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?
A Conservative society will produce a Conservative government.
A Libertine/Libertarian society produces anarchy.
And so is your laughable tactic of "do not mind the person behind the curtain"(Soros).
The main thrust for drug validation is coming from the left(Soros) and being played out with relish in such leftist bastions such as Santa Cruz, California.
Deal with it.
Wow what an intelligent response. Oh well when the ad hominems come out, I know that I have hit a nerve.
I answered your question. Soros plays a tiny part in all of this, and none of us here on FR share his political beliefs or desires. We have common cause with him on this one issue only.Why do you keep this crap up? You know you're being disingenuous. I know you're not that stupid, or have I been giving you too much credit? Stalin had the same approach to drugs that you do, yet I don't think you're in league with Stalin.
You're sticking to this nonsense because you don't have the stones to answer my simple questions: "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?"
You won't answer because you know what the answer is, and it's not the one you want it to be. You're an ersatz issue-only conservative. You've been out-conservatived by a bunch of Soros-loving, Che postered, Cheech and Chong dopers and it's killing you.
Maybe. But a liberal government will not produce a conservative society.
You never did answer why you want state intervention on this issue.
Well put.
Actually your text book showing of denial is giving me a chuckle.
And neither will a Libertine/Libertarian system.
Huh, there are sure a lot of threads and posts that quote Soros pro-drug front organizations such as the Lindesmith center.
You doth protest too much.
It may not produce a conservative society, but does advance the idea of a conservative government. What is your agenda?
Uh Libertarian government does not advance a conservative government, it is basically anarchy and anarchy is an anathema to conservatism.
Libertarinism places the primary consideration on the rights of the individual, and the primary responsibility of the government on protecting those rights. In terms of mainting a social order, it is closer to anarchy than an authoritarian socialist system. In terms of defining the proper role of government with regards to sociey, it is closer to conservativism than liberalism, which sees the government as a mechanism for societal engineering. Which do you want more - a conservative society, or a conservative government?
What denial is that? I've answered your questions. Now what about mine: "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?"
Great. Wonderful.Now are you going to answer my questions or what? If it is so obvious to you, and if it should be so obvious to other conservatives that the Drug War deserves conservative support, answering the questions I've asked you should take you all of about 15 seconds.
You've been given almost a dozen chances to answer them on this thread alone. Why have you dodged them each and every time?
A conservative society which will bring a conservative government.
And I have answered them, you just don't like the answer and the facts that the main thrust and funding for drug validation is coming from the left.
Then you should work on changing society, and not be trying to use the government to do it for you. Social engineering as a function of government is a liberal idea, and requires a liberal government to make it work. A liberal government, even under the control of social conservatives will not produce a conservative society.
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