Bush Renews Faith-Based Initiative Push

DdC · 10-30-2003, 09:21 PM

By The Associated Press October 30, 2003
Dallas - In a speech replete with references to "miracles" and a "higher power bigger than people's problems," President Bush on Wednesday renewed his push to let religious groups compete for government money. "The best way to help the addict ... is to change their heart," Bush said in a reference to how he stopped drinking at age 40. "See, if you change their heart, then they change their behavior. "I know!" Bush said, thrusting a finger into the air.
Read More...cannabisnews. ..17695.shtml

Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse
The nature of addiction is the same no matter whether the drug is cocaine, heroin, alcohol, marijuana*, amphetamines or nicotine. Yes, whether they know it or not, chronic cigarette smokers and users of chewing tobacco are addicts. Every addictive substance, according to a report this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, induces pleasant states or relieves distress. Furthermore, the authors of the report, Dr. Jordi Cami and Dr. Magi Farré of Barcelona wrote, "Continued use induces adaptive changes in the central nervous system that lead to tolerance, physical dependence, sensitization, craving and relapse." In other words, addiction is a brain disease, not a moral failing or behavior problem. People do not deliberately set out to become addicts. Rather, for any number of reasons — like wanting to be part of the crowd or seeking relief from intense emotional or physical pain — people may start using a substance and soon find themselves unable to stop.
* Cannabis does not act as a direct receptor agonist (stimulant) in the dopamine pleasure center.

O'Really? Says its a moral lapse.
Mayor Calls for Lethal Injection for Drug Users

Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit

Fighting Cocaine with Marijuana

Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974
The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys
Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

Bush Religion Initiative headed by John J. DiIulio, Jr.
(Superpredator Kids on Pot!)

Moral Poverty and Body Counts
John Walters is a veteran of drug policy shambles. As the deputy director under former drug czar William Bennett, he helped craft drug war policies that have shattered millions of lives, wasted billions of dollars and exacerbated America's drug crisis. He's a hard-core ideologue who misrepresents the facts and spouts tough-on-crime rhetoric.

William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters, Body Count: Moral Poverty and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs
Predicted wave of 'predators' fuels debate on stricter laws...
Secretary of Education major preditors William Bennett, John J. Dilulio and ex-federal drug enforcement official John P. Walters. The book was condemned as inaccurate and alarmist ...

Bill Bendit's Virtues
Poster

Pisstasters * Poster

Steamroller Ashcroft

The Shadow of the Swastika

Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale?

The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America

Thomas Jefferson: I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth.
SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS, by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short

Frodo · 10-30-2003, 10:09 PM

It's Bush... I guess the best I can say is "what do you expect?"

He tries to push his religious views into every aspect of government. Sheesh.

ÎlLMätÎÇ · 11-01-2003, 12:31 PM

haha that's funny Jesus is holding his joint in his nail-hole.

DdC · 11-01-2003, 01:00 PM

Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site http://www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS."

The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises:

"HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ...

"If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you
must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life.

"In many situations you are better off agreeing to do something (masturbating, oral sex, sex with a condom) rather than just resisting until you are overwhelmed and forced to deal with unprotected anal sex from one or many guys. You may feel you should resist to the end, but that would put your life in danger. There is no shame in doing what you have to do to survive; nothing changes the fact that rape is involved and you are not morally or legally responsible for it; these compromises are just pathways to your survival. It may even be to your advantage to develop skills in oral sex so that guys you have to deal with will be satisfied with that alone. Don't feel guilty about it; you're just trying to save your life...."

Feeling pretty comfortable now with what the legal system is doing to these 77,000 nonviolent pot-smokers in your name? (And those are just the ones who end up doing hard time, mind you. Remember, 646,000 were arrested in 2000. Do you suppose most of them had a nice, restful night in jail? Do you realize, if their families spent a few thousand dollars apiece on legal fees, that adds up to more than a billion dollars, and taxpayer costs for lost police time are several times that?)

Still going to tell me that treating them in this manner is just the way you show your "compassion" as you seek to "protect them from the health risks" of lighting up a joint, not to mention "sending the right message to the children"?

