DdC
09-27-2005, 10:20 AM
Lots a ways piggies get away with murder...
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
Beatles - Piggies Lyrics (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Beatles/Piggies.html)
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36079.gif (http://makeashorterlink.com/?O29C52395)
Cop Gets 30-days for Brutal Beating (http://tinyurl.com/baw7q)
A two-year legal battle has ended with a Toronto police officer sentenced to 30 days in prison for not only beating a Somalian refugee, but trying to cover it up. Convicted last July, Const. Roy Preston was sentenced Friday, for the beating of Said Jama Jama in a northwest Toronto parking lot back in 2003.
Congress Considers Dangerous Mandatory Minimum Sentences For Marijuana (http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=7419321)
Ask Your Member of Congress To Oppose H.R.1528!
Read about this bill
Please take action against a dangerous bill that is currently making its way through Congress. H.R. 1528, "The Safe Access to Drug Treatment & Child Protection Act of 2005" would dramatically increase mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offenses. Under the proposed legislation, sponsored by House Judiciary Chair James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), any person age 21 or over who attempts or conspires to offer marijuana to someone younger than 18 years old shall face a mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison. The mandatory penalty for a subsequent violation of the statute is life in prison.
Defendants found to have distributed marijuana near a drug treatment facility, or who have offered cannabis to someone who is currently or has been previously enrolled in drug treatment program, would receive a mandatory prison sentence of five years to life under the proposal. This effectively means that anyone caught passing a joint near a treatment facility, or to anyone who has even been in drug treatment, will face a mandatory five years in prison.
Please take two minutes to write your member of Congress today and urge him or her to oppose H.R. 1528, an outrageous and expensive addition to an already failed public policy.
Cops Confiscation Maliciously Punishes (http://tinyurl.com/bmzfk)
Thread of many links of persecution...
Portland, Ore. -- Vicki Marie Tyler, a diabetic amputee with a medical marijuana card, says she was asleep on her couch when 13 police officers raided her North Portland home looking for drugs. Though officers found less than an ounce of marijuana during the 2003 raid, they seized her electric scooter on the grounds in was bought with drug money. A jury last year acquitted Tyler of drug-dealing charges.
The Kubby Family (http://www.kubby.org) by Pete Brady (04 Sept, 2000)
(Excerpts) Steve Kubby, a cancer survivor and author of an award-winning book called "The Politics of Consciousness," had just finished a 1998 campaign for governor when 21 police officers burst into his California mountain home in January, 1999. After being mistreated in jail, Kubby and his wife found their home ransacked, their reputation trashed, their money and magazine business ruined by police.
At Kubby's urging, a Sacramento newspaper did a six month investigation of Placer County's anti-pot police unit, and found that officers conducted illegal searches in a number of cases, some of which were later thrown out due to police misconduct.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1682
Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail:Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA (http://tinyurl.com/comwc)
THE DEMONIZATION OF GANJA (http://tinyurl.com/9yuug)
Judge and Executioner
Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic Washington, DC man, died in jail. Though he was found guilty of possessing a single joint, his real crimes - in the judge's eyes - were in saying that marijuana made him feel better and that he would continue to smoke it for that very reason. Read more at The D'Alliance, our blog, here...
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=184&l=61979
Think of the message being sent to the kids? (http://tinyurl.com/cvcs3)
DEAth Lies & LAPDog Perversions (http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4069)...
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4258.gif
Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm) (Now hidden under the UpJohn Pharmaceutical Umbrella)
THE TOXIC ALTERNATIVE TO NATURAL FIBERS (http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm).
Fear in the Fields (http://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/browse/html97/fert_070397.html)
Genetic fungus (http://tinyurl.com/7ka5c)
Spraying Misery (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9468.shtml)
Spraying Hemp Ditchweed Devastate Midwest Game Birds (http://tinyurl.com/5mykx)
99.28% ditchweed (http://tinyurl.com/464ll)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)*
Chemical Manipulation of Human Consciousness (http://www.trufax.org)
Montanto Sucks (http://www.monsantosucks.com)
Monsantos (http://www.monsantos.com)
Monsanto and the drug war (http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/monsanto.html)
Colombian Death-Spray (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11071.shtml)
Hasn't America seen enough of the exclusionary, prejudicial, vote-suppressing,
racial profiling, inner city-ignoring, confederate flag-waving,
Bob Jones University-loving attitudes of the radical right?* *
Patrick Kennedy
Corpwatch CORPORATE-FREE UN (http://www.corpwatch.org)
Nike: Global Compact Violator (http://www.corpwatch.org/un/updates/2001/nike.html)
SWEATSHOP WATCH (http://www.sweatshopwatch.org)
"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me
to be a logical entity to do it."
- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.
http://www.hr95.org/pix/shat.cover.jpg (http://www.hr95.org/Shattered.htm)
How Marijuana Unavailability Leads to Use of Harder Drugs (1969)
The following study shows how the interception of marijuana shipments into NYC in 1969, led thousands of people to use harder drugs.
OPERATION INTERCEPT CHAPTER 2
The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy By Lawrence A. Gooberman
The Multiple Consequences of Operation Intercept
The findings given in this chapter have been consolidated from the responses to each of the major areas of inquiry as set forth in the interview guide. Excerpts from taped interviews with drug users and drug sellers, as well as drug abuse rehabilitation workers and journalists who closely observed the events of the summer of 1969 in the New York City area, will be presented. The findings are divided into three sections. The first section will focus on the availability of marihuana during the Operation Intercept era. The second section will be concerned with the range of behavioral reactions to the marihuana shortage. The third section will explore attitudinal reactions to the situation and to the underlying public policy.
continued... http://www.hippy.com/php/article-188.html
Police officials lied to toughen laws... (http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3888)
Medical Establishment Cares More About Profits Than People
by yves engler
Last Tuesday's Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran front page articles about accussations against Medco, a subsidiary of Merck & Co. over false statements and claims to the government. This is in addition to investigations of Medco over violations of “anti-trust, consumer-protection and pharmacy-licensing laws” by at least 25 state attorney generals. Chief federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, Patrick Meehan said: “these allegations suggest that, somewhere along the line, the focus became the profit instead of the patient.” (FT, June 24, 2003)
“Somewhere along the line” a capitalist corporation chose “profit” over “the patient.” Stop the presses. This is scandalous. A for-profit corporation, Medco, is accused of throwing ethics out the window to focus on increasing its return on investment.
continued... http://www.hippy.com/php/article-249.html
Against The Drug War By A.G. Gancarsk
August 15, 2005 at 22:35:02 PT
Source: Washington Times*
Washington, D.C. -- There has always been a certain resistance on the right to the war on drugs. One of the most persuasive texts on that front came in 1972, when the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse put forth a report entitled "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding."
This document recommended decriminalization on the grounds that marijuana and its users did not sufficiently endanger the public safety to warrant criminal penalties.
President Nixon had no apparent use for the findings of his own commission's study as he ran for re-election. But the report was not without its executive influence. President Carter, early in his term, referred to it when he argued that "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to the individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use."
Continued/thread21038.shtml (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21038.shtml)
CannabisNews Justice Archives (http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/justice.shtml)
"After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster.
It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement."
- Judge Whitman Knapp, NY Times 1993
Marc Emery: My message to you (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4482.html) 17 Aug, 2005
Marc writes about the extradition case, and reflects on his activist career.
Cannabis Culture (http://www.cannabisculture.com)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/images/uploads/4516-FreeVan3small.gif
Have you seen the little piggies
Crawling in the dirt
And for all the little piggies
Life is getting worse
Always having dirt to play around in.
Have you seen the bigger piggies
In their starched white shirts
You will find the bigger piggies
Stirring up the dirt
Always have clean shirts to play around in.
In their styes with all their backing
They don't care what goes on around
In their eyes there's something lacking
What they need's a damn good whacking.
Everywhere there's lots of piggies
Living piggy lives
You can see them out for dinner
With their piggy wives
Clutching forks and knives to eat their bacon.
