters, including ever more pre-teen-age boys." Dilulio further described these predators as "fearing neither the stigma of arrest, pains of imprisonment nor the pangs of conscience."
The alarmist tone of this conservative tome echoed in Congress, where Florida Republican Rep. Bill McCollum introduced the "Violent Youth Predator Act," which called for confining children as young as 13 with adult offenders, denying federal funds to states that do not try 13-year-olds as adults and abolishing the federal agency charged with preventing juvenile crime. The bill, which is still being considered, has since been given a less hysterical name, but the stringent provisions remain.



Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible
"The horrors experienced by many young inmates, particularly those who are convicted of nonviolent offenses, border on the unimaginable. Prison rape not only threatens the lives of those who fall prey to their aggressors, but it is potentially devastating to the human spirit. Shame, depression, and a shattering loss of self-esteem accompany the perpetual terror the victim thereafter must endure." U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun, Farmer v. Brennan

SPR - Stop Prisoner Rape

NEW BUSH OFFICE SEEKS CLOSER TIES TO CHURCH GROUPS
WASHINGTON President Bush has selected a University of Pennsylvania professor of political science to head the first federal office intended to promote the integration of religious groups into federally financed social services, several Bush advisers said today. The advisers said the opening of the office and the appointment of John J. DiIulio Jr. to fill it would almost certainly be announced at a White House event on Monday, and they acknowledged that it would draw heated opposition from organizations and religious groups that advocate a strict separation of church and state.

What Is Compassionate Conservatism? by Myron Magnet
The Wall Street Journal 2-5-9

"They say you can't legislate morality. Well, you certainly can."
John Ashcroft Chicago Tribune May 25, 1998

Bush. Religious drug treatment in Texas



Delay Requested in Chong Term
Actor and comedian Tommy Chong, who considers his stint in federal prison akin to "going on location," still would rather be someplace else. Chong, 65, turned himself in at the Taft Correctional Institution near Bakersfield, Calif., last week to begin his nine-month sentence for selling bongs over the Internet. But one of his lawyers appeared in federal court in Pittsburgh yesterday to argue that he should be let out of the lockup pending his appeal to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Pittsburgh attorney Stanton Levenson told U.S. District Judge Arthur J. Schwab that his client, famous for such movies as "Up in Smoke," isn't a threat to anyone, isn't likely to run away and has legitimate reasons to believe he might win on appeal. Assistant U.S. Attorney Mary McKeen Houghton opposed the motion to let him out, saying the nine-month sentence Schwab imposed was appropriate.

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Tommy Chong Gets Nine Months
Tommy Chong asked for leniency from a judge Thursday for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia - saying he kicked his drug problem by taking up salsa dancing - but was sentenced to nine months in prison. Schwab's sentence was in the middle range of federal sentencing guidelines, which called for six months to one year in prison. The maximum possible punishment is three years in prison. Along with the fine, Chong will forfeit more than $103,000 and agreed not to profit from his case. He'll also be on probation for a year after his release. The business, though defunct, was also placed on probation for three years and its Internet domain name must be relinquished to federal authorities, along with any remaining paraphernalia.

"Estimates suggest that from 20 to 50 million Americans routinely, albeit illegally, smoke marijuana without the benefit of direct medical supervision. Yet, despite this long history of use and the extraordinarily high numbers of social smokers, there are simply no credible reports to suggest that consuming marijuana has caused a single death. By contrast, aspirin, a commonly used, over-the-counter medicine, causes hundreds of deaths each year."
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young
Opinion and Recommended Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law

Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse



The Ultimate Hypocrasy by Jack Herer
While waging its self-styled "War on Drugs" against Third World peasants and American civilians, the Reagan/Bush/Quayle/Clinton/Gore administrations (1981-1999) have encouraged and covered up drug smuggling and distribution by high ranking officials of the U.S. government.

On one hand, Bush violated international law by invading Panama to bring reputed drug smuggler and long-time Bush/CIA employee Manuel Noriega to the U.S. to stand trial.

On the other hand, he refused to extradite Oliver North, John Hull, Admiral Poindexter, General Secord, Lewis Tambs, and other Americans to Costa Rica, where they are under indictment by that government for operating a drug smuggling operation there.
(The Guardian, British newspaper, "Cocaine shipped by contra network", July 22, 1989.)

Federal hearings conducted by U.S. Senator John Kerry's (MA) Subcommittee on Terrorism and Narcotics in 1988 and 1989 documented widespread acts by the CIA and National Security Agency (NSA) to block investigations by the Customs Department and FBI into cocaine smuggling by "intelligence operatives" under the guise of national security. No indictments were ever handed down, and witnesses testified under grants of immunity with little media attention.

