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  FBI Considers Relaxing Hiring Policy

Posted by CN Staff on October 09, 2005 at 10:29:27 PT
By Ted Bridis 
Source: Associated Press  

Washington, D.C. -- The FBI, famous for its straight-laced crime-fighting image, is considering whether to relax its hiring rules over how often applicants could have used marijuana or other illegal drugs earlier in life.Some senior FBI managers have been deeply frustrated that they could not hire applicants who acknowledged occasional marijuana use in college, but in some cases already perform top-secret work at other government agencies, such as the CIA or State Department.
FBI Director Robert Mueller will make the final decision. "We can't say when or if this is going to happen, but we are exploring the possibility," spokesman Stephen Kodak saidThe change would ease limits about how often - and how many years ago - applicants for jobs such as intelligence analysts, linguists, computer specialists, accountants and others had used illegal drugs.The rules, however, would not be relaxed for FBI special agents, the fabled "G-men" who conduct most criminal and terrorism investigations. Also, the new plan would continue to ban current drug use.The nation's former anti-drug czar said he understands the FBI's dilemma."The integrity of the FBI is a known national treasure that must be protected," said retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who used to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. "But there should be no hard and fast rule that suggests you can't ever have used drugs. As long as it's clear that's behind you and you're overwhelmingly likely to remain drug free, you should be eligible."Current rules prohibit the FBI from hiring anyone who used marijuana within the past three years or more than 15 times ever. They also ban anyone who used other illegal drugs, such as cocaine or heroin, within the past 10 years or more than five times."That 16th time is a killer," McCaffrey said.The new FBI proposal would judge applicants based on their "whole person" rather than limiting drug-related experiences to an arbitrary number. It would consider the circumstances of a person's previous drug use, such as their age, and the likelihood of future usage. The relaxed standard already is in use at most other U.S. intelligence agencies.Entry-level intelligence analysts usually earn between $36,000 and $53,000, depending on qualifications and where they are assigned to work. Entry-level FBI special agents earn $42,548.The FBI proposal contrasts with the agency's starched image and its drug-fighting history. A generation of video game players can remember seeing the FBI seal and slogan, "Winners don't use drugs," attributed to former FBI Director William Sessions, on popular arcade games from the late 1980s.Private companies have wrestled with the same problem. Employers complain they can't afford to turn away applicants because of marijuana use that ended years earlier, said Robert Drusendahl, owner of The Pre-Check Co. in Cleveland, which performs background employment checks for private companies."The point is, they can't fill those spots," Drusendahl said. "This is a microcosm of what's happening outside in the rest of the world. Do we dilute our standards?" He said the FBI should have a low tolerance for any illegal behavior by applicants. "If they used marijuana, that's illegal. It's pretty cut and dried."A recently retired FBI polygraph examiner, Harold L. Byford of El Paso, Texas, was quoted in a federal lawsuit in February 2002 arguing that "if someone has smoked marijuana 15 times, he's done it 50 times. ... If I was running the show there would be no one in the FBI that ever used illegal drugs!"The proposed FBI change also reflects cultural and generational shifts in attitudes toward marijuana and other drugs, even as the Bush administration has sought to establish links between terrorists and narcotics."I don't think you could find anybody who hasn't tried marijuana, and I take a lot of credit for that," said Tommy Chong, the comedian whose films with Cheech Marin provided over-the-top portrayals of marijuana culture during the 1980s. "They're going to have to change their policy."While marijuana use is hardly universal, it remains the most commonly used illegal drug in the United States, with about half of teenagers trying the drug before they graduate high school."What people did when they were 18 or 21, I think that is pretty irrelevant," said Richard Clarke, a former top White House counterterrorism adviser. "We have to recognize there are a couple of generations now who regarded marijuana use, while it's technically illegal, as nothing more serious than jaywalking."An agency's attitude toward drug use has been blamed for unexpected consequences. The CIA forced one of its officers, Edward Lee Howard, to resign in May 1983 after he failed a polygraph test and disclosed his drug use in Colombia during 1975 when he was a Peace Corps volunteer. Howard defected to the Soviet Union in 1985 after he was accused of espionage activities that spy hunters believe were driven by resentment over his forced resignation."I had been totally honest about each and every misdeed in my past, including my drug use in South America and my occasional abuse of alcohol," Howard wrote in his 1995 memoirs. He died in July 2002 at his home outside Moscow.Some other federal agencies also have tough marijuana policies. The Drug Enforcement Administration will not hire applicants as agents who used illegal drugs, although it makes exceptions for admitting "limited youthful and experimental use of marijuana." The DEA, however, permits no prior use of harder drugs."Recreational marijuana use is a fact of life nowadays," said Mark Zaid, a Washington lawyer who has represented people rejected for FBI jobs over drugs. "It doesn't stop Supreme Court justices from getting on the bench and doesn't stop presidents from getting elected, so why should it stop someone from getting hired by the FBI?"ON THE NETFBI employment policy: http://www.fbi.gov/employment/policies.htmFBI recruiting video for intelligence analysts: http://www.fbi.gov/filelink.html?file/real/recruit/intell_analyst.mpg Source: Associated Press (Wire)Author: Ted BridisPublished: October 09, 2005Copyright: 2005 The Associated Press CannabisNews FBI Archiveshttp://cannabisnews.com/news/list/FBI.shtml

