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The DEA is cracking down on hempseed oil in tortilla chips
Post-Gazette ^ | December 09, 2001 | Ann McFeatters

Posted on 12/14/2001 10:39:32 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:34:32 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

WASHINGTON - And now, for something completely different, to borrow a phrase from Monty Python.

The three earnest young men burdened with plastic bags came to the office bearing food. Pretzels with seeds. A snack bar. An energy bar. Tortilla chips.


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To: xm177e2
We should end the war on drugs, and use the profits (from taxing the heck out of legal drugs) to fund the war on terror (I don't want to pay for it! Let the potheads!)</font color>. We really can't keep two of these wars going at once... (plus the WoD just plain sucks)
81 posted on 12/21/2001 12:52:35 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton
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To: xm177e2
You don't want to pay for it. Yet you advocate a war on terror. Some might construe that statement as being a little bit parasitic, wouldn't you say? If we all favor a war on terror, shouldn't we all pay for it? And since you favor increasing tax revenues to pay for it why stop with taxing potheads? Let's tax everything that moves!
82 posted on 12/21/2001 12:56:58 AM PST by Pay now bill Clinton
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To: Pay now bill Clinton
While the DEA is chasing hemp, the coke is flowing, but that is probably what they use..
84 posted on 12/21/2001 1:21:19 AM PST by mbb bill
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To: Zon
Fear And Loathing In Cannabis Country

"The Revolution You Can Wear"

In 1993, American academic and cultural critic, Brian Massumi edited a collection of essays entitled The Politics Of Everyday Fear. The purpose of this collection was to draw attention to the role played by fear under modern capitalism especially in America. Fear of the indiscriminate murder, fear of car crash, fear of failure, fear of fat, fear of uncleanliness, fear of ecological disaster. Whilst Massumi and others focussed particularly on what they term, ambient fear, the fear that lurks just out of sight and at the back of the mind, the following is a tale of latent fear - a fear that drove a plant to the status of public enemy number one, and a small select group of White, American males to fame and fortune. It is a story that shows just how important fear is to profit margins, and asks, have we matured, as a species, enough, to conquer this fear?

Is it too good to be true? A Revolution you can wear? An ecological saviour that does not require the sacrifice of our Western hedonism and consumer addiction?

Since the beginning of this century cannabis has been smoked by disenfranchised youth as a symbol of rebelliousness, funding a multimillion dollar illegal trade, but now we are beginning to discover the truth about cannabis, its history and its potential to "lead the charge out of the petrochemical age".

Cannabis is more commonly known to us as "marijuana", a term that is, in fact a Mexican slang term popularised by 1930s American newspaper magnate and wood pulp stakeholder, Randolph Hearst, as part of an elaborate scheme to separate the smoking of cannabis from the industry of producing fibre from the cannabis plant, better known as hemp fibre. Evidence suggests that Hearst played an integral part in a conspiracy to rid the world of its most popular and most versatile natural fibre.

Hearst had an ally and friend in Harry Anslinger, director of the Federal Bureau Of Narcotics 1930 to 1962, one of the original Untouchables, who, finding himself and others facing the possibility of unemployment at the end of alcohol Prohibition turned his, puritanical attention to another drug, in this case, the smoking of cannabis. Harry Anslinger may have had other reasons too. Towards the end of the 1930s the multinational pharmaceutical and petrochemical giant, DuPont was gearing up to release on an unsuspecting world its new wonder fibre - the synthetic, Nylon which was patented in 1935. DuPont had invested many millions of dollars into the research and development of Nylon and it was widely known that hemp fibre, from the cannabis plant, would be its main, natural, rival. Hemp production was declining, though, until in 1921, Scientific American announced the invention of a new harvesting machine, and in the late 30s, Popular Mechanics announced hemp now had the potential to be a "billion dollar crop" with the invention of a hemp "decorticator". Less than coincidentally, DuPont's banker, head of the Mellon Bank and the US Treasury, Andrew Mellon, had close family ties with Harry Anslinger who had married his niece, and with hemp poised to make a comeback it is almost certain that Mellon, Anslinger and Hearst conspired to crush the resurgence of this "billion dollar crop", Nylon's main rival. Utilising racism and xenophobia prevalent in American society, Hearst and Anslinger protected Mellon and DuPont's interests, spreading fear and lies revolving around the smoking of cannabis by "negroes, Mexicans and entertainers" through Hearst's vast newpaper network. It was only a matter of time until other newspaper chains and the media as a whole jumped on the bandwagon. Overnight the "billion dollar crop" became the "assassin of youth", a "demon drug" capable of inducing in the most passive, middle class White youth, deadly "reefer madness". In 1937 Anslinger persuaded the US Congress, so-called protector of liberty, to outlaw marijuana virtually destroying the hemp industry. Too much money was at stake for notions of truth or ethics - this was free market capitalism at its best, using racism as a successful marketing strategy. First was America, next was the world - global expansion, the key for any big business.

