Did you celebrate the anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence by renewing your vow to stand tall for self-government in support of the American dream? The state does not run the affairs of people in a free society. It upholds justice between people who conduct their own affairs. Our Founding documents are based on great spiritual principles. We are seekers of truth and justice, as are all liberty lovers worldwide. That spirit unites us. It is the Holy Spirit and our True North.
Our Declaration of Independence is the most important of all our documents. Along with the Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights, it is one of the three greatest documents of the English-speaking world. The fifty-six Signers mutually pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor in the cause of liberty. The Declaration was inspired by a higher purpose for humanity. No other patriotic document has ever produced such successful, beneficial and far-reaching results.
"I had a vision of a way we could have no enemies ever again, if you're interested in this. Anybody interested in hearing this? It's kind of an interesting theory, and all we have to do is make one decisive act and we can rid the world of all our enemies at once. Here's what we do. You know all that money we spend on nuclear weapons and defense every year? Trillions of dollars. Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded ... not one ... we could as one race explore inner and outer space together in peace, forever." - Bill Hicks, wherever truth, love and laughter abide, he is there in spirit.
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.
The Venus Project promotes life in a resource-based economy. The Project suggests an exciting sustainable new social direction if we intelligently apply science and technology with environmental and human concern, we can build a future where war, poverty and hunger will be but a distant memory.
Last month Barney Frank and Ron Paul introduced legislation that would end federal prohibition of marijuana and would let the states decide whether it should be legal. Just six days after H.R. 2306 was introduce, the Obama Administration broke an earlier promise and declared war on medical marijuana patients -- even in states where medical marijuana is legal.
“What I'm not going to be doing is using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws.” Barack Obama, Oregon Mail Tribune, March 22, 2008. See me shaking my head in disbelief.
U.S. Rep. Lamar Smith, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said they will not take up the bipartisan legislation, effectively killing it by lack of action.
Many leaders are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but awful bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society. A brilliant friend suggested all Members of Congress should be compelled to wear uniforms just like NASCAR drivers, so we can have no doubt about their corporate sponsors.
“Instead of encouraging the use of marijuana, we should strengthen enforcement of federal drug laws to protect Americans from the devastating effects of drug use,” said Smith, R-San Antonio.
Stephen H. Frye M.D, retired medical school professor's book exposes facts related to our babies, teens especially, being collateral damage of this demented, violence triggering policy! "We Really Lost This War! Twenty-five Reasons to Legalize Drugs."
Rep. Smith and other 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.
The devastating and deadly facts are our babies; especially teens have become collateral damage in this grossly failed war. Despite having six times the Netherlands adult incarceration rate, this insane policy has created an obscene teenage murder rate that's nineteen times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are regulated, controlled and taxed! The destruction of the sacred family unit is one of the worst consequences prohibition forces on children.
Brutal, bloody prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Despite having six times the Netherlands adult incarceration rate, this insane policy has created an obscene teenage murder rate that's nineteen times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are regulated, controlled and taxed!
Only 50 percent of high school students graduate in our ten biggest cities and only 40 per cent graduate in NYC, Baltimore and Detroit. In the Netherlands 92 percent graduate; that's No Child Left Behind!
The war waged by Mexican drug cartels has resulted in 610 children deaths reports a study and 3,700 children have been left orphans as a result of the violence or execution of their parents. Many minors who are orphaned have been psychologically scarred after witnessing violent actions against their relatives.
The Mexican military reported that 420 children who had been recruited have died in the clashes between rival groups. There were many examples of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 dying in fierce battles with the drug traffickers or being tortured and killed as paybacks between feuding clans.
Despairingly, these Mexican drug war numbers have grown since these reports were filed.
"Lockdown High: When the Schoolhouse Becomes a Jailhouse" by Annette Fuentes explores the effect of "Zero Tolerance" policies on public education.. Abstinence may be the safest policy for both drugs and sex but few will choose it even on a dare.
Addiction does not respond well to punitive laws. Preventive medicine is the key to ending drug abuse and most health issues. Incarceration costs seven times treatment. Less than 1% of US are actually addicted to anything illegal.
"Illegal" means turning over control and distribution of product to criminals. Consumers go unprotected because nothing insures the quality, potency or purity of the drugs. Obscene black market profits assure illicit cartels put out of business are quickly replaced.
The most addictive, most deadly drug we know, tobacco is the only drug to have decreased in use during the drug war. Around 65% of American adults smoked tobacco when marijuana, one of the one of the safest, therapeutically active plants known to man, was made illegal. Since then anti-smoking campaigns, using entirely nonviolent, non-coercive, non-punitive methods, have reduced that number to about 20%.
Hudspeth County judge Becky Dean-Walter has overruled Willie Nelson's plea bargain for his November 2010 pot bust in West Texas, six ounces of marijuana was found on his tour bus. Walter told The New York Times she believes prosecutor Kit Bramblett's fondness for Nelson's music influenced his willingness to lighten Nelson's possible punishment. If this case goes to court it may get nullified by the jury. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
It is a scientifically verified fact that marijuana users are safer drivers than teetotalers.
Most experts agree cannabis is safer with motorists than alcohol and many prescription drugs. Responsible cannabis consumers, like all responsible drug users, never operate motor vehicles in an impaired condition. The prevalence of illicit drug use among US drivers is far less than the prevalence of alcohol among this same population. Both a Canadian and French studies noted that overall few traffic accidents appeared to be attributed to driver’s operating a vehicle while impaired by cannabis.
Actually scientific surveys prove that pot smokers are the safest drivers on the road. The Drugs and Accident Risk in Fatally-Injured Drivers study concluded that marijuana has a "negative risk factor" for fatal highway accidents. A "negative risk factor" means that pot smokers have a lower accident rate than teetotalers.
Several other on-road driving studies funded by the US Department of Transportation prove that marijuana smokers are safer drivers than teetotalers. "The THC-only drivers had [an accident] responsibility rate BELOW that of the drug-free drivers, as was found previously by Williams and colleagues (1986)." "There was no indication that cannabis by itself was a cause of fatal crashes." (Incidence and Role of Drugs in Fatally Injured Drivers K W Terhune, 1992 p. 100)
When cops talk about increasing numbers of marijuana positive driver fatalities, be sure to ask how many of the pot smokers were responsible for the accidents that killed them. In almost every case it will be found that the driver over medicated with alcohol, prescribed drugs, other illicit drugs, a potent mix of alcohol and other drugs or a distracted driver, not the marijuana user caused the accident.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently released a report on human trafficking.
