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  • Fried Eggs

    09/16/2002 10:52:55 AM PDT · by JediGirl · 223 replies · 412+ views
    Desert Post Weekly ^ | 12 September 2002
    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...
  • Church gathering tries to find a way

    09/13/2002 8:05:03 AM PDT · by JediGirl · 20 replies · 167+ views
    Houston Chronicle ^ | 12 September 2002 | THOM MARSHALL
    IT HAPPENED IN CHURCH. Judge Michael T. McSpadden of the 209th District Court stood up and testified that he knows the way. Black ministers were seated on one side of the aisle, white judges on the other. The preachers had invited Harris County's felony court judges to meet and discuss how they might work to restrict the flow of young black men from Houston neighborhoods to state prisons. The way he knows to do that, McSpadden said, is to reduce the penalty for delivery or possession of less than a gram of a controlled substance. Make the crime a misdemeanor...