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Comment on The War on Drugs and Blue Laws a video from LEAP
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Seņor J. Sidney McCain?s Newest Unwinnable War: The War Against The Mainstr
2008-09-03 23:23:00 Panama John Goes To Battle With The Mainstream Media Over Sarah Palin Questions Howard Kurtz, in his piece in The Washington Post Entitled The War Against The Press, reveals a “behind the scenes” (that is, until today) tirade being launched by Seņor J. Sidney McCain of Arizona... This is only a comment summary. Visit http://guntotingliberal.com to view the lastest content complete with some of the most outrageous original photoshops in the political blogosphere!
The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues
2008-08-24 22:39:00 The major label debut from The War On Drugs is a full bodied and healthy dose of nostalgia and longing that is usually reserved for country singers. The Philadelphia quintet, led by guitarist/vocalist Adam Granduciel, sounds more at home playing in a small bar surrounded by pasture and rolling hills than the city that Rocky ...
Bob Barr on the war on Drugs
2008-06-10 16:34:00 This is on the www.Huffingtonpost.comBob Barr I Was Wrong About The War On Drugs -- It's A Failure. I'll admit it, just five years ago I was "Public Enemy Number 1" in the eyes of the Libertarian Party. In my 2002 congressional race for Georgia's Seventh District, the Libertarian Party ran scathing attack ads against my stand on Medical Marijuana. Today, I am their presidential nominee and will represent libertarians at the top of the ticket on November 4th. Huh? That's right, Bob Barr, formerly the War on Drugs loving, Wiccan mocking, Clinton impeaching Republican is the presidential nominee for the Libertarian Party. Now, you may be asking how this happened and my answer is simple: "The libertarians won." For more than three decades, the Libertarian Party and small "l" libertarians have done their part to prove to America that liberty is the answer to most of the problems that we face today. Over the past several years, I was one of the many p...
The War on Drugs Has Failed - Should America Legalize Drugs?
2008-06-10 11:48:00 The war on drugs has failed;We must make peace, heal our wounds, and change our laws. Richard Burton,Chair, NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee In 2005, International Activist Cliff Thornton invited me as Chairman of the NAACP Prisoner Rights Sub-committee, to participate in a drug conference in Hartford, Conn and after several years of research as it relates to drugs and its side effects, I offer these thoughts.The drug war can't be won, and we have lost. We merely repeat the mistake of Prohibition. The harder we try to stop this evil, the more lucrative we make it, and the more it spread. The war on drugs cannot be eradicated by making it more profitable and at the same time creating more jails/prisons, disparities, casualties and tax burdens. This view is shared by activists like Jack Cole a conference participant, a retired police lieutenant who worked on the front lines of the war on drugs, and who feels that prohibition causes more damage than the drugs themselves do.Accordin...
Mexican military takes over town?s police force
2008-05-21 18:38:00 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (AP) - There are no police anymore in Villa Ahumada. Even the mayor has fled. Drug gangs have virtually seized this town of 1,500 not far from Texas, as Mexico’s cartels grow increasingly audacious. The Mexican military took over the police department this week because all 20 officers on the force have either been ...
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Join us or die, drug kingpins warn Mexican police
2008-05-19 01:22:00 CIUDAD JUAREZ, MEXICO ? Drug cartels are sending a brutal message to police and soldiers in cities across Mexico: Join us or die. The threat appears in recruiting banners hung across roadsides and in publicly posted death lists. Cops get warnings over their two-way radios. At least four high-ranking police officials were gunned down this month, ...
By: TexasFred's
Reason.tv: Mississippi Drug War Blues - The Case of Cory Maye
2008-05-08 15:25:00 At 11p.m on December 26, 2001 police in Prentiss, Mississippi raided the residence of Cory Maye, a 21-year-old father who was at home with his 18-month-old daughter Ta’Corriana. The cops were looking for drugs and smashed through the back door. In the ensuing chaos, Maye hunkered down with his daughter in a bedroom and when the police broke down that door, he fired three bullets, one of which killed Officer Ron Jones. Maye testified in court that the police did not identify themselves until after they had entered his residence; indeed, he testified that they did not identify themselves until after he had fired his shots. Once they did, he said he put his weapon on the floor, slid it toward police, and surrendered. The police, who refused to talk with reason.tv, tell a different story. They claim that they identified themselves multiple times before entering Maye’s house and bedroom, and that there was no way Maye couldn’t have known who they were. A jury rejected M...
What The "War On Drugs" Hath Wrought. . . .