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Comment #111 posted by Hope on October 20, 2005 at 18:20:31 PT
People,
I'm having a pink bubblegum cigar. It's delicious. It says El Bubble on the cigar ring. It's not dusted with much sugar...but it's dang good.I might be blowing bubbles before this is over with.
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Comment #110 posted by Hope on October 12, 2005 at 18:27:49 PT
Evil
It is just evil what Steve has had to go through. Bad enough that he was hurt in the first place and in constant pain...but he finds blessed relief in a plant...a plant...and then evil...in the form of humans and unjust laws have just hounded and hounded and persecuted him. Evil isn't always ugly and obvious...sometimes it's all shiny and righteous looking in the form of an unjust law and the enforcers who carry out the evil demands of that evil law.Yes...EVIL!It's not right. How can people keep deluding themselves like they are? Steve is oh sooo bad...and they are oh sooo good? Stupid evil laws and the stupid evil people who love them. When "light" comes...and they can finally see...they will see that it is they and not Steve, that are doing the true wrong...the evil.
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Comment #109 posted by global_warming on October 12, 2005 at 15:36:54 PT
How is Steve?
He has not posted to this forum, and I must imagine that his worst pain is before his eyes.This hacked up world that we live in largely misses and ignores history and the timelines of human freedom.I never really understood why there is so much suffering in this world. I might consider that even the Christ did not have an answer, yet I see greed and lusting people hurriedly grabbing every last morsel of food and comfort, every scrap is quickly legislated and taken from the empty plate of the poor.We all may have been kicked out of the Heavenly Garden, and those flaming barriers guard us from entering back, as we scurry just beyond those protected gates, are we not neighbors, sniffing the same savours, that lift the soul and promise a new world?"We" can do it, we can overcome......
http://www.blackmask.com/thatway/books190c/blwhidex.htm1884
AUTHOR'S PREFACE.In discussing the political and industrial problems of the South, I base my conclusions upon a personal knowledge of the condition of classes in the South, as well as upon the ample data furnished by writers who have pursued, in their way, the question before me. That the colored people of the country will yet achieve an honorable status in the national industries of thought and activity, I believe, and try to make plain.In discussion of the land and labor problem I but pursue the theories advocated by more able and experienced men, in the attempt to show that the laboring classes of any country pay all the taxes, in the last analysis, and that they are systematically victimized by legislators, corporations and syndicates.Wealth, unduly centralized, endangers the efficient workings of the machinery of government. Land monopoly—in the hands of individuals, corporations or syndicates—is at bottom the prime cause of the inequalities which obtain; which desolate fertile acres turned over to vast ranches and into bonanza farms of a thousand acres, where not one family finds a habitation, where muscle and brain are supplanted by machinery, and the small farmer is swallowed up and turned into a tenant or slave. While in large cities thousands upon thousands of human beings are crowded into narrow quarters where vice festers, where crime flourishes undeterred, and where death is the most welcome of all visitors."...There once was an invisible train that ran without tracks. This railroad transported slaves to freedom through a network of "stations" led by secret "conductors." George Washington noted the existence of these efforts as early as 1786. And by 1831, this growing freedom network was called the "Underground Railroad." Thousands of slaves found freedom through this human train in the 1800s.http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/timeline/railroad.html
Freedom
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Comment #108 posted by FoM on October 11, 2005 at 20:52:32 PT
Hope
Steve is lucky to have Richard on his case. Getting a NORML attorney for him was also a big help. Maybe he will get the medical care he needs since he has an attorney now.
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Comment #107 posted by Hope on October 11, 2005 at 20:04:51 PT
He's alive.
Thankfully, enough people know about him that they can't just "lose" him in the system.
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Comment #106 posted by FoM on October 11, 2005 at 19:55:35 PT
Update On Steve Tuck By Richard Cowan
http://marijuananews.com/news.php3?sid=856
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Comment #105 posted by Hope on October 11, 2005 at 19:52:10 PT
Pass out the glow sticks...
and a tub of ice cream.
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Comment #104 posted by Hope on October 11, 2005 at 19:51:20 PT
We've lost it...nearly...
and are discussing candy cigarettes and lips...and stuff.
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Comment #103 posted by Hope on October 11, 2005 at 19:49:48 PT
It's a jail wake thread...
Waiting on news about our HerbDoc...Steve Tuck.
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Comment #102 posted by FoM on October 11, 2005 at 19:49:06 PT
runderwo
Since we can't have hemp lollipops how about a candy cigarette!
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Comment #101 posted by runderwo on October 11, 2005 at 19:45:13 PT
busy thread
Wow.. 100 comments. Doesn't that call for celebration of some sort?
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Comment #100 posted by Hope on October 11, 2005 at 18:53:11 PT
Runruff...
You made me laugh! and think of John Belushi.
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Comment #99 posted by runruff on October 11, 2005 at 18:48:43 PT:
BUSHIDO!
Ancient Japanese Warrior Cult. [Samuri] Ho Bushiesahn!
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Comment #98 posted by global_warming on October 11, 2005 at 15:11:56 PT
Industrial-Military Complex
These is a short piece that is making the rounds and I thought to share with all here..http://www.worldprayer.us/bible/christian/108029-dear-soc.religion.christian-readers.html"It's getting a bit tiresome seeing one misguided American after another with their cutsie little yellow or red-white-blue ribbons on their outsized SUVs.
Yeah, I guess it's the thing to do; maybe part of that whole soccer-mom culture. Unfortunately, the only thing they demonstrate is that the person behind the wheel is a clueless, gullible, misguided, nitwit.If foreign invaders landed on our soil, as we have done in Iraq, I would be the first one to take up arms and repel them. (I suppose that would make me an 'insurgent' by OUR logic.) This, and other aggressive governments have
always done their utmost to make it APPEAR as if committing yourself to kill in feuds on distant shores that have nothing to do with the welfare of the citizenry is somehow patriotic.It is not.Enlisting in the armed forces, in the absence of a real and impending foreign threat, is no different that hiring yourself as a paid assassin . .
the only difference is, you're not getting paid enough. But let's take a
realistic look at exactly WHO joins up in an all-volunteer army.The first group are those who join (during peacetime) for the benefits: to