Propelled by a wave of hysteria begun for dubious reasons in the 1930s the United States has been waging a world war against hemp. Leading the charge was, not surprisingly, Harry Anslinger who reappears in our story this time as US representative on the UN Drug Committee. Anslinger attempted to initiate a series of UN Conventions to prohibit the growing of hemp worldwide. Fortunately these faced strong resistance from the hemp growing nations and were not passed, however US foreign aid has frequently been withheld from hemp growing nations on the grounds of hemp production. As drug war researcher, Paul Brancato says "historically drug wars have been used by imperial powers as smokescreens for foreign intervention. For the US this has taken the form of sending military aid to corrupt allies who use the weapons not against drug traffickers, with whom they are often in league, but to crush their internal political enemies". Ever since the ëre-naming' of hemp and cannabis as marijuana, an attack on marijuana has effectively meant a war on the Blacks, the Hispanics, the underclasses, within the United States, and a war on non-allied, read non-US dependent, developing world countries such as Bangladesh whose very name refers to the growing of hemp. Interestingly, in 1942, faced with a fibre shortage for the war effort, the US Government produced a short film called "Hemp For Victory", whose existence they strongly denied until taken to court in the 1980s. This film legitimised and encouraged the growing of hemp for a short period of time before, once again, hemp was condemned to the status of "demon weed" at the end of the war.

But the question remains, why was hemp so feared by Mellon, Anslinger and Hearst?

For thousands of years the cannabis sativa, cannabis indica and other strains of cannabis, provided people with a source of food, medicine, oil, and hemp fibre for textiles and paper making. Up until the 19th century the vast majority of the world's paper was produced from hemp, most famously the American Constitution was written on hemp-based paper, sails and rigging were made from hemp cloth without which Western colonialism would never have set sail. As a food and oil, the hemp seed was a major source of protein and of essential fatty acids. Cannabis extracts were used in medicine to treat menstrual cramps, epilepsy, migraine and as an analgesic and anti-spasmodic. Current, albeit limited, medical research suggests that cannabis may indeed be the only known drug that is helpful in slowing the wasting disease associated with HIV/AIDS. Popular Mechanics of 1938 states "Hemp is the standard fibre of the world. It has great tensile strength and durability. It is used to produce more than five thousand textile products, ranging from rope to fine lace, and the woody ëhurds' remaining after the fibre has been removed contain more than 77% cellulose, and can be used to produce more than twenty-five thousand products ranging from dynamite to Cellophane". Indeed the fabric, canvas, has its roots, as the name suggests, in cannabis.

Having been effectively ignored, replaced, and smothered in a blanket of misinformation, Sydney doctor and hemp researcher, Dr Andrew Katalaris, gives an indication of where hemp stands now in 1994; "over five thousand different items have been made from the hemp plant but now we are focussing on maybe a dozen potential uses".

