They are right. The Drug War hasn't really been fought as a "war", yet. But it is about to be. They advocate war, we advocate peace. They advocate control, we advocate freedom. Whose side you on, fellow American? Korporatism MUST END, also.

It is time to hold the government accountable for the violation of rights and open murder of our citizens. This was not a justified homicide! Our Federal Government is disgusting, psychotic, unethical, and ego-centric!

Ain't it the truth!! I have seen a lot of people around here making and selling meth and not a one of them has ANY real money. They tend to only sell enough of their product to raise the money for the next batch and resent having to do that. No matter how much meth they have it is never enough. I have lost several dear friends to the ravages of this drug. Death, jail, physical and mental rot has been the cause.

I remember when 'speed' was legally available by prescription and though there were some problems, all in all it was never the problem meth is. Making speed illegal gave rise to the 'moonshine' type makers and now there is no telling what you are getting. I know one bunch of people who cooked up a batch that gave them convulsions but they continued to use it till it was gone.Of all the 'illegal' drugs, meth comes closest to the old 'bathtub gin' that killed and blinded people during Prohibition I.

As to ole Buff.. Linden was a favorite place of his to harass kids. Once a group of us (teens) were driving down 65 Hwy. between Ozark and Springfield and Buff tried to pull us over. We all knew him too well so we made a run for the county line (about 2 miles). SOB shot at us and blew out a tail-light!! We got away but our only 'crime' was being teenagers in HIS county!

E-mail me sometime and maybe we can hook up next time you're in this neck of the woods.

But she does not have to fear arrest, incarceration, homosexual prison rape and AIDS for her activism. She does not have to fear her home being invaded by Nazi-esque police tripping on adrenaline and waving machine pistols in her face, barking orders and quite possibly shooting her dead for failure to comply fast enough.

A course of events that, in some cases, has actually begun when a lazy cop, too corpulent from way too many donuts and not up to the task of chasing down murderers, rapists and child molesters, reads an LTE critical of his meal ticket and decides to 'take action!'. Or worse, he gets a conveniently 'anonymous' tip that someone is growing or dealing...on property the cop wants for his department. Just as this article made plain. What then? Would Joycie be quite so supportive of her sweet little War on Some Drugs if the muzzle of a pistol were directed to her forcefully supine body as the cop puts a knee in her back and informs her that she has no rights?

Joycie lives like most antis - in the ideological ivory tower. Right up there with the late Marie Antoinette and all the other 'aristos' who thought they could ignore the mess boiling in the streets...until it was too late. Like Lenin's 'useful idiots', she has no idea of the evil that she supports and works so hard to sustain. She believes she is on the side of the angels...after all, they told her she was....while conveniently forgetting that there are indeed 'dark angels'...with a wholly unwholesome designs upon our lives and liberties.

She can't be arrested for ignorantly misrepresenting cannabinoid science, so she can afford to be identified.

Have you noticed that the police talk about the tens of thousands of dollars the meth makers are making, but they're almost always incredibly poor people with crappy old cars and crappy houses, and usually three times as many tatoos as they have teeth?

I'm glad your husband escaped from the 'Buffster.' I was at a kegger at Linden on the Finley River when it got raided. I managed to elude them for a couple of hours by hiding in the woods, but got stopped on hwy 125 after I left. At least I had sobered up, and, after "consenting" to a complete search of my car, they threatened me in the usual cop-like fashion, and sent me home.

The phone number seems legit, I called it and the message says it is Ron Ross of Senator Hutchins office. Also, from:
http://www.dreamagic.com/congress/ar.html

Senator Tim Hutchinson (Rep.) Phone: (202) 224-2353

The number you gave (202) 224 - 0340 seems to be directly below the listed "official" number. While I cannot be sure about their motives, my feeling is they are for real.

Maybe if you just call and ask for a fax number you could print out your message and fax it so at least they would really read it.

I look at it like posting my real name here on cannabisnews.com; if only anonymous people are for safe, legal cannabis, it might remain illegal! Even Joyce Nalepka complained to me that her name and address were published, but so many that complain about her posts used psuedonyms.

Good luck!

This particular e-mail was responded to by another Rep., Sandra Rogers. I did not include her response. Same e-mail was sent to Hutchinson. So e-mails get cut off?

So, no one else, besides GCW, has heard from any HEMP related e-mails to their reps?

202 - 224 - 0340

Let's see what's up.

I have mixed feellngs, though. I agree it could be viewed as an opportuity to stand up for the truth. And by e-mailing them again, I will be doing that. I won't call, but I will post their number. It's public knowledge,isn't it? If it indeed the Hutchinson office I am dealing with. Probably DEA poking.

Thanks again, folks, and I'll retrieve that number.

The DEA ban is so ludicrous, it has really provoked some outrage and disbelief.

If you truly believe in democracy then you should act out of faith in democracy, and let the onus be on them to be the violators, if that's what happens.

Remember the Atlanta Olympics? Remember Richard Jewel? The security guard who found the backpack containing the bomb? They (the Feebs; a.k.a. the FBI) called him in to 'talk with him' about his expertise in being a security guard...and what he knew about bombs. The purpose was nothing other than to entrap him. he thought he was just beinga good patriotic American...until he called his lawyer and his lawyer told him to shut up, he was digging his own grave.

I had one call me on my cell phone when I sent a letter to him that pointed out he was harmfull to my family. It was a blessing that I mentioned it and the letter to an local editor and he printed the letter in his paper. It was about the medical use of cannabis.

I have sent numerous e-mails and faxes to his office, and never before recieved more than a form letter in return. I have no idea which specific e-mail he is refering to. They left a number and asked me to call.

