Gen. Norma Prizzi
August 23rd 07, 05:09 AM
manipulation of the statistics: unlike previous years,
* the State Department suddenly stopped figuring in the 55,715 acres that
* the Columbian police fumigated with herbicide.
*
* The number had actually gone down, but President Clinton cited the upswing
* to support his Feb. 28 decision to decertify Columbia as helping in the
* War on Drugs. Mexico was certified.
A majority of citizens in several states have
now told the government they are full of hooey.
The Drug War is primarily about governmental politics and governmental power.
Not about drugs.
Can't afford to look soft on crime, or your opposition will stomp you.
The government uses these "wars" to claim ever greater power over us.
To justify violent no-knock searches by agents not even carrying warrants.
To justify killing the 'exclusion rule' to protect police not citizens.
To justify draconian asset forfeiture laws.
To justify using deadly force.
It's no longer the 1920s, but our government still has reefer madness.
In another astonishing case of corruption due to Congressional asset
forfeiture laws, and yet another violent result of marijuana's Schedule
I Substances classification:
ABC news: the Parks Department wanted a prime piece of land called
"Trail's End". It was owned by a private family. They refused to sell.
The reporter is in the helicopter with the agent who identified marijuana
growing on the property from an identical helicopter fly-over.
The agent said he specializes in that sort of thing, and he was flown
over the property for an evaluation.
He told the other federal agents that he could not determine that there
was any.
The G-MEN flew him over again: "they pressured me to change my evaluation,
and I did, even though I couldn't detect any marijuana. They got me to
say 'maybe I see some for sure'."
A large multi-departmental group o
* the State Department suddenly stopped figuring in the 55,715 acres that
* the Columbian police fumigated with herbicide.
*
* The number had actually gone down, but President Clinton cited the upswing
* to support his Feb. 28 decision to decertify Columbia as helping in the
* War on Drugs. Mexico was certified.
A majority of citizens in several states have
now told the government they are full of hooey.
The Drug War is primarily about governmental politics and governmental power.
Not about drugs.
Can't afford to look soft on crime, or your opposition will stomp you.
The government uses these "wars" to claim ever greater power over us.
To justify violent no-knock searches by agents not even carrying warrants.
To justify killing the 'exclusion rule' to protect police not citizens.
To justify draconian asset forfeiture laws.
To justify using deadly force.
It's no longer the 1920s, but our government still has reefer madness.
In another astonishing case of corruption due to Congressional asset
forfeiture laws, and yet another violent result of marijuana's Schedule
I Substances classification:
ABC news: the Parks Department wanted a prime piece of land called
"Trail's End". It was owned by a private family. They refused to sell.
The reporter is in the helicopter with the agent who identified marijuana
growing on the property from an identical helicopter fly-over.
The agent said he specializes in that sort of thing, and he was flown
over the property for an evaluation.
He told the other federal agents that he could not determine that there
was any.
The G-MEN flew him over again: "they pressured me to change my evaluation,
and I did, even though I couldn't detect any marijuana. They got me to
say 'maybe I see some for sure'."
A large multi-departmental group o