With the fibre yield standing at 30%, up from 15% in the 1940s the fibre extracted from the stem of the hemp plant can be used for fabrics ranging from coarse sail cloth to high quality linen for clothing. The "toe" can be woven into industrial strength fabrics, or combined with the "hurd" to make high quality writing paper. The "hurd", on its own, can be used as a non-allergenic and anti-fungal animal bedding, or be processed into fuel or Cellophane. In France it has been mixed with lime and petrified to make a type of concrete called iso-chanvre, which is as strong as regular concrete but only at a sixth of the weight. In terms of solving the problem of wood pulping for paper, the waste after the fibre is removed, alone, will produce 6-8 tonnes of paper per hectare, as a totally renewable resource. Tasmanians Fritz and Patsy Harmsen have been exploring the potential for hemp as an alternative to wood pulp. Having campaigned against the Wesley Vale Pulp Mill and seen the devastation of widescale indiscriminate logging, not surprisingly denied by the logging industry who run a rhetoric of controlled logging, they have grown trial experimental crops under the close supervision of the Tasmanian government. At this stage they have garnered the support of Australian Newsprint Manufacturers to explore the potential for using hemp fibre as a reinforcer for newsprint and recycled paper, a role currently fulfilled by imported hardwoods. On a farm it would even be possible to power farm machinery upon alcohol fuel derived entirely from the waste of a hemp crop for true self-sufficient farming.

Cannabis is naturally resistant to many plant diseases and is not affected by a wide variety of insects thus reducing the need for herbicides and pesticides; as a source of fibre for paper making it can be grown and harvested in between three and six months compared to thirty or forty years for plantation wood; it produces twice as much yield per hectare than cotton and so halves the amount of water required for growing; and because most of its nitrogen content lies in the unharvested part of the plant, nitrogen remains in the soil if the waste is used as a self-fertiliser. Nitrogen run-off from farm land is the primary cause of algal bloom which is destroying much of Australia's waterways. Hemp, as a source of cellulose, has the potential to reduce the amount of greenhouse gasses in the air around us. Dr Andrew Katalaris estimates that growing 1000-2000 hectares of hemp would reduce the amount of dioxins in the air by a massive 95000 tonnes - more efficient and swifter than any tree planting scheme. Unfortunately, though, most of the items once made from hemp are now made from petrochemicals. Instead of renewable annual fibre crops we have chopped down, logged, wood chipped, and pulped our old growth forests; instead of using hemp as a smother crop we have poisoned our land with all manner of pesticides and herbicides, much to the glee of the chemical companies, for whom land repair means more chemicals and, not coincidentally, more profits.

Currently hemp is legally grown in England, Hungary, Ukraine, Netherlands, and China. China and the Ukraine supply the vast majority of the world market for hemp but cannot keep pace with demand as Western nations begin to come to their senses. England legalised hemp production in 1993, most of Europe throughout the mid 80s, and Canada is on the verge of doing so. Although hemp production is legal in these countries, the most used varieties of the cannabis plant are the so-called low drug cultivars. Again, because of the anti-drug propaganda begun in the 1930s selective breeding has reduced the THC, or active drug, content to below 0.3% THC. However there is some evidence to suggest that the higher THC content strains are in fact more insect repellent. Fortunately, by using selective breeding procedures rather than genetic engineering, and through a degree of moral fortitude, none of the popular low drug cultivars have been patented . . . yet. Dr Katalaris suggests that this is largely due to the distinct lack of US research or US-influenced research in the field, however he fears that to hesitate on the development of a local Australian cultivar, would be to tempt fate. To highlight the strange situation in the US, Dr Katalaris gives the example of synthetic THC, manufactured by the large pharmaceutical companies for medical use, which is approved by the Federal Drug Agency (FDA) whilst hemp is classified as a "dangerous plant with no medical use".

85 posted on 12/21/2001 5:04:52 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: Pay now bill Clinton
I see all the dopehead, liberaltarians are out to bash Bush because they think they are free to eat chips and get high, watch porno, and drive cars into crowds of little children. Probably double dip into the salsa, too in your drug addled state of mind!
87 posted on 12/21/2001 5:22:19 AM PST by Wm Bach
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To: Zon
 
The Timeline of (Hemp) Misinformation
 

1898 Hearst newspapers denounce Spaniards, Mexican-Americans, and Latinos after the seizure of 800,000 acres of Hearst-owned prime Mexican timber land by the 'marijuana smoking army of Pancho Villa.' 

  • Vigorous slander of the Mexican people continues in Hearst and other publications for three decades. Because of Hearst's personal prejudices against African-Americans and Hispanics and Hearst's covert motivations to link them with the proliferation of an 'evil drug', the term 'marijuana' --- a word totally unfamiliar to the average hemp-using American --- is used exclusively to identify hemp throughout this public disinformation campaign.