Mira Sorvino asked fellow discussion panelist Luis CdeBaca "how much the government spends on human trafficking compared with war on drugs." "The equivalent of about three weeks of spending on the drug war," said CdeBaca, President Barack Obama’s ambassador-at-large to coordinate US government efforts against modern forms of slavery.
“Every month, we spend twice the TIP [Trafficking in Persons] budget on military marching bands,” observed Sorvino, whose role in “Human Trafficking” portrays a NYPD detective who becomes an immigration agent to fight the crime.
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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Thursday, July 7, 2011
Saturday, May 28, 2011
No Perfect Answers, Just Better!
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
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
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
An Obamanation of America!
Don't let that headline fool you, both parties have contributed to the corruption and growth of big government and the abomination of the American dream; our founders' vision of self-government! An America free of big government oppression and tyranny, is the one true patriots still hold dear.
The Obama Administration does continue the warring policies and tries to sell it as a changeling, Obamanation of America! But dear readers with a burning desire for liberty; with a gnawing hunger for small government, true believers in the American dream of self-government, we know that is not our real true America.
"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." Will Rogers mused.
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." Our first president warned. Many leaders are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but very bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society.
As Honest Abe stated, "The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
It is worth repeating, the Spirit of 1776 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North. The real visionaries, who gave birth to this Nation, those who defined what an American patriot would be, were rebels with just cause!
Since 2006 I have awarded two Rebel with Just Cause portraits yearly.
One of my 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portraits goes to Willie Nelson for his passionate support for marijuana legalization. The other will be awarded to Daniel Ellsberg for the documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." The Oscar-nominated account of Pentagon insider, Ellsberg's daring endeavor to leak top-secret government papers that disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam War and Nixon's presidency. They are our heroes of the decade, maybe the past century.
One of my 2011 Rebels with Just Cause portraits goes to Bradley Manning for posting Afghanistan war diaries on wikileaks. It is not a crime to expose war crimes. " The Manning case is at the center of revolutionary change in the United States and around the world. Please call the White House at 202-456-1414. And, please send an email to President Obama! He can end the the daily torture Manning faces! "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." The man who could not tell a lie proclaimed.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Do NOT renew any of its provisions. The name itself is a misnomer. True patriots with a burning desire for liberty; with a gnawing hunger for small government, true believers in the American dream of self-government see it as a dark moment of fear-imposed unfaithfulness to the Bill of Rights and other founding documents.
Please take action to prohibit the President from intervening in Libya. "No Intervention!" read a banner displayed by Libyan insurgents, "We have to get him ourselves."Yelled a Libyan demonstrator. Intervention has created new enemies for the American people. Nothing undermines the insurgents more than the perception that they are US stooges.
Reduce our military presence and spending around the world. Bring our troops home. Cut the interventionists, military industrial complex, warmongering budget to the bone! Big government or the establishment ideology of unethical capitalism and the welfare/warfare state is an assault on the American dream of self-government, free of tyranny and oppression.
All dreams of freedom around the world come from the Holy Spirit. At America's heart are well-wishes for the freedom and independence of everyone.. America is the champion and vindicator only in her own constant vigilance to protect liberty. We spread the freedom philosophy best by being a shining example.
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own". — John Quincy Adams
Watch a comprehensive analysis of the 2008 global financial crisis, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly caused global financial collapse. Trace the rise of a rogue industry and realize the corrosive relationships which has corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Bring corrupt, predatory financiers and their enablers to justice. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
In March 2010, an Australian class-action lawsuit against Merck ruled that Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks, and that Merck had breached the Trade Practices Act by selling a drug which was unfit for sale. Hold Congress members and the other lawmakers responsible, too! Many were partners of the FDA and pharmaceutical industry. Viox, alone, has been estimated to have caused more deaths than the Vietnam War. Investigate why and how the FDA became a partner instead of a watchdog of the industry or its role in approving even one of the 13 dangerous drugs pulled from the market in the fall of 2002 that caused thousands of needless deaths and injuries. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
CATO: "Social Security as we know it is facing irresistible demographic and fiscal pressures that threaten the future retirement benefits of today’s young workers."
I have heard this all my working life. I was forced to pay into SS everywhere I worked for the past 50 odd years whether I liked it or not. I would have done better with private investment of what I was forced to pay SS. Now they owe me and all workers who were forced to pay.
CATO: "Although Social Security is currently running a surplus, according
to the system’s own trustees, that surplus will turn into a deficit within the next nine years. That is, by 2017, Social Security will be paying out more in benefits than it takes in through taxes.
In theory, Social Security is supposed to continue paying benefits after
2017 by drawing on the Social Security Trust Fund. Furthermore, the trust fund is supposed to provide sufficient funds to continue paying full benefits until 2041, after which it will be exhausted. At that point, by law, Social Security benefits will have to be cut by approximately 27 percent. However, in reality, the Social Security Trust Fund is not an asset that can be used to pay benefits. Any Social Security surpluses accumulated to date have been spent, leaving a trust fund that consists only of government bonds (IOUs) that will eventually have to be repaid by taxpayers."
How is it our leadership can get away with continually ripping US off?? Morally bankrupt financiers, empire builders and leaders in their pockets give American capitalism a black eye with their predatory capitalism. Predatory capitalism due to big government interference and protection destroys people, benign or ethical capitalism, America's founders' vision, creates a world of abundance for all.
CATO: "Congress should allow workers to privately invest at least half their Social Security payroll taxes through individual accounts."
Privatize SS. At least if you get ripped off by an individual or a corporation you can use the court system to charge them with embezzlement or fraud. Well, except for those predator corporations that own the government and are therefore above the law, somehow, for now.
Tell President Obama and Congress not to subsidize nuclear energy. We have much safer, better options. Put those millions to use by making good on some of government bonds (IOUs) to the SS trust fund. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
Instead of cuts to education, health care, and Social Security, cut the military industrial complex's budget to the bone. Bring our troops home! End prohibition and see all related agencies disbanded. Put more resources toward incarcerating violent and sexual predators.
Marc Emery is our hero and wins the other 2011 portrait for taking a stand for justice against a morally bankrupt, violence triggering, nightmare policy.
Restore public and law enforcement safety!
Paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." According to our Father, George. The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our demented, punitive policy. Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition!
End demonizing drug courts! The people believe in self-government and self-medication. Murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. That's soft on public safety, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy.
It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal uses of cannabis to be suppressed. Some scientific researchers speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who!
It is morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. Less than 1% of US are actually addicts. Treatment is seven times less expensive than prison. Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility; use resources to catch more violent and sexual predators or incarcerate more of those morally bankrupt, who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
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
The Obama Administration does continue the warring policies and tries to sell it as a changeling, Obamanation of America! But dear readers with a burning desire for liberty; with a gnawing hunger for small government, true believers in the American dream of self-government, we know that is not our real true America.
