DdC

Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

THE AFTERMATH OF THE FIRST THANKSGIVING

This is the time of the year when we are inundated with propaganda about the U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving. Recently, the History Channel showed its rendition. The same old story: weary Pilgrims were taught how to plant crops in the new land of America by some savvy Native Americans. Then, to thank the Indians and God, the Pilgrims held a celebration in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Everybody had a great time. This was brotherhood among human beings at its best. Then, the documentary went forward in time to the 18th century. What happened between 1621 and 1675 was completely ignored. Most U.S. history books rarely mention the fate of the Indians who helped the Pilgrims survive. continued...


Aletho News

Now that the longhouses breed superstition
You force us to send our toddlers away
To your schools where they're taught to despise their traditions.
You forbid them their languages, then further say
That American history really began
When Columbus set sail out of Europe, then stress
That the nation of leeches that conquered this land
Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best.
And yet where in your history books is the tale
Of the genocide basic to this country's birth,
Of the preachers who lied, how the Bill of Rights failed,
My country 'tis of thy people you're dying
~ Buffy Sainte-Marie

LA and Orange Counties Ban Medical Marijuana Shops

"In the United States right now there are three million children receiving stimulant drugs for ADHD." (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder)
~ Dr. Gabor Maté

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Therapeutic uses of Medical Marijuana in the treatment of ADD/ADHD



More Censorship

November 18, 2010
The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet

August 16, 2010
Under threat from Mexican drug cartels, reporters go silent
As the drug war scales new heights of savagery, one of the devastating byproducts of the carnage is the drug traffickers' chilling ability to co-opt underpaid and under-protected journalists — who are haunted by the knowledge that they are failing in their journalistic mission of informing society.

November 09, 2009
Grassley Proposing Limits To Federal Drug Study
"Well, my intent on that amendment isn't any different than any other amendments that are coming up," Grassley said. "The Congress is setting up a commission to study certain things, and the commission is an arm of Congress ... and the point is for them to do what we tell them to do. "And one of the things I was anticipating telling them not to do is to recommend or study the legalization of drugs."

July 09, 2009
Censorship in California
(MPP) kicked off a TV ad campaign aimed at gaining support for a California marijuana legalization bill in the legislature on Wednesday, but ran into problems with several TV stations around the state, which either rejected the ad outright or just ignored MPP efforts to place it.

July 09, 2009
Censorship in South Dakota
While under the court's supervision for the next year, Newland must not exercise his First Amendment right to advocate for marijuana law reform in South Dakota.


Bob Newland

"Although medical marijuana is legal in certain states, police still feel that they have a right to bust marijuana users, that it is part of their job description. Although marijuana users might feel good about these laws loosening, the police feel they have lost a fun means of building up arrests and ruining lives. They resent it. What fun is it going out on the beat if you cant beat some hippie and then arrest him for resisting arrest?"
~ Ed Rosenthal

March 23, 2009
Wacky Grassley, Not Tobaccy

March 23, 2009
Grassley Censorship Amendment - Take Action Now!
“Thus far, it’s been hard to tell if the administration’s statements on medical marijuana are style or substance,” libertarian drug-war critic Radley Balko wrote on his blog. “But if Sen. Charles Grassley is pissed off about it, that’s a pretty sign that they’re doing the right thing.”

8.26.2008

Retired police detective, Howard Wooldridge, representing Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP) was ousted from the National Asian Peace Officers Association (NAPOA) Conference in Crystal City because he was representing a view contrary U.S. government policy.

March 2, 2008
Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers projectcensored
In states across the country, child advocates have harshly condemned the conditions under which young offenders are housed—conditions that involve sexual abuse, physical abuse, and even death. The US Justice Department (DOJ) has filed lawsuits against facilities in eleven states for supervision that is either abusive or harmfully negligent. While the DOJ lacks the power to shut down juvenile correction facilities, through litigation it can force a state to improve its detention centers and protect the civil rights of jailed youth.

June 25, 2007
Supreme Court Nixes 'Bong Hits 4 Jesus'
The Supreme Court tightened limits on student speech Monday, ruling against a high school student and his 14-foot-long "Bong Hits 4 Jesus" banner.

"Bong Hits 4 Jesus"

Drop Bongs Not Bombs -12/02/09

Dump out that bong water



August 30, 2006
School's Fight To Censor Ensures We Won't Forget
When it comes to Bong Hits 4 Jesus, here's some Advice 4 Dummies: If the phrase poses such a threat to the health and future of any teenager exposed to it, then stop making a federal case out of it.

