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U.S. Drug Czar Visits Oregon 
Posted by FoM on April 26, 2002 at 18:14:52 PT
By William McCall, Associated Press Writer 
Source: Associated Press
John Walters, the Bush administration's drug czar, came to tout the government's war on drugs. But he found himself in a debate Friday over whether some drugs should be decriminalized. "After 30 years of the war on drugs, couldn't you say your presence here is an admission of failure?" Dr. Euan Horniman asked Walters after the official gave a breakfast speech at the City Club. 
Horniman noted that Britain and The Netherlands have decriminalized some drug use and offered addiction treatment programs instead of jail time without increasing the crime rate. Walters replied that decriminalization has failed when it has been tried in this country. He singled out former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke for criticism, saying addiction rates and HIV infection from illegal drug use skyrocketed after Schmoke relaxed drug enforcement in the city. "If you want an example of why it doesn't work ... my answer is to go to Baltimore," Walters said. He said teen-agers and marijuana still rank as the top priorities of the government's anti-drug program, despite what the administration contends is a more relaxed attitude toward drug use by parents in the baby boomer generation. Government surveys show roughly one in four of the estimated 4.5 million Americans with a drug problem are teen-agers, he said. "I'm no Pollyanna -- I don't think we can eliminate the drug problem," Walters said. "But studies repeatedly show if they don't use drugs as teen-agers, they're unlikely to use them as adults. The same goes for cigarettes and alcohol." Walters came to Oregon on Friday to talk about national drug trends, this state's battles against methamphetamine labs, and local prevention and treatment efforts, among other matters. In a speech at the Portland City Club, Walters said money spent on illegal drugs in Oregon and the rest of the country helps support terrorism. The White House chief of the Office of National Drug Control Policy said drug money has always gone to terrorist groups but the attack on America last September has renewed government efforts to reduce drug trafficking and abuse. Walters said 12 of the 28 terrorist groups identified in a State Department report last year are linked to drug trafficking but he blamed the drug trade in Colombia for providing the most funding for terrorists in the Western Hemisphere. "We're not saying that all terrorism is funded by drug consumption," Walters said, "but in this hemisphere, a significant portion is." Another City Club member, Paul Millius, said he believes in tough drug law enforcement but he questioned the concern about marijuana. "It's the same old rhetoric about marijuana being a 'gateway drug' to something worse when 30 years of experience should have taught us that is just not the case," Millius said. "Now they're linking it to terrorism because the government can't come up with something new." Source: Associated PressAuthor: William McCall, Associated Press Writer Published: April 26, 2002Copyright: 2002 Associated PressRelated Articles:Zeroing in on Border Pot Smugglers http://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12645.shtmlThe Other Drug War - John Waltershttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12611.shtmlUS Drug Chief Waves The Flaghttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12517.shtmlThe Drug Czar's View of Edible Hemphttp://cannabisnews.com/news/thread12235.shtml
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Comment #28 posted by Lehder on April 28, 2002 at 00:02:36 PT
Facts
Here are some facts:1. On 9/11 the US mainland was viciously attacked.2. No official investigation into the reasons for our vulnerability has been made.3. George Bush has refused to order an official investigation into whatever security lapses made the attack possible.Here, as I see it, is Parker's argument:1. On 9/11 the US mainland was viciously attacked.2. People like Lehder do not have enough to do; the Internet is their new asylum.THEREFORE3. No investigation is warranted.This sounds a lot like drug-war logic to me. I think that an investigation is required, that the necessity of preventing future attacks is sufficient reason to demand an investigation, and that Americans are owed an investigation. It is my opinion, but not a fact, that an official inquiry into the sources of vulnerability would reveal foreknowledge and criminal exploitation of the attack within the Bush administration.
