Posted on 09/16/2002 10:52:55 AM PDT by JediGirl
With the anniversary for 9/11 came the opening of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's "Target America" touring propaganda exhibit.
The taxpayer-funded museum mockery implements the same simplistic logic the DEA loves about drugs and the connection between narcotic trafficking and terrorism, while omitting the real story about the failed U.S. "War on Drugs."
What? Did some Americans say that they would like to see an exhibit that tells the story about that failed war, the abuse of billions of taxpayer dollars to interfere with other nations' governments and to harass and imprison thousands of our citizens? Well, though it isn't funded by millions of taxpayer dollars, the D.C.-based Marijuana Policy Project has responded to the targeting of America - and Americans - with its own exhibit that tells a different story of terrorism and the war on drugs.
The exhibit ( at www.mpp.org/TargetAmerica ) is called "Target America: The DEA and You," and deals with acts committed by government agencies that may have the look and feel of terrorism to their American victims.
Subject matter for the MPP exhibit includes the story of raiding legal medical cannabis dispensaries and taking the medicine from the sick and dying, to killing innocent people such as missionaries Roni and her one-year-old daughter Charity Bowers, killed by a drug interdiction flight and 20-year-old Jose Colon who was visiting a friend at a home where police later found eight ounces of marijuana.
The MPP site is dedicated to 18-year-old Esequiel Hernandez, shot ( in the back ) and killed by U.S. Marines ( The Marines were operating illegally according to U.S. law that does not allow - yet - for our armed forces to patrol in this manner inside our borders, though the Desert Post WEEKLY has received accounts of at least one other recent USMC internal policing operation in California, unverified by authorities ) while tending goats outside his Texas home. Documentation of the coldly cruel harm done to AIDS and cancer patients by the DEA's raids in this state ( leading to the largest number of American citizens seeking political asylum in Canada since Vietnam ), as well as an analysis of the real links between the drug war and terrorism.
This is the brain of drug czar John Walters. Crack. This is John Walters' brain gone mad on taxpayer money, power and greed.
Not pretty is it?
I don't know. If I take the bet, who's going to go look in all the dorm rooms? Who's picture is more likely to be displayed in the career bureaucrat's cubicles inside the beltway - FDR, or Ronald Reagan?
You see the drug war simply as a way to attack people you don't like. That you perceive them as liberals makes you feel justified in declaring it a conservative endeavor, period. The only pertinent issue is the end - means are irrelevant, and anyone who dares question the means is the enemy.
IOW, neckbone has his hands on his ears screaming "lalalalalalalala", I don't hear you and I don't want to hear about my beloved ABC being trashed with facts.
I've asked those questions to pro-Wodders here for months now. Roscoe, Willie Green, Destructor, VA Avogadro (now banned), Dane, Kevin Curry, et al-----none have ever responded to them. None. Those questions are kryptonite to them.
Why should conservatives be interested in jumping in bed with socialist and Hillary friend George Soros in the quest to validate drugs?
Whew, that is a George Soros/Hillary talking point fax. Oh well you are the one who decided to jump in the political bed with George Soros.
You have your own conscience to deal with.
Uh you answer mine, capiche?
Why should conservatives be interested in jumping in bed with socialist and Hillary friend George Soros in the quest to validate drugs?
Oh BTW, notice that I didn't use all caps in my response. Someone is getting all hot and bothered and it is not me.
I didn't throw in FDR you did.
Anyway the person who has done of lot of damage and is the poster child for the pro-drug crowd, Jane Fonda.
And don't deny she didn't do any damage, she did. Especially her dope loving minions, Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden, the SDS, the weather underground, etc. etc.
You really shouldn't ramble when looking at yourself in the mirror.
Really, even with a hand picked audience(that you basically admit) that is inclined to hate him no matter what.
Wheew, you live in lala land.
You say that you work at an ABC affiliate, how come you are on FR it seems 24 hours a day. Has ABC decided to do some monitoring to bring dissension within the hated conservative(ABC's point of view) ranks?
Uh the sixties are not over, just look at the Libertarians and Clintons.
It seems they want to propagate the 60's until their dying breaths.
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