get an education, or because it seems a reasonable career path. Consider
carefully! Realize that you are gambling with your humanity. Once you sign that form, you sign away your right to say: "No, that is an atrocity." You put your abilities, including the ability to kill, at the disposal of proven liars, psychopaths . . . enemies of humanity. Do you think that every German soldier in World War II who helped load Jews into cattle cars was a cold-blooded killer? Most were poor kids, just like you, who got caught up in the patriotic frenzy. Once you're in, you're IN. You lose the ability to
stop killing until they tell you so. This not only makes you less than human, it makes you less than an animal, for even the animals retain their freedom of self determination.The second group are the simple minded, who fall for patriotic entreaties about defending democracy, Mom, apple pie; in other words, all the traditional government propaganda. Do you think Soviet lads subjugated their
neighbors throughout the world because they thought the Soviet Union was an EVIL empire? No, they were fighting for MOM, and whatever passes for apple pie in Russia. Step back and examine the lies your government is handing you, and ask yourself if they have the ring of truth. Do you want to be one of the murderers in uniform who opened up on their fellow citizens at Kent State? When you put on that uniform, you give up all autonomy, and become nothing more than a weapon, to be used for whatever evil purposes the scoundrels in government demand (and, if you look carefully, you will
discover that the only interests THEY serve are those of the big businesses that own them.)Finally, you have the hard-core psychopaths. These are the people who WANT to kill. Murder, torture, rape; THESE are the American values upon which THIS group is focused. The cause doesn't matter, they're after the thrill that only warfare can provide.Just remember: killing for George W. Bush, or for George H.W. Bush, or for Lyndon B. Johnson, or for Richard M. Nixon is not the same as defending yourself, your family, your friends, or your country. Don't be a dupe. Don't
Enlist!Remember -- supporting the troops means supporting Bush aggression, profiteering, and war crimes. Here's an idea: why not take those ribbons, dip them in blood, and mail them to the White House? "
http://www.worldprayer.us/bible/christian/108029-dear-soc.religion.christian-rea
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Comment #97 posted by observer on October 11, 2005 at 12:19:59 PT
Come out of her, my people
managers have been deeply frustrated that they could not hire applicants who acknowledged occasional marijuana use in college, but in some cases already perform top-secret workFolks, please stop feeding this Leviathan, the military-industrial complex. The reason why there is so much "top-secret work" and 'specially compartmentalized information' is because the scoundrels who are instrumental in making war toys and systems and oppressive bureaucracies like the FBI (remember Waco, Ruby Ridge, etc.) don't want their evil deeds to see the light of day. Making missles and bullets and bombs that get used in Vietnam or Iraq ain't defending the USA, bub. It is militarism of the worst kind. You're not helping people making Orwellian 1984 computer systems to that oppress people and squelch political dissent (which is what the FBI is for, how quickly we forget COINTELPRO, and like activities which are still the main thrust of the FBI). That's the reason why they want your programs, and your silence, and your ignorance. Just crank out the system to their specs never mind what the brass will use it for.So if you're working for them, and understand what you're doing to people it is time for you to get out. Past ignorance is forgiven, just please find another job that isn't feeding the beast. Stop working for defense contractors and government oppressors like the FBI. Wise up.Come out of her.
http://drugpolicycentral.com/bot/pot high-volume pot news feeds
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Comment #96 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 18:18:37 PT
I Think So
I wondered that too EJ.
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Comment #95 posted by E_Johnson on October 10, 2005 at 18:13:43 PT
DEA allows future but no past drug use?
Aren't DEA agents supposed to do drugs when they work undercover?
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Comment #94 posted by global_warming on October 10, 2005 at 17:41:33 PT
re:Pleasant Evening
One blink from your eyes, can fill an entire universe, the stars understand, and that Holy Path will sing under your feet, dear one,
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Comment #93 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 17:41:28 PT
Hope
Why you want short horses makes perfect sense to me. For me when you are galloping up to a 4 foot fence a little horse makes it look 10 feet tall but a tall horse makes it seem like it's only 2 feet tall.
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Comment #92 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 17:26:32 PT
funny
"I am small and my horses were very big..."Just the opposite here, except for a few semi tall ones that had some thoroughbred in them. Small and sturdy or quick horses. Short horses are better in brushy areas and areas with low limbs...plus...when one must occasionally take the real spill, it's closer to the ground.
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Comment #91 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 17:20:44 PT
Global Warming
You made me laugh!
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Comment #90 posted by global_warming on October 10, 2005 at 17:14:33 PT
Stilletos and Scarlet Badges
Like prisons and our current system of hatred, fear and lack of understanding, we can with one blink of our eyes, see the New World, promised, the dusts of history are easily confused, the Life of this world is a gift which can not ever be owned, bartered or controled, it comes from God.Have a pleasant evening,
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Comment #89 posted by global_warming on October 10, 2005 at 16:39:43 PT
Hail Mary
Walking on them stilletos,..
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Comment #88 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 16:36:26 PT
Hope
Another good one!
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Comment #87 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 16:25:26 PT
being ever being
ever being
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Comment #86 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 16:24:11 PT
The FBI
I don't recall being ever being "proud" of the FBI... after Efrem Zimbalist quit.
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Comment #85 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 16:20:43 PT
*smile*
Bet he know where the "outrage" is now.
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Comment #84 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 16:10:52 PT
Oh Hope
That's so funny!
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Comment #83 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 16:08:10 PT
Speaking of National Treasures...
Virtuous Bill on C-Span tomorrow.
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Comment #82 posted by global_warming on October 10, 2005 at 15:45:14 PT
Treasures
I can only think of one thing worthy of being called a National Treasure..its that gift from the Heavens, also known as the lowly Cannabis, and as for them jack boots with spurs, on some animals back, or on the back of a carpenter, the best leather and steel we shall take with us before that Eternal Light.