"I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father." Will Rogers mused.
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder." Our first president warned. Many leaders are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but very bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society.
As Honest Abe stated, "The people of the United States are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
It is worth repeating, the Spirit of 1776 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North. The real visionaries, who gave birth to this Nation, those who defined what an American patriot would be, were rebels with just cause!
Since 2006 I have awarded two Rebel with Just Cause portraits yearly.
One of my 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portraits goes to Willie Nelson for his passionate support for marijuana legalization. The other will be awarded to Daniel Ellsberg for the documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." The Oscar-nominated account of Pentagon insider, Ellsberg's daring endeavor to leak top-secret government papers that disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam War and Nixon's presidency. They are our heroes of the decade, maybe the past century.
One of my 2011 Rebels with Just Cause portraits goes to Bradley Manning for posting Afghanistan war diaries on wikileaks. It is not a crime to expose war crimes. " The Manning case is at the center of revolutionary change in the United States and around the world. Please call the White House at 202-456-1414. And, please send an email to President Obama! He can end the the daily torture Manning faces! "Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light." The man who could not tell a lie proclaimed.
Repeal the Patriot Act. Do NOT renew any of its provisions. The name itself is a misnomer. True patriots with a burning desire for liberty; with a gnawing hunger for small government, true believers in the American dream of self-government see it as a dark moment of fear-imposed unfaithfulness to the Bill of Rights and other founding documents.
Please take action to prohibit the President from intervening in Libya. "No Intervention!" read a banner displayed by Libyan insurgents, "We have to get him ourselves."Yelled a Libyan demonstrator. Intervention has created new enemies for the American people. Nothing undermines the insurgents more than the perception that they are US stooges.
Reduce our military presence and spending around the world. Bring our troops home. Cut the interventionists, military industrial complex, warmongering budget to the bone! Big government or the establishment ideology of unethical capitalism and the welfare/warfare state is an assault on the American dream of self-government, free of tyranny and oppression.
All dreams of freedom around the world come from the Holy Spirit. At America's heart are well-wishes for the freedom and independence of everyone.. America is the champion and vindicator only in her own constant vigilance to protect liberty. We spread the freedom philosophy best by being a shining example.
"Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her [America's] heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own". — John Quincy Adams
Watch a comprehensive analysis of the 2008 global financial crisis, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly caused global financial collapse. Trace the rise of a rogue industry and realize the corrosive relationships which has corrupted politics, regulation and academia. Bring corrupt, predatory financiers and their enablers to justice. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
In March 2010, an Australian class-action lawsuit against Merck ruled that Vioxx doubled the risk of heart attacks, and that Merck had breached the Trade Practices Act by selling a drug which was unfit for sale. Hold Congress members and the other lawmakers responsible, too! Many were partners of the FDA and pharmaceutical industry. Viox, alone, has been estimated to have caused more deaths than the Vietnam War. Investigate why and how the FDA became a partner instead of a watchdog of the industry or its role in approving even one of the 13 dangerous drugs pulled from the market in the fall of 2002 that caused thousands of needless deaths and injuries. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
CATO: "Social Security as we know it is facing irresistible demographic and fiscal pressures that threaten the future retirement benefits of today’s young workers."
I have heard this all my working life. I was forced to pay into SS everywhere I worked for the past 50 odd years whether I liked it or not. I would have done better with private investment of what I was forced to pay SS. Now they owe me and all workers who were forced to pay.
CATO: "Although Social Security is currently running a surplus, according
to the system’s own trustees, that surplus will turn into a deficit within the next nine years. That is, by 2017, Social Security will be paying out more in benefits than it takes in through taxes.
In theory, Social Security is supposed to continue paying benefits after
2017 by drawing on the Social Security Trust Fund. Furthermore, the trust fund is supposed to provide sufficient funds to continue paying full benefits until 2041, after which it will be exhausted. At that point, by law, Social Security benefits will have to be cut by approximately 27 percent. However, in reality, the Social Security Trust Fund is not an asset that can be used to pay benefits. Any Social Security surpluses accumulated to date have been spent, leaving a trust fund that consists only of government bonds (IOUs) that will eventually have to be repaid by taxpayers."
How is it our leadership can get away with continually ripping US off?? Morally bankrupt financiers, empire builders and leaders in their pockets give American capitalism a black eye with their predatory capitalism. Predatory capitalism due to big government interference and protection destroys people, benign or ethical capitalism, America's founders' vision, creates a world of abundance for all.
CATO: "Congress should allow workers to privately invest at least half their Social Security payroll taxes through individual accounts."
Privatize SS. At least if you get ripped off by an individual or a corporation you can use the court system to charge them with embezzlement or fraud. Well, except for those predator corporations that own the government and are therefore above the law, somehow, for now.
Tell President Obama and Congress not to subsidize nuclear energy. We have much safer, better options. Put those millions to use by making good on some of government bonds (IOUs) to the SS trust fund. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
Instead of cuts to education, health care, and Social Security, cut the military industrial complex's budget to the bone. Bring our troops home! End prohibition and see all related agencies disbanded. Put more resources toward incarcerating violent and sexual predators.
Marc Emery is our hero and wins the other 2011 portrait for taking a stand for justice against a morally bankrupt, violence triggering, nightmare policy.
Restore public and law enforcement safety!
Paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. "Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty." According to our Father, George. The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our demented, punitive policy. Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition!
End demonizing drug courts! The people believe in self-government and self-medication. Murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. That's soft on public safety, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy.
It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal uses of cannabis to be suppressed. Some scientific researchers speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who!
It is morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. Less than 1% of US are actually addicts. Treatment is seven times less expensive than prison. Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility; use resources to catch more violent and sexual predators or incarcerate more of those morally bankrupt, who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
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
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Drug War II, Git-R-Done!
US Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has announced he will not seek reelection in nearly two years but he has reintroduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act and he plans to push for it's passage. The measure, after a top-to-bottom review, hopes to offer concrete recommendations for reform of the nation’s criminal justice system and had bipartisan support last year; it cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and passed the full House of Representatives. The Senator is confident it will pass in this session.
"We're going to get it done," proclaimed the true patriot; servant of the American dream of self-government! Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers, child molesters and rapists.
The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our demented, punitive policy. It is a policy created problem! Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Blame the drug war for the disastrous shooting in Arizona recently! Jared Loughner was self medicating with cannabis but an arrest got him off his medication. I believe the cannabis aided in calming his violent tendencies until he could not use for fear of failing to pass a piss test.
