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Drug War Travesties by Pete Guither
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These have been widely reported elsewhere, but in case you missed them, I wanted to give you the links:

Torturing Drug War Suspects: I talked about it some time ago, but Radley brings back to the net the case of the torture of Eugene Siler. Cops torture him to get him to sign a consent form for their search of his place. Siler's wife, however, had turned on a tape recorder and now the audio is available online (Note: The address is an mp3 file being forced to play on Windows Media. If Mac users have trouble making it work, install Windows Media Components for Quicktime).

It's truly sickening. And how many times has something like this happened when there wasn't a tape recording? Would a court believe the word of a drug suspect over a cop without such direct evidence?

This is an indictment of those specific cops, but it's also an indictment of the drug war in general that fosters such behavior.

Life in prison? A 17 year-old man takes part in a robbery that nets $2 (they returned the wallet), pleads guilty, and gets 10 years probation. During his probation, he smokes a joint and flunks a drug test. Judge sentences him to life in prison.

I don't know how anyone can claim that makes a bit of sense from a moral, criminal justice, practical, or financial basis. (Read the rest of the article for information on how the judge handles different cases.) [Thanks, David]

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Would you turn this girl in? by Pete Guither
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I can't believe this!

University of Colorado police have posted pictures of 150 people on a website smoking pot on the "420" day celebration last week and are offering a $50 reward for anyone who can identify them.

What are they going to do? Prosecute? Based on a picture of smoking... something?
The sick part... They got 50 calls in the first hour.

Update: Oh, I get it now. Read this page.

They purposely officially closed the field on 4/20 and posted signs so that they could go after anyone for trespassing, and they're just going after the ones that they have pictures of lighting up what appears to be pot to punish them.

This is petty vindictiveness on the part of the administration and the campus police. The students should protest. At the very least, this kind of provocative action may serve to actually help the cause of marijuana legalization in Colorado. [Thanks, Mike]



"In 1931, when Brave New World was being written, I was convinced that there was still plenty of time. The completely organized society, the scientific caste system, the abolition of free will by methodical conditioning, the servitude made acceptable by regular doses of chemically induced happiness, the orthodoxies drummed in by nightly courses of sleep-teaching - these things were coming all right, but not in my time, not even in the time of my grandchildren....Twe nty-seven years later,...I feel a good deal less optimistic... In the West,...individual men and women still enjoy a large measure of freedom. But...this freedom and even the desire for this freedom seem to be on the wane."
--Aldous Huxley Brave New World Revisited 1958



Saturday, April 29, 2006
Putting lipstick on a pig



Via The Agitator, John Walters is not having a good day.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. drug czar has been challenged to explain disputed statistics underlying a string of rosy reports on progress in cutting the flow of cocaine from South America, one of which prompted an expert to liken the official numbers to "lipstick on a pig."

The request came in a detailed 1,800-word letter to John Walters, director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP), from Senator Chuck Grassley, the Republican chairman of the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control.

The Iowa senator expressed concern that the ONDCP has been picking data "to provide a rosier but not necessarily more accurate picture" on the multi-billion dollar effort to eradicate coca plantations in Colombia, the world's top producer of cocaine, Bolivia and Peru.

Of course, we've been saying that the Czar cherry-picks his data for years. But it's nice to see Congress maybe waking up a little? Or perhaps there's been a political shift in the drug war and they need a fall guy?

The Ganjawar Fraud...
DEAth Flunky

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

"Dissent is the highest form of patriotism"
-- Thomas Jefferson --

The Drug War Gravy Train... By Daniel Forbes

"Unless you become more watchful in your States and check this spirit of monopoly and thirst for exclusive privileges you will in the end find that the most important powers of Government have been given or bartered away, and the control of your dearest interests have been passed into the hands of these corporations."
--President Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4

TV, Drugs & Civil Liberties - Ministers of Truth
White House Defends TV Drug-Ad Deal
Washington, 90210
Washington Script Doctors

"These companies, not the lunatic Nazi fanatics, are the main war criminals. If the guilt of these criminals is not brought to daylight and if they are not punished, they will pose a much greater threat to the future peace of the world than Hitler if he were still alive."
-- Telford Taylor, US-Chief Prosecutor, 1947 Nuremberg War Trial against the managers of IG Farben.

Drug Money, How the White House Secretly Hooked TV
Readers To Drug Czar: Busted! - Salon Magazine Article:
Magazines Paid To Spout Drug War Propaganda - DrugSense Focus Alert

If a ruler hearken to lies, all his servants are wicked. Prov.29:12



Let's ship drug offenders to gulags in other countries!
Link

South Carolina General Assembly H.4865
Sponsors: Rep. Davenport

A bill... relating to the confinement of prisoners, so as to provide that the Department of Corrections may enter into agreements with foreign countries for the confinement of inmates convicted of drug related offenses...

That's right. We can use extraordinary rendition for pot smokers! Yeah -- South Carolina can send its drug offenders to China or Indonesia.



So has this guy got a screw loose, or is he really that un-American?
That's Representative Guy Ralph Davenport, Jr.
[Thanks, Katie]

Officially GOPerverted

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains."
-- Thomas Jefferson to Horatio Gates Spafford, 17 Mar. 1817, cited in Papers 14:221

Lloydy

I thought that said transvestites

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The Tran Files
It is more or less common knowledge that he was a transvestite and had a life long relationship with fellow FBI man Clyde Tolson. There are numerous stories of Hoover appearing in drag in New York. Usually in a red dress, he liked to be called "Mary" .



Between the Covers Rare Books, Inc.
The Love Song of J. Edgar Hoover

Štulic

Wow



Just wow

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