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Comment #81 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 14:58:07 PT
National Treasure
I can only think of one thing worthy of being called a National Treasure and it's Yellowstone National Park.
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Comment #80 posted by runruff on October 10, 2005 at 14:49:06 PT:
Huh?
The FBI, a national treasure? A bearacracy started by a 
cross dressing sociopath with downs syndrome. The most scandolus law enforcment office in th world? Ruby Ridge, Waco, documented drugs for arms trading, to name a few.
The FBI is a treasure to the American people as Columbus Day is to the Native Americans.The native Americans discovered that Columbus was lost!
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Comment #79 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 14:42:45 PT
Yes
I think it is, too.
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Comment #78 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 14:03:59 PT
Hope
That's good news. 
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Comment #77 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 14:02:29 PT
A healthy shiny
copper colored horse in the sunshine is something to thank God for...and being able to see it.
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Comment #76 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 14:00:35 PT
Scroll down to second post.
http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/
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Comment #75 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 14:00:15 PT
Spurs
I almost alway used them. I used the Prince of Wales spur which was very mild but helped me since I am small and my horses were very big (17H). One thing horses taught me is somedays you just can't win and to try again another day. I guess that is patience. Horses are good for people.
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Comment #74 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 13:53:04 PT
janglin was great for walking
but I didn't love it for riding. Many horses are nervous and high strung so I seldom used them. I'm trying to remember the one time I got flat out thrown (I've fallen a couple of hundred ways), probably...I'm blocking whether I had spurs on with that horse or not. Any way...for me...they were more looks and fun...except for the nubbins ones, that can still get you thrown. Every horse I ever owned was generally easily goosed without spurs. Some of them...you didn't have to touch them to "goose" them...if they saw something strange two hundred yards down the road they might decide it was time to go immediately in the opposite direction.
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Comment #73 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 13:30:09 PT
Spurs
The gentle persuaders. Over use them and the horse will be getting the last laugh. 
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Comment #72 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 13:29:35 PT
Dang!
I got so carried away with the spurs that I just now saw about the falling down! I hope no one saw it! 
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Comment #71 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 13:27:37 PT
They teach the rider....
about delicacy.
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Comment #70 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 13:26:47 PT
I know one thing about spurs...
besides that they are cool to hang around and use for towel racks and stuff...is getting your rear end removed from the back of the animal and deposited upon the earth.
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Comment #69 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 13:24:53 PT
spurs
It's fun to wear spurs. "I got spurs that Jingle Jangle Jingle"....or on the ones I really used...stuck out a bit and looked cool. Taps were way cool, too. My husband asked me the other day if I'd ever seen anyone cause sparks with their taps...I had...He hadn't, but he had just seen it in a movie.
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Comment #68 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 12:00:38 PT
Hope
My boots were very expensive. I wore spurs too! I was mean! LOL! I tripped over my own spurs and fell flat on my face before too. Very embarassing and most definitely not cool.
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Comment #67 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:57:53 PT
Boots
I've had combat boots and hiking boots and jungle boots...Western Style Boots, English riding boots, knee hi lace up suede on high heels...Sherpa boots, indian boots, soft boots, hard boots, fishing boots, frog gigging boots, working boots and snake boots, and ropin boots and mud boots and thigh high black leather stilettos in soft leather with buckles and straps at the top (dang...those were cool...tasteless...but cool) go go boots, boxing boots, combat boots, kookie boots, beatles boot, St. Laurent's boots, Justins...and lots of others...but Jack Boots...they are for stomping people or at the least...intimidating them.Besides that...you can't get a pair for less than three or four hundered dollars....at the LEAST.
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Comment #66 posted by siege on October 10, 2005 at 11:56:14 PT
jack·boot
All they are is a Military Fire Team and they can be taken out as easy all they have on there side is the ''surprize'' of the hit. and the police is the samething.
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Comment #65 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:51:50 PT
We all know
what they're for.
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Comment #64 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 11:51:48 PT
Hope
I wore giant black boots. That's what I would wear riding english like I did. I really am not with the program very well. I live in my own La La Land I suppose.
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Comment #63 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:50:34 PT
Nazi...Storm Trooper...
Even a lumber jack or lion tamer doesn't need that sort of boot...now does he?Snake bite protection?Ankle brace?
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Comment #62 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:48:39 PT
Jack Booted Thugs
Who could disagree?
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Comment #61 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:46:36 PT
Jack-boots
They send a message. Don't you think?
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Comment #60 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 11:45:20 PT
Jack boots
I've never seen one that went "above" the knee...but I know them when I see them. Those giant black boots that come to their knees or nearly and have straps that run around the calf...and huge huge lug soles...maybe even cleated...steel toes...for kicking ....thick thick leather...heavy heavy...for stomping.Police used to wear shoes...or here in Texas...perhaps cowboy boots.I first heard the term used by Wayne LaPierre at the NRA in reference to what happened with Elian in Florida. He used the term "Jack booted thugs."....it was history from then on.
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Comment #59 posted by siege on October 10, 2005 at 11:38:26 PT
jack·boot
jackboot
 
