Dear reader, find your voice and stand tall for self government, support the American dream! It could be a fatal flaw, for those who can do little to do nothing. Write your leaders nationally and locally. Petition them! March for the American dream of very limited government if you are able. People of all faiths and goodwill can stand together for a more just, science based and compassionate alternatives to current senseless policies.
In a few days, a group of powerful world leaders will ask the UN to "end the war on drugs and move towards regulation." But drug warriors still say that the public will not support alternative drug policies. Let's grab this unique opportunity for massive public support and take urgent action. Pass the word to like-minded individuals.
This could be a once-in-a-generation tipping-point moment, if enough of us call for an end to this madness. Let's show them we not only accept a sane and humane policy; we demand it. Click here to sign the petition and pass on the link. When we reach 1 million voices, it will be personally delivered to world leaders by the global commission. I just checked and 353,128 have signed already!
Reports that show the war on drugs has failed!
Reports that show alternative approaches of decriminalization and regulation are working!
General report on drug law reform in practice!
The Global Commission on Drug Policy that will call on the UN to end the war on drugs.
Drug War by the Numbers
Final Report of the Latin American Commission on Drugs and Democracy
I am a portrait artist. Since 2006 I have awarded two Rebels with Just Cause portraits yearly.
Ron Paul is a true patriot taking a stand for the American dream of self-government, free of big government waste, tyranny and oppression. He would be a truly great president. He instigated the Love Revolution that is sweeping America and was one of McCool's 2008 Rebels with Just Cause.
Drug warriors live in the state of denial and that's a lousy coping strategy. It is Un-American, overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. Stop this tyranny in the guise of good intentions.
Morally bankrupt policy is a violence triggering nightmare! Control illicit drugs similar to alcohol and tobacco.
Less than 1% of US are actually addicted to anything illegal. About 9% are alcoholics but much of the public health burden of alcohol use is caused by the non-addictive use; including fetal alcohol spectrum disorders, incest, child molestation, spouse abuse, other family violence, fatal car crashes, accidents, and homicides. On college campuses alone, almost 2000 deaths, 100,000 sexual assaults, 600,000 injuries, and 700,000 assaults are the annual consequences of alcohol use.
I dare say if more would use cannabis instead of alcohol like Willie Nelson, one of my 2010 Rebels with Just Cause, we might see a drop in some of the gloomy statistics listed above.
If more could use safer cannabis to replace dangerous opiates and other harmful pharmaceuticals or tobacco, many more lives would be saved. If those who report overdose to medical personnel did not fear arrest, overdoses would virtually disappear.
Its not a perfect answer just better.
Texas is one of the 5 Worst States for Getting Busted with Marijuana. Cannabis arrests comprise over half of all annual arrests in the Lone Star State. It is easy to see why. In 2009, more than 97 percent of all Texas marijuana arrests, over 77000 people, were for possession only.
Drug warriors can get their adrenaline rush chasing murderers and other violent predators. They don't have to look far for something better to do. Many murders and rapes go unsolved every year; the cumulative effect is horrendous! More resources could be spent on DUI and keeping drugs from minors. We can spend more on effective education instead of ineffective incarceration. Prison costs seven times treatment.
We are punishing people because servants of tyranny ignore science in naming their choice unwise when in fact it is a scientifically proven safer, wiser health choice, compared to legal alternatives. Taking children from the homes of parents who made a safer health choice in a medicinal or social drug is insane policy. Taking property from these same, destroyed by government families, is legalized extortion! States have seized billions. End asset forfeiture!
Save the Children, from Prohibition! In reality we owe reparations for the destroyed lives and destroyed families this appalling demented policy has created!
A"Run From the Cure – the Rick Simpson Story," suggests big pharma may be withholding a potential cancer cure, hemp oil, from the people in the interest of their bottom line. Cannabis oil is that cure all some of our ancestors used! Thank God, they did not let us all be brain washed into forgetfulness about the wonder of it! Oooops, they spilled the beans, in spite of the oppression promoted by medical profiteers.
The tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals gangs deal drugs causing more death annually than all illicit drugs We tolerate their salesmen!
Medical marijuana is now a $1.7 billion market in the US. This means that sales of medical marijuana rival the annual revenue generated by Viagra, a $1.9 billion business. According to MSNBC: "The cannabis industry as a whole (including the underground black market and medical gray market) generates anywhere from $18 billion to $35.8 billion a year."
Blood is on the hands of all who support this demented Drug War II. It is soft on public safety, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy. The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our insane, punitive policy. Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Restore public and law enforcement safety! Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
If anyone doubts that our fearless leaders are bordering on insanity, consider the fence (costing $7mil a mile) that cut Brownsville, Texas in half. The Mexican border follows the meandering Rio Grande in this area and the river's muddy banks are too soft and too prone to flooding to support a fence.
The hated barrier was constructed on a levee that follows a straight line from half a mile to two miles north of the river, leaving the homes and land (roughly 50,000 acres) of dozens of angry US citizens unprotected and marooned in no man's land on the Mexican side. Is this a sane solution?
One resident's response, "Round these parts, people like alligators a whole lot more than politicians."
Tyranny's growth depends on keeping the people fearful and begging for more protection from an infinite number of invented or exaggerated enemies and hazards.
Educate the powerful, be brave and end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable. Bring our troops home! Reduce our military presence and spending around the world. Cut the interventionists, military industrial complex, warmongering budget to the bone!
Support a strong defense but DON'T support unnecessary wars. We're in more than 200 TIMES the danger of being killed in our own cars than by terrorists. When we resolve conflict diplomatically within the rule of law, we create peace and abundance. Do not escalate to war, good for absolutely nothing.
The best way to spread the freedom philosophy is by being a shining example not by intervention. Often those foreign regimes we support are just as bad or even more corrupt than those we help fight and this creates hard feelings inciting terrorist retaliation toward US.
Audit the Fed!! End the destruction of the dollar and our economy by bringing real accountability and transparency to the Fed! Cap the debt of a government gone wild!
The web is the fastest growing communications medium in the history of the world. A powerful tool, a window of opportunity, in our war of good over evil; the Internet continues to revolutionize the way we communicate and has enormous potential for reshaping the political process.
"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." - MLK
Save lives instead of ruining them. Join LEAP, COP and DownsizeDC!
Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
Track your Senators' and Representative's votes by e-mail.
Changing who's in charge will not affect much. The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on down-sizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for future generations and ourselves.
Compiled and written by Colleen McCool
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