| -Caveat Lector-
http://www.marijuana.com/article.php?sid=4088&mode=thread&order=0
Contrast:
The Party's over...
=>Posted
by: xxdr_zombiexx.
=>Sunday, August 04 @ 04:20:03 MST
|
;) xxdr_zombiexx
submits "The corruption of both big business and the war on drugs has
been dragged kicking and screaming into the light of day for all to see.
xxdr_zombiexx
8.2.2002
Attorney General John
Ashcroft has announced there is a "nexus"
of drug traffikers and terrorist organizations. "Suprise! Suprise!
Suprise!", said a famous miltary leader once upon a time.
I am here
to say we have all seen the "nexus" of corrupt govenment and
corrupt big business and how the war on drugs is a huge lie maintained
to protect some of these same companies as well as generate profits for
drug traffickers.
The main players - corporate CEO's, the bulk of
the GOP, along with several big Dems (it's been something of a bi-partisan
effort) - are all seen in bed together making legislation to enrich
themselves by looting the American worker, and in doing so, inadvertently
killing investor confidence, and setting our recession into motion.
Meanwhile other politicians are trying to create all sorts of legislation
abridging and limiting the rights of the little person under the Banner of
the War on Drugs.
The government's problems are multi-fold:
- the War on Drugs under Team Bush is fronted by people with no
credibilty,
- The War on Terror is fronted by bickering titans and plagued with
"varying degrees of success" dependiing on who is talking.
- The incessant
back and forth on attacking
Iraq further undermines confidence.
- The War on Corporate Fraud will be exposing the mega-scam of
Halliburton / Enron / Harken / Cheney / Arthur Anderson at the point the
SEC starts the Halliburton Investigation.
- Add the ONDCP/Olgilvey-Mather advertising cost-overrun scam and
- an amazing
story by Mike Ruppert
and we are back in the midst of the
War on Drugs, but on a questionable side.
Oh... and Team Bush spent
$13.8 million dollars on the Florida recount effort, 4 times what the Gore
Team did. Much of that money came in "large donations". Care to guess
where from?
Yep. Enron
and Halliburton.
This pretty much shows the paper work on
buying out the system. The scandal where Cheney has refused to part with
the list of those involved at the White House Energy Task Force summit
loom huge at this point, and Cheneys protest of the need for "executive
privelegde" just looks more and more like a criminal using any means
necessary to complete his objectives.
Meanwhile, outside the United
States, those progressive Europeans have been relaxing cannabis laws. Asa
Hutchinson , John Walters and ex-Drug Czar Barry McCaffery were out and
about, and showing up in the media. They are concerned that people,
especially young people , get confused. These policy changes in other
countries cause "rumblings" here...makes people want to talk about
changing our policies.
Walters went to Canada, England and the
Netherlands to tell them that marijuana is a dangerous and addictive drug
with no medical uses known, and moves to ease stiff intolerance would be
greatly frowned upon, but they are free to run their governments they way
they like. (Hint, Hint...) His evil henchman, Robert Maginnis has implied
a trade war with Canada if they legalize marijuana.
Having rested
up from laying siege to cannabis clubs in California earlier this year,
Asa Hutchinson has been on tour in America, "educating" Hollywood
producers about Terrorism and "drugs" and rolling up the sleeves on his
very fine shirts and "fighting methamphetamine labs".
Both he and
McCaffery have decided to appear on televison programs: the smartest
programs on mainstream TV. Neither of these gentleman got the free and
easy ride to which they are accustomed: the repercussions are just now
being assessed.
Hutchinson appeared on both CNN Crossfire
and on MSNBC's Donahue discussing failure of the drug war. Barry
McCaffery appeared on an hourlong Donahue about
legalizing marijuana outright. The three of them made appearences in John
Stossel's "War
on Drugs, War on Ourselves" progam on ABC July 30th.
The
"reality gap" - the difference in how "the poeple" see a thing and how
"the governement" sees the same thing is awesome. McCaffery protested that
Donahues program, which ate him alive, politlely, was terribly
"unbalanced". Robert
Wiener's review of Stossel's program is a nice "encore performance" of
the prohibitionist line.