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Comment #27 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 18:06:36 PT
type relevant title here
not sure why I autofill my name in the title field... I must not be paying attention
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Comment #26 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 18:04:23 PT:
Jose Melendez
Considering that hemp is legal in China, but not pot, I find this next article interesting. Perhaps someone from the Aloha state has more info? (Rev. Adler?)
from:http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-04/28/content_375622.htmHONOLULU, April 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Chinese Vice-President Hu Jintaoarrived here Saturday morning to make the 
first stop of his official visit to the United States at the invitation of 
Vice President Richard Bruce Cheney. Hu and his entourage 
were greeted at the Hickam Air Force Base by Hawaii Governor Banjamin 
Cayetano, Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific Command Dennis Blair, Honolulu 
Mayor Jeremy Harris, other local officials and Chinese Ambassador to the 
United States Yang Jiechi. In a written statement upon his 
arrival, Hu called Hawaii "a shining pearl on the Pacific Ocean" and "a 
bridge linking Eastern and Western cultures". In recent 
years, he said, the state of Hawaii has increased exchanges and cooperation 
with China, contributing to a closer friendship between the people of China 
and the United States. The Chinese vice-president said his 
current visit is aimed at implementing the consensus reached by Chinese 
President Jiang Zemin and U.S. President George W. Bush in their talks in 
Beijing,strengthening mutual understanding and pushing forward the 
constructive and cooperative relationship between the two 
countries. "I am looking forward to meeting with President 
Bush, Vice President Cheney and other U.S leaders, having an in-depth 
exchange of views with them on bilateral relations and the international 
situation, getting acquainted with people from all walks of life and 
learning on the spot the achievements made by the American people in 
economic, scientific and technological, cultural and other fields," he 
said. Hu expressed his belief that, through concerted efforts 
from the two sides, his visit will attain the anticipated goals. 
Enditem
Arrest Prohibition - Drug War is TREASON!
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Comment #25 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 17:55:44 PT:
Jose Melendez
It is more likeley that we will be taken seriously if we stick to science, fact and proof.See:http://www.snopes2.com/rumors/pentagon.htmand:Security Camera Captures Pentagon Crash, Explosionhttp://www.cnn.com/2002/US/03/07/gen.pentagon.pictures/index.html... and when I read Kathleen Parker's column, I wish she would apply the same patterns to expose the war on marijuana... From:http://orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edp-parker042402.column
Two thoughts: Americans have too much time on their hands; the Internet is the new asylum.
The question that burns, second only to "Why do they hate us?" is "Why are so many Americans willing to believe such irrational conspiracy theories?"
Social psychologists who study such phenomena offer this profile of the people who create and embrace conspiracy theories: They tend to feel marginalized, fearful and helpless. After perusing many of these sites, I offer another characteristic -- bored. It's pure entertainment to participate in conspiracy theories, gathering with like-minded e-pals trying to fit puzzle pieces together. - which is why I personally feel we should charge full steam ahead on things we can really prove, like cannabis is safe, effective and non-toxic. - jm
Without trying to refute each piece of conspiracy-theory "evidence" -- it is after all impossible to prove a negative-- anyone who's ever stood in line for a drivers license knows instinctively that the U.S. government isn't capable of pulling off the events of 9-11. Such a deed would require long-term planning, massive cooperation, blood trust, utmost secrecy and -- important detail here -- no leaks. 
Washington can't take a shower without an APB being issued. But George Bush -- the same Bush, remember, who's considered a "not too bright" bungler -- managed to kill thousands of Americans under the guise of radical Islamic terrorists so that he can build an oil pipeline through Afghanistan?
Sorry, sheeples, but you can't have it both ways: t'backy-chewin' moron or junior genius Dr. Know? Pick one.
Most amusing of all the conspiracy theories is the one suggesting that The Media are some monolithic purveyor of disinformation underwritten by the Arctic Big Ten or their equivalent. I'm told, for instance, that I'm paid by the right-wing propaganda machine, given my support of most Bush policies in the wake of 9-11 and my rejection of current conspiracy theories.
"You're being paid to lie to the American people," wrote one of my new fans.
Here's the truth: I know of no reporter, editor or columnist in the Western Hemisphere who wouldn't sell his mother's honeymoon pictures for a good story, no matter whose life gets ruined. No one, especially not a president, is off limits when Truth is at stake, not to mention Pulitzers.
The notion that we're all on the same team is laughable. Nobody does schadenfreude with as much glee as reporters, who shamelessly scour media gossip pages looking for their peers' failures and embarrassments. Don't ask how I know....so again, in my not so humble opinion: let's fight armed with science to make drug war history.
