A Serious Look At Wacky Weed And Suffering

Detroit Free Press ^ | September 22, 2002 | Mitch Albom

[riley1992]

Her mornings are never that good anyhow because she wakes up with a leg that is withered from polio. Still, this morning was truly bad. She opened her eyes and saw five federal agents pointing rifles at her head.

"Get your hands up!" one of them yelled.

[FreePaul]

This is the same Government that can't find terrorists wandering around in our country and doesn't know what to do when they find them. Let's put out the word that those terrorists are really people who us marijuana and they'll be in jail by tonight.

[riley1992]

This is perfectly legal in Santa Cruz, and it is perfectly legal in the state of California. But under federal law, marijuana is still considered a controlled substance.

So much for the Tenth Amendment.

[headsonpikes]

These poor suffering potheads and associated dope-fiends should be grateful that they aren't simply gunned down in their sleep.

These loco-weed fanatics don't know what suffering's about--federal agents do; they scarcely know where their next flimsy rationale is coming from.

(sarcasm off)

[spodefly]

Her mornings are never that good anyhow because she wakes up with a leg that is withered from polio. Still, this morning was truly bad. She opened her eyes and saw five federal agents pointing rifles at her head.

Big, brave, federal agents ... 5 of them ... armed with assault weapons, all aimed at the head of a polio victim ... This pretty much sums up the WOD in 2002.

[Phantom Lord]

So much for the Tenth Amendment.

Brought to you by AG John "Jack Boot" Ashcroft.

[FreeTally]

And you thought it was the stoners who couldn't think clearly.

I don't typically like Albom, but this quote sums it all up.

[WindMinstrel]

Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always -- do not forget this, Winston -- always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -- for ever.'

1984 Chapter 20

[PBRSTREETGANG]

A Serious Look At Wacky Weed And Suffering

I thought this would be a story about being a NY Mets fan.

[CyberSpartacus]

I grant to you what, what you grant to everyone else-slavery.

[headsonpikes]

You want slavery? You got it!

[doberville]

Good response. So many knee-jerk replies from the Usual Suspects.

How predictable.

[gcruse]

So much for the Tenth Amendment.

Ashcroft prefers commandments
to amendments, and Bush can't be
bothered.

[Wolfie]

I thought this would be a story about being a NY Mets fan.

BWAHAHAHA! Now that's funny. But it looks like the "Miracle-Gro Mets" are in the clear.

MLB: Testing for Pot Left Out of Pact

[riley1992]

Ashcroft prefers commandments to amendments

"Thou Shall Not Smoke Doobies."

Father Brennan must have forgotten to mention this one in my catechism class.

[Wolfie]

Hmmm, God appeared to Moses as a burning bush....hey, ya don't think...naaaahhhh.

[riley1992]

First Toga Party. BYOP. Bring Your Own Papers.

[RJCogburn]

Ashcroft prefers commandments to amendments

That is a wonderful description!

He is a sanctimonious fraud and a dangerous man.

[RJCogburn]

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Funnier and funnier!

Thanks for the drug free smile!

[riley1992]

Do you have a problem with states' rights or am I missing something?