Freedom is truly not an armchair pursuit, and truth and justice are rarely found in the places they are advertized.

I too have often been labelled a 'socialist' or 'anarchist'- among others- and I'm told that if I actually bothered to read Marx, or any of the socaialist ideologies, I would see the parallels. Well that may be, but I come to my conclusions based on life experience, not literature perse, and similarly I am often called a 'christian' or 'religious fanatic' in my belief in the original Source that devolved into christianity, but I am no more a christian than I am a socialist.

I am a human being, As a human being I have (as does everyone else who realizes the truth) sovereign authority over everything I do, as well as accountability, and responsibility for my actions. I do not accept any of the pretended rulers and authorities -on any level- that attempt to, and do, muck up the natural flow of mine, and everyone else natural life with their forcing of their way down our throats.

The fact that so many choose (ignorantly or otherwise) to be cannon fodder and wheel cogs in the machine-that-serves-the-rich, is a sad state, but nothing new. What is new is the consciousness and awareness that is finally able to be up front in the 'conversations of peers' without wholesale resistence from nearly every strata of social power groupings.

The Cat is out of the Bag. The systems and philosophies of Dark-Age, Medieval, Principalites are in their death throws. A golden age of potential is within our grasp. The question is how to halt the juggernaut of destruction that threatens to pull a possibly very bright future down with it into its final resting place as it tumbles into the inevitable abyss. The only solution there ever was, was consciousness, and it is rising, so its a bit of a race.

Sunshine go away today I don't feel much like dancing Some man's gone, he's tried to run my life Don't know what he's asking

He tells me I'd better get in line Can't hear what he's saying When I grow up I'm going to make it mine But these aren't dues I been paying

(Chorus) How much does it cost, I'll buy it The time is all we've lost, I'll try it But he can't even run his own life I'll be damned if he'll run mine, Sunshine

Sunshine go away today I don't feel much like dancing Some man's gone he's tried to run my life Don't know what he's asking

Working starts to make me wonder where The fruits of what I do are going He says in love and war all is fair But he's got cards he ain't showing

(Chorus)

Sunshine come on back another day I promise you I'll be singing This old world, she's gonna turn around Brand new bells'll be ringing (Emphasis mine - k.)

As any long time readers know, I'm no one's idea of a socialist (the curious should check out the YouTube interviews of people like Anthony C. Sutton, G. Edward Griffin and others to understand why) but the truth of the matter is we do indeed have a class-based society...and none of us reading here are anywhere near the top of it.

And the people at the very top who call the shots got there because their great-great-great Grandaddies started the swindles that made them rich at everyone elses' expense. And a large part of those swindles had to do with banning natural substances that could compete with the artificial ones that the Investor Class's industries produced.

Mussolini said that fascism should be more rightly called 'corporatism'; this from the man who invented fascism. When corporations climb in bed with government, that's corporatism. And that's what it took to ban cannabis...and keep it banned.

But, as ol' Bob Dylan warned a long time ago, "The times, they are a-changin'." It's been a long time coming, but the economics can no longer support maintaining a DrugWar, and that is in large part why we are witnessing a sea change taking place in the media and the halls of legislatures regarding cannabis.

And I remind the readers, old and new alike, that the economic aspects of this process were discussed here, right here on CNEWS, ten years ago. As was predicted the terrible, costly failure of Plan Colombia and the doomed invasions in the Middle East undertaken after 9/11. Not bad for a bunch of 'dumb stoners', huh?

I think it may help to put our response boldly: so? Meaning, of course: despite all the WoD, prices are stable. And: it's very difficult to see a person "destroying their lives" by taking cannabis. Rehabbers will insist that they couldn't live with out it, that they needed cannabis to feel good, but such an argument is very problematic because 100 million Americans have tried it.

One in three. And yet: the number of "regular" cannabis users hovers around 3 million. The point is actually that, with such a large, large number of smokers and such a small number of "addicts," we ask the question: "why are so many people able to try cannabis, then not use it?"

You guessed it! The answer is: drastic and virulent cultural warfare. From the words we use and the conflicts on sitcoms, to the choice of moral message commercials, to the soap operas and self-help groups and songs on the radio: the message is clear: we are expert at combatting "drug addiction," so it is necessary for you to buy all our products and believe dogmatically every single message that's available through "legitimate" channels. Un-screened faith in the system. Otherwise, how would it be possible for the 97 million Americans to make the "right" decision, when cannabis after all is an "addicting" drug?

"Drug" symbolizes many clear moral symbolisms. The first is that NO ONE has EVER BENEFITTED from smoking cannabis. No one, it's rhetorically and intellectually IMPOSSIBLE. The second is that society is virtuous, concerned, and reasonable in spraying us with a vicious and relentless campaign against marijuana. The third, which you all know from Nixon's time: I, the prohibitionist, need only come up with a minimum of anti-cannabis stats or news to justify keeping the whole system against cannabis. A feather in the wind is enough to support tons of cement in the air.

It's also NOT POSSIBLE for us to "beat" our "addiction" without help--cannabis, remember, robs the individual of any possible moral or intellectual ability. Sobbing with your 17-year old son is appropriate because he has chosen the path of evil over the good that you have lovingly inculcated in him. God must extend his mercy, because you are surely on the road to your own destruction! This means: I don't have to talk to you. I don't have to temper my emotions, consider your worth, nothing. It's self-explanatory, and should I be very generous in dealing with you, I'll robotize a few twentysomethings in a 30-second commercial. Because you need to be reminded, and I'm such a good person--magnanimous, really.

