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  National D.A.R.E. Day, 2002
Posted by FoM on April 10, 2002 at 18:03:07 PT
By the President of the United States of America 
Source: The White House 

DARE A Proclamation: Illegal drugs are the enemy of ambition and hope, destroying individual lives and undermining the health of our communities. In addition to the tragic consequences of drug use for Americans and their families, the drug trade supports terrorist networks that threaten our country and our allies around the world. When we fight the war on drugs, we also fight the war on terror.

The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E) curriculum plays an important role in helping our young people understand the many reasons to avoid drugs.

D.A.R.E. is a series of lessons, taught by specially-trained police officers, that encourages students to live healthy, drug-free lives.

According to the University of Akron Institute for Health and Social Policy, the program operates in 80 percent of our school districts, reaching 26 million young people in America each year. In addition to promoting the right decisions about drugs, D.A.R.E. helps build relationships among parents, teachers, law enforcement officers, and others interested in preventing drug use in their communities.

My Administration is committed to keeping the fight against drugs among our Nation's top priorities. I have proposed new goals for our country, including a 10 percent reduction in teenage and adult drug use over the next 2 years, and a 25 percent reduction over 5 years.

My National Drug Control Strategy is a community-based approach, incorporating three core principles:

(1) stopping drug use before it starts;
(2) healing America's drug users; and
(3) disrupting the market for drugs in our country.

In addition, my 2003 budget proposes $19.2 billion for drug control. This includes $3.8 billion for drug treatment and research, an increase of more than 6 percent over 2002.

Drugs attack everything that is best about our country, robbing Americans, young and old, and their families of dignity and character. Today, we recognize D.A.R.E. as a critical part in our effort to teach young people how to avoid drug use and the devastating effects that drugs can inflict upon their health and on their future.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 11, 2002, as National D.A.R.E. Day. I call upon youth, parents, educators, and all Americans to observe this day by joining the fight against drugs in your communities. I also encourage our citizens to express appreciation for the law enforcement officers, volunteers, and others who work to help young people avoid the dangers of drug use.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand two, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and twenty-sixth.

GEORGE W. BUSH

For Immediate Release: Office of the Press Secretary

Source: The White House (DC)
Published: April 10, 2002
E-Mail: president@whitehouse.gov
Website: http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Contact: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

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Comment #17 posted by observer on April 10, 2002 at 21:46:05 PT
''compulsory education on... the dread marihuana''
''Because the dread Marihuana may be reaching forth next for your son or daughter ...or yours ... or YOURS!''

Dr Carroll:

You and other parent-school groups around the country and must stand united on this and stamp out this frightful assassin of our youth!

You can do it by bringing about compulsory education on the subject of narcotics in general, the dread marihuana in particular.

[thumps desk]

That is the purpose of this meeting ladies and gentlemen. To lay the foundation for a nationwide campaign by you to demand by law, such compulsory education. Because it is only through enlightenment, that this scourge can be wiped out!

Reefer Madness, c1936, http://crrh.org/hemptv/misc_reefer.html



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Comment #16 posted by markjc on April 10, 2002 at 21:44:21 PT:

"the year of our lord"
isn't this implying that we are all christian saying "our lord" instead of "my lord". this isn't sunday church. this is america, the land of the fucke*d up politicians that think they are preachers. sorry george w. you are not a preacher, just a dillusional politician.

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Comment #15 posted by markjc on April 10, 2002 at 21:43:47 PT:

"the year of our lord"
isn't this implying that we are all christian saying "our lord" instead of "my lord". this isn't sunday church. this is america, the land of the fucke*d up politicians that think they are preachers. sorry george w. you are not a preacher, just a dillusional politician.

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Comment #14 posted by DdC on April 10, 2002 at 21:27:45 PT
DARE The Brainwashing Child Molesters!
DARE the FRCn Chemical Partnership Tax Laundrymats for Petro Chems, Drugs Wally, W, Cheney and Rumsfeld don't sell. Booze and Tobacco still not included in the WoD budget, yet 99% of the cananbis eradicated is nonpsychoactive ditchweed hemp. Bad things happen when good people do nothing. This scam was discredited 10 years ago and only Bushit fascist perpetuate it... Peace, Love and Liberty or D.E.A.th! DdC

The assassins of youth...DARE!
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=105.topic

"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag- a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolph Hitler Mentor of D.A.R.E.