Beatles - Piggies Lyrics (http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Beatles/Piggies.html)
http://www.cannabinoid.com/boards/politics/media/36/36079.gif (http://makeashorterlink.com/?O29C52395)
Cop Gets 30-days for Brutal Beating (http://tinyurl.com/baw7q)
A two-year legal battle has ended with a Toronto police officer sentenced to 30 days in prison for not only beating a Somalian refugee, but trying to cover it up. Convicted last July, Const. Roy Preston was sentenced Friday, for the beating of Said Jama Jama in a northwest Toronto parking lot back in 2003.
Congress Considers Dangerous Mandatory Minimum Sentences For Marijuana (http://capwiz.com/norml2/issues/alert/?alertid=7419321)
Ask Your Member of Congress To Oppose H.R.1528!
Read about this bill
Please take action against a dangerous bill that is currently making its way through Congress. H.R. 1528, "The Safe Access to Drug Treatment & Child Protection Act of 2005" would dramatically increase mandatory minimum sentences for certain drug offenses. Under the proposed legislation, sponsored by House Judiciary Chair James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), any person age 21 or over who attempts or conspires to offer marijuana to someone younger than 18 years old shall face a mandatory sentence of 10 years in prison. The mandatory penalty for a subsequent violation of the statute is life in prison.
Defendants found to have distributed marijuana near a drug treatment facility, or who have offered cannabis to someone who is currently or has been previously enrolled in drug treatment program, would receive a mandatory prison sentence of five years to life under the proposal. This effectively means that anyone caught passing a joint near a treatment facility, or to anyone who has even been in drug treatment, will face a mandatory five years in prison.
Please take two minutes to write your member of Congress today and urge him or her to oppose H.R. 1528, an outrageous and expensive addition to an already failed public policy.
Cops Confiscation Maliciously Punishes (http://tinyurl.com/bmzfk)
Thread of many links of persecution...
Portland, Ore. -- Vicki Marie Tyler, a diabetic amputee with a medical marijuana card, says she was asleep on her couch when 13 police officers raided her North Portland home looking for drugs. Though officers found less than an ounce of marijuana during the 2003 raid, they seized her electric scooter on the grounds in was bought with drug money. A jury last year acquitted Tyler of drug-dealing charges.
The Kubby Family (http://www.kubby.org) by Pete Brady (04 Sept, 2000)
(Excerpts) Steve Kubby, a cancer survivor and author of an award-winning book called "The Politics of Consciousness," had just finished a 1998 campaign for governor when 21 police officers burst into his California mountain home in January, 1999. After being mistreated in jail, Kubby and his wife found their home ransacked, their reputation trashed, their money and magazine business ruined by police.
At Kubby's urging, a Sacramento newspaper did a six month investigation of Placer County's anti-pot police unit, and found that officers conducted illegal searches in a number of cases, some of which were later thrown out due to police misconduct.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/cgi/article.cgi?num=1682
Bushit Rumcheney Cocktail:Fascist Nationalism and MKULTRA (http://tinyurl.com/comwc)
THE DEMONIZATION OF GANJA (http://tinyurl.com/9yuug)
Judge and Executioner
Jonathan Magbie, a quadriplegic Washington, DC man, died in jail. Though he was found guilty of possessing a single joint, his real crimes - in the judge's eyes - were in saying that marijuana made him feel better and that he would continue to smoke it for that very reason. Read more at The D'Alliance, our blog, here...
http://actioncenter.drugpolicy.org/ctt.asp?u=184&l=61979
Think of the message being sent to the kids? (http://tinyurl.com/cvcs3)
DEAth Lies & LAPDog Perversions (http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4069)...
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/culture/media/4/4258.gif
Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution (http://www.commondreams.org/headlines02/0101-02.htm) (Now hidden under the UpJohn Pharmaceutical Umbrella)
THE TOXIC ALTERNATIVE TO NATURAL FIBERS (http://fornits.com/curiosity/hemp/fibre.htm).