Arrest Prohibition - Drug War is TREASON!
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Comment #24 posted by mayan on April 27, 2002 at 17:52:10 PT
Write a LTE...
to the Orlando Sentinel, I did. Here's the address:
insight orlandosentinel.com
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Comment #23 posted by Lehder on April 27, 2002 at 17:47:43 PT
Kathleen Parker Column
Thanks for the link, mayan.s there any truth to any of it? Did George Bush
          orchestrate the events of 9-11, as some claim? Did he
          know in advance about the attacks and do nothing so that
          his oil friends could get rich, as others have suggested?          Dozens of Web sites offer a smorgasbord of news
          snippets and individual conjecture to make a case for
          Bush's collusion in the event or at least in covering up the real perpetrators. One
          theory includes a timeline that supposedly "proves" that the U.S. government knew of
          the attacks but did nothing. Another suggests that the hijacked planes were flown by
          remote control, possibly by a nation such as Saudi Arabia.No, neither George Bush nor the government as a whole has the competence to orchestrate the attack or even the imagination to dream it up. I would like to begin simply with an investigation into how US security services failed to prevent the attack. And George Bush will not allow it. But he does have time to secret all his papers from the Texas governorship in a San Antonio vault along with his father's VP papers.
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Comment #22 posted by mayan on April 27, 2002 at 17:27:38 PT
Katheen Parker Strikes Again!
Conspiracy Theory Whisperers: Who Knew?
http://orlandosentinel.com/news/opinion/orl-edp-parker042402.columnKathleen Parker's e-mail adress:
kparker orlandosentinel.com
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Comment #21 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 17:19:22 PT
vote now
But the original poll site is up now, looks like something that could be easily investigated by looking at the ip addresses. I tried to vote 4 times to test the system, but the updates must have some sort of lag, because as far as I can tell, the number did NOT change. Of course, I could be wrong about that, but as a backed out of the site, all numbers seemed to stay the same...
Should Rep. Cynthia McKinney be suspended from sensitive committees like the House Armed Services Committee and the International Relations Committee?
Vote NOW:http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/poll_mckinney0423.html
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Comment #20 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 17:10:50 PT
Robbie
I should mention that comment #16 was copied from:http://www.gwbush.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=2013&t=2013As for freeps, I must have missed it. That link is now down or on hold or something...
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Comment #19 posted by DdC on April 27, 2002 at 16:19:22 PT
I just included Nexxon's quote,here's the response
"You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? What is the matter with them? I suppose it is because most of them are psychiatrists."
Richard Nixon missing tapes
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12302.shtmlNixon Traitor
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/40/40398.gif
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Comment #18 posted by Robbie on April 27, 2002 at 14:34:41 PT
JOSE! Re: McKinney!
Have you seen it recently?At 17:28 EDT it's 72% YES! Talk about freeped!
Poll
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Comment #17 posted by el_toonces on April 27, 2002 at 11:07:42 PT:
What's the matter?
DdC -- I thought Dick answered his question: "You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob?"I thought he later complained the "matter" with Jewish people was that too many of them were "psychiatrists," and it's not too hard to see how Dick might be made uncomfortable by anyone who paid attention to irrational behavior.......El
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Comment #16 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 06:51:01 PT
their race baiting IS backfiring
Posted from another site:

The McKinney Poll has been "fixed"
Remember a few days ago a poll similar to this was pulled from the Atlanta Constitution Journal because they said it was being freeped. Well I voted and then I tried to vote again. NO WAY Hosea!
Well today a new poll is up and once again McKinney is winning so far. But guess what? Now it has been fixed so that you CAN vote multiple times. What do you bet that the word goes to Free Republic? McKinney is ahead now but let's see what happens later today.
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/poll_mckinney0423.html
Should Rep. Cynthia McKinney be suspended from sensitive committees like the House Armed Services Committee and the International Relations Committee?
Yes 44% 7109
No 56% 9104 
That was at 7:15 AM Central time. I checked the numbers at 8:25 AM Central time and they were 
Yes 40% 7768
No 60% 11656 
The poll has "yes" jumped about 500 in the last 10 minutes. 