A Roundup of Hearst’s Hysterical Headlines
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_17.HTM#headlines

I wish I could show you what a small marihuana cigaret can do to one of our degenerate Spanish-speaking residents. That's why our problem is so great; the greatest percentage of our population is composed of Spanish-speaking persons, most of who are low mentally, because of social and racial conditions.

"A violently active, intrepid, brutal youth that is what I am after...
I will have no intellectual training. Knowledge is ruin for my young men."
Adolf Hitler quoted by John Gunther "The Nation"

Anslinger read into U.S. Congressional testimony (without objection) stories about ‘coloreds’ with big lips, luring white women with jazz music and marijuana. If he had bothered to check, showed at least 65-75% of all murders in the U.S. were then—and still are—alcohol related.

Bigotry and Aparteid
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_08.HTM#bigotry

Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA, at the DPF Conference, November 1996:
"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."

Assassins of Youth List of Chemical Partners
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/36/36796.gif

The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944
"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"

"Marijuana: Facts for Teens." U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Washington, D.C. 1995, p.10.
"Most marijuana users do not go on to use other drugs."

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others."

"... the primary reason to outlaw marijuana is its effect on the degenerate races."

"Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death."

"You smoke a joint and you're likely to kill your brother."

"marijuana is the most violence-causing drug in the history of mankind."
http://www.bright.net/~fixit/anslingr.htm

President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush, appointed Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981. Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

ACS - Division of Analytical Chemistry - DAC Awards
John P. Walters 1980

The Elkhorn Manifesto
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html

I LOST MY FREEDOM Linx Juvi rape as deterrents!!!
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionlinx.showMessage?topicID=22.topic


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Comment #13 posted by Lehder on April 10, 2002 at 21:15:53 PT
sick of your ignorance, sick of your violence
Drugs attack everything that is best about our country, robbing Americans, young and old, and their families of dignity and character.

I think most of the world agrees with me that George Bush's presidency besmirches American dignity and character more than anything else. I wonder how many pretzels he gets in the mail.

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Comment #12 posted by MikeEEEEE on April 10, 2002 at 20:45:25 PT
Typical gov response
I believe this is a response to all the media attention Bloomberg is getting, and could have something to do with all the 4/20 celebrations all around the country. Lets see if the media carries this DARE crap.

I, GEORGE W. BUSH, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim April 11, 2002, as National D.A.R.E. Day.

Excuse me, I have to go puke......



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Comment #11 posted by FoM on April 10, 2002 at 20:06:42 PT
Thank You Fernando
Many of us won't be able to get the program but some of us might be able to call in.

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12493.shtml#5

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Comment #10 posted by FoM on April 10, 2002 at 20:04:48 PT
ekim
I missed it. If they repeat it please post it.

http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12493.shtml#4

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Comment #9 posted by goneposthole on April 10, 2002 at 20:03:23 PT
I double triple dare ya
to care, George Bush.

The drug war's end will have nothing to do with D.A.R.E., or the DEAth squads, or anything like that. Watch the American farmer, it may be the key.

A view from the trenches, what I see from the 'wanted' pictures on the walls in my hometown.

There are some people out there who are producing and selling methamphetamines. They use anhydrous ammonia to make it. They get it by stealing it. Farmers do not like it, nor do they like the idea that somebody is making a drug that is not acceptable. They are looking for culprits, and when they find them, a different kind of American justice may take place. Farmers know these people are armed and dangerous. If a culprit happens to be overcome by anhydrous fumes, it will be a tragic accident. He will swear and cuss and beller and bawl because of what he had become. (Just a potential scenario from a behind the scenes perspective; call it perspicacity) If you want to think I am FOS, so be it.

Contrary to such sentiments, some farmers also like smoking marijuana. It's a crop and a useful one. They wouldn't mind growing it for needed income. Hemp is a viable commercial crop. It works. legalize it, a world of problems concerning the matter will be solved, and a burden from this complete maddness will be lifted.

Everyone is sick and tired of the war on drugs, and especially the way it is being conducted. People are talking and change is on the way.