SYLLABICATION:	jack·boot
PRONUNCIATION:	 jkbt
VARIANT FORMS:	also jack-boot
NOUN:	1. A stout military boot that extends above the knee. 2. A person who uses bullying tactics, especially to force compliance. 3. The spirit sustaining and motivating a militaristic, highly aggressive, or totalitarian regime or system.
 
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Comment #58 posted by siege on October 10, 2005 at 11:35:33 PT
FBI and marijuana 
You can be a President or V President or a Brain Surgeon but Not a FBI person, have know a few that HAD to smoke Weed, POT Marijuana so as not to be discoverd so whats the big deal. if they had to smoke it in the line of duty //// it is expectable and nothing is said hmmm but if you smoke it before trying to get in the FBI you can't make it in because you smoked marijuana how dumb.
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Comment #57 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 11:29:44 PT
A Question
This might sound dumb but I have heard the term jack boot but what does it mean? 
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Comment #56 posted by cloud7 on October 10, 2005 at 11:12:11 PT
Is this a joke?
"The integrity of the FBI is a known national treasure"I'd trust an FBI agent even less than a local jackboot.
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Comment #55 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 09:08:51 PT
*smile*
Maybe that's why I'm not one.
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Comment #54 posted by E_Johnson on October 10, 2005 at 08:51:50 PT
That made me laugh
Whiz navigator -- someone who can write his name in the snow?
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Comment #53 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 08:30:37 PT
Hope
That's really funny. Not a whiz navigator. 
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Comment #52 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 08:25:51 PT
Navigating sites
My not being able to navigate it doesn't mean anything is wrong with it. Remember the night I wound up in a "closet" somewhere here on C-news? Anyway. I'm not a whiz navigator.
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Comment #51 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 08:03:37 PT
Hope
I looked at Richard Cowan's site and he hasn't posted anything new. He must not know anymore then we do. What about Steve's wife, Lucy I believe her name is. I only e-mail Steve last week just one time and haven't corresponded with him or his wife but someone must have. 
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Comment #50 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 07:58:43 PT
Richard Cowan
What is he saying about Steve?For some reason...I have a bit of trouble navigating his site, so I don't go there often unless linked.
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Comment #49 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 07:55:35 PT
FoM...#47
That's right.
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Comment #48 posted by OverwhelmSam on October 10, 2005 at 07:11:39 PT
In Reference To Steve Tuck's Plight
Jury Nullification Initiative?"The group of citizens, led by Greer and Picheny and involving about a dozen others, including the mother of one of the accused teenagers, has become increasingly vocal in advancing the argument that first-time offenders caught selling marijuana should receive lighter punishment. The group meets weekly, and has spent about $5,000 on newspaper advertisements and a billboard near downtown Pittsfield attacking the district attorney for his "extreme" approach. Residents on both sides of the issue say they believe the news media campaign was influential in Sawin's acquittal last month, in the first trial of the seven first-time offenders. Sawin was found not guilty even though he acknowledged selling marijuana to the undercover officer."Source: http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15357966&BRD=1134&PAG=740&dept_id=226956&rfi=6He was found not guilty even though he admitted selling marijuana to an undercover officer! The way in is the way in.
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Comment #47 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 06:51:15 PT
Plants as Medicine
I believe that we have created certain diseases by the way we pollute the earth. I believe often people die from drugs made by man. I know that we have poisonous plants too but I believe that plants are here for us to use as medicine. God's the pharmacist. 
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Comment #46 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 06:39:12 PT
There is so much good here on Earth...
and mankind hasn't even begun to tap into it. He's too busy making wars and accrueing wealth and power.
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Comment #45 posted by FoM on October 10, 2005 at 06:31:31 PT
Hope
I think they mean drug scourge not a scourge in general. I agree with the series. Mike Grey was one of the people interviewed in the series. Plants are what God has put on the earth and man twists a plant into a bad chemical is how I think about it. It was very kind to Cannabis.
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Comment #44 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 06:11:31 PT
"third worst scourge of humankind"
No way is "cocaine" the third worst SCOURGE of humankind! That has to be smallpox, or polio, or dysyntery or something...but not drug taking!
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Comment #43 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 06:03:48 PT
B Green...39
They could...couldn't they? Take something good and non poisonous and make it poison? They've done it many times. Ever try to commit suicide by gnawing on a willow tree?
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Comment #42 posted by Hope on October 10, 2005 at 05:52:04 PT
A Jail Wake?
This thread feels something like that. No news doesn't seem like "good" news.
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Comment #41 posted by global_warming on October 10, 2005 at 03:58:42 PT
Debate Oct 11
Listen to New Jersey 101.5's Eric Scott moderate the New Jersey Gubernatorial Debate with Democrat Jon Corzine and Republican Douglas Forrester on October 11th at 7:30pm.ESThttp://www.nj1015.com/news.shtmIf you have any questions:ON-AIR: 1-800-283-1015This station has web streaming.http://www.nj1015.com/
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Comment #40 posted by Toker00 on October 10, 2005 at 03:53:45 PT
Siege
I think the social movement we've been waiting for is about to explode. Like a clash of civilizations within our own civilization. Civil war, possibly. Be prepared. There really are two Americas.Wage peace on war.  END CANNABIS PROHIBITION NOW! 
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Comment #39 posted by BGreen on October 09, 2005 at 22:42:54 PT
The episode about cocaine
Did anybody catch the fact that the coca leaf has 10 alkaloids, and that the coca leaves were relatively harmless UNTIL a chemist with a pharmaceutical company got a hold of it, isolated one of the alkaloids and named it "Cocaine," and it became the third worst scourge of humankind within 10 years!The pharmaceutical industry turned a helpful and harmless plant into a scourge to humankind in 10 years, and now they want to get a hold of cannabis?They'll create a killer and blame the plant.No way, Jose! (No offence to Jose Melendez. :-) LOL)The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #38 posted by Jim Lunsford on October 09, 2005 at 22:20:32 PT
History Channel Special
  Thanks for putting the word out on the special on drugs on the history channel. I watched almost all of them. They were pretty good for tv. I couldn't help but notice the "Nice Dreams" movie also on Comedy Central down here. It was the same night, or was it the next morning? lol 
  Not much to say today. Take care all, Rev Jim
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Comment #37 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 21:05:30 PT