2008-04-30 15:56:00 The United States leads the world in imprisoning its people. We have 2.3 million people behind bars. China?s population quadruples ours yet they have merely 1.6 million in jail. Granted in China they probably off more people then we want to know. The United States has 738 people in jail for every 1000 people. Our closest competitor is Russia with 611. The global average is 125. The... Click the Headline Link to Visit Copious Dissent and Read the Full Story.
Suckers for the Phony War On Drugs
2008-04-11 01:22:00 LTE: THE PHONY WAR ON DRUGS I'm writing about Ralph Givens' thoughtful letter ( "End drug prohibition," April 8 ): The so-called war on drugs is a huge industry and huge bureaucracy. Victory in the drug war is not possible, nor is it the goal. Victory in the drug war would mean that the drug war industry and bureaucracy are out of business. There are basically two types of people who support the so-called war on drugs: Those who make their livelihood from it. This includes politicians and bureaucrats who are probably on the payroll of the drug cartels. ( Al Capone had hundreds of politicians and prohibition officials on his payroll. ) Suckers - taxpayers who have bought into the lies and propaganda of the drug-war industry and bureaucracy. Suckers - who are willing to sacrifice their own liberty and freedom because they don't like what others do to themselves. Suckers - who believe that criminalizing a substance will make it go away. Suckers - who think that drug prohibitio...
The War on Drugs - Barrel of Batteries EP (download gratis)
2008-04-07 19:23:00 I War on Drugs sono una band folk rock emergente, di Philadelphia. Da poco hanno firmato un contratto con l'etichetta Secretly Canadian, per la quale uscirā tra qualche mese il loro album d'esordio, "Wagonwheel Blues". Ma in attesa di questa uscita i War on Drugs ci deliziano con un eccezionale EP, "Barrel of Batteries", offerto gratuitamente. In tutto sono 6 brani, anche se, in realtā, tre sono vere e proprie canzoni mentre le restanti sono delle brevi registrazioni (meno di un minuto). La mia preferita č "Arms Like Boulders", un piccolo capolavoro. Ha un ritmo coinvolgente e una melodia splendida dettata sia dalle chitarre che dalla voce del cantante (ad un certo punto interviene anche l'armonica). E poi quel senso di malinconica felicitā che tanto mi piace. Mi ha subito colpito. Perfetta per uno di quei viaggi in auto, in silenzio, con la sola compagnia della musica e la visione del meraviglioso paesaggio che si attraversa. Con la malinconia per quello che ci lasciamo alle spa...
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War On Drugs
2008-03-28 11:17:00 Drug addiction, substance abuse has been Malaysia’s number one problem for more than two decades. With a cumulative figure of about 240,000 identified drug addicts nationwide since the 1980, drug abuse still poses a major problem particularly among those aged between 15 and 40, who make up 80 per cent of th drug addicts ...
Civil disobedience against the war on drugs
2008-03-08 00:00:00 The U.S. government has used the bogus war on drugs as an excuse to lock up millions of America's poor in for-profit prisons. The writers of the HBO show The Wire suggest a good old-fashioned American civil disobedience tactic to...
New Strategy in War on Drugs: Ban Sale of Tiny Plastic Bags
2008-03-07 20:57:00 Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown adv1 Vote(s)
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Chicago War on Drugs Leads to Ban on Plastic Baggies
2008-03-06 15:54:00 I don’t even know who to start writing about this nonsense. It’s asinine that anyone could think that a crackdown on plastic baggies would have any effect on drug sales. THEY ARE SELLING DRUGS! Why would a ban on plastic bags stop them? Ugh: Tiny plastic bags used to sell small quantities of heroin, crack cocaine, marijuana and other drugs would be banned in Chicago, under a crackdown advanced Tuesday by a City Council committee. Ald. Robert Fioretti (2nd) persuaded the Health Committee to ban possession of “self-sealing plastic bags under two inches in either height or width,” after picking up 15 of the bags on a recent Sunday afternoon stroll through a West Side park. Lt. Kevin Navarro, commanding officer of the Chicago police Department’s Narcotics and Gang Unit, said the ordinance will be an “important tool” to go after grocery stores, health food stores and other businesses. The bags are used by the thousands to sell small quanti...
The war on drugs whack-a-mole: from just cocaine to cocaine and meth
2008-03-05 00:00:00 One of the many interesting points made in "How America Lost the War on Drugs" is that the so-called war on drugs is responsible for America's meth epidemic. To summarize: After the U.S. killed Pablo Escovar in 1993, [t]he remaining...