Imagine a few people thinking it is their duty to misrepresent the will of the American people. One guy says he posted 250 times. Let's assume they are good for 50 votes apiece. That makes 200 busy Freepers.
The good news is, as fewer and fewer of them are around, the Freeping burden will fall on fewer and fewer. More unhappy times ahead in Freeperville.
While I was voting, 43 more "yes" votes came in, and ten more "no" votes.
If you haven't voted yet, please do.
Yeah they're freeping the  !#$ out of it still at 5:33
“If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. “ - James Madison 
"It is as much my responsibility not to cooperate with evil as it is to cooperate with good." Mahatma Gandhi
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Comment #15 posted by Jose Melendez on April 27, 2002 at 06:47:55 PT
looks like their race baiting is backfiring
The poll has been taken down, this is all I could find:http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/2001/10/mckinney2.html
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Comment #14 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on April 27, 2002 at 06:47:14 PT
On CNN
  Just saw the tail end of something about Walters in Oregon on CNN. It was from their Oregon affiliate. Walters was shown asking several questions which he must have posed rhetorically, like 'Should we give up on the War on Drugs?' 'Should we close down treatment centers?' Obviously, he has no idea what HARM REDUCTION truly means...
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Comment #13 posted by mayan on April 27, 2002 at 06:44:29 PT
Golly...
the page must no longer exist. Anyway, read about it here,maybe you can get on.http://www.gwbush.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=2013&t=2013 
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Comment #12 posted by mayan on April 27, 2002 at 06:28:35 PT
Cynthia McKinney Poll!
It asks: Should Rep. Cynthia McKinney be suspended from sensitive committees like the House Armed Services Committee And the International Relations Committee? http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/wsbtv/news/poll_mckinney0423.htm
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Comment #11 posted by JR Bob Dobbs on April 27, 2002 at 06:13:44 PT
What's new in Baltimore?
Rev. Bookburn wrote:
>>Maybe Walters could use his 'talents' writing for tabloids or working for Fox News..or both!  Don't forget, the most ultra-conservative host Fox News has got, Bill O'Reilly, said he didn't care about people smoking pot in their basements, and that he supported changing the marijuana laws.  How can they keep finding people to fill this job who can not see the truth? Do they grow them in some government lab?
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Comment #10 posted by The GCW on April 27, 2002 at 06:11:22 PT
p4me, cavemon, tunnel vision, Biblical interpr.?
4:27:2Cannabis / kaneh bosm – Smoke cannabis to please Our Father.What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the Word of Life—is a blessing from Our Father.GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW-To Walters:  The one who says, "I have come to know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him; but whoever keeps His word, in him the love of God has truly been perfected. By this we know that we are in Him: the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked. Beloved, I am not writing a new commandment to you, but an old commandment which you have had from the beginning; the old commandment is the word which you have heard. On the other hand, I am writing a new commandment to you, which is true in Him and in you, because the darkness is passing away and the true Light is already shining. 
The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now. The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him. But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.  If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW-We are bought with a price. We do not belong to ourselves. We belong to who put us here. We belong to Our Father. When using cannabis, the enjoyment you receive, is enjoyment to our Spirit, brains and souls and are all that of Our Father’s. The pleasantries of cannabis are for what belongs to Our Father, not just pleasantries just for Us.Cannabis pleases Our Father. Is there anything given to Us by Our Father, that He did not have pleasure in?Smoke cannabis to please Our Father.GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW- GCW-GCW-It would be good if Walters could pray and ask Our Father for the Truth of kaneh bosm, and receive it.*If I was willing to die for the cause of cannabis....
*Baltimore did not legalize cannabis....
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Comment #9 posted by aocp on April 27, 2002 at 05:39:01 PT
what a crock
Walters replied that decriminalization has failed when it has been tried in this country. He singled out former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke for criticism, saying addiction rates and HIV infection from illegal drug use skyrocketed after Schmoke relaxed drug enforcement in the city. "If you want an example of why it doesn't work ... my answer is to go to Baltimore," Walters said.Relaxed enforcement is not the same thing as regulation, which we have yet to try. You people give the criminals a monopoly in this market and then wash your hands of this mess? What a sad, pathetic excuse for leadership.