westnyc
That's great! Enjoy Prairie Wind.Prairie Wind blowing through my head. Trying to remember what my daddy said.
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Comment #36 posted by westnyc on October 09, 2005 at 20:58:06 PT

Thanks FOM - It's on iTunes
I just bought an iBook with iTunes and I found it there for $9.98. It's going to be my first download on my laptop. :-)
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Comment #35 posted by afterburner on October 09, 2005 at 20:35:03 PT

WE ARE EVERYWHERE
Excerpt 1:{I work in your factory. 
I study in your schools. 
I fill your penitentiaries. 
And your military too! {And I feel the future trembling, 
As the word is passed around. 
"If you stand up for what you do believe, 
Be prepared to be shot down." Excerpt 2:{I smoke marijuana 
But I cant get behind your wars [walls?]. 
And most of what I do believe 
Is against most of your laws {I'm a fugitive from injustice 
But I'm goin' to be free. 
Cause your rules and regulations 
They don't do the thing for me} Quicksilver Messenger Service Lyrics - What About Me? 
http://tinyurl.com/awxb9:::::The Guess Who - Guns Guns Guns LYRICS
http://www.lyricsdownload.com/the-guess-who-guns-guns-guns-lyrics.htmlExcerpt:"God speed Mother Nature 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
God speed Mother Nature, I'm weepin', I'm cryin' for ya 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
God speed Mother Nature, ya know that I'm weepin' for ya 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
God speed Mother Nature, and I'm cryin' out 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
I know you're goin' and I'm weepin' Nature, weepin' Mother Nature 
Never really wanted to say good-bye, and I'm weepin' for ya 
Weepin' for ya Mother Nature, and I'm cryin' for ya 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
Take care of me lovin' Mother, Mother Nature, and I'm missin' ya 
Never really wanted to say good-bye 
Where've you gone? 
God speed Mother Nature, and I'm weepin' for ya ":::::George Harrison - All Things Must Pass lyrics
http://tinyurl.com/8ybqgExcerpt:"Now the darkness only stays the night-time
In the morning it will fade away
Daylight is good at arriving at the right time
It's not always going to be this grey"All things must pass
All things must pass away
All things must pass
All things must pass away":::::Mr. Soul - Buffalo Springfield (Lyrics and Chords)
http://www.guntheranderson.com/v/data/mrsoul.htm"Mr. Soul" Lyrics Analysis
Analysis of "Mr. Soul" lyrics by Neil Young. [Note: This is one of a series of
articles which provide an explanation of the meaning of Neil's "Mr. Soul".]
http://www.thrasherswheat.org/fot/mr_soul.htm:::::TOMMY JAMES AND THE SHONDELLS lyrics - Crystal Blue Persuasion 
http://tinyurl.com/dznqe"Look over yonder what do you see
The sun is a-risin' most definitely
A new day is comin' people are changin'
Ain't it beautiful crystal blue persuasion"Better get ready gonna see the light
Love, love is the answer and that's all right
So don't you give up now so easy to find
Just look to your soul and open your mind"Crystal blue persuasion, mm-hmm
It's a new vibration
Crystal blue persuasion, crystal
Blue persuasion"Maybe tomorrow when He looks down
Every green field and every town
All of his children every nation
There'll be peace and good brotherhood
Crystal blue persuasion":::::No Sugar Tonight (Randy Bachman) - New Mother Nature (Burton Cummings)
http://tinyurl.com/df2ezExcerpt:"'Cause it's the new Mother Nature takin' over
  It's the new splendid lady come to call
  It's the new Mother Nature takin' over
  She's gettin' us all
  She's gettin' us all"::::"The problem of violence cannot be solved by violence." --The Beatles
Anti-War Music
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Comment #34 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 19:55:24 PT

One More Comment
Neil Young has been a Cannabis Enthusiast and written songs like Homegrown and Roll Another Number. He is an example to me of a person who hasn't conformed and made a great success of his personal life. 
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Comment #33 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 19:51:14 PT

Thanks Hope and Siege
I appreciate the help. I try really hard to like other music but I really admire what Neil Young as done with his life and am happy with his music. He has the Bridge School Benefit concert where the money goes to help children with special needs.http://www.bridgeschool.org/
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Comment #32 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 19:40:40 PT

westnyc 
Neil Young is a musician from back many years ago but he still is singing and performing and soon will be 60. Greendale was the rock opera that he did in 2003 which I loved and still do. Prairie Wind was just released. Here are the songs on Prairie Wind. They are free to listen to on Neil Young's web site. I love it. He almost died and his father passed away and his children left the home so one is called Here for You. One is about his father who had a form of dementia and passed away. He had brain surgery and finished writing and recording the new album during this time in his life. He has two handicapped children that have Cerebral Palsy and one his son Ben is paralyzed because of the CP.If you have a decent connection listen to It's a Dream , Here for You and This Old Guitar. Listen Here: http://www.neilyoung.com/prairiewind.html
My Web Site: Neil Young: Prairie Wind
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Comment #31 posted by siege on October 09, 2005 at 19:33:11 PT

neil young 
neil young  Prarie Windhttp://www.neilyoung.com/prairiewind.html
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Comment #30 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 19:28:31 PT

Westnyc
I believe it's Prarie Wind. FoM and E_Johnson can tell you for sure.
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Comment #29 posted by westnyc on October 09, 2005 at 19:20:00 PT

Neil Young?
OK - You got me! I don't know who Neal Young is. "I love the 80's." However, all this talk from this site and just about everywhere else is making me think I'm really missing something great. I'm getting this album: the name's Greendale, is that correct? 
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Comment #28 posted by ekim on October 09, 2005 at 19:06:21 PT

graduate of the FBI's National Executive Institute
http://leap.cc/events/Oct 10 05 WBZT 1290 AM Radio, Joe Falco Show 05:00 PM Norm Stamper Palm Beach Florida USA 
 
