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?
Know the difference between the donations Soros and those who supported campaigns to reform the drug laws made , and the contributions to the campaign to maintain the status quo? The donations to the reform campaigns were voluntary.
Condolences. Probably a result of all those drugs you do.
You druggies are so transparent, but...
"When you're on pot, you aren't really brilliant. You just THINK you're brilliant."
P.S. Your family is scheduled to do an "intervention" with you this week.
I didn't say that nor did I mean it. I simply asked for corroboration that the kids were "hand picked" for this focus group. There's a big gap between having a liberal bias and handpicking a group of respondants to skew numbers in the desired direction.
Uh the producers of the segment who picked the focus group work for ABC and ABC in my and many others opinion is a biased news source who will shill for the left. Are you still trying to tell me that ABC is not biased?
And I thought this thread was about breasts.....
"When you're on pot, you aren't really brilliant. You just THINK you're brilliant."
P.S. Your family is scheduled to do an "intervention" with you this week.
Brilliant! If you can't refute an argument based on facts simply attack the messenger. It confuses the argument and makes it seem like you actually have something worthwhile to say even if you don't. I think I'll give it a try.
So what flavor Kool-aid are you drinking today?
Are you drunk yet?
And a big chunk of those contributions come from socialist and Hillary friend George Soros.
Yes the donations are voluntary, but that still doesn't negate the facts that socialist Soros is a big donor(probably the biggest) to the pro-drug side.
I already answered your question. I asked for proof of your assertion. You answered my question when you said it was your opinion. That implies that you have no proof and you simply offered an opinion. That such an opinion is inflammatory and skewed to promote your point of view leads me to believe that you have much in common with ABC News.
That’s not exactly how I remember it. I recall that Hernandez was first observed on the Mexico side moving toward Texas and was seen to be armed at that time. I remember that the Marines were specifically looking for (possibly) armed people scouting that area for Border Patrol officers so the smugglers wouldn't get caught.
I seem to remember that Hernandez was reported to have fired at least one round at them and the Marine returned fire. I remember that the Presidio County grand jury declined to indict anyone after the facts were presented to them.
I also seem to remember that JTF-6 could, in fact, run interdiction operations on the border. At least as of ’92-ish or so… so they were not “operating illegally” despite claims made to the contrary.
Hopefully the rest of the article is more accurate than their accounting of this incident.
Stick around. It might be before it's over. I thing there was one yesterday that turned into a thigh tread for awhile.
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