Translated: The current system is God. You are a sinner. How could you? How could you?

--rchandar

It has no title yet, and the lyrics aren't set in stone yet, but its pretty close;

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I stood there in the moment,

my young heart trying to believe.

And you smiled and stole the future,

that I would not recieve.

You said, "Look to tomorrow,

everything is up ahead."

And to my sorrow, I believed just what you said.

Work for the dollar, get yourself a collar,

save up all your money for your dyin' day, hey!

Hey, while the time goes by,

And i spent my time the way you wanted,

nine to five, six days a week.

And I never questioned your motives

that the strong should rule over the meek.

It seems so easy,

following the masters voice,

on the middle line, you don't have to make a choice.

Follow the leader, be a worker breeder,

if you're a good dog, you'll get a bone they say. Hey!

Hey, while the time goes by,

Hey, did you know you could fly?

But you gave up your freedom to the legislator,

traded all of the moments you thought you'd get back later,

you got your life doled out by the regulator,

but you still get stuck in the elevator of life.

It seems by now we should know the answer,

and the real truth is, some of us do.

But you're too busy being a dancer,

on a TV show made just for you.

and your tomorrow's a fantasy inside your head,

the time is now, why not live today instead.

Work for the dollar, get yourself a collar,

save up all your money for your dyin' day, hey!

Hey, while the time goes by,

Hey, did you know you could fly?

Its just one small step for the man on the moon,

what was a long time comin's gonna be here soon,

and the pipers played the callin tune,

some say the Bride has met the Groom,

well alright.

Alright.

Consider that, when they have work, the average American works harder, longer, for less pay and benefits than their counterparts in the rest of the Western world. Americans are literally worked to death thanks to many not having health care and the stress of having to be so 'productive'...while never asking for whom they are producing. Namely, for people who've largely inherited their wealth generations back and who enjoy the fruits of that productivity yet have nothing but disdain for those who maintain them in luxury.

Which is why they are terrified that 'their' proles might decide to demand self-sovereignty over their persons via cannabis use. For if anything makes you stop and look around at the madness swirling around you and cause you to rethink your role in it, it's cannabis.

So...when you hear prohibs making noises about 'productivity', just imagine said prohibs as sock puppets, with the hands of the Investor Class up their arses, moving their mouths.

Sacramento, CA -- Law enforcement officials said during a legislative hearing in Sacramento that legalizing marijuana in California could have significant drawbacks.

The Contra Costa Times of Walnut City, Calif., said Thursday that law enforcement officials argued Wednesday that legalizing marijuana statewide could lead to increased pot use among children as well as decreased worker productivity.

Sara Simpson, acting assistant chief of the state Justice Department's Bureau of Narcotics Enforcement, said Mexican drug cartels currently operating marijuana cultivation in California would likely not respect any laws accompanying marijuana legalization.

California Peace Officers' Association President John Standish said marijuana and methamphetamine are "both equally critical problems our society needs to address."

Meanwhile, advocates for marijuana legalization argued legalization would generate additional revenue for local and state governments, while also providing ways to control the potency of the drug.

The Times said California state Assembly Public Safety Committee Chairman Tom Ammiano convened Wednesday's three-hour hearing.

Copyright: 2009 United Press International, Inc.

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Bill To Legalize, Tax Marijuana in California Gets a Hearing

Published: Thursday, October 29, 2009

If We stop enabling prohibitionists from using the term, drug, then it will be difficult for "anti-drug" religious groups to comment about cannabis.

Then this president will have to be thought of as, anti-cannabis religious group to get involved. -Or anti-plant...

It will be difficult for a "president" of a "religious" group to associate cannabis as a "drug" when He's reminded how Our Bible refers to cannabis as a plant on literally the very 1st page... -once We stop allowing cannabis to be labeled a DRUG.

We don't allow presidents of ________ to refer to gays, Italians, women, the disabled, Jews, etc. with derogatory terms; We should not allow them to use deragatory slurs while referring to one of earths great plants.

Using the term drug while speaking of cannabis is degrading to cannabis, the plant.

Plants have feelings. People are sometimes sensitive and sometimes forced to be sensitive to other peoples feelings. People should be forced to be sensitive toward the feelings of plants. And cannabis is at the top of the plant kingdom.

I'm reminded of a verse in the Bible and how it relates toward being sensitive to cannabis.

Revelation 2:7, "He who has an ear, let him bear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God."

In overcoming evil, (which includes) ending cannabis prohibition and discrimination, will allow the sensitive plant to more readily help Us, as a planet.

At that time when We overcome evil, The ECOLOGICIAN will grant cannabis the ability to aid Us. Cannabis will be allowed, then, to do what it is here to do.

Of course there will be a market, a medical, a mass, and a connosuier market... but there will still be that pleasant thing of sharing... because of sharing.

That was one of those things Hippies were into.

That will still exist. It just won't be against the law.

To sooner RE-legalize cannabis, We must stop using and allowing prohibitionists to use the term,

DRUG.

Sorry folks, it's just to damn easy to see; it's a plant,

-not a drug.

The term, "drug" harms Our cause. Prohibitionist love it though.

""You're going to create a record of some sort," said Assemblyman Curt Hagman, a San Bernardino County Republican. "You can't force me to self-incriminate myself.""