Special Iran-Contra investigators failed to act on this information or evidence developed by the Christic Institute implicating government complicity in narco-terrorism. And when General Secord was convicted in January 1990 for crimes related to the Iran Contra drugs-for-arms scandal, he was given a fine of $50 and a brief probation when a federal judge decided that the poor fellow had already "suffered enough".

This from an administration that promotes the death penalty even beheading For marijuana dealers.*
* On the Larry King Show in late 1989, then drug czar William Bennett, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2000, said he had no moral problems with beheading drug dealers -only legal ones.

What is the Law?

"All laws which can be violated without doing any one any injury are laughed at."Spinoza, (c. 1660)

To control marijuana is to give up our freedoms,
for ourselves, our kids, and our kid's kids, forever.

And that, my friends, is called fascism; and simply put, if the laws on cannabis are not overturned, and if present Earth-destructive practices, such as strip mining, oil drilling, clear-cutting of trees, industrial pollution of waters, and use of pesticides and herbicides are not discontinued, our planet will soon die at the hands of these ignorant (not-knowing and/or evil) politicians who think they have a right to pass more and more Draconian laws to fill more and bigger prisons and jails with some of our most decent citizens. These same politicians portray themselves as being motivated purely out of concern for children. Meanwhile, they promote the massive ongoing environmental poisoning of these same children every day!



The Elkhorn Manifesto

Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed

"A smoker would theoretically have to consume nearly fifteen hundred pounds of marijuana within about 15 minutes to induce a lethal response... In strict medical terms, marijuana is far safer than many of the foods we commonly consume. For example, eating ten raw potatoes can result in a toxic response. By comparison, it is physically impossible to eat enough marijuana to induce death."
DEA Administrative Law Judge Francis L. Young
Opinion and Recommended Ruling, Findings of Fact, Conclusions of Law



Reefer Madness Past & Present

"[In] my era everybody smoked and everybody drank and there was no drug use "
DEA Chief Thomas Constantine, July 1, 1998

I.G.Farben,Dupont,Fo rd,Hearst,Frankenfoo ds & Cannabis Prohibition

"If the hideous monster Frankenstein
came face to face with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright."
Harry J. Anslinger The man who made pot illegal



"Since you [US "drug tsar" McCaffrey] control a federal budget that has just been increased from $17.8 billion last year to $19.2 billion this year, is asking people like you if we should continue with our nation's current drug policy like a person asking a barber if one needs a haircut?"
Judge James P. Gray Orange Country, California
Los Angeles Times 29 March 2000

Reefer Madness Quotes American Alliance for Medical Cannabis
Hempfiles Quotes

BOYCOTT! All Supporters of "Partnership For A Drug Free America" Public Enemy #1 of Medical Marijuana! Here is a complete listing of Companies to BOYCOTT! Like KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, Long John Silvers, & A&W, AKA- Yum Brands & Why You Should Boycott Them?



Marihuana More Dangerous Than Heroin or Cocaine
-- Scientific American - May 1938
Authority for this statement is United States Commissioner of Narcotics H. J. Anslinger.

Google: Anslinger/Hearst Quotes

"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me.
The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag - a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini together in the heyday of 1930s fascism.

LIST OF OLD MAGAZINE/BOOK ARTICLES CONCERNING MEDICAL CANNABIS

W.R. Hearst Reefer Madness Essay Circa 1937
The sheer number of newspapers, tabloids, magazines and film reels that Hearst controlled enabled him to quickly and to effectively inundate American media with this propaganda. Hearst preyed on existing prejudices by associating cannabis with Mexican workers who threatened to steal American jobs and African-Americans who had long been the subject of White American Venom.

D.E.A.th Deceptions

[ionlylooklazy]

Originally posted by DdC
.. Facts need not get in the way--they can be (and are) marshaled to suit the moment.

this sounds a lot like yahooka

[Lions & Christians (PB)]

it's pretty sad when you can find all this stuff at a click of the button but people still honestly believe their is a "good" reason for it's illegal status.

[DdC]

Lions & Christians (PB):it's pretty sad when you can find all this stuff at a click of the button but people still honestly believe their is a "good" reason for it's illegal status.

True, but only 1% have access to the internet and the Ganja info while the government, schools and media are still mostly censoring...and the sheople still prefer grazing on familiar fauxnews reefer mad lies and the fairytale empty theories of the propagandist.

ionlylooklazy:this sounds a lot like yahooka

Naw boy, this is what sounds a lot like yahooka.



Maybe someday even you will be able to tell the difference...