Cannabis promotes a feeling of being connected, of calm and peace, "a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." As Carl Sagan so aptly put it.
It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs.
I have always maintained that Drug War II is a war on our best and brightest. People who use the term doper for individuals who make a safer choice are showing their ignorance. We can educate them. One of 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average is: you use social drugs.
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.
I am afraid; murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. That's real soft on public safety, soft-in-the-head, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy.
The spiraling violence triggered by this scandalous, senseless, morally bankrupt war on some drugs and government impotence in the face of it are a threat to public safety around the globe. Paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. All this unconscionable bloodletting is on the hands of leadership as much as those who pulled the trigger or contributed in other ways to the monstrous, unnecessary bloodshed.
Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
Some of our leaders live in a state of denial. Others are like bad horseman; too concerned about staying in the saddle to worry about where they are headed. Many are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but very bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society.
Big government or the establishment ideology of unethical capitalism and the welfare/warfare state is an assault on the American dream of self-government, free of tyranny and oppression.
True patriots, lovers of liberty, insist morally bankrupt US warriors are held responsible for torture and wars abandoning our ideal of nonintervention. The world knows they violated international law. They are traitors to the republic for which we stand. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
Truth is always the first casually of any war. Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self-government and value public safety first!
Everyone on this planet's DNA is 99.9% the same; we descended from the same scientific Adam and Eve, out of Africa. We are brothers and sisters as Jesus taught us. Genetically there is no such thing as race, according to National Geographic's "The Human Family Tree" This should make us all more tolerant and reinforce our great shame over race hate crimes. Fifty per cent of black males in America carry a white y chromosome marker from a European male! Race and features are differences that literally are only skin deep.
Plato said "Only the dead have seen the end of war." But with tolerance of our differences and celebration of our similarities we can build bridges that unite us and prove him wrong!
If you research old newspaper reports about heroin, cocaine, morphine and other addictive drugs before Drug War II you'll find no evidence of these drugs causing society problems but you'll see plenty violence and chaos triggered by prohibition of alcohol during Drug War I.
Demented prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Society has always been caught betwixt and between in these scandalous, senseless morally bankrupt wars on some drugs.
Throughout history people have found ways to alter their consciousness. In primitive societies psychoactive plants were sacred and ingested with care, with supposed spiritual intent, but use was often limited to a corrupt powerful few who used fear and superstition to control the masses. If some carry on the ancient tradition of using drugs as a sacrament, to enhance spiritual growth, it is cause for rejoicing not incarceration.
"When it comes to drug abuse, treatment is seven times more cost effective than incarceration. Seven times. It’s an indisputable fact.” - Harriet “Harry” Korn (Kathy Bates in Harry's Law)
And as Harry so effectively points out, prison “neither treats nor trains nor rehabilitates” — it merely risks making someone more dangerous and more likely to commit crimes in the future. Harry is right; these are the facts. Watch a murderer's autobiography, Killer: A Journal of Murder.
Didn't I read that Marc Emery and Roger Christie are being kept in solitary? Does anyone know how many enter the system on a nonviolent drug charge (and history) but end up in solitary confinement, " tantamount to torture"?
National Geographic's Solitary Confinement explores the potentially devastating psychological effects of isolation, paying particular attention to the thousands of Americans who spend, sometimes, years on end imprisoned in solitary confinement. While correctional officers claim the practice effectively controls unruly prisoners, others say being alone in a small space without any outside contact is tantamount to torture.
This injustice system makes me so ashamed. Only fools can believe we are presently the land of the free. Over "80,000 poor souls" in solitary right now! This injustice system creates serial killers and drives sane people over the edge. Where is the public safety in that?
The scourge of meth will disappear with change to a better, safer drug policy for society and the individual just as the deaths and blindness caused by bathtub gin ended with repeal of alcohol prohibition. Overdose deaths were virtually unheard of before Drug War II because callers for help did not fear arrest.
Veterans in states where medical marijuana is legal may use it without getting thrown out of killer Veterans Administration pain treatment programs, a life saving victory!
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is rational; a better drug policy increasing public safety and harm reduction plus freeing up untold billions in wasted funds to use toward catching more violent and sexual predators or incarcerating more of those morally bankrupt, who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
Less than one per cent of the population are actually addicts and drug treatment is seven times less costly than prison. Restore public and law enforcement safety! Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility! Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!
Join LEAP, COP and DownsizeDC! Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
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.
Only agents of tyranny; ones happy with the status quo want to regulate this modern marvel. Tell those authoritarian purveyors of oppression,"Hands off the Internet!"
Congratulations! You've had another victory! The House passed one of the bills in our Downsize DC Agenda, the Enumerated Powers Act. Every House bill must now cite its Constitutional authority.
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
"We're going to get it done," proclaimed the true patriot; servant of the American dream of self-government! Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers, child molesters and rapists.
The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our demented, punitive policy. It is a policy created problem! Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Blame the drug war for the disastrous shooting in Arizona recently! Jared Loughner was self medicating with cannabis but an arrest got him off his medication. I believe the cannabis aided in calming his violent tendencies until he could not use for fear of failing to pass a piss test.
Cannabis promotes a feeling of being connected, of calm and peace, "a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." As Carl Sagan so aptly put it.
It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs.
I have always maintained that Drug War II is a war on our best and brightest. People who use the term doper for individuals who make a safer choice are showing their ignorance. We can educate them. One of 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average is: you use social drugs.
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.
I am afraid; murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. That's real soft on public safety, soft-in-the-head, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy.
The spiraling violence triggered by this scandalous, senseless, morally bankrupt war on some drugs and government impotence in the face of it are a threat to public safety around the globe. Paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. All this unconscionable bloodletting is on the hands of leadership as much as those who pulled the trigger or contributed in other ways to the monstrous, unnecessary bloodshed.
Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
Some of our leaders live in a state of denial. Others are like bad horseman; too concerned about staying in the saddle to worry about where they are headed. Many are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but very bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society.
Big government or the establishment ideology of unethical capitalism and the welfare/warfare state is an assault on the American dream of self-government, free of tyranny and oppression.
True patriots, lovers of liberty, insist morally bankrupt US warriors are held responsible for torture and wars abandoning our ideal of nonintervention. The world knows they violated international law. They are traitors to the republic for which we stand. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.
Truth is always the first casually of any war. Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self-government and value public safety first!
Everyone on this planet's DNA is 99.9% the same; we descended from the same scientific Adam and Eve, out of Africa. We are brothers and sisters as Jesus taught us. Genetically there is no such thing as race, according to National Geographic's "The Human Family Tree" This should make us all more tolerant and reinforce our great shame over race hate crimes. Fifty per cent of black males in America carry a white y chromosome marker from a European male! Race and features are differences that literally are only skin deep.
