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?
Whew, you are out of it aren't you. Posting an article by the Washington Post.
Sheesh, they are and have always been "conservative"(/sarcasm).
I am going to ping the admin. moderator for you breaking the rules of the settlement, although I wish your post #221 could stay up, for it shows your cognitive dissonance on conservative and liberal issues.
LOL! Using the Washington Post to say that drug validation is not a leftist issue.
LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL! LOL!!!!!!!!!
If you noticed, it was a 5-year-old reprint of a Soros "letter to the editor" or "guest editorial" that ran in the Washington Post. And it was sourced and linked to Soros' own Web site, not the Washington Post.
although I wish your post #221 could stay up, for it shows your cognitive dissonance on conservative and liberal issues.
LOL! Using the Washington Post to say that drug validation is not a leftist issue.
I wish it could stay up, too, if only to prove conclusively that you have rocks in your head. I wasn't using the Washington Post to say that drug validation isn't a leftist issue. It's not an issue owned by anyone, and right there you've gone and given away the paltry calculus you apply when you play politics. Stances on issues stem from ideology, not the other way around. And since you're so fond of using Soros' stance on the Drug War to form your own, I posted it, using Soros' own words, so other Freepers could see exactly what you were talking about.Opposition to the Drug War comes from the left and the right, but mostly from the right. This has been pointed out to you time and time again to the point where most anti-Wodders don't even bother arguing the point with you any more.
Fifty posts to this thread and you still can't make a conservative argument for supporting the War on Drugs.
"Because Soros is for it" is not a legitimate argument unless your entire political ideology is anti-Sorosism. Sorry.
If it was printed in the Washington Post, we are bound by our court agreement to only allow excerpts. Thanks, AM
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