1910 - 1920 Southern "officials" are alarmed because "pot smoking darkie jazz musicians" are beginning to "think that they are as good as whites."

1910 South Africa begins outlawing marijuana (for the same "Jim Crow" reasons cited by U.S. bigots: to stop the insolence of Blacks) and lobbies the League of Nations to have cannabis outlawed world-wide.

  • Many Southern U.S. states are influenced by South Africa and follow suit with prohibitions. 
  • Black mine workers in South Africa were, however, permitted to continue smoking the herb because it increased their productivity.

1915 As a result of Hearst-incited hysteria over "disrespectful darkies" and "lazy Chicanos", California and Utah pass state laws outlawing the recreational use of marijuana.

1916 - 1935 The Hearst newspapers build and initiate a campaign to outlaw "marijuana." Reporting is slanted to generate reader bias. 

  • Readers were never told that "hemp" and "marijuana" are exactly the same plant.
  • Nor were they told that the active ingredients of the tonic they gave their baby to ease colic came from the marijuana/hemp plant, nor that the smoke they inhaled in their ever popular hashish parlors was a derivative of marijuana.
  • News stories were manipulated to aggrandize and exaggerate the supposed "horrors" of recreational marijuana use. The story of an auto accident where one marijuana cigarette was found would dominate front page headlines for weeks while alcohol related accidents --- which outnumbered marijuana 1000 to 1 --- were briefly mentioned and buried in the back pages.
  • The rape of a white woman by a "Negro," previously attributed by Hearst publications to cocaine use was, by these same publications, suddenly attributed to the use of marijuana.

1930's Mechanical hemp-fiber stripping and pulp conserving machines are invented and developed to state-of-the-art. 

  • Timber-based paper manufacturing industries recognize the combined technological advances of the hemp industry as a potential threat to their prosperity.
  • DuPont patents two new chemically intense processes; one to make plastics from oil and coal and another to make paper from pulp-wood.

1930 U.S. Government sponsors the Siler Commission study on the effects of off-duty smoking of "marijuana" (hemp buds & leaves) by American servicemen in Panama. The report concludes that such recreational smoking is not a problem and recommends that no criminal penalties apply to its use.

1930 Louis Armstrong is arrested and jailed for 10 days for smoking marijuana cigarettes.

1931 Andrew Mellon (of the powerful Mellon Bank of Pittsburgh, financier of many DuPont projects, and long-time supporter of Hearst), serving as President Hoover's Secretary of the Treasury, appoints his future nephew-in-law, Harry J. Anslinger to be head of the newly reorganized Federal Narcotics Bureau. 

  • Anslinger begins to compile a dossier of tabloid articles which sensationalize disinformation about marijuana use and the crimes committed while supposedly under the influence of the drug. This collection of newspaper clippings (most from Hearst newspapers) becomes known as the "Gore Files".

1935 - 1937 DuPont assures Congress,  during secret testimony, that synthetic petro-chemical oils can replace hemp seed oil in paints, varnishes, and other products.

1936 - 1938 Hearst newspapers step-up the anti-marijuana campaign and newsreel clips at the local movie bear headlines like "Reefer Madness" and "Marijuana --- Assassin of Youth."

1937 Walter Treadway, Assistant U.S. Surgeon General, tells the Cannabis Advisory Subcommittee of the League of Nations that extended use of cannabis derivatives is benign, both socially and emotionally, and that marijuana is habit forming...in the same sense...as sugar or coffee.

  • The DuPont Company issues its Annual Report to stockholders which anticipates "radical changes" and the conversion of the Federal government's revenue raising power 'into an instrument for forcing acceptance of sudden new ideas of industrial and social reorganization.' In other words, government would no longer tax citizens solely to raise money but to enforce the adoption (or extinction) of selected social 'norms'.

April 14, 1937 The Marijuana Tax Law is introduced to the House Ways and Means Committee of Congress, chaired by Robert L. Doughton, a key DuPont ally. 