January 08, 2004
Drug Warriors Try to Censor their Opponents
Representative Ernest Istook (R-Okla.) has discovered a mortal threat to the republic. The threat is a display ad placed by a pro-drug legalization group, Change the Climate, Inc., on Washington D.C.'s bus and subway system. The ad showed a young couple, with the caption: "Enjoy Better Sex! Legalize and Tax Marijuana."

December 11, 2003
House of Reps. Approves Bill To Censor Americans
A little-known provision buried within the omnibus federal spending bill that the U.S. House of Representatives approved yesterday would take away federal grants from local and state transportation authorities that allow citizens to run advertising on buses, trains, or subways in support of reforming our nation’s drug laws.

October 15, 2003
Court Rejects DEA Press To Censor Doctors
In a major legal breakthrough for advocates of marijuana as medicine, the Supreme Court rebuffed an effort by the federal government to stop doctors from suggesting that treatment option to their patients.

Apr. 09, 2003
Who owns CNN? or MSNBC? ABC?
So ya think we have a "free press" eh?

29 Mar 2001
Cannabis Shrinks Tumors: Government Knew in 74
Wednesday, March 28, The United States Supreme Court rules on whether marijuana use for medicinal purposes can be a valid defense on charges of marijuana possession. The following article was listed as one of the top 25 censored stories of the year 2000. We reprint it here and pose the question, why would the government want to keep us from knowing this?

June 26, 2000
Today Is “International Anti-Drug Day”, Really
And Top UN Nark Wants To Censor Internet.
Anti-Prohibitionism Equated With Genocide.
The Internet Community Needs To Wake Up!

Believe it or not, June 26 really is “International Anti-Drug Day.” The Chinese Communists even marked the day by executing 10 people on “drug” charges. Prohibitionism is an international ideology that cannot win an honest debate or withstand critical thinking, so — like Communism and Fascism — it seeks to silence its critics by any means necessary. Domestically, this fits perfectly with the Hatch/Feinstein “Anti-meth” and Biden’s Anti-Ecstasy bills.

U.N. AIDE WANTS WEB DRUG CRIME PURSUED LIKE GENOCIDE
A U.N. official said Thursday he wanted
to crack down on use of the Internet in trading illegal drugs by classifying such dealings via the World Wide Web as a universal crime like genocide or war crimes.

Jun 9, 2000
Making War On Free Speech
S. 486 includes a provision that makes it a federal crime "to teach or demonstrate the manufacturing of a controlled substance, or to distribute by any means information pertaining to, in whole or in part, the manufacture or use of a controlled substance."

May 31, 2000
U.S. Government Repressed Marijuana-Tumor Research
A Spanish medical team’s study released in Madrid in February 2000 has shown that tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the active chemical in marijuana, destroys tumors in lab rats. These findings, however, are not news to the U.S. government. A study in Virginia in 1974 yielded similar results but was suppressed by the DEA,

August 13, 1999
Amendment To 'Meth Bill' Would Censor Information!
Aug. 5 in the Senate Judiciary Committee to include sweeping provisions to ban the distribution of information relating to the manufacture or use of controlled substances. The amendment, offered by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), would make it a 10-year felony to "distribute by any means information pertaining to...the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the...information... in an activity that constitutes a Federal crime."

August 08, 1999
Reefer Madness Hits Congress!
Hide that hookah. Chuck that chillum. Congress is in session, and weed Web sites are no longer safe... If the measure becomes law, it will create a new federal felony -- punishable by a fine and three years in prison -- that covers Web pages that link to sites with information about where to buy "drug paraphernalia" such as roach clips, bowls, and bongs. Even editors of news organizations that publish articles about drug culture and link to related sites will be subject to arrest and prosecution...



Everyone should know about communitytv and getting their towns and cable companies to include it for the communities to participate in their own local government. Or broadcast their own shows. Ours will instruct on using the cameras and provide the studio or use your own location. Probably rules but its a 24/7 operation with 4 channels. They may have legal boundries and their own, but nothing Hemp or Medicinal has been censored. Local music opertunities. Talk shows cover most of what isn't on the main airwaves or cable. Local theater groups doing skits and daily repeats of Free Speech TV, including DN, INN, LINK TV and Liberty News. Also some may want to check out low band waves that are supposidly public airwaves. We also have a Pirate Radio station keeps popping up. Busted a few times then there it is.

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"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."
-- Ann Shulgin, PhD,
Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA,
at the DPF Conference, November 1996

Purd Hupley

The History Channel has dropped the ball a lot the last 2 or 3 years, focusing on more reality type programming than on the usual indepth documentaries that I love HC for.

That said, Desperate Crossing was based on the Seperatists travel to the America, the moral and spiritual issues that drove them to their decision. It didn't go deeply into the mistakes and bad decisions post- The First Thanksgiving, because that wasn't really what the show was about.