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Comment #8 posted by DdC on April 27, 2002 at 00:41:44 PT
If a ruler harkens to lies his servants are wicked
"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."
John P. Walters
Falling in Line..."You know, it's a funny thing, every one of the bastards that are out for legalizing marijuana is Jewish. What the Christ is the matter with the Jews, Bob? 
Richard Nixon missing tapes
http://www.cannabisnews.com/news/thread12302.shtmlStepping Off Hard Drugs With Cannabis
http://www.potpride.com/steppingstone.htm“If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face with the monster marihuana he would drop dead of fright.”
This is not an overstatement.Polyanna!
Users of the marihuana weed are committing a large percentage of the atrocious crimes blotting the daily picture of American life.
It is reducing thousands of boys to CRIMINAL INSANITY.
And ONLY TWO STATES have effective laws to protect their people against it.
The marihuana weed, according to Mr. Anslinger, is grown, sold and USED in every State in the Union.
He charges, and rightly, that this is not a responsibility of one State, but OF ALL — and of the Federal Government.
American women, aroused to this DANGER, will GET ACTION. (Aah-mmmmm?)A Roundup of Hearst’s Hysterical Headlines
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_17.HTM#headlinesI 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" Assassins of Youth
http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/politics/media/36/36796.gifAnslinger read into U.S. Congressional testimony (without objection) stories about ‘coloreds’ with big lips, luring white women with jazz music and marijuana.Bigotry and Aparteid
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_08.HTM#bigotry"Marihuana Makes Fiends of Boys in 30 Days; Hasheesh Goads Users to Blood-Lust" create terror of the "killer weed from Mexico." Through his relentless disinformation campaign, Hearst is credited with bringing the word "marijuana" into the English language. In addition to fueling racist attitudes toward Hispanics, Hearst papers run articles about "marijuana-crazed negroes" raping white women and playing "voodoo-satanic" jazz music.
Driven insane by marijuana, these blacks -- according to accounts in Hearst-owned newspapers -- dared to step on white men's shadows, look white people directly in the eye for more than three seconds, and even laugh out loud at white people. For shame!Self Perpetuating Lies
http://www.electricemperor.com/eecdrom/HTML/EMP/04/ECH04_13.HTM#liesAnslinger read an account of two “Negro” students at the University of Minnesota doing this to a white coed “with the result of pregnancy.” The Congressmen of 1937 gasped at this and at the fact that this drug seemingly caused white women to touch or even look at a “Negro.”DARE the FRCn Chemical Partnerships!
http://pub3.ezboard.com/fendingcannabisprohibitionwhyitstimetolegalize.showMessage?topicID=105.topicMissing Nixon tapes
excerpts begin with the Nixon doctrine on why marijuana is much worse than alcohol: It is because people drink "to have fun" but they smoke marijuana "to get high." This distinction was evidently enormously significant to Nixon, because he repeats it."You're enough of a pro," Nixon tells Shafer, "to know that for you to come out with something that would run counter to what the Congress feels and what the country feels, and what we're planning to do, would make your commission just look bad as hell."Klintoon thought it would !!07"Flout" Congress too. Watch out for flouters, it sounds pretty bad Willlllber!...
http://www.cannabinoid.com/wwwboard/politics/binaries/28/28411.gif"... 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.htmPresident 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 "...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it."
- David Rockefeller - Newsweek International, Feb 1 1999. Philanthropy Roundtable Riteoffs for the Rich 
Advertizing tax dollar paid commercials keeping cannabis competition off the market...
Talk about slick willy?
John P. Walters President
The Philanthropy Roundtable is a national association of individual donors, corporate giving representatives, foundation staff and trustees, and trust and estate officers. The Roundtable is founded on the principle that voluntary private action offers the best means of addressing many of society's needs, and that a vibrant private sector is critical to creating the wealth that makes philanthropy possible.
Copyright © 1997-2001 by the Philanthropy Roundtable "All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it." 
Just Say No!"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935 "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."