Plato said "Only the dead have seen the end of war." But with tolerance of our differences and celebration of our similarities we can build bridges that unite us and prove him wrong!
If you research old newspaper reports about heroin, cocaine, morphine and other addictive drugs before Drug War II you'll find no evidence of these drugs causing society problems but you'll see plenty violence and chaos triggered by prohibition of alcohol during Drug War I.
Demented prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Society has always been caught betwixt and between in these scandalous, senseless morally bankrupt wars on some drugs.
Throughout history people have found ways to alter their consciousness. In primitive societies psychoactive plants were sacred and ingested with care, with supposed spiritual intent, but use was often limited to a corrupt powerful few who used fear and superstition to control the masses. If some carry on the ancient tradition of using drugs as a sacrament, to enhance spiritual growth, it is cause for rejoicing not incarceration.
"When it comes to drug abuse, treatment is seven times more cost effective than incarceration. Seven times. It’s an indisputable fact.” - Harriet “Harry” Korn (Kathy Bates in Harry's Law)
And as Harry so effectively points out, prison “neither treats nor trains nor rehabilitates” — it merely risks making someone more dangerous and more likely to commit crimes in the future. Harry is right; these are the facts. Watch a murderer's autobiography, Killer: A Journal of Murder.
Didn't I read that Marc Emery and Roger Christie are being kept in solitary? Does anyone know how many enter the system on a nonviolent drug charge (and history) but end up in solitary confinement, " tantamount to torture"?
National Geographic's Solitary Confinement explores the potentially devastating psychological effects of isolation, paying particular attention to the thousands of Americans who spend, sometimes, years on end imprisoned in solitary confinement. While correctional officers claim the practice effectively controls unruly prisoners, others say being alone in a small space without any outside contact is tantamount to torture.
This injustice system makes me so ashamed. Only fools can believe we are presently the land of the free. Over "80,000 poor souls" in solitary right now! This injustice system creates serial killers and drives sane people over the edge. Where is the public safety in that?
The scourge of meth will disappear with change to a better, safer drug policy for society and the individual just as the deaths and blindness caused by bathtub gin ended with repeal of alcohol prohibition. Overdose deaths were virtually unheard of before Drug War II because callers for help did not fear arrest.
Veterans in states where medical marijuana is legal may use it without getting thrown out of killer Veterans Administration pain treatment programs, a life saving victory!
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is rational; a better drug policy increasing public safety and harm reduction plus freeing up untold billions in wasted funds to use toward catching more violent and sexual predators or incarcerating more of those morally bankrupt, who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
Less than one per cent of the population are actually addicts and drug treatment is seven times less costly than prison. Restore public and law enforcement safety! Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility! Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!
Join LEAP, COP and DownsizeDC! Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
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.
Only agents of tyranny; ones happy with the status quo want to regulate this modern marvel. Tell those authoritarian purveyors of oppression,"Hands off the Internet!"
Congratulations! You've had another victory! The House passed one of the bills in our Downsize DC Agenda, the Enumerated Powers Act. Every House bill must now cite its Constitutional authority.
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
Saturday, January 15, 2011
A Real Order of JUSTICE!
This year let's celebrate Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday by planning, building and committing ourselves, "to bring into being a real order of justice." Almost always, through out history, the creative dedicated, nonviolent minority with closely held principles have made the world a better place. Those who care about principles, not parties or personalities are America's true patriots, defenders of the American dream of self government, free of big government tyranny and oppression.
"When evil men (and women) plot, good men (and women) plan. When evil men (and women) burn and bomb, good men (and women) must build and bind. When evil men (and women) shout ugly words of hatred, good men (and women) commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men (and women) would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men (and women) must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blame the drug war for the disastrous shooting in Arizona recently! Jared Loughner was self medicating with cannabis but an arrest got him off his medication. It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. The history of drug use before drug prohibition shows that "crime" was not connected to drug use when addicts could buy all of the heroin, morphine, cocaine and anything else they wanted cheaply and legally at the corner pharmacy.
The drug war is a persecution of tortured children! Dr. Shavelson's research found that heroine addicts are in some chronic physical pain or they suffer from post traumatic stress caused by child abuse or rape. His book, called Hooked, is about his experiences with addicts. Read the Hooked - NPR interview. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Why let murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use? The overwhelming scientific consensus is that black market violence, adulterated drugs, and the spread of HIV are all exacerbated by prohibitionist policies.
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is a better drug policy that increases public safety and harm reduction plus frees up billions in wasted funds to use incarcerating the violent and sexual predators or the morally bankrupt who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
"Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute," rages Philip K. Howard in "The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America."
Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self government and value public safety first! "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - MLK .During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King called our government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” True then—and even more so right now!
We can bcome a more affluent, secure, and compassionate society by downsizing state and federal government! The Downsize DC Foundation is a great tool for educating and speaking truth to power.
"Make the injustice visible." Coached Ghandi.
From Injustice Everywhere courtesy of fellow reformer Larry Talley, a disturbing video of a no-knock raid performed by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force in Utah and an associated article describing how the raid didn't conform to standard planning practices and may prompt the family of a man who was shot to death during that raid to file
suit. If you decide to watch the graphic video of the shooting, check out how much time the man was given to comply with commands, the distance between him and the heavily armed and armored officers, and does it appear as though he's advancing or stationary. Keep in mind that the police and prosecutors have all ruled this raid and shooting as justified.
Since the Media Awareness Project was started as an email list over a decade and a half ago a major goal has been to empower folks who write letters to the editor in support of drug policy reform. It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Robert Sharpe is our Letter Writer of the Year for 2010. Robert had 176 letters and three OPEDs published during the year, bringing the total letters published that we know of to 2, 414. He writes to newspapers all over the world from his home. Robert writes as a volunteer for Common Sense for Drug Policy. His published letters often have versions of the title "Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, Washington, D.C."
The Aggies are learning about the successful decriminalization in Portugal.
Medical Marijuana Supporters Look to Conservatives! Four of the top ten states for health care are medical marijuana states; 7 of the top 15 have medical marijuana programs. Of the 17 worst states in the nation for health care, only one is a medical marijuana state. Coincidence? We don't think so.