The War On Drugs: Street Level
2008-02-26 18:42:00 Watch this video at YouTube So how is the War on Drugs going these days? Is it going as awesomely well as the War on Terror? Probably. This video is a good look at what is really keeping the kids off the drugs these days; stay till the end, the punch line’s pretty good. SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The War On Drugs: Street Level", url: "http://mint.theavclub.tv/feede-r/?FeederAction=clicked&fee-d=Articles+%28rss2%29&seed=-http%3A%2F%2Fblog.theavclub.tv%-2Fpost%2Fthe-war-on-drugs-stree-t-level&seed_title=The+War+-On+Drugs%3A+Street+Level" });
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Collateral damage in the War on Drugs.Most of us c...
2008-02-18 16:37:00 Collateral damage in the War on Drugs.Most of us couldn't get away with killing someone on the basis of a radio call and a wristwatch.
By: Daisy's Dead Air
The War on Drugs and on Terror the cure is the same. in Liberals Versus Con
2008-01-12 00:00:00 exton, 12/01/08 (16 Replies)
Manchin Keeps War on Drugs in View
2008-01-10 16:24:00 The Herald-Dispatch and The Intelligencer both focus on Manchin's "comprehensive drug eradication program."The governor's plan includes "prevention resource officers in schools, addiction training programs for health care professionals and drug courts," the Huntington paper reports. "The money also will be used by the State Police to hire more drug investigators and add training courses, among other things."The Wheeling paper touts Manchin's drug court proposal, as his plan would expand a program begun in Ohio County across the state.Update: The Charleston Daily Mail reports on the drug plan as well.A $44 million from a U.S. Justice Department settlement with the makers of OxyContin fuels this element of Manchin's agenda.
Romney Injects ?War on Drugs? Rhetoric into the Campaign
2007-12-27 01:01:00 With the first Primaries in the nation drawing near, I began to wonder how long it would take for some candidate ? any candidate ? to play the ?War on Drugs? card during the course of this Presidential campaign. Sure enough, GOP hopeful Mitt Romney took up that cause. On December 17, the Romney campaign ...
Christians Should Be Glad that America Has Lost the War on Drugs
2007-12-04 16:24:00 Everyone needs to read this article in Rolling Stone. A true masterpiece of journalism. Also a true shame, and testament to the decrepit state of our mainstream media, that other venues have not run similar exposes. It actually begins as a very common tale of tyranny. In order to get something done, government ...
Top 7 myths of the War on Drugs
2007-11-15 00:00:00 Foreign Policy breaks down the top 7 myths of the War on Drugs. Warning: This substance has been shown to make Republican bullshit seem even more ridiculous than it already is.
The War on Drugs
2007-10-26 10:02:00 The war on drugs and cartels used to be staples of nightly news and newspaper columns. Despite persistent drug abuse and trafficking, the status of the once touted War on Drugs goes largely unreported. Death and smuggling are exploding along the Texan border and America continues to help train and fund the Colombian army.
"War on Drugs" isn't just a term in Brazil
2007-10-18 19:40:00 In America, when we talk about "the War on Drugs," we're talking about the US government's active pursuit and apprehension of illegal drugs and drug dealers. Yes, we occasionally have a police shootout and big sting operations, but in Brazil the war on drugs is literally a war. Police invade neighborhoods with armored tanks, advanced weaponry and SWAT teams. These favelas, or slums, lie outside of Brazil's big cities such as Rio de Janeiro and SÃĢo Paulo and house some of the country's most disadvantaged and impoverished. As is common knowledge, poverty is a magnet for crime and drug trafficking. The BBC reports on a recent shootout in Rio's favelas that left 12 dead. The drug problem in Brazil is so rampant that it has not only gripped Brazilians, but it has now been documented and spread internationally in films like "City of God" (Cidade de Deus) and "Elite Troops" (Tropa de Elite). The Brazilian police are also part of the problem in Br...
Report: Mexico drug violence could spill into U.S.
2007-10-17 06:19:00 Report: Mexico drug violence could spill into U.S. Drug-gang violence that plagues Mexico is worsening and could spill over into the United States, according to a new report by a consultant on Gov. Rick Perry’s Texas Border Security Council. While Mexican President Felipe Calderon has deployed as many as 20,000 troops and federal police to battle the ...