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Comment #8 posted by xxdr_zombiexx on April 10, 2002 at 19:44:54 PT
P S
Please pass me some powerful anti-emetic...I feel ill.....

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Comment #7 posted by xxdr_zombiexx on April 10, 2002 at 19:42:45 PT
Pigs meet pork barrel
I can't believe I read what I read. This is a boost towards strengthening the Police state.

It is an absolute decalaration to never, ever, ever tell the truth about cannabis, to exacerbating social dysfunction, and to invgorate the profits of prohibition. And a committment to continue the massive Siege of the Bill of Rights.

Am I free to protest and say that everybody - including DARE's own auditors - knows DARE is L.A.M.E.? Can I still say that? What's to prevent people from calling me unamerican for strongly objecting to making something as stupid as DARE into a national holiday of some sort.

This is flat-out pork barrel for LAw Enforcement and a way to create more, not fewer, children interested in smoking pot.

And ain't it grand the monumental BS you can perpetrate when you're in power?

(Zombienote: I am an idealist. I like the idea of police and LAw Enforcement. I think they have been corrupted to the core by the War on drugs, addicted to forfeiture and this sort of pork barrel subsidization. Without a war against cannabis, they have no reason for existence. Real crimes - rape, pillaging, murder, burgalry - arent tied to forfietures. Aside from the title, I never refer to police as "pigs". That adds to the whole rascism thing. Its just an unortunate reality that the current dynamics of law enforcement encourage a lot of potential assholes or psychos to wanna be cops. I remember the NAZI party described as such in some book years ago....)

FREEDOM ENDURES

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Comment #6 posted by p4me on April 10, 2002 at 19:30:43 PT
What a President
How about a "Whatever you do, don't smoke?" Or is that even harder to say than "Medical marijuana?"

VAAI

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Comment #5 posted by Fernando Mosquera on April 10, 2002 at 19:15:11 PT:

Joyce & MPP on TV
To further raise awareness for the issue [Medical Marijuana] in Maryland, Bruce Mirken, MPP's director of communications, will appear on "The Doctor is In," a call-in cable television talk show that airs live in Montgomery County.

The show is hosted by Dr. Larry Sheingorn, M.D., and can be seen live on Montgomery County cable, channel 19, from 8:30-9:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 11. To participate in the show, viewers can call 301-517-8617.

Mirken will be joined on the show by Joyce Nalepka, who has opposed the medical marijuana bill in Maryland for the last three years.

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Comment #4 posted by ekim on April 10, 2002 at 19:01:09 PT
FOX COVERS POT-TV
Pot TV News for April 10, 2002 America's Flag and Freedom in Distress FOX COVERS POT-TV Fox News was in our studio to film our show for airing on "The Fox Report" for today, April 10th at 4 p.m. Pacific and 7 p.m. Eastern.

NORML ADS TO FEATURE NY MAYOR Bloomberg will endorse pot in $500,000 ad campaign, but vows to continue arrests.

DUTCH BACK MEDPOT BILL Dutch parliament members said a majority will support a government-backed bill to legalize marijuana prescriptions for severely ill patients.

BILL MAHER TO PERFORM AT MPP CONFERENCE Comedian Bill Maher will perform at Marijuana Policy Project national conference, co-hosted by Students for Sensible Drug Policy.

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Comment #3 posted by JSM on April 10, 2002 at 18:58:43 PT
National D Day
It is curious that this is so close to 4/20. Could it be a sign?

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Comment #2 posted by FoM on April 10, 2002 at 18:44:41 PT
el_toonces
It's ok. An old expression, Don't let it get you down it's only castles burning, is true. I feel an intensification of the drug war on both sides of the argument if our world problems don't get much more out of hand. What I mean is if we start to find a toning down of the war we will see more energy going into drug law issues. Before 9-11 I felt I knew where it was going but now each day brings change and I just don't know. I turn on CNN to make sure the world is still here and turn it off but while I watch it sometimes it's too scary to think about. Freedom comes from within ourselves not in what goes on around us I think. I'm not sure I understood what you were trying to say but this is my response to how I took what you said.

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Comment #1 posted by el_toonces on April 10, 2002 at 18:26:30 PT:

Oh, no, FoM.....
.....you have pierced the bubble of my denial! I was thinking I had cognitive liberty. Thanks for waking me up:).

El

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