Fear in the Fields (http://www.seattletimes.com/todaysnews/browse/html97/fert_070397.html)
Genetic fungus (http://tinyurl.com/7ka5c)
Spraying Misery (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread9468.shtml)
Spraying Hemp Ditchweed Devastate Midwest Game Birds (http://tinyurl.com/5mykx)
99.28% ditchweed (http://tinyurl.com/464ll)
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)*
Chemical Manipulation of Human Consciousness (http://www.trufax.org)
Montanto Sucks (http://www.monsantosucks.com)
Monsantos (http://www.monsantos.com)
Monsanto and the drug war (http://www.corpwatch.org/issues/military/featured/2001/monsanto.html)
Colombian Death-Spray (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread11071.shtml)
Hasn't America seen enough of the exclusionary, prejudicial, vote-suppressing,
racial profiling, inner city-ignoring, confederate flag-waving,
Bob Jones University-loving attitudes of the radical right?* *
Patrick Kennedy
Corpwatch CORPORATE-FREE UN (http://www.corpwatch.org)
Nike: Global Compact Violator (http://www.corpwatch.org/un/updates/2001/nike.html)
SWEATSHOP WATCH (http://www.sweatshopwatch.org)
"...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me
to be a logical entity to do it."
- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999.
http://www.hr95.org/pix/shat.cover.jpg (http://www.hr95.org/Shattered.htm)
How Marijuana Unavailability Leads to Use of Harder Drugs (1969)
The following study shows how the interception of marijuana shipments into NYC in 1969, led thousands of people to use harder drugs.
OPERATION INTERCEPT CHAPTER 2
The Multiple Consequences of Public Policy By Lawrence A. Gooberman
The Multiple Consequences of Operation Intercept
The findings given in this chapter have been consolidated from the responses to each of the major areas of inquiry as set forth in the interview guide. Excerpts from taped interviews with drug users and drug sellers, as well as drug abuse rehabilitation workers and journalists who closely observed the events of the summer of 1969 in the New York City area, will be presented. The findings are divided into three sections. The first section will focus on the availability of marihuana during the Operation Intercept era. The second section will be concerned with the range of behavioral reactions to the marihuana shortage. The third section will explore attitudinal reactions to the situation and to the underlying public policy.
continued... http://www.hippy.com/php/article-188.html
Police officials lied to toughen laws... (http://www.thc-ministry.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3888)
Medical Establishment Cares More About Profits Than People
by yves engler
Last Tuesday's Wall Street Journal and Financial Times ran front page articles about accussations against Medco, a subsidiary of Merck & Co. over false statements and claims to the government. This is in addition to investigations of Medco over violations of “anti-trust, consumer-protection and pharmacy-licensing laws” by at least 25 state attorney generals. Chief federal prosecutor in Philadelphia, Patrick Meehan said: “these allegations suggest that, somewhere along the line, the focus became the profit instead of the patient.” (FT, June 24, 2003)
“Somewhere along the line” a capitalist corporation chose “profit” over “the patient.” Stop the presses. This is scandalous. A for-profit corporation, Medco, is accused of throwing ethics out the window to focus on increasing its return on investment.
continued... http://www.hippy.com/php/article-249.html
Against The Drug War By A.G. Gancarsk
August 15, 2005 at 22:35:02 PT
Source: Washington Times*
Washington, D.C. -- There has always been a certain resistance on the right to the war on drugs. One of the most persuasive texts on that front came in 1972, when the National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse put forth a report entitled "Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding."
This document recommended decriminalization on the grounds that marijuana and its users did not sufficiently endanger the public safety to warrant criminal penalties.
President Nixon had no apparent use for the findings of his own commission's study as he ran for re-election. But the report was not without its executive influence. President Carter, early in his term, referred to it when he argued that "penalties against drug use should not be more damaging to the individual than the use of the drug itself. Nowhere is this more clear than in the laws against possession of marijuana in private for personal use."
Continued/thread21038.shtml (http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread21038.shtml)
CannabisNews Justice Archives (http://cannabisnews.com/news/list/justice.shtml)
"After 20 years on the bench I have concluded that federal drug laws are a disaster.
It is time to get the government out of drug enforcement."
- Judge Whitman Knapp, NY Times 1993
Marc Emery: My message to you (http://www.cannabisculture.com/articles/4482.html) 17 Aug, 2005
Marc writes about the extradition case, and reflects on his activist career.
Cannabis Culture (http://www.cannabisculture.com)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/library/images/uploads/4516-FreeVan3small.gif