Fried Eggs

Desert Post Weekly ^ | 12 September 2002

[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?

[WindMinstrel]

Uh like it or not Soros is a part of the drug debate

So quit squirming and admit that FDR's new deal is as much a part of the drug debate.

[Neckbone]

Yep, ABC and the rest of the Liberal media have been known to skew stories in the past, why should I beleive them now.

Okay, so you admit that you are unable to consider the source of information, weigh it objectively, and reach a well-reasoned conclusion.

[Dane]

To you maybe. But your implications that it is some kind of socialist agenda won't pass even the most basic consistency check.

Let me ask you this question. In college dorm rooms where bong sessions are happening, whose picture is on the wall Che Guevera or George W. Bush? I bet you it is a pyschedelic poster of Che Guevera, hero to all burgeoning leftist enviro whacko pot heads.

[Dane]

Okay, so you admit that you are unable to consider the source of information, weigh it objectively, and reach a well-reasoned conclusion.

Uh the source is ABC News, what more has to be said?

[Dane]

an emotional knee-jerk lackey who only spews the status quo without thinking for himself.

Huh, at least I don't let ABC News do the thinking for me, as you do.

[Dane]

Dane is too insecure to start thinking for himself

And I should emulate you and let ABC do the thinking for me?

No thanks.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Let me ask you this question. In college dorm rooms where bong sessions are happening, whose picture is on the wall Che Guevera or George W. Bush? I bet you it is a pyschedelic poster of Che Guevera, hero to all burgeoning leftist enviro whacko pot heads.

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've given enough of your Soros Soundbites to sink an ocean going tanker several times over. Why not answer those two questions so we can have a rational debate?

[Neckbone]

Uh the source is ABC News, what more has to be said?

Quite a lot, actually. See, the way grown-ups think is that we hear something, and then we consider the source. We don't discount all the information out-of-hand, we just weigh it and reach our own conclusions based on....

Ah, screw it- what's the point. Dane, turn off the computer and go do your chores- leave the thinking for the adults, okay?

Thanks, bye-bye now.

[Dane]

You are so still stuck in the sixties, man....it's Bob Marley posters now.

Oh well a dead pot head has replaced a dead communist as the choice poster.

I guess that is called progression in college pot culture.

[Dane]

You've given enough of your Soros Soundbites to sink an ocean going tanker several times over. Why not answer those two questions so we can have a rational debate?

Sheesh you sure get mad about the "Soros" soundbites, but you don't seem to get mad at the Soros money funding your pet cause.

[Neckbone]

I guess that is called progression in college pot culture.

Dane, what you know about college you got by watching Animal House. Now I told you to go do your chores.

Scat!

[Dane]

Quite a lot, actually. See, the way grown-ups think is that we hear something, and then we consider the source. We don't discount all the information out-of-hand, we just weigh it and reach our own conclusions based on..

And you damn me for doing the same thing. Can anybody say hypocrisy?

Sheesh at least I have some evidence to back me up. The fraud ABC committed against Food Lion, but you go ahead and beleive anything that comes out of Diane Sawyer's mouth.

[headsonpikes]

"Scat!"

Shoo! Out of here! Raus mit! Goodbye.

Adios. Fare well. So long.

Scram.

(Frankly, I think he ignores contrary posts)

[Neckbone]

Sheesh at least I have some evidence to back me up.

You admitted yourself a few posts ago that your special brand of "logic" is immune to evidence. Moreover, you have no evidence of anything unless you're referring to your ABC rant, which brings us to our next point

The fraud ABC committed against Food Lion

Shut up about Food Lion, you frigging nitwit. Nobody is talking about the Food Lion, ABC, Diane Sawyer, or whatever else is swirling around in the miasma of randomly-firing synapses that serves as your primitive mind. What we are talking about is the utter failure of one of the grossest misallocations of tax dollars in the history of civilization- The War on Drugs.

Now, do try and keep up if you are going to sit at the adult table.

[Hemingway's Ghost]

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?