Neither Hutchinson nor McCaffery can give
a direct answer to a question. either they have some paranoid need to
requalify the question before answering it , or the answer is just not
related to the question and was merely a moment to reiterate the mantras
relative to the general question. Both are fond of saying "let's stick to
the facts".
That reminds me of when I go to the bank or some place
for service and I am told the will "be right with me": that means they are
going to walk away. All they mean is we will stick to THEIR facts - the
FDA and NIDA. The Federal Truth. Reality is not
acceptable.
Hutchinson was on Donahue via remote with Governor Gary
Johnson of New Mexico, and a young woman named Kemba Smith who wound up
with a whopping 26 years in Federal Prison just for holding her (now
deceased) boyfriend's "drug money". Clinton wasted no time pardoning her
on his last day in office.
Phil was "Phil" and he had Asa on
National TV trying to explain why this lady should have been given such a
draconian penalty. The transcripts are linked above.
(POT-TV
has the Medical
Marijuana Crossfire - July 10 2002 with Asa debating Kieth Stroup of
NORML.)
McCaffery fared no better with Donahue. After a
warm and fuzzy welcome, Phil politely castigated him for utter failures of
the drug war. McCaffery at one point reminded Phil, essentially, he is
part of the problem. "Yes sir, I know." said Phil.
Lyn Nofziger
flatly and plainly lectured McCaffery about the crushing experience of his
daughter's demise from cancer and how plainly and starkly marijuana
improve coping and simple quality of life. Donahue asked him directly
how he felt about that. McCaffery was not able to answer that
simple, basic talk show question.
MCCAFFREY: You know, the bottom line is I�ve spent
probably three years of my life in hospitals. I�ve had 17 surgeries. I
am all for any reputable therapeutic intervention to control pain. We
don�t do it very well. The American medical establishment needs better
training.
We do have terrific drugs nowadays, but at the end
of the day if it�s medical marijuana we�re talking about, disassociating
32 cannabinoids, and using them in controlled doses for medical reasons,
how about it. We�ll make the science do it not a bunch of potheads in
California.
He never talked about how he felt, he
just kept going into this complex euphamistic replay that refused, under
any circumstances to say the word "smoke".
Judicial Watch recently
tried to serve yet another lawsuit
on Cheney. Nobody at the white House would accept the papers and the
legal courier was threatened with arrest if he tried to leave them or
dropped them on the ground. Similarly, Hutchinson, Walters, and McCaffery
- the bulk of the Senate and House - refuse to recognize the wealth of
research which has taken place around the world, or as best as can be done
with the FDA and DEA threatenting to ruin anybody who tries.
So the
Credibilty of TEAM Bush races downhill as the stock market sinks, and more
huge companies re-state their earnings, and it shrinks much quicker for
Dick Cheney due to the special rate at which hiding from scandal is
assessed.
The Party for the Robber Barons is not over it is ending.
It's taken a serious blow and it is listing badly to one side - to the
Right. Rats have been seen leaving the ship, often commenting they "want
to spend more time with their families". The cat is out of the bag about
pot with the American public: The old news - its not a terrorist plant ;
the even older news - still not for children - duh.
Us "potheads"
will still be getting harrassed and arrested and assaulted
para-military-style in the night for some time to come. The Feds are
working day and night to gain dictatorial powers and will try to do
something sneaky and evil to snatch away our rights and take over the
world. But the bubble's burst, the ballon has popped. The genie is out of
the bottle and all the Kings TIPSters and Homeland Defense troops can't
stuff it back in.
The media can go ahead and tap into the [huge]
cannabis and "legalizer" demographic by airing more good programs like
those we've seen in the past 3 weeks. Somebody - MSNBC, Donahue, Stossel.
somebody has to wake up and smell the coffeehouses and make a cannabis
prohibition or drug War "special" on regularly, like at least once a
month.
Politicians can take Governors Johnsons lead and focus on
ending the fabulous scam that is the war on drugs, and get back to being
"Public Servants" in the process. Look at the states passing cannabis
referenda - there are plenty of votes for some lucky and shrewd politician
who will say "We don't need your War any more."
"Their" party's
over....ours has yet to begin." |
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
|
topicprogramming.gif