 Speaker Norm Stamper is a phone in guest on the Joe Falco Show on WBZT 1290 AM Radio, Palm Beach, Florida. Norm was a police officer for 34 years and served as chief of the Seattle, Washington Police Department from 1994 to 2000. In addition to his first hand experience and understanding that the nation's current drug policies have failed, Norm holds a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice Administration from San Diego State University and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Human Behavior from the United States International University. He is a graduate of the FBI's National Executive Institute. Norm and Mr. Falco will be discussing a variety of issues related to America's failed war on drugs. Visit http://www.1290wbzt.com/ or http://www.joefalco.com for possible online listening. 

http://www.leap.cc/events
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Comment #27 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 18:18:15 PT

One More Comment
The radio station changed the type of music and it isn't as good as it was but I tried. Need to turn on Rust Radio again!
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Comment #26 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 17:57:32 PT

On A Lighter Note
I've been listening to different radio channels and I have this one bookmarked and checked it out. Sometimes I don't like the music but what they are playing right now is really cool. It's Folk music that I've never heard before and I thought some here might like to check it out.http://worldcafe.org/listen.php
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Comment #25 posted by siege on October 09, 2005 at 17:20:30 PT

BS or Not --chattanooga tn 
Ok did anyone hear the TV on MSNBC Ch 3 the news caster said that the senators went to Bush and told him that one of the Agency's give them a paper that said that there was a Revolution in the works Here, then the TV went die for about a min and then the sports come on. 
could this have any thing to do with them moving Steve Tuck so fast!

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Comment #24 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 16:30:24 PT

BGreen
I feel that Steve is now our responsibility. I have a Canadian friend that said to me it's up to us now. Once a person is back in the states and not in Canada I agree that it becomes our responsibility to do what we can if all we can do is pray and not forget.
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Comment #23 posted by BGreen on October 09, 2005 at 16:24:26 PT

Steve Tuck
One of the most touching things anybody ever said to me was when Steve Tuck went to one of his court hearings, one where things looked kind of hopeless, and I wrote Steve with some encouraging words.Steve had a favorable result that day in court, and he wrote that my words were going through his mind during that court appearance, indeed giving him the hope and encouragement I had desired.I felt at that point that I really did play a minor role in a world-wide fight for freedom.I love Steve Tuck, even though I've never met him personally, and it tears me up that there's no way at this moment to touch him and lift him up.I know that all of the things we've written to Steve and things he's written to us will help him in the struggle to survive.God bless you, Steve Tuck, my brother.The Reverend Bud Green
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Comment #22 posted by global_warming on October 09, 2005 at 15:57:06 PT

WE ARE EVERYWHERE
Forever asnd Ever
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Comment #21 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 15:55:04 PT

Mayan
Yes everywhere. From sea to shining sea.
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Comment #20 posted by mayan on October 09, 2005 at 15:46:44 PT

WE ARE EVERYWHERE
Washington, D.C. -- The FBI, famous for its straight-laced crime-fighting image, is considering whether to relax its hiring rules over how often applicants could have used marijuana or other illegal drugs earlier in life."Potheads" have already infiltrated the highest levels of government. We are everywhere. We flip burgers and we are Presidents. We are everywhere in between.
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Comment #19 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 15:28:37 PT

Hate
About your comment EJ. I find it very hard to hate anyone for anything. Maybe I have just arrived at an age where hate just makes me well angry. I don't like being angry. It makes my blood pressure go up. I am irritable around my husband and it is totally counter productive for me. Hate fuels hate. I pity more then anything.Hope, thank you.
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Comment #18 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 15:22:28 PT

EJ Did You Find The Extra on the DVD?
Just in case you didn't. When you check out the bios when you use the up arrow while on Neil's bio a radio appears and he tells us about all kinds of music things.
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Comment #17 posted by global_warming on October 09, 2005 at 15:20:43 PT

Time
"I think that's a beautiful way to talk about the fact that we're all going to die some day."Listining to music and that old Negro Spiritual, Lord How Come Me Here, reminds me, how this anti-cannabis thinking is coupled with much destruction and war.We are all on this journey
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Comment #16 posted by E_Johnson on October 09, 2005 at 15:20:07 PT

We're the best thing about American politics
I was just reading the Economist review of recent American political books, and they say that looking at the angry abusive tone of the books on both the left and right, there is reason to despair about the political future of America.We have both liberals and conservatives and and we have independents too and we argue but mostly we're polite.We have courteous, well-mannered leadership capable of optimism and capable of treating our opponents respectfully, even people who want us treated very badly indeed.We can even treat federal agents like human beings, even the ones sent to catch us and hurt us.We're behaving so much better than the mainstream political movements, and that's something we should take pride in.