The Sentencing Project is pleased to share with you a soon-to-be-released special report from The American Prospect magazine on “Mass Incarceration in America.” "The issue includes essays from journalists and criminal justice experts who review the policies that have contributed to the nation’s high rate of incarceration and the subsequent impact on youth and low-income communities of color in particular. It also details promising initiatives that seek to change incarceration trends and aid at-risk populations with social services support in order to prevent crime. "
The wasted resources and the destruction of lives and families will continue as usual unless we change to a regulated, community-based policy using science-based education and treatment for abusers, a safer drug policy for the user and society.
Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’! We are rebels with just cause, when we exercise our right to nullify bad laws like those brave jurors who refused to convict during the Fugitive Slave Act and until FDR said the Volstead Act was licked! Jury nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack.
The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.
Are you aware of this interesting fact about that nutmeg you sprinkled on your eggnog recently?
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
"When evil men (and women) plot, good men (and women) plan. When evil men (and women) burn and bomb, good men (and women) must build and bind. When evil men (and women) shout ugly words of hatred, good men (and women) commit themselves to the glories of love. Where evil men (and women) would seek to perpetuate an unjust status quo, good men (and women) must seek to bring into being a real order of justice."
- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Blame the drug war for the disastrous shooting in Arizona recently! Jared Loughner was self medicating with cannabis but an arrest got him off his medication. It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. The history of drug use before drug prohibition shows that "crime" was not connected to drug use when addicts could buy all of the heroin, morphine, cocaine and anything else they wanted cheaply and legally at the corner pharmacy.
The drug war is a persecution of tortured children! Dr. Shavelson's research found that heroine addicts are in some chronic physical pain or they suffer from post traumatic stress caused by child abuse or rape. His book, called Hooked, is about his experiences with addicts. Read the Hooked - NPR interview. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Why let murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use? The overwhelming scientific consensus is that black market violence, adulterated drugs, and the spread of HIV are all exacerbated by prohibitionist policies.
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is a better drug policy that increases public safety and harm reduction plus frees up billions in wasted funds to use incarcerating the violent and sexual predators or the morally bankrupt who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
"Coercion by government, the main fear of our founding fathers, is now its most common attribute," rages Philip K. Howard in "The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America."
Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self government and value public safety first! "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." - MLK .During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King called our government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” True then—and even more so right now!
We can bcome a more affluent, secure, and compassionate society by downsizing state and federal government! The Downsize DC Foundation is a great tool for educating and speaking truth to power.
"Make the injustice visible." Coached Ghandi.
From Injustice Everywhere courtesy of fellow reformer Larry Talley, a disturbing video of a no-knock raid performed by the Weber-Morgan Narcotics Strike Force in Utah and an associated article describing how the raid didn't conform to standard planning practices and may prompt the family of a man who was shot to death during that raid to file
suit. If you decide to watch the graphic video of the shooting, check out how much time the man was given to comply with commands, the distance between him and the heavily armed and armored officers, and does it appear as though he's advancing or stationary. Keep in mind that the police and prosecutors have all ruled this raid and shooting as justified.
Since the Media Awareness Project was started as an email list over a decade and a half ago a major goal has been to empower folks who write letters to the editor in support of drug policy reform. It is with great pleasure that we announce today that Robert Sharpe is our Letter Writer of the Year for 2010. Robert had 176 letters and three OPEDs published during the year, bringing the total letters published that we know of to 2, 414. He writes to newspapers all over the world from his home. Robert writes as a volunteer for Common Sense for Drug Policy. His published letters often have versions of the title "Policy Analyst for Common Sense for Drug Policy, Washington, D.C."
The Aggies are learning about the successful decriminalization in Portugal.
Medical Marijuana Supporters Look to Conservatives! Four of the top ten states for health care are medical marijuana states; 7 of the top 15 have medical marijuana programs. Of the 17 worst states in the nation for health care, only one is a medical marijuana state. Coincidence? We don't think so.
The Sentencing Project is pleased to share with you a soon-to-be-released special report from The American Prospect magazine on “Mass Incarceration in America.” "The issue includes essays from journalists and criminal justice experts who review the policies that have contributed to the nation’s high rate of incarceration and the subsequent impact on youth and low-income communities of color in particular. It also details promising initiatives that seek to change incarceration trends and aid at-risk populations with social services support in order to prevent crime. "
The wasted resources and the destruction of lives and families will continue as usual unless we change to a regulated, community-based policy using science-based education and treatment for abusers, a safer drug policy for the user and society.
Jury pool in marijuana case stages ‘mutiny’! We are rebels with just cause, when we exercise our right to nullify bad laws like those brave jurors who refused to convict during the Fugitive Slave Act and until FDR said the Volstead Act was licked! Jury nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack.
The debate around failed marijuana prohibition and the larger drug war arrived in a big way in 2010. Here are some of the most significant stories of the year.
Are you aware of this interesting fact about that nutmeg you sprinkled on your eggnog recently?
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
Monday, December 13, 2010
Create Peace on Earth! Restore Justice!
Y'all come! Can you be in Washington, DC on December 16th? Join the largest veteran-led civil resistance to US wars in recent history, take a stand for peace!
The War on Democracy, an award winning documentary, reveals since 1945 Uncle Sam has been instrumental in the attempts to overthrow fifty governments around the world, often replacing democratic republics with fascist, authoritarian regimes! The American dream and all dreams for freedom around the world come from our source. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North!
Our founders knew big government would always mean a gang of evil doers, often hiding tyranny under the guise of good intentions. Empire-building, policing the world, and casting off the Constitution's restraints solidifies tyranny at home, devastates the economy, and increases the threats to our national security. I believe in, promote and defend a safer, constitutional, non interventionist foreign policy. This is the safer policy envisioned by our founders.
I support our troops and want to bring them home safe. Secrets put our troops and all of us in more danger than transparency. Truly ethical leaders have no need for secrets, cover ups, covert operations, lies and propaganda.
"Make the injustice visible." Coached Ghandi.
Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are Rebels with Just Cause, the very definition of true American heroes! We need transparency not secrets. Morally bankrupt empire builders and warmongers promote big government and the destruction of the American dream of self government free of tyranny and oppression. Our heroes, who have given their lives for this country, died for freedom and for making this world a better place will have died in vain; if the American dream dies.
Ron Paul Says:"'State Secrecy is Anathema to a Free Society"
During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King called our government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” True then—and even more so right now!
One of McCool's 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portrait will be awarded to Daniel Ellsberg for the documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." The Oscar-nominated account of Pentagon insider, Ellsberg's daring endeavor to leak top-secret government papers that disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam War and Nixon's presidency.
Thanks to US Border Patrol and the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department, drug war injustice was given world wide coverage by the arrest of Willie Nelson. Thank you Willie for making the injustice visible!
It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
The other 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portrait goes to Willie Nelson for his passionate support for marijuana legalization. Willie and Daniel are our heroes of the decade, maybe the past century.