By: TexasFred's
Harper?s ?war on drugs? regressive and irresponsible: Green Party
2007-10-11 22:20:00 Harper?s ?war on drugs? regressive and irresponsible: Green Party OTTAWA ? The Green Party today denounced Prime Minister Stephen Harper?s proposed drug strategy as an ideologically-driven step in the wrong direction and ignorant of evidence-based research. Last week, Mr. Harper announced his intent to spend $64 million in a war on drugs, focusing on punishment and enforcement ? not prevention. ?Mr. Harper is far too eager to sign Canada on to a Bush-style war on drugs that has spent billions and achieved nothing,? said Green Party leader Elizabeth May. ?An overwhelming body of evidence supports the notion that an effective drug strategy would focus on prevention, treatment facilities and harm reduction programs. ?Mr. Harper preaches prevention, yet spends many times the funds allocated to prevention on enforcing antiquated drug laws and punishing drug users. This approach is akin to simply burning tax dollars and is severely damaging to society. Instead of listening to t...
TexasFred?s Non-Scientific Polling Place
2007-10-08 21:08:00 TexasFred?s Non-Scientific Polling Place I have started a NEW site, TexasFred?s Non-Scientific Polling Place where I will be posing some serious questions on numerous topics, all responses are anonymous, even as the blog owner I can?t see who votes for what, I have not, nor will I set up a Site Meter or a Technorati listing, ...
By: TexasFred's
U.S. to Give Mexico 10,849,067,971Pesos
2007-10-08 20:41:00 That’s about a cool billion U.S. dollars. Tax dollars. Going to Mexico. So they can…wait for it…fight against drugs. The US intends to supply Mexico with a $1bn aid package to help combat an increasingly costly and violent war against drugs, according to a top Mexican diplomat. The agreement, which some experts have dubbed ?Plan Mexico? ...
Mayor of San Francisco disses the war on drugs
2007-10-05 23:46:00 Mayor Gavin Newsom, the youngest mayor in San Francisco in 100 years, has a fresh pair of eyes about crime. He's not afraid to speak out - we've got to respect that. At City Hall yesterday, he told reporters that the national war on drugs in the U.S. is a total failure. Thank you, the cat is out of the bag!
Bush Touts Progress in Afghanistan
2007-09-26 18:44:00 NEW YORK (AP) - President Bush said Wednesday that Afghanistan is becoming a safer, more stable country, thanks to the efforts of President Hamid Karzai. “Mr. President, you’ve got strong friends here,” Bush told Karzai after they met for about an hour at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel here. “I expect progress and you expect progress, and I ...
By: TexasFred's
165 Insurgents Killed in Afghanistan
2007-09-26 16:52:00 KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) - Two battles killed more than 165 Taliban fighters and a U.S.-led coalition soldier in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday as President Hamid Karzai prepared to discuss the escalating violence with President Bush in New York. One of the clashes began Tuesday when several dozen insurgents attacked a joint coalition-Afghan patrol with machine guns, ...
By: TexasFred's
A Timeline of Drug Testing in the United States
2007-09-02 08:21:00 Yet another frog has been boiled.read more | digg story
By: WikiProtest Blog
The Architects of Fear (Our Drug Prohibitionists)
2007-08-25 17:40:00 There is an old ?Outer Limits? episode called ?The Architects of Fear? in which some scientists decide on taking drastic measures in an attempt to prevent the Cold War from erupting into nuclear holocaust. They choose one of their own, played by Robert Culp, to undergo an experimental genetic mutation that results in his transformation into ...
By: Sharp Iron
Thaksin?s war on drugs
2007-08-24 07:54:00 Officially launched in February 2003, Thaksin?s war on drugs was a brutal killing spree that led to the extrajudicial killings of about 2,500 people while thousands more were arrested. When Thaksin came to power in February 2001, he vowed to tackle the problem of drugs in Thailand full on. Police were told to treat persons suspected ...
Prohibition Redux
2007-08-20 17:59:00 The US experiment to prohibit the sail and use of alcohol was by any measure a grand failure. The only thing it succeeded in doing was to create rich and powerful criminal elements. It was eventually recognized as the failure it was bu even those who had supported it and abandoned. The "war on drugs" has also been a a very similar failure but is still going strong. In early 2006 I wrote the following: While the war in Iraq may outrageous there is another war that is equally outrageous and is truly bi-partisan, the war on drugs. Like the war in Iraq it has accomplished nothing positive, consumed vast sums of the nations wealth and ruined lives. The reasons for the war on drugs are similar to the reasons for the war in Iraq. Political PowerCorporate Wealth and PowerReligious ZealotryLike the "war on drugs" the "war on terror" is a metaphorical war. In an excellent article in the Washington Post, The Lost War, Misha Glenny reports that it is not only as big a failure as prohibition in ...
Peaceful Costa Rica wages war on drugs - Miami Herald
2007-07-24 09:08:00 Peaceful Costa Rica wages war on drugsMiami Herald, FL - Jul 24, 2007Costa Rica is showing progress in its war on drugs, but concerns exist that the country is used as an exchange center for major drug trade. ...