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Comment #15 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 15:07:21 PT

I Got It EJ
Each song on Prairie Wind is wonderful and it's hard for me to pick a favorite one. This Old Guitar is just beautiful. He even adds that silly part. When I get drunk and seeing double it jumps behind the wheel and steers.My absolute favorites are It's a Dream and Here For You. PS: I just got finished listening to it again. It gets better with each play for me.
Prairie Wind Lyrics
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Comment #14 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 15:02:50 PT

"This Old Guitar"
The title alone gives me a chill.
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Comment #13 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 15:01:19 PT

FoM
Thank you. That's so beautiful.
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Comment #12 posted by E_Johnson on October 09, 2005 at 14:57:56 PT

FoM did you get your CD?
One of my favorite songs is This Old Guitar.This old guitar ain't mine to keep, it's mine to play for a while.I think that's a beautiful way to talk about the fact that we're all going to die some day.
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Comment #11 posted by global_warming on October 09, 2005 at 14:44:41 PT

Herb Doc and Steve
This might be a good time to read the words that he typed on this group.
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Comment #10 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 14:13:59 PT

Hope
I just checked Marijuana News because I figure Richard Cowan will update information when he knows something. I am surprised how quiet it seems concerning Steve. Nothing in my newsgroups or anywhere I've seen. It's like NY's one new song called Falling Off the Face of The Earth.I hope we know something soon.
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Comment #9 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 14:00:47 PT

Where is he?
When will we hear anything of him? 
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Comment #8 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 13:59:24 PT

peace rest breath for HerbDoc!
is what I'm praying for. Healing. Hope. Health. and stuff...
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Comment #7 posted by Hope on October 09, 2005 at 13:56:25 PT

"Did you ever see Dallas..."
"From a DC 99?"Joe Ely...cool song.
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Comment #6 posted by global_warming on October 09, 2005 at 13:25:57 PT

I can just see it
Some pot head busting another pot head,..imagine
IS THIS THE DEATH OF AMERICA?
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Comment #5 posted by afterburner on October 09, 2005 at 13:21:39 PT

Ha Ha Ha
{said retired Gen. Barry R. McCaffrey, who used to head the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy. "But there should be no hard and fast rule that suggests you can't ever have used drugs. As long as it's clear that's behind you and you're overwhelmingly likely to remain drug free, you should be eligible."}"likely to remain drug free""drug free"So, does that mean that FBI agents or applicants don't use alcohol?{Some other federal agencies also have tough marijuana policies. The Drug Enforcement Administration will not hire applicants as agents who used illegal drugs, although it makes exceptions for admitting "limited youthful and experimental use of marijuana." The DEA, however, permits no prior use of harder drugs.}Doesn't the DEA policy contradict the ONDCP statements that 'marijuana is the most dangerous drug in America'?Tampabay.com & Sptimes.com Online Forums : Drug Policy News ...
The DEA - along with the Office of National Drug Control Policy - declares that
marijuana is the most dangerous drug in America and therefore requires a higher level of law enforcement priority than methamphetamine, cocaine or addictive opiod drugs.
http://forums.sptimes.com/Forums/ubb/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=26&t=003424
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Comment #4 posted by The GCW on October 09, 2005 at 12:15:32 PT

Denver Considers Relaxing Caging Policy
NEEDS HELP...The Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative in Denver is in the last 23 days of the campaign. If passed this initiative would have wide ranging effects throughout Colorado and the nation. Right now they despirately need funds to get their side of the message out and not be ambushed at the end. Please condiser making a donation to the campaign. You can go to their website at: http://www.saferchoice.org/Dear Friend and Supporter:We may very well be on the verge of passing the farthest-reaching marijuana policy reform initiative in the country and making Denver the first U.S. city to allow adults to legally use marijuana as an alternative to alcohol. But there are just 23 days left until Election Day, and the victory or defeat of the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative depends on:1. SAFER's ability to reach and educate voters in Denver, and2. whether we will have the resources to do so.SAFER recently commissioned a poll on I-100, which found that--of 730 likely voters--32 percent are in favor, 36 percent are opposed, and 32 percent are still unsure or refused to say. Paired with such a solid base of support, the fact that so many are still undecided is incredibly encouraging, as we have a realistic chance of reaching many of these voters and educating them about the initiative before Election Day. Furthermore, this just goes to show how critical our efforts will be these next few weeks. We are currently working the phones, making calls to potential voters, and "YES on I-100" signs and literature are beginning to turn up all over the city.But the campaign's resources are running thin, and the success of the initiative could depend on whether we raise enough money to cover the costs of extending our efforts and gaining that momentum that might be necessary to push us over the top. I respectfully ask you to consider making a contribution to the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative today, and help us take a large step towards realizing a more sensible marijuana policy. Whether it is $10 or $100, your contribution would undoubtedly strengthen the campaign's final push. Furthermore, your small donation would be put toward saving this country more money, time and life than any other political campaign you might ever support.Please make your check payable to the Alcohol-Marijuana Equalization Initiative Committee (AMEIC) and send to:AMEIC
P.O. Box 40332
Denver, CO 80204Thank you again for your time and consideration, as well as for any contribution you are able to make. I also appreciate your continued support, and I look forward to being in touch following the election.Sincerely,
Mason Tvert 
Mason Tvert
Executive Director, SAFER
www.saferchoice.org
mason saferchoice.org
720-275-8230 

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Comment #3 posted by OverwhelmSam on October 09, 2005 at 11:51:53 PT

It's Suddenly Okay!
Great! Now you can use marijuana and still get a job with the FBI later down the road. It's like I've always said, it's not marijuana use that causes recreational users to fail in life, it's the laws and enforced stereotypes which attempt to prevent marijuana users from being successful. 
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Comment #2 posted by E_Johnson on October 09, 2005 at 10:38:52 PT

This is a fascinating admission
They're admitting that they can't find good candidates who haven't used pot within the last three years.If we believe Drug War propaganda that marijuana users are stupid socially withdrawn failures, then they shouldn't have to do this, because marijuana users would not constitute a group that would merit consideration for FBI employment under the most basic hiring criteria.
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Comment #1 posted by FoM on October 09, 2005 at 10:30:31 PT

Please Then Change The Law!
"Recreational marijuana use is a fact of life nowadays," said Mark Zaid, a Washington lawyer who has represented people rejected for FBI jobs over drugs. "It doesn't stop Supreme Court justices from getting on the bench and doesn't stop presidents from getting elected, so why should it stop someone from getting hired by the FBI?"
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