"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 * NRLE * Marijuana Policy Project * Human Rights Watch * Male Rape in US Prisons

Childrens rights * Children in the US * Street Children * Juvenile Justice * Child Labor

Conditions of Confinement

Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse.

Close to Home: Juveniles in Adult Jails
Op-Ed by Michael Bochenek The Washington Post
Correctional Systems, Inc.
(CSI) is a publicly-traded corporation that contracts with governmental
agencies to operate correctional projects.

Juvenile Detention Study
Juvenile Info Network
Mental Health Issues and Juvenile Justice
The Benefits of Treating Kids Like People
Sexual Assault Information Page_
The Real Price of Prisons
Making the Walls Transparent

FAMM Foundation * Drug Sense * M.A.M.A. * F.E.A.R. * November * Human Rights and the WoD

The Joseph McNamara Collection

The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree. Mohandas Gandhi

10-30-2003, 09:21 PM	#1 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	Bush Renews Faith-Based Initiative Push By The Associated Press October 30, 2003 Dallas - In a speech replete with references to "miracles" and a "higher power bigger than people's problems," President Bush on Wednesday renewed his push to let religious groups compete for government money. "The best way to help the addict ... is to change their heart," Bush said in a reference to how he stopped drinking at age 40. "See, if you change their heart, then they change their behavior. "I know!" Bush said, thrusting a finger into the air. Read More...cannabisnews. ..17695.shtml Addiction: A Brain Ailment, Not a Moral Lapse The nature of addiction is the same no matter whether the drug is cocaine, heroin, alcohol, marijuana, amphetamines or nicotine. Yes, whether they know it or not, chronic cigarette smokers and users of chewing tobacco are addicts. Every addictive substance, according to a report this month in The New England Journal of Medicine, induces pleasant states or relieves distress. Furthermore, the authors of the report, Dr. Jordi Cami and Dr. Magi Farré of Barcelona wrote, "Continued use induces adaptive changes in the central nervous system that lead to tolerance, physical dependence, sensitization, craving and relapse." In other words, addiction is a brain disease, not a moral failing or behavior problem. People do not deliberately set out to become addicts. Rather, for any number of reasons — like wanting to be part of the crowd or seeking relief from intense emotional or physical pain — people may start using a substance and soon find themselves unable to stop. Cannabis does not act as a direct receptor agonist (stimulant) in the dopamine pleasure center. O'Really? Says its a moral lapse. Mayor Calls for Lethal Injection for Drug Users Marijuana Could Help Cocaine Addicts Kick Habit Fighting Cocaine with Marijuana Dr. Heath/Tulane Study, 1974 The Hype: Brain Damage and Dead Monkeys Just as G. Gordon Liddy went into high-tech corporate security after his disgrace, Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing. Bush Religion Initiative headed by John J. DiIulio, Jr. (Superpredator Kids on Pot!) Moral Poverty and Body Counts John Walters is a veteran of drug policy shambles. As the deputy director under former drug czar William Bennett, he helped craft drug war policies that have shattered millions of lives, wasted billions of dollars and exacerbated America's drug crisis. He's a hard-core ideologue who misrepresents the facts and spouts tough-on-crime rhetoric. William J. Bennett, John J. DiIulio, Jr., and John P. Walters, Body Count: Moral Poverty and How to Win America's War Against Crime and Drugs Predicted wave of 'predators' fuels debate on stricter laws... Secretary of Education major preditors William Bennett, John J. Dilulio and ex-federal drug enforcement official John P. Walters. The book was condemned as inaccurate and alarmist ... Bill Bendit's Virtues Poster Pisstasters * Poster Steamroller Ashcroft The Shadow of the Swastika Ancient Temple Hashish Incense! Did Jesus Inhale? The Distinctly Non-Christian Origins of the United States of America Thomas Jefferson: I have examined all the known superstitions of the word, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned. What has been the effect of this coercion? To make one half the world fools and the other half hypocrites; to support roguery and error all over the earth. SIX HISTORIC AMERICANS, by John E. Remsburg, letter to William Short __________________ Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze/Ethanol then Ganja//Hemp.

