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  Former Drug Czar Calls Administration To Do More
Posted by FoM on April 21, 2002 at 17:21:40 PT
By Jason B. Johnson, Chronicle Staff Writer 
Source: San Francisco Chronicle  

justice Gen. Barry McCaffrey, former federal drug czar, said yesterday the Bush administration should do more to strengthen homeland security and supported Israel's efforts to combat Palestinian terrorists.

Now a professor of national security studies at West Point, McCaffrey made his comments during a visit to San Francisco.

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Comment #11 posted by Jose Melendez on April 23, 2002 at 06:47:34 PT:

oops
the link to comment # 9:
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=491>


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Comment #10 posted by Jose Melendez on April 23, 2002 at 06:47:24 PT:

oops
the link to comment # 9:
http://www.marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=491>


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Comment #9 posted by Jose Melendez on April 23, 2002 at 06:46:27 PT:

make them tell the truth about drugs, harm
from:
Last month, over 50 million Americans smoked tobacco last month, and most of them are "addicted," and over 100 million Americans drank alcohol. The National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism says about 14 million of them are "alcoholic or abuse alcohol." The institute also says 53 percent of adult Americans say they have a close relative with a "drinking problem."

Between 20 percent and 30 percent of patients in emergency rooms have alcohol problems, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nearly half of alcohol-related deaths are the result of motor-vehicle crashes, falls, fires, drowning, homicides and suicides.

According to a study published on April 9th by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, drinking kills 1,400 college students every year and plays a role in 70,000 cases of sexual assault and date rape on campus. It also said that a quarter of all U.S. college students have driven under the influence of alcohol, and 500,000 have been injured because of alcohol.

Meanwhile John Walters is saving the kids from cannabis….. )



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Comment #8 posted by Sandino on April 22, 2002 at 16:01:31 PT:

bubba or shrub:
What's the difference? Who do these politicians and their appointees really represent? Not I!!! I would be in favor of all the republowcrats jumping up on Savoy Brown's "Hellbound Train" and riding on out of here, the sooner the better.

While visiting VoterHemp at: http://www.voterhemp.com I found a a cool pair of old time quotes (I love a bitchin' quote or tune)and here they are:

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."...George Washington

"When the people fear the government you have tyranny... when the government fears the people you have liberty."...Thomas Jefferson

***ATTENTION:A PUBLIC SERVICE MESSAGE*** The good ol' shrub boys: dubya, jebya and daddy "boss" shrub request a little more infomation about you all: Please go to: http://www.whitehouse.org/initiatives/patroit and follow the directions. god bless you one and all.

E_J: Don't Worry, Be Hopi---In the End We're Going To Win.

Did sum buddy still my dictionary? I can't remember.

Have A Nice Day, S.A. Homes

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Comment #7 posted by Lehder on April 22, 2002 at 12:40:55 PT
unreasonable restraint
I did not launch too viciously into New Mexico's Bob Burpo in a separate comment yesterday. But some in nm have, i bet.

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I am ever so pleased that Arabs are joining me in my personal boycott of US goods and the US economy in general.

DUBAI, Apr 22 - The university cafeteria at the University of Sharjah has stopped selling softdrinks manufactured by U.S. multinationals, and instead stocks other beverages produced in the country or region....

”If the Arab governments do not boycott American goods, we believe it is our responsibility to take the initiative,'' Jasim added in an interview. ''We are a billion Muslims and imagine how much the U.S. economy would be affected if each of us boycott a softdrink can or all American products.''

This, I think, is a movement that can only grow and could well be very effective too. I'm hoping that Europeans will join. And South and Latin Americans, Africans and Canadians. Money is what Americans understand best, and the world is telling us that it's not happy with our government's behavior.

http://commondreams.org/headlines02/0422-01.htm

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Comment #6 posted by kaptinemo on April 22, 2002 at 12:03:21 PT:

Thank you very much, 4D...NOT!
When I was a kid and visiting Baltimore, my folks would take me to Polack Johnnie's for the world's best Polish sausage. Now I'll never be able to enjoy one of those wonderful kielbasa sandwiches without thinking of a certain portion of DrugWarrior anatomy.