It will be a great blessing if this is THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE WAR ON DRUGS! Forget borders. Drug prohibition is a worldwide problem! The violence, official lawlessness and prison over population are a nightmare created by this out-of-control policy!
Weed out morally bankrupt servants of tyranny, gun control fanatics and racists by taking away the main tool they use these days to extend their agenda, the new prohibition. Take them a step closer to being politically dead bodies. Help construct better, safer drug policies for society and the individual.
Our corrupt policies attract too many of those who want to milk the system for all it is worth. I encourage you to make the LEAP, help restore justice! Attract more of those who will make our system run with the milk of human kindness.
Take control from the hands of despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition.
Science should trump politics! We have to have a scientific basis for investigation findings and our laws; otherwise, it's no different than witch-hunting. The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs. We tolerate their salesmen. End prohibition; stop driving US to drink and use pharmaceuticals with dangerous often fatal side effects. Drugs like Zoloft and Luvox that cause increased aggression, loss of remorse, depersonalization and mania!
All the unnecessary deaths triggered by our drug policies are democide (death by government). Servants of tyranny play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
A new Vanity Fair article primarily about poor FDA oversight of drug testing, much of which is done overseas, reports:. "In 2009, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 19,551 people died in the United States as a direct result of the prescription drugs they took. That’s just the reported number. It’s decidedly low, because it is estimated that only about 10 percent of such deaths are reported."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators." -- P. J. O'Rourke. The second things bought and sold are regulators! The free market is a more powerful and efficient regulator than government. Let ethics and the free market rule!
Some scientists speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Patients testify to Cannabis' help in treating post traumatic stress, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders, Alzheimer's, Cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS and more! They swear it is an effective safer replacement for very dangerous pharmaceuticals.
Less than one percent of the population are actually addicts, drug treatment is at least five times less costly than prison, change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility!
Restore public safety! Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers and other violent predators. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all murders and rapes. However, get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
The War on Democracy, an award winning documentary, reveals since 1945 Uncle Sam has been instrumental in the attempts to overthrow fifty governments around the world, often replacing democratic republics with fascist, authoritarian regimes! The American dream and all dreams for freedom around the world come from our source. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North!
Our founders knew big government would always mean a gang of evil doers, often hiding tyranny under the guise of good intentions. Empire-building, policing the world, and casting off the Constitution's restraints solidifies tyranny at home, devastates the economy, and increases the threats to our national security. I believe in, promote and defend a safer, constitutional, non interventionist foreign policy. This is the safer policy envisioned by our founders.
I support our troops and want to bring them home safe. Secrets put our troops and all of us in more danger than transparency. Truly ethical leaders have no need for secrets, cover ups, covert operations, lies and propaganda.
"Make the injustice visible." Coached Ghandi.
Pfc. Bradley Manning and Julian Assange are Rebels with Just Cause, the very definition of true American heroes! We need transparency not secrets. Morally bankrupt empire builders and warmongers promote big government and the destruction of the American dream of self government free of tyranny and oppression. Our heroes, who have given their lives for this country, died for freedom and for making this world a better place will have died in vain; if the American dream dies.
Ron Paul Says:"'State Secrecy is Anathema to a Free Society"
During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King called our government “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.” True then—and even more so right now!
One of McCool's 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portrait will be awarded to Daniel Ellsberg for the documentary "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers." The Oscar-nominated account of Pentagon insider, Ellsberg's daring endeavor to leak top-secret government papers that disclosed shocking truths about the Vietnam War and Nixon's presidency.
Thanks to US Border Patrol and the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Department, drug war injustice was given world wide coverage by the arrest of Willie Nelson. Thank you Willie for making the injustice visible!
It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
The other 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portrait goes to Willie Nelson for his passionate support for marijuana legalization. Willie and Daniel are our heroes of the decade, maybe the past century.
It will be a great blessing if this is THE BEGINNING OF THE END FOR THE WAR ON DRUGS! Forget borders. Drug prohibition is a worldwide problem! The violence, official lawlessness and prison over population are a nightmare created by this out-of-control policy!
Weed out morally bankrupt servants of tyranny, gun control fanatics and racists by taking away the main tool they use these days to extend their agenda, the new prohibition. Take them a step closer to being politically dead bodies. Help construct better, safer drug policies for society and the individual.
Our corrupt policies attract too many of those who want to milk the system for all it is worth. I encourage you to make the LEAP, help restore justice! Attract more of those who will make our system run with the milk of human kindness.
Take control from the hands of despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition.
Science should trump politics! We have to have a scientific basis for investigation findings and our laws; otherwise, it's no different than witch-hunting. The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs. We tolerate their salesmen. End prohibition; stop driving US to drink and use pharmaceuticals with dangerous often fatal side effects. Drugs like Zoloft and Luvox that cause increased aggression, loss of remorse, depersonalization and mania!
All the unnecessary deaths triggered by our drug policies are democide (death by government). Servants of tyranny play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
A new Vanity Fair article primarily about poor FDA oversight of drug testing, much of which is done overseas, reports:. "In 2009, according to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices, 19,551 people died in the United States as a direct result of the prescription drugs they took. That’s just the reported number. It’s decidedly low, because it is estimated that only about 10 percent of such deaths are reported."
"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things bought and sold are legislators." -- P. J. O'Rourke. The second things bought and sold are regulators! The free market is a more powerful and efficient regulator than government. Let ethics and the free market rule!
Some scientists speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Patients testify to Cannabis' help in treating post traumatic stress, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders, Alzheimer's, Cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS and more! They swear it is an effective safer replacement for very dangerous pharmaceuticals.
Less than one percent of the population are actually addicts, drug treatment is at least five times less costly than prison, change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility!
Restore public safety! Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers and other violent predators. I understand that it will not be possible to stop all murders and rapes. However, get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
"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
The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!
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
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Morally Bankrupt, Predatory Capitalism Vs Ethical Capitalism
Capitalism is being given a bad name due to big government interference and protection of the morally bankrupt. Business is not inherently evil. Consumers, we the people, have the power to put corporations out of business that do not behave ethically and show great concern about their impact on the community and environment! Stop patronizing them, refuse to buy what they are selling! The free market is a more powerful and efficient regulator than government.
Predatory capitalism destroys people, benign or ethical capitalism creates a world of abundance for all. This is the main point of Oliver Stones fascinating documentary, South of the Border. Keen on investigating how the US media has depicted Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Stone journeys south to interview him and speaks with several South American presidents in the process including: Bolivia's Evo Morales, Brazil's Lula da Silva, Argentina's Nestor Kirchner and Cuba's Raúl Castro. The drug war, DEA, etc. are mentioned several times.