  • In subsequent committee hearings, Dr. James Woodward, speaking for the American Medical Association (AMA), testifies against the proposed legislation stating that the plant Congress intends to outlaw is a perfectly safe substance used to treat scores of illnesses for over 100 years in America and that the ignorance of the proposed prohibition will deny the world access to potential medical breakthroughs. Dr Wodward is denounced by Anslinger and the congressional committee, then curtly excused.
  • Ralph Lorenz, head of the general council of the National Oil Seeds Institute (which represents the interests of high quality machine lubrication producers and paint manufacturers) also lobbies against the proposed legislation, eloquently citing the key importance of the hemp plant to American industry and reviewing the thousands of years of benign use of hemp by millions of people world-wide.
  • After receiving testimony from Anslinger who cites marijuana as "the most violence causing drug in the history of mankind," reviewing Anslinger's "Gore Files" (which were later debunked by evidentiary scholars), and hearing a false, dishonest and intentionally misleading report from the Ways and Means Committee that the AMA is in "complete agreement" with the proposed marijuana legislation, the Marijuana Tax Act is adopted by Congress.
  • The legislation is carefully worded so that the great majority of American people, including many of the members of congress who voted to pass the law, have no idea that the agricultural hemp industry is being legislated into extinction. Popularity of DuPont's "plastic fibers" (like nylon) begins to dramatically increase.

1944 The "LaGuardia Marijuana Report," compiled between 1938 and 1944 by the New York Academy of Medicine at the request of Mayor Fiorella LaGuardia, is released to refute Anslinger's negative claims about marijuana. It reports that marijuana use has caused no violence at all and cites numerous instances of beneficial effects.

  • Anslinger denounces the Mayor, the report, and the Academy, proclaiming that the involved doctors will never again do marijuana research without his personal permission, or they will be sent to jail.

1945 With Anslinger's coercive manipulation the AMA conducted what has since been labeled a "gutter science" study to refute the LaGuardia Report. Using biased techniques which predetermined the outcome of the research,  this prejudicial study, conducted with enlisted Army men, concluded that 34 Negro males who smoked marijuana were "disrespectful" of white soldiers and officers.

1948 - 1950 Anslinger has a sudden change of heart about the violence inducing properties of marijuana and, in a complete about-face from his previous position, testifies before a strongly anti-Communist Congress that marijuana causes users to become so peaceful and pacifistic that use of the herb by soldiers will weaken their will to fight 'The Great Red Communist Plague.'

1950's - 1960's The U.S. Army sponsors numerous tests to determine the effects of cannabis smoking on soldiers. The first study showed no loss of motivation or performance after two years of continual "heavy" smoking. This study is replicated six more times by independent universities, always with the same basic findings.

1961 - 1962 Anslinger is forced to retire as head of the Federal Narcotics Bureau (now the DEA) by President Kennedy after trying to censor the publications and blackmail and harass the publishers of Professor Alfred Lindsmith of Indiana University who wrote, among other works, "The Addict and the Law" (Washington Post, 1961). 

  • U.S. Medical research in to the beneficial properties of cannabis resumes after nearly 3 decades of Anslinger's prohibition.
  • Credible sources report that President Kennedy routinely uses marijuana to relieve his back pain and plans to have the drug legalized. These plans are terminated by his assassination.

1964 The Himalayan region of Bangladesh (from "bhang" cannabis, "la" land, and "desh" people) signs an anti-drug pact with the U.S., agreeing not to grow hemp. 

  • Since that time there has been only light moss covering the steep slopes of this flash-flood region which once were lush with hardy hemp. Millions of acres of topsoil have been washed away and native peoples of the country have suffered disease, starvation, and decimation due to unrestrained flooding.

88 posted on 12/21/2001 5:32:34 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
Good God, I thought for sure this was going to be a piece from The Onion.
89 posted on 12/21/2001 8:16:35 AM PST by riley1992
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
EPU, Thanks for the article Fear And Loathing In Cannabis Country

While reading I was reminded once again of how easy it is to attack, destroy and kill the good. Juxtaposition to the great effort needed to succeed in business. Parasitical elite rely on the attack and destroy tactic. Business relies on emulation. One business grows from another. The Parasitical elite spawn one from another. From the politician to the bureaucrat to the Dan Rather, Peter Jennings to Green Peace and their ilk to tenure professors to the high profile journalist. And on and on. They all attack and destroy. Almost none of them could succeed in a business of their own.

All that loss of a hugely beneficial plant so that a few dozen parasitical elite can gain unearned paychecks. I tell you, we are being used and used up.