Your Politicianâs Solution to the War on Drugs
2007-07-23 01:30:00 This is your government addicted to the War on Drugs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TRPxN7DGy5c Any questions? NOTE: This ad courtesy was courtesy of the Drug Policy Alliance. My thanks to Radley Balko and Jacob Sullum for the link. Original post by http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/-themoderatevoice/~3/136369839/-
Politics: Ron Paul vs. Weenie on a talk show in 1988 - War on Drugs
2007-06-19 06:31:00 He makes a very valid point! What limit do you put on government in our everyday lives? Drugs are a social/medical problem, and the government should not use force to keep them out of your hands. What you decide to do with your body should be completely up to you. Funny, News ...
By: What a Weenie!
War On Terror As Bad As War on Drugs
2007-05-25 20:11:00 internet advertisingBy Rep. Ron Paul.I would like to draw an analogy between the drug war and the war against terrorism. In the last 30 years, we have spent hundreds of billions of dollars on a failed war on drugs. This war has been used as an excuse to attack our liberties and privacy. It has been an excuse to undermine our financial privacy while promoting illegal searches and seizures with many innocent people losing their lives and property. Seizure and forfeiture have harmed a great number of innocent American citizens.Another result of this unwise war has been the corruption of many law enforcement officials. It is well known that with the profit incentives so high, we are not even able to keep drugs out of our armed prisons. Making our whole society a prison would not bring success to this floundering war on drugs. Sinister motives of the profiteers and gangsters, along with prevailing public ignorance, keep this futile war going. Illegal and artificially high priced drugs dr...
By: PLONC.
Politics: The War on Drugs - 21st Century Version of Prohibition
2007-05-08 16:48:00 This war on drugs is built on hypocrisy and disinformation. Our communities are keen on enforcing policies that restrict us from consuming nearly every drug available, especially psychedelics. However, we are reluctant in limiting the usage and distribution of more hazardous substances such as nicotine and alcohol. Put a gun to my head and paint ...
By: What a Weenie!
Economic Consequences of the War on Drugs
2007-04-26 21:09:00 How much does the drug war cost American taxpayers? $40 billion per year and climbing. In 2000, the National Drug Control budget exceeds $18 billion and the states will spend upwards of $20 billion more. This is a dramatic increase since 1980, when federal spending was roughly $1 billion and state spending just a few times ...
Drug Rehab - War on Drugs
2007-03-06 23:50:04 Prescribing psychiatric drugs to children is a multi-billion dollar-a-year industry that permanently damages children, creates future mental patients and drug addicts.
The War On Terror Is A War On Drugs
2007-02-21 17:47:01 In modern times America?s War on Terror has become a source of much speculation and debate the world over, from cosy octogenarians sitting in mansions wearing cardigans, to young people who like Hollyoaks, everybody?s got their opinion. It has been made clear by the US government that terrorism, in all its forms all over the world, should be combated. A less known war being fought by America is their War on Drugs. The US has a problem with Cocaine, also known as Charlie, Blow, Snow, Nose candy, C, White, Percy, and Peruvian marching dust. Massive amounts enter its borders annually, and despite the best efforts of the Border Patrol, it is just too lucrative a business; for every shipment they might manage to stop, several pass in unnoticed, carrying hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of powder. (more…)
By: The Hashmark
Drug Rehab - War on Drugs
2006-12-16 16:49:04 Prescribing psychiatric drugs to children is a multi-billion dollar-a-year industry that permanently damages children, creates future mental patients and drug addicts.
America: Winning the War on Drugs
2006-12-06 06:44:01 Friends, We Republicans are no stranger to winning wars. The great American President won the “cold war” against Communism, and George W. Bush is winning the war on terrorism, but before both of those wars was another even more important war: The War on Drugs. Nixon: A much maligned man of vision and courage. Would President Carter have had the courage to start a war on drugs? Would Clinton have taken the time from raping his interns to make America drug free? Hell no, it takes Republican courage to do the right thing. It’s hard to believe, but back in the easy-going days of 1960s liberalism most drugs were perfectly legal in America. Gangs of stoned youths roamed the streets beating up old folks just to be able to afford their next “hit” of cannabis. When Republican President Nixon took office, one of the first things he did was declare war on drugs. Today every single American owes this great Republican a debt of gratitude. If it were not for the wa...
End the War on Drugs
2006-08-29 18:48:02 End the War on Drugs Radley Balko posted this video over on The Agitator. It is produced by Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP). You may have noticed a similar theme from Penn and Teller. From the LEAP website:After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and increasingly punitive policies, our confined population has quadrupled
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