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Comment #5 posted by dddd on April 22, 2002 at 08:53:28 PT
delightful!
..Thank you Jose,,,the contact info dazzled the heck out of me....USnewswire is a wonderful place...
..poor Bob Weiner though.....,,now,,I hate to stoop so low as to mess around with peoples names.I like to think that such cheap,simple fun is beyond me,,,but ya gotta admit,,if you grew up with a name like Bob Weiner,,,you would have to cop an attitude.....(it's probably pronounced "why-nur"),,,...Anyway,,it just figures that this guy would become the Oscar Meyer of the drug war....I've always imagined that 'Weenie",has a goal of becoming czar someday....ya know,,,he was probably quite pissed when they picked Waters.,,he started to lose some self esteem,,and now he must remain the "turkey Frank",,or,,"all meat" weiner or the drug warpiggies!,,,while McCaffrey and Waters strut around like Hebrew Nationals,,or Polska Kilbasas!...dddd


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Comment #4 posted by Jose Melendez on April 22, 2002 at 08:19:03 PT:

Farming for truth? Harvest the net.
Note: Contact info below.

from:
http://www.usnewswire.com/topnews/first/0417-110.html

 
Gen. McCaffrey, ATLA To Hold Conference on War on Terrorism 
U.S. Newswire
17 Apr 10:00

Gen. Barry McCaffrey, ATLA Pres.-Elect Mary Alexander To Hold News
Conference April 20 On Update On War On Terrorism
To: Assignment Desk
Contact: Bob Weiner of Robert Weiner Associates, 202-361-0611,
(415-512-1111 in San Francisco)

News Advisory:

-- Gen. Barry McCaffrey, Amer. Trial Lawyers Pres.-Elect Mary
Alexander To Hold News Conference April 20 On Update On War On
Terrorism: Military Abroad And Families Of Victims At Home

-- San Francisco, 2 p.m., Saturday, April 20, 44 Montgomery
Street, Suite 1303; Family of September 11 Victim to Participate

-- Reception 7-9 PM with Alexander, McCaffrey, Willie Brown,
other California and local leaders also open to media as Alexander,
set to assume ATLA Presidency in July, Opens New SF Office to be "A
National Center for Victims' Rights"

Four-star General Barry McCaffrey (ret.), former U.S. Drug Czar
and now West Point's Olin Distinguished Professor of National
Security, and a national media consultant on the war on terrorism,
joins San Francisco's Mary Alexander, President-Elect of the
Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), in holding a news
conference April 20: "Update on the War on Terrorism: Military
Status Abroad and Families of Victims at Home." The Bay Area
family of a September 11 victim will also participate.

The event will be held at 2 P.M. on Saturday, April 20, just
before Alexander opens her new law offices at 44 Montgomery Street,
Suite 1303.

A reception officially opening the office, 7-9PM, with
McCaffrey, Alexander, Willie Brown, and other California and local
leaders will also be open to the media.

Alexander will assume the Presidency of ATLA in July. When she
becomes President of ATLA, she says her office will become "a
national center for victims' rights". McCaffrey said he is excited
to join Alexander, his sister-in-law, in briefing the media and
opening her new offices.

Alexander stated that ATLA has 60,000 lawyers and champions
victims' rights. Through ATLA, Alexander has helped to organize
and is a founding Board Member of "TLC" (Trial Lawyers Care), 2000
attorneys working pro bono to assist 1000 September 11 victims'
families who have requested help. Alexander herself is assisting
- free as part of TLC - two September 11 victims' families from the
San Francisco area - the father of a young woman on Flight 93,
which crashed in a farm in Pennsylvania en route to Washington
because of the courage of the passengers, and the family of a young
woman Navy ensign working in the Pentagon and killed in the events
there.

http://www.usnewswire.com
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/U.S. Newswire 202-347-2770/
04/17 10:00

Copyright 2002, U.S. Newswire

Also, from:
http://www.lawyersweekly.com/usaloty2001.cfm

* * *

LEO V. BOYLE
Boston

As president of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, Boyle, a well-known Massachusetts litigator, moved with lightning speed to preempt any snickering about lawyers taking advantage of the Sept. 11 tragedies. Graceful, articulate and sincere in calling for a moratorium on lawsuits, Boyle, who practices with the firm Meehan, Boyle, Black & Fitzgerald, was instrumental in lending ATLA's unprecedented support to the federal Victim Compensation Fund. His effort to encourage trial lawyers to handle the claims pro bono may have been good PR, but it was also a genuine attempt to prove that trial lawyers do care.