10-30-2003, 10:09 PM	#2 (permalink)
Frodo Naysayer Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: "Left my soul there, down by the sea..." Posts: 4,155 Thanks: 0 Thanked 3 Times in 2 Posts	It's Bush... I guess the best I can say is "what do you expect?" He tries to push his religious views into every aspect of government. Sheesh. __________________ In the world of paranoid conspiracy theories, there are no coincidences.

11-01-2003, 01:00 PM	#4 (permalink)
DdC Decade Yahookan Join Date: Feb 1999 Location: Santa Cruz,CA,USA Posts: 2,117 Blog Entries: 5 Thanks: 51 Thanked 607 Times in 399 Posts	Bush R&R Rehab: Rape and Religion!!! Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible' What's life like in our prisons for those 77,000 marijuana convicts? Let's steel our nerves and go visit the Web site http://www.spr.org, where the Los Angeles outfit "Stop Prisoner Rape" has posted the little plain-talking handbill it has prepared for young men entering our prison system, titled "For Prisoners: Advice on Avoiding HIV/AIDS." The group's handout -- targeted primarily at heterosexual men who have no desire to ever be involved in homosexual activity -- advises: "HIV/AIDS transmission during a sexual assault is a serious concern. The following are practical tips for reducing your risk. ... "If you have a choice, try to avoid men who used needles for drugs in the past or are still doing so. ... The more often you are raped, the more exposed you will be, so especially try to avoid anal gang-bangs. The most dangerous situation of all is if your anus is bleeding, for that allows easy entry of the virus into your bloodstream. So try to use a lubricant or grease or cream if you can to minimize injury to your delicate internal body parts, avoid anal gang-bangs, and if you must endure forced anal penetration, try to relax your muscles as much as possible. These tactics are not 'cooperating' or consenting, they are just common-sense measures to try to save your life. "In many situations you are better off agreeing to do something (masturbating, oral sex, sex with a condom) rather than just resisting until you are overwhelmed and forced to deal with unprotected anal sex from one or many guys. You may feel you should resist to the end, but that would put your life in danger. There is no shame in doing what you have to do to survive; nothing changes the fact that rape is involved and you are not morally or legally responsible for it; these compromises are just pathways to your survival. It may even be to your advantage to develop skills in oral sex so that guys you have to deal with will be satisfied with that alone. Don't feel guilty about it; you're just trying to save your life...." Feeling pretty comfortable now with what the legal system is doing to these 77,000 nonviolent pot-smokers in your name? (And those are just the ones who end up doing hard time, mind you. Remember, 646,000 were arrested in 2000. Do you suppose most of them had a nice, restful night in jail? Do you realize, if their families spent a few thousand dollars apiece on legal fees, that adds up to more than a billion dollars, and taxpayer costs for lost police time are several times that?) Still going to tell me that treating them in this manner is just the way you show your "compassion" as you seek to "protect them from the health risks" of lighting up a joint, not to mention "sending the right message to the children"? "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 * NRLE * Marijuana Policy Project * Human Rights Watch * Male Rape in US Prisons Childrens rights * Children in the US * Street Children * Juvenile Justice * Child Labor Conditions of Confinement Human Rights Watch has documented abominable conditions for children in detention in countries around the world. In the United States (Colorado, Georgia, Louisiana, and Maryland), Pakistan, Jamaica, among other countries, children are subjected to excessive force, inadequate medical and mental health care, and are provided with little or no education. Often, these children are placed in the facilities along side adults, exposing them to physical and sexual abuse. Close to Home: Juveniles in Adult Jails Op-Ed by Michael Bochenek The Washington Post Correctional Systems, Inc. (CSI) is a publicly-traded corporation that contracts with governmental agencies to operate correctional projects. Juvenile Detention Study Juvenile Info Network Mental Health Issues and Juvenile Justice The Benefits of Treating Kids Like People Sexual Assault Information Page_ The Real Price of Prisons Making the Walls Transparent FAMM Foundation * Drug Sense * M.A.M.A. * F.E.A.R. * November * Human Rights and the WoD The Joseph McNamara Collection The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree. Mohandas Gandhi

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ÎlLMätÎÇ Shogun'sDecapitator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 198 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	haha that's funny Jesus is holding his joint in his nail-hole.

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