An important tip: The South American media was against the election of all these Presidents so that gives us hope to overcome our own propaganda machines.
Empire-building, policing the world, and casting off the Constitutions restraints solidifies tyranny at home, devastates the economy, and increases the threats to our national security. Warmongering, morally bankrupt empire builders and drug warriors think big government needs to solve all our problems.
Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self-government and value public safety first! Our heroes, who have given their lives for this country, died for freedom and for making this world a better place will have died in vain; if the American dream dies.
We all share a protective mechanism (or flaw?) in our wiring that releases negative energy toward any person we perceive as not sharing our world view. If we consciously recognize this and adjust behavior accordingly; celebrate our similarities plus build bridges of tolerance to differences, we create peace and abundance. We can change the world.
Are you questioning the hypocrisy, corruption and waste of the drug war and other big government tyranny? Are you cultivating a narrow-eyed, deeply skeptical attitude, when confronting a political issue or a health issue?
A California doctor studied aides patients with HIV negative partners over a ten year period and non of these partners had contracted HIV at the end of the study. Aides drugs like many dangerous pharmaceuticals destroy the patients liver and immune system, eventually causing death!
"The HIV/ AIDS Story is Being Rewritten!" Money spent fighting HIV/ AIDS is better spent fighting poverty and providing access to safe water.
In the documentary, House of Numbers: "Leung manages to present a barrage of intriguing theories debunking our generally accepted beliefs... There's no denying, however, the value of exploring such game-changing topics as how HIV-infection numbers are cooked for monetary and political gain; how the effects of global poverty may have led to so many AIDS-related deaths; how such widely used AIDS drugs as AZT have, themselves, often proved fatal; and whether HIV really exists." - Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times
"Abraham Lincoln had it right. Our task should not be to invoke religion and the name of God by claiming God's blessing and endorsement for all our national polices and practices -- saying, in effect, that God is on our side. Rather, Lincoln said, we should pray and worry earnestly whether we are on God's side."- Jim Wallis author of GOD'S POLITICS.
In this frame of mind, with modern unbiased, science based statistical reporting our worries are over. We can see where our laws are causing more harm than good and change accordingly. Empirical statistical evidence strongly shows that a republic (the American form of government.) leads to less internal violence and democide. Democide is a term coined by political scientist R. J. Rummel in his book, DEATH by GOVERNMENT to describe "the murder of any person or people by a government, including genocide, politicide and mass murder." Maybe we need to add cooking the numbers for monetary and political gain to this list!
It is down right sinister, a crime against humanity, for the medicinal uses of cannabis to be suppressed. Some scientific researchers speculate that cannabinoids play a protective role in the brain, slowing the rate of disease. Ooooops! Who spilled the beans? Scientists and patients all over the world, that's who!
Senate leadership is sitting on a bill that would establish a national commission to reassess current policy, beginning the process to restore Justice, the guardian of liberty. Congress needs to hear from reformers around the country in support of this bill. Send a message to Senate leadership now!
Sherman Ash Branch, twice convicted of cocaine possession and once for obstructing an officer, killed Georgia County chief deputy Kevin Roberts last Sunday before turning the gun on himself.
"Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe" .- Frederick Douglass
Drug war violence is a policy created problem. Our out-of-control drug policies' monetary and environmental costs are staggering and human suffering unconscionable.
Our corrupt, out-of-control policies attract too many of those who want to milk it for all it is worth. I encourage you to make the LEAP, help restore justice! Attract more of those who will make our system run with the milk of human kindness.
Save the children, just say NO to prohibition! How can anyone think drug prohibition makes our children or streets safer?
Stephen H. Frye M.D, retired medical school professor's book exposes facts related to our babies, teens especially, being collateral damage of this demented, violence triggering policy! "We Really Lost This War! Twenty-five Reasons to Legalize Drugs."
Don't believe the propaganda; we wage this war to protect our children! The devastating and deadly facts are our babies; especially teens have become collateral damage in this grossly failed war. The destruction of the sacred family unit is one of the worst consequences prohibition forces on children.
Brutal, bloody prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Despite having six times the Netherlands adult incarceration rate, this insane policy has created an obscene teenage murder rate that's nineteen times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are regulated, controlled and taxed!
Only 50 percent of high school students graduate in our ten biggest cities and only 40 per cent graduate in NYC, Baltimore and Detroit. In the Netherlands 92 percent graduate; that's No Child Left Behind!
I am afraid; murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. Across America paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk.
The war waged by Mexican drug cartels has resulted in 610 children deaths reports a study and 3,700 children have been left orphans as a result of the violence or execution of their parents. Many minors who are orphaned have been psychologically scarred after witnessing violent actions against their relatives.
The Mexican military reported that 420 children who had been recruited have died in the clashes between rival groups. There were many examples of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 dying in fierce battles with the drug traffickers or being tortured and killed as paybacks between feuding clans.
When the mothers of America realized that prohibitionists were making their kids more vulnerable to booze, the Volstead Act was licked! Today minors testify, it is easier to buy pot than alcohol. Mothers of the world will again unit to stop this no less insane, out-of-control version of prohibition; triggering violence in our streets.
The debate over medical marijuana or cannabis is really a scandalous controversy over whether this safe, effective, very easy-to-grow herb should be allowed to compete with dangerous pharmaceuticals and social drugs for pennies on the dollar.
Harassing the sick and dying is an un-American activity! "A whopping 64% of voters' aged 18 to 34" backed Prop 19 in California because they know it is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs.
Now is the time to insist American warriors addicted to the drug war get their adrenaline rush catching murderers and other violent predators or incarcerating those who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is rational; safer for the individual and society, a better drug policy increasing public safety and harm reduction plus freeing up untold billions in wasted funds to use toward catching more violent and sexual predators or incarcerating more of those morally bankrupt; who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.
Use of illegal drugs has increased significantly during the drug war. Use of tobacco has decreased due to truth in education and infomercials about this killer. Educate people with science-based truth and they will make better choices for themselves.
Less than one per cent of the population are actually addicts and drug treatment is at least five times less costly than prison. Restore public safety! Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility! Get tough on DUI, on the morally bankrupt who sell drugs to children and violent crime! Stop this scandalous, detrimental drug war. Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty. Take morally bankrupt profiteers, servants of tyranny, gun control fanatics and racists a step closer to being politically dead bodies.
It is worth repeating, the Spirit of 1776 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North. The real visionaries, who gave birth to this Nation, those who defined what an American patriot would be, were rebels with just cause!
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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