Should I?

Anyone else been contacted by their Reps. about HEMP?

http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2002/01/23/25942.html

Maybe as media corporations merge and get bigger, that's just inevitable.

It looks like capitalism but it sounds increasingly like Pravda.

Does your hiring of Bill Bennett as a correspondent mean you are officially abandoning any pretense of journalistic objectivity in the Drug War?

They ask you for an expert who could answer the question, so I wrote in Columbia Journalism Review.

Oklahoma City, The World Trade Center in New York

Terrorists are not the problem, they are worked into the equation.

With all of the screaming and hollering, reason takes flight.

Must it be what is desired by who knows what?

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> Senate Prayer > > > > > > > > > > I thought you would find this article interesting. > This actually happened in Kansas at the opening session of their Senate. > It > seems prayer still upsets some people. > When Minister Joe Wright was asked to open the new session of the Kansas > Senate, everyone was expecting the usual generalities, but this is what > they > heard: > "Heavenly Father, we come before you today to ask your forgiveness and > to seek your direction and guidance. > We know Your Word says, "Woe to those who call evil good," but that is > exactly what we have done. > We have lost our spiritual equilibrium and reversed our values. > We confess that. We have ridiculed the absolute truth of Your Word . . > .and > called it Pluralism. > We have exploited the poor . . . and called it the lottery. > We have rewarded laziness . . . and called it welfare. > We have killed our unborn . . . and called it choice. > We have shot abortionists . . . and called it justifiable. > We have neglected to discipline our children . . .and called it building > self-esteem. > We have abused power . . . and called it politics. > We have coveted our neighbor's possession . . .and called it ambition. > We have polluted the air with profanity and pornography . . . and called > it > freedom of expression. > We have ridiculed the time-honored values of our forefathers . . .and > called > it enlightenment. > Search us, Oh, God, and know our hearts today; cleanse us from every sin > and > set us free. > Guide and bless these men and women who have been sent: to direct us to > the > center of Your will and to openly ask these things in the name of Your > Son, > the living Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen!" > The response was immediate. > A number of legislators walked out during the prayer in protest. > In 6 short weeks, Central Christian Church, where Rev. Wright is pastor, > logged more than 5,000 phone calls with only 47 of those calls > responding negatively. The church is now receiving international > requests for copies > of this prayer from India, Africa, and Korea. > Commentator Paul Harvey aired this prayer on his radio program, "The > Rest of > the Story," and received a larger response to this program than any > other he > has ever aired. > With the Lord's help, may this prayer sweep over our nation and > wholeheartedly become our desire so that we again can be called "one > nation > under God." > If possible, please pass this prayer on to your friends. > "If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for everything." > One could also add to this: In a society where anything goes, eventually > everything will. >

Bill Bennett is a perfect choice to discuss drugs, addiction and campaign finance reform.

To be fair as to the new jail, the old one was a nightmare! Unsafe for prisoners, staff or visitors. Also, Maddax is talking ' tough on drugs ' but pot is NOT a high priority. ( I have a friend in a deputy there. No busts, just serves papers). Right now in Christian Co. any possession of 35gms or less is a ticket offence; $150.00 fine including court costs. Meth is the drug they focas on now. You can drive down almost any country road around here in the warm months and smell it cooking. About the only time a grow gets busted is when then accidently find it while looking for meth.

I am happy to see this editorial in our paper and I hope it sparks some lively and truthful debate.

We only have to remember what he said in past.

He actually thought it was a good idea to behead drug users.

I only hope that many will remember what he said back then.

It's usually the case that the editorial would have been used as a psuedo-sidebar to a story like this to heap praises on the prohibitionists, especially in such a small-town newspaper, so I see a HUGE slap in the face to Sheriff Matlock and all of the other terrorists mentioned.

I used to visit the county seat of Christian County when I was a teenager back in the 1970's. The sheriff at the time was a loser named Buff Lamb. Many of my friends met the flashlight wielding sheriff and his deputies, but the flashlights weren't turned on.

The square in the town of Ozark was the place that kids would go after smoking a joint, driving in circles checking out the opposite sex in some sort of innocent teenage mating ritual.

Buff Lamb, swearing all the worlds problems were because of the "dope smokers," made a big deal out of his busts. There was a lot of cannabis grown in the hills, so when they stumbled upon some, they'd put it on a trailer and display it on the courthouse lawn. The weekly issue of the county paper would show Buff and his loser deputies posing by the haul like they had just killed Bonnie and Clyde.

25 years later, same war, still losing, different media focus - meth, same real focus - cannabis. This editorial made me feel pretty good, knowing the history of the press in Christian County, Missouri.

It is not right. Then again it is not right that we let heartless dumbasses that are our politicians deprive us of our freedom. The country is out of control and if people would quit subscribing to CNN and cable, Time and news magazines, and their local paper maybe the media companies would figure out they had better practice some real journalism.

If you buy journalism from the mainstream media, then you are a prohibitionist. That sounds a little harsh but it also has a ring of truth to it.

CNN News Release 2/20/2002

William Bennett to join CNN as contributor Former secretary of education, drug czar to provide insight on social, cultural issues

William Bennett is joining CNN as a network contributor, it was announced today by Sid Bedingfield, newly promoted executive editor of the CNN News Group. Dr. Bennett, co-director of Empower America and former secretary of education and director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, will offer his commentary on social and cultural issues, primarily on American Morning with Paula Zahn. Starting Monday, March 4, Dr. Bennett will work out of CNN's Washington, D.C., bureau. He will also contribute to other CNN programming.

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