Harry Anslinger, U.S. Commissioner of Narcotics, testifying to Congress on why marijuana should be made illegal, 1937.
(Marijuana Tax Act, signed Aug. 2, 1937; effective Oct. 1, 1937.) "There is a point at which the law becomes immoral and unethical. That point is reached when it becomes a cloak for the cowardice that dares not stand up against blatant violations of justice. A state that supresses all freedom of speech, and which by imposing the most terrible punishments, treats each and every attempt at criticism, however morally justified, and every suggestion for improvement as plotting to high treason, is a state that breaks an unwritten law."
- Kurt Huber [The head of White Rose], killed by the Nazis in 1943. The Elkhorn Manifesto
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/shadv3.html 
Cannabis Hemp: The Invisible Prohibition Revealed
http://www.sumeria.net/politics/invpro.html
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Comment #7 posted by qqqq on April 27, 2002 at 00:02:21 PT
..What a knee slapper!!!!!...
"I'm no Pollyanna -- I don't think we can eliminate the drug problem," Walters said. ...
...Wow!!!...That's gotta be one of the best alltime classic drug-war quotes!!!!...think about it... Are we to then assume that only a "Pollyanna",would be foolish enough to think that 'Ellimination',of the "drug problem",is possible?........shit!,,between those dam Pollyannas and Leprachauns,,,we may never eliminate this drug problem!
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Comment #6 posted by john wayne on April 26, 2002 at 23:32:04 PT
Man...
...that's about as clear as I've ever heard it put."After 30 years of the war on drugs, couldn't you say your presence here is an admission of failure?" Dr.
Euan Horniman asked Walters after the official gave a breakfast speech at the City Club.
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Comment #5 posted by Rev Bookburn on April 26, 2002 at 20:41:25 PT:
the 'czar' is incapable of speaking the truth
It is amazing that Walters can even show his face in public. He says that decrim has failed everywhere. When and where was there no drug war hysteria? Walters represents the same racist, scapegoating policies that have destroyed lives and accomplished nothing of value for decades. He is the embodiment of a destructive, human failure. He can only offer myths and lies on behalf of his masters in the Bush regime.If he wants to talk about terrorism: who financed the contra-terrorists throughout the 80s and then had a DC airport named after him? Who touted the future al-Quada network as heroic freedom fighters who compare to our founders, as they received US training and funding to resist the Soviet invasion? Who has killed civilians in large numbers on every continent in the name of corporate interests? Who continues to do so? The lies of connecting the war on drugs with the war against other peoples' terrorism are not even believed by people who are unsympathetic to the hemp movement. Maybe Walters could use his 'talents' writing for tabloids or working for Fox News..or both!Rev Bookburn
Rev Bookburn- Radio Volta
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Comment #4 posted by Sandino on April 26, 2002 at 20:08:16 PT:
Lies, Lies and More Lies
The current government of the U.$.A. is nothing but a group of "shuck & jive" artists, one lie after another. Wake up, you dead beat necropiles or face the music, the people demand the TRUTH and we want it "NOW"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Another interesting story can be found at: http://www.asile.org/citoyens/numero13/pentagone/erreurs en.htmS.A. Homes
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Comment #3 posted by MikeEEEEE on April 26, 2002 at 19:35:41 PT
Good point
"Now they're linking it to terrorism because the government can't come up with something new."
Very true, they can't find anymore excuses. 
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Comment #2 posted by p4me on April 26, 2002 at 19:20:07 PT
Walters is a caveman
Busch is a caveman. Hutchinson is a caveman. There logic makes sense when they talk to other cavemen but it makes no sense to me. Walters can not single out marijuana and that besides being a violation of my freedom is a plant that can help many sick people. If I were Drug Csar as in Caesar, I would say we have to talk about marijuana and settle this so we can go on to new solutions.Walters, when you stay in your deep caves you only see with tunnel vision. You are no leader. You are a disgrace to the country you tunnelvisioned bastard.Starve the economy and have a thrifty meal. VAAI
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Comment #1 posted by The GCW on April 26, 2002 at 18:49:07 PT
Jabs
and an upper cut!"It's the same old rhetoric ... "Now they're linking it to terrorism because the government can't come up with something new." 
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