Which is sad, because the story of the 100 or so years after Plymouth Rock is really fascinating. Read Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick. He was one of the experts in Desperate Crossing. His book is a fantastic reference for the post- Plymouth Rock era.

DdC

The History channel is owned by the same 5 korpses censoring alphabet channels. Censorship and/or Lies built this country. Same way they keep Ganja/Hemp outlawed. Guess you missed this part.

Now that the longhouses breed superstition
You force us to send our toddlers away
To your schools where they're taught to despise their traditions.
You forbid them their languages, then further say
That American history really began
When Columbus set sail out of Europe, then stress
That the nation of leeches that conquered this land
Are the biggest and bravest and boldest and best.
And yet where in your history books is the tale
Of the genocide basic to this country's birth,
Of the preachers who lied, how the Bill of Rights failed,
How a nation of patriots returned to their earth?
And where will it tell of the Liberty Bell
As it rang with a thud
O'er Kinzua mud,
And of brave Uncle Sam in Alaska this year?

Hear how the bargain was made for the West:
With her shivering children in zero degrees,
Blankets for your land, so the treaties attest,
Oh well, blankets for land is a bargain indeed,
And the blankets were those Uncle Sam had collected
From smallpox-diseased dying soldiers that day.
And the tribes were wiped out and the history books censored,
A hundred years of your statesmen have felt it's better this way.
And yet a few of the conquered have somehow survived,
Their blood runs the redder though genes have paled.
From the Gran Canyon's caverns to craven sad hills
The wounded, the losers, the robbed sing their tale.
From Los Angeles County to upstate New York
The white nation fattens while others grow lean;
Oh the tricked and evicted they know what I mean.

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.

The past it just crumbled, the future just threatens;
Our life blood shut up in your chemical tanks.
And now here you come, bill of sale in your hands
And surprise in your eyes that we're lacking in thanks
For the blessings of civilization you've brought us,
The lessons you've taught us, the ruin you've wrought us --
Oh see what our trust in America's brought us.

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.

Now that the pride of the sires receives charity,
Now that we're harmless and safe behind laws,
Now that my life's to be known as your "heritage,"
Now that even the graves have been robbed,
Now that our own chosen way is a novelty --
Hands on our hearts we salute you your victory,
Choke on your blue white and scarlet hypocrisy
Pitying the blindness that you've never seen
That the eagles of war whose wings lent you glory
They were never no more than carrion crows,
Pushed the wrens from their nest, stole their eggs, changed their story;
The mockingbird sings it, it's all that he knows.
"Ah what can I do?" say a powerless few
With a lump in your throat and a tear in your eye --
Can't you see that their poverty's profiting you.

My country 'tis of thy people you're dying.

Purd Hupley

If you read the book I referenced, you'd see that the Seperatists aren't shown in the best of lights.

So, the "korpses" you talk about: Bilderburgs, Tri- Lateralists, or Bohemian Groves types? Or is all David Rockefeller and the International Bankers?

If the information is so censored, why is it pretty much common knowledge that the Seperatists were less than good neighbours? Or is it not common knowledge, but known only to a handful of you that get your news from Mother Jones?

DdC

Never mentioned Bilderbirgs or Luminati or any other buzzword to discredit the point. No conspiracy ace, history not shown on the bogus His story channel. Censorship that any US school kid would know about, if it wasn't censored. Funny how it works that way. Logic says before the alcohol prohibition farmers distilled their own tractor fuel and after it remained illegal. The Rockefeller $5 million donation to the Christian Temperance League expanding their chapters to most states, even though they were all about temperance, not prohibition. Same as Lincoln. All we were told was Al Capon and Elliott Ness. With the number of speak easy's available to get booze who the hell would ever think we the people wanted it prohibited? Thats just naive. We had a Whiskey rebellion in western Pa for christ sakes. Americans love their beer and whiskey and have it since the repeal. Just not allowed to make tractor fuel and Standard Oil just happened to luck out I reckon. Coincidence? No conspiracy dude, same with Ganja/Hemp... outlaw the competition. Same with the Indians story. Weak cowardly censorship.

Al Capone and Watergate were red herrings to divert the countries attention from the Fascist acts of eliminating competition. Booze or Ganja//Hemp. While GOP and DMC continue to bicker over nonsense. Farmers still can't grow Ethanol or Ganja//Hemp. While GOP and DMZ continue to bicker over nonsense. Farmers still can't grow. Instead of safer re-creation, inexpensive FARMaceuticals, and Nutritious Healthy Organic seed and oil, strong soft clothing, linen and paper. Pot, RxGanja and Hemp are Gateways to prison profits and cop-shop bloated budgets. The choice is OPEC Hydrocarbon fossil fuel or Homegrown Carbohydrate Veggie Oil and Filler up with Ethyl-nol.

