Source: Associated Press (Wire)
Published: Thursday, April 26, 2007
Copyright: 2007 Associated Press

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Kucinich is the only one (that I know of) who has actually made a stand on cannabis prohibition. His solution is real and of common understanding with the rest of us. He held up a copy of the constitution that was in his pocket. I just don't see Obama giving this any priority if he is elected, less even than the glib lip service of Clinton's "I didn't inhale."

Kucinich and Gravel put the nail on the head with 'wars are not solution.'

So what the hell is so wrong with promoting peace and prosperity without force of arms? -Which is kind of absurd if you look at it with actual logic.

Here's a favorite quote from one of my daughter's;

"Fighting for peace is like f__ing for virginity."

but that is the mindset of the conqueror, imposition of the way of the powerful few upon the powerless many.

I think that for honesty amd truth, Kucinich and Gravel were a close first.

The most real. I liked Kucinich for saying that he would be a 'healer' and he used the word compassion as if it wouldn't hurt to have some. Gravel was just too passionate and old appearing, though I agreed also passionately with every thing he said.

Richardson came in next with similar ideology, I didn't like the way they kept cutting him off, and giving Hillary all the time she wanted -there's something a bit stinky there.

Edwards barely makes it into the acceptable collumn. I liked his story about his experience with poverty, and I mostly believe him, but there is an aspect of pretense or 'falseness' that makes me a bit uneasy about him.

Biden looks just like a republican to me. His 'Yes' answer was clever, but not endearing. Not voting for him.

Obama appears quite efficient, he seems real confident of himself, but lacking in the very elements that Kucinich and Gravel grabbed me with. Based on what I saw, I would not vote for him.

Hillary wasn't going to get my vote no matter what. She pretty much revitalized that conviction.

Dodd had some good answers, but he is too much of a professional politician, like Hillary and Biden, for me.

My top three; Kucinich, Gravel, and Richardson. Edwards last.

There should be no seperation, and the very essence of that seperation is cause for much needless angst and suffering in the world. Our constitution states that "All men are created equal." The scriptures state that we are "all equal in the esteem of God."

The imbalance of wealth and resource that exists in the world is directly proportunate to the measure of power and belief that is given to such ideological creations as 'class' and 'profession.' The two have become synonymous.

While 'professional' used to mean 'skilled,' it now means no such thing, but is a nomenclature of class distinction and seperation.

He became a pediatrician, and in addition to caring for his patients in his office, he made house calls including to people who were unable to pay.

Modern 'science' is composed of human beings who participated in institutions that recognize the values of propriety and wealth above all else. Without funding, a research scientist works at McDonalds. Who gives the funding? People who need truth in medicine? Not on your life.

Money only has need of itself, and those who prioritize accordingly, produce commodity and invention, but hardly any real innovation, or trustworthy results.

The corporations have every political contingency in their pocket, and their ony concern for 'health and safety' is if it's going to hurt the bottom line of profit.

'Professionals' in this day and age can be certified easily without them actually having the skills or talents, all it takes is money. I would trust an herbalist any day over a 'scientist' or a 'doctor.' And I would trust my own intuitive grasp of my own body, before I let anyone else- particularly a doctor- draw their drug dealing conclusions about what I should or shouldn't do.

There is way too much credibility being given to ordinary humans with extraordinary monetary resource, and status quo 'recognition.'

You want wisdom? Ask someone who has lived it, not someone who learned to memorize information from a book. You are more likely to get true information from a random selection of people on the street, than a 'specialized' (biased) 'researched' conclusion from 'professionals.'

Mike Gravel said something like this.

He said Barack who ya gonna nuke Barack who are you gonna nuke?

He wound up working police duty at an amusement park. They didn't bring him into the darker parts of the force, I gather, because he wasn't corrupted.

Somehow, while he was working on his car one day, according to police he ...forgot to set the brake, and it backed into him, crushing him.

I went out of my way to get them THC'd. And that ultimately kept them out of the force, but their motivations?

I asked the one once, "Why do you want to be a cop?"

His answer, "Because I get to drive a fast car, carry a gun, get free drugs and sex." Simple, straitforward, and probably basicly true about most of 'em. They want to have power over people. That one brother went on to becoming a burglar, a civilian narc, and eventually (presumedly) died in a meth lab explosion.

Of course, he needed to be brought to some form of justice for the real crime, armed robbery...but he was given a life sentence for the failed urine test.

They're like rampaging elephants frightened by a mouse. They'll stomp to a bloody pulp a thousand "children" to get away from that mouse.

I wish we could stop them, before anyone else is trampled.

Souder, especially, but all of them, remind me of wild, angry, screaming, trumpeting, rampaging elephants.

But I refer to these no knock raids. What do they expect to happen? People are allowed to defend the security of their home with registered weapons. What will such a person do when a gang of thugs comes busting through their door?

Another bad law is the much abused forfeiture laws. These simply allow our government to rob citizens of their assets, for possessing a few plants. This is state sponsored robbery...flat out. It is also unconstitutional, as an obviously excessive penalty.

"Drug addicts" of the worst sort is what they are.

They are addicted to finding those drugs and will run over and through anyone to get to them....big time.

What? Them wrong? Can't be. They SUPPOSED to be able to kill innocent people and get away with it. They've been doing it for ages and they still do it.

This should sink their "No knock" boat...but it probably won't. Money! What about all the money they and their prison and grant buddies get? Stop it? I doubt it.

These guys need punishment...they're home invaders and murderers, but the machine that powered them as got to be stopped as well. Will this do it? I wish...but I doubt it.

This was a beloved grandmother. You saw her birthday picture. People don't celebrate like that with a granny they don't love.

Yet...no matter who it was...if it was a six foot seven, thirty five year old, three hundred pound man...it would still be wrong.

An American citizen? A sweet little old lady? Yeah...so what? The cops want to do this stuff and they will continue to fight to get to be able to do it. The excitement, adrenaline, and thrill of no knock raids....they don't want to be deprived of that.

This Alex White guy better watch himself, in fact I'm surprised he's still alive. Probably only because he got the feds involved.