* * *

LAWRENCE S. GREENWALD
Baltimore

Attempts to hold gun makers liable for crime have met with mostly negative results thus far, as evidenced by a case this year from New York, in which the state's highest court ruled that gun manufacturers could not be held liable on a "market share" theory. The case was filed by relatives of victims of handgun violence who claimed that several gun manufacturers - including Greenwald's clients Beretta USA Corp. and American Arms Inc. - should be liable even though the plaintiffs didn't know which company actually produced the guns. The New York Court of Appeals sided with Greenwald's clients and the other defendants, ruling that there could be no recovery under a "negligent marketing" theory just because the evidence was unavailable. Greenwald, a veteran litigator at Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander, has been a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers since 1982.

ATLA.ORG - Association of Trial Lawyers of America
http://www.atlanet.org/

from the atla.org site at:
http://www.atlanet.org/publications/trial/9902/t992sct.ht

Supreme Court Review
Protection for motorists­with a loophole
Craig M. Bradley

The Supreme Court, it would seem, is experiencing "America's love affair with the automobile." The Court's interest, however, is not in the driving of cars, but in the searching of them.

(snip)

Our Fourth Amendment law should not be based on a scenario involving such gross incompetence by the arresting police. The arrest of the driver does not justify a causeless search of the car. If the police have probable cause that a car contains contraband, as they did in Belton and as they usually will in a felony arrest, they should be able to search the whole car, including the trunk.

Note:

Craig M. Bradley is the James Louis Calamaras Professor of Law at Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington and was an assistant U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C.



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Comment #3 posted by qqqq on April 22, 2002 at 07:52:46 PT
Hang on a minute!..
..let's take another look at what Barry said..""We didn't give Gov. Ridge the tools he needed to do his job," said McCaffrey. "He needed to have a federal law telling him what the Congress wants him to do."
"He needed to have a federal law telling him what the Congress wants him to do."
"He needed to have a federal law telling him what the Congress wants him to do."
"He needed to have a federal law telling him what the Congress wants him to do."
.............does anyone think this is a normal,,rational statement????????????????????????????
????,,,,oh well,,perhaps I'm being too picky,and critical.

..........May I offer you a piece of fresh catshit?

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Comment #2 posted by kaptinemo on April 22, 2002 at 07:33:55 PT:

Barry, barry befuddled...as always :(
"McCaffrey said Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge will have a tough time coordinating the counterterrorism efforts of more than 40 federal agencies, including the FBI and CIA, with a staff of just 100 people. "We didn't give Gov. Ridge the tools he needed to do his job," said McCaffrey. "He needed to have a federal law telling him what the Congress wants him to do."

Since Sept. 11th, and the Congress's shameful abdication of it's prerogatives in reviewing legislation before it is voted upon (they didn't read the so-called PATRIOT ACT before they voted on it) the Executive Branch has rightly concluded that Congress was gelded without it's knowledge or consent. (Must have happened during some luncheon with some lobbyist seeking to get Congress off the back of some mega-corp run by Bush's GOP friends for breaking a law.)

Since that time, Congress has sought and failed to get an accounting from The White House as to it's minions running loose without much supervision...or leashes. The climate is distinctly chilly between Congress and the White House...which Barry, if he had any understanding, would have realized before he opened his mouth.

But true to his ways, he is exhibitinbg the exact same lack of understanding vis-a-vis Congress as he did the DrugWar.

I find it doubly ironic that Barry's sib is opening a victim's rights law office. What happens when the US finally comes to its' senses about cannbais...and all those who's lives have been eviscerated by the DrugWar look for compensation?

If anyone deserves legal aid for 'victim's rights', it's every person who's had his or her life destroyed by Barry and Company. Should we call upon Barry's sister?

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Comment #1 posted by E_Johnson on April 21, 2002 at 17:31:07 PT
McCaffrey's two role models: Castro and Sharon
That says it all about the man!!



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