Never taught it or even heard of Separatists. But your view sounds like what the post says. They were thugs and the History books are without their story. Only thing I was taught was what the movies also taught. Savages were killed or forced into assimilating by your hero's. Probably not mentioned by your mentor Glen Beck. Americans are like the Borg. Good old fashioned imperialism. Guess Separatists were censored eh.

First the Pilgrims then then Puritans and then centuries of murder, slaughter, baby killing and edification of the records. Including future school books. John Wayne was gay. So skippy if you have a point or proof nothing was censored, bring it. I highly doubt if I will find your ref online so the chances of me purchasing the book is nil. You got some splainin to do lucy... if you have a point that is. Not that a book written by wealthy moneysluts would have anything close to the truth. Its not a liberal idea or whatever lame ass ref to Ma Jones was. Censorship is a useful tool to those wanting to remain in power. Your auto pilot denial speaks volumes though. Cut the buzzwords dude, I ain't buying nothing your selling anyway.

Listening To Native American Prophecies

Censorship is suppression of speech or other communication which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the general body of people as determined by a government, media outlet, or other controlling body.

The Columbus Project 03/14/00
Since Columbus hit the shores of Haiti, white people have taken whatever they wanted from the Americas. They came for gold and new trade items, they took them. They needed workers, so they took them. They wanted more land, so they took it. They wanted everybody to fear them and to generate more political power for their leaders, so they forced people to pray to the Christian idols. All that threatened this Christofacist conquest fell to bloody ruin. What did stand in their way? The Arawak, Carob, Aztec, Sioux, Apache, Tupinamba, Araucanian, and right here, the Iriquois Nation.

Purd Hupley

Never said nothing was censored, Jif. All I'm saying is most of what you said is common knowledge. May not be taught in school history books, but anyone with an interwebs connection and some interest can find all this out.

Winners of wars write the history. Always has been, always will be. But the truth is always out there, and frankly I think it's our duty as Free people to seek out that truth.

Do you seriously think no one but you knows that the locals on this continent got the short end of the stick? Seriously? We did the basic Pilgrem (aka Seperatists..you know...the ones you never heard of who aren't in history books) curriculum in Grade 3, which would've been about 1972 for me. It was all gone over, the good and the bad, albeit at a Grade 3 level. But the truth is, White Europeans won the war(s) for this continent. They wrote the history. Yet anyone with an ounce of knowledge knows about the Trail of Tears. Knows about the Lakota uprising at Wounded Knee. Knows about Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce trying to flee to Canada.

Yeah, Philbrick's a real moneyslut. Obscure historian writing about a fairly obscure time. I'm sure that book bought him a new Ferarri.

For all the imperialism Americans have, we sure have given back shittons of land. Japan, Cuba, the Phillipines, all of Western Europe. The French and the British were much better at colonization that we ever were.

It's telling that you got your education from the movies. Not really sure what John Wayne being gay has anything to do with anything, but you hold that golden kernal of truth tight to your heart.

Lincoln was about temperence or prohibition? Abraham Lincoln, right?

If all you learned about the Prohibition era was Elliot Ness and Al Capone, I feel sorry for you. It was a really fascinating time.

If everything you know about history came from movies, I'm not sure how you can blame censorship. It actually sounds like intellectual laziness on your part. Like I said, it's your duty to seek out the truth. If you're waiting to have it spoon fed to you, well, I have to go back to laziness.

The fact is, at this very moment, we have more access to knowledge than at any other time in history. It's literally at our fingertips. Yet you're concerned with what writers were documenting in the 1600's. You don't look at the historical context these people were writing from. You view it through the glasses of the 21st Century Man. Which says more about you than it does them.

With all this access, with the ability to bypass the history books, the media, the talking heads, the opinion makers, to not only seek out information but to provide opinion and information to the masses, the idea that censorship is somehow a huge threat is just silly. Of course it exists, but it's an excersize in futility.

But some people need a bogeyman...or bogeymen. If censorship is so all encompassing and ingrained in the world, there really isn't much that can be done, no? But I'd bet it makes you feel very courageous to stand up to these forces of darkness. Impresses the ladies no end, huh?

Purd Hupley

By the way, in the OP, which History Channel show about the Seperatists were you talking about? I've seen Desperate Crossing several times, and it's nothing like you describe it. While the Pilgrims may not be snaggle toothed and full of bloodlust as you'd like, they certainly don't come off as heroes either. Maybe there was a different show that I haven't seen.

Purd Hupley

And even more ironic that in a discussion about censorship that someone would say they "won't bother" accessing information. "My mind is already made up" is a form of self- censorship.