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?
Ruh roh, you have committed a major faux pas amongst your "Libertarian" brethren in that you have admitted that you are a Libertine.
Oh well, I knew that the truth would finally come out.
I have seen post after post with "(L)libertarians" on FR saying they were not "Libertine"(anarchists).
Well at least you were honest.
We're not interested in it. It makes us sick. But just because we happen to agree with your favorite socialists that the War on Drugs is insane doesn't mean we're "jumping into bed with them" on some quixotic quest to validate drugs, whatever you mean by that. Put it this way---do you support personal gun ownership, that other iron-clad bastion of conservatism? So do mafia hit men. It makes their job much easier. Do you believe this means Second Amendment advocates forged a deliberate, long-term alliance with mafia hit men? Are Second Amendment advocates now part-and-parcel of the mafia hit man union?Why should conservatives interested in shrinking the size and influence of the federal government support the War on Drugs? Why should conservatives interested in returning this nation to a constitutional republic support the War on Drugs?Of course not. The notion is ridiculous. And for the last time, so is your laughable Soros For It = I'm Against It brand of conservatism.
I've answered yours, now you answer mine. Without asking me another question. If the answer's so obvious, pill it. Either you're right or all of us are. Convince us that as conservatives, we should see things your way.
I don't think you'll get an answer, because the question won't register coherently. Near as I can tell, we're dealing with a politically liberal social conservative. I don't think Dane wants a conservative government, but a conservative society. To the end, (s)he wants a government with enought authority and power, and leaders with the inclination to produce it, at gunpoint if necessary. Wheather or not it's "constitutional" is irrelevant, and any talk of limiting the federal government's power is out of the question until we have it.
And I appreciate you all also. Everyday you show the lurkers that you are in political bed with socialists such as George Soros and don't have the terminity to admit it and give piddly little excuses, such as "it doesn't matter", when the fact is that the pro-drug side is being fueled by leftists.
And again, why should conservatives be interested in jumping in the political bed with socialists such as George Soros and such marxist communes such as Santa Cruz, CA, where pot and other drugs are glorified.
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