I chose to fight back. Prosecute the guilty and protect the innocent. Expose the value destroyers and their vile modus operandi. Protect the heroic value producers whom without, civilization would suffer greatly. 

The political system is corrupt beyond repair. No honest politicians, if there are such men of honor in politics can compete andmaintaining their integrity and principles in the political environment. A political man may enter with good intentions but always they fall prey to the corruption and become its supporter. They can chose to compromise their honest principles but I refuse to support the lesser of two "evils".

P.S. I Read the Hemp Timeline Of Misinformation too. Will bump from there.

90 posted on 12/21/2001 10:41:42 AM PST by Zon
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To: Zon
I used to be a pretty rabid Anti War on Drugs guy, but I finally came to the realization that there is no way the government and its bureaucrats will ever abandon it, because it affords them too much power. The war on drugs is the reason that the government was able to acquire its healh care monopoly.
91 posted on 12/21/2001 10:46:53 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
They only way Anslinger and those of his ilk could ever remain in politics or the bureaucratic machine is by supporting and advocating corruption in government.

How many great benefits and values has the individual and society lost out on because of a few parasitical elite seeking nothing other than to usurp unearned pay checks. Their destruction hidden under a cloak of legalese and feigned compassion. Instilling unwanted fear in The People with a never ending supply of self-serving-agenda boogiemen.

92 posted on 12/21/2001 10:51:00 AM PST by Zon
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To: LarryLied
No...our advertising dollars at work. Left Wing Affirmative Action idiots combing through everything the Feds do to find this nonsense.

I don't care what Left Wing Affirmative Action idiots do on their own time. However, I think tax dollars can be used on anything, repeat anything, more worthy than stopping hempseed oil in tortilla chips....

93 posted on 12/21/2001 10:51:30 AM PST by Nate505
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To: NoCurrentFreeperByThatName
Oh boy! I feel safer now!

Your fear is unfounded because it's just a boogieman. An illusion, not real. Though the parasitical elite that create boogiemen rely on your fear and The People's fear so that the few dozen parasitical elite may continue usurping unearned paychecks. They destroy values for a living while supporting government corruption. Their other tool of choice is feigned compassion. That is, whip a frenzy of fear in The People and then proclaim themselves the compassionate protectors of The People. They produce nothing but problems where problems need not exist.

We are being used. And used up.

Wake up! We don't need them. They need us. They are the parasites. We are the host.

 

Value Destroyers versus Value Producers 

If civilization had to chose between business/science and government/bureaucracy, eliminating the other, which is the better choice?

The first thing civilization must have is business/science. It's what the family needs so that its members can live creative, productive, happy lives. Business/science can survive, even thrive without government/bureaucracy.

 Government/bureaucracy cannot survive without business/science. In general, business/science and family is the host and government/bureaucracy is a parasite.

Aside from that, keep valid government services that protect individual rights and property. Military defense, FBI, CIA, police and courts. With the rest of government striped away those few valid services would be several fold more efficient and effective than they are today. 


94 posted on 12/21/2001 11:05:24 AM PST by Zon
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
I used to be a pretty rabid Anti War on Drugs guy, but I finally came to the realization that there is no way the government and its bureaucrats will ever abandon it, because it affords them too much power. The war on drugs is the reason that the government was able to acquire its health care monopoly.

All the more reasons to expose their value destruction. My scope is very wide and the WOD is but one area to be utilized in the Ultimate Battle -- Value Destroyers versus Value Producers

95 posted on 12/21/2001 11:54:29 AM PST by Zon
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To: Pay now bill Clinton
I don't want to pay for anything. I'm willing to, though.
96 posted on 12/21/2001 4:37:16 PM PST by xm177e2
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To: Danielle
In England teams of snoops rove the neighborhoods with radio equipment, trying to track down unlicensed televisions

Info on it here

97 posted on 12/22/2001 1:14:31 PM PST by spycatcher
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To: spycatcher
WOW Glad I don't live there, and that is expensive too.
98 posted on 12/22/2001 8:17:00 PM PST by Danielle
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To: Pay now bill Clinton
Doesn't seem fair.

Don't they realize that people like Johnny Hempseed built this country?


99 posted on 07/23/2008 3:18:14 PM PDT by x
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