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NEWS OF BATTLES IN THE WAR FOR TRUE LIBERTY
Whether tyrants
call themselves Taliban or Puritan, Commie, Nazi, Republican, Democrat, or just
the neighborhood bully, they would impose irrational and unnecessary
restrictions, essentially religious taboos, upon those who don't believe as
they do. No real crimes are committed. Americans deride the Taliban who
regulate what women can wear and how long men's beards must be, yet the
Puritanical taboos tend to be just as absurd, governing what we can look at or
what we can smoke. In the name of this religious tyranny, there are innumerable
injustices every day. Just look at
Google
News search on "marijuana OR cannabis OR hemp" on any day. Below are just
some of the outstanding or representative battles.
FRIDAY 2003-JAN-17 10:00 PM CST
A LOT OF SHORT REPORTS mostly untested links seen on Google as I
try to catch up. More extensive items follow.
Two more men in Malta seized by religious police, for growing
pot
A traffic stop led to a Milwaukee woman being cited for
possession of marijuana
...tip from citizens led North Dakota authorities to confiscate
more than 1½ pounds of meth, 1 pound of cocaine and 8 pounds of
marijuana. (Article has scrolled)
Illinois man, 29, gets 30 months of probation and fined $500
after pleading guilty to possession of marijuana with the intent to
deliver
Israel: Aleh Yarok (the Green Leaf party), whose main planks
are the legalization of marijuana and prostitution (and has a slight chance of
getting two seats
Denver detectives scored their biggest marijuana bust in city
history Wednesday when they seized more than 750 pounds of pot with a street
value of
LONDON, Ky. -- A major marijuana roundup in Eastern Kentucky
resulted in federal indictments of 17 people accused of cultivating nearly 4000
plants. ...
Oregon: A 17-year-old was arrested in the parking lot of Motel
6... on an accusation of being in possession of five pounds of marijuana.
...
Illinois man, 37, charged with delivery and possession of
marijuana.
Illinois: Police said that inside the car officers found a
glass pipe with residue that field tested positive for marijuana.
Illinois: Police said they found two smoking pipes containing
marijuana residue and plastic bags containing cocaine and hashish inside [her]
purse. ...
Alabama: a Mobile-area man and a man believed to be from
California were arrested and each was charged with first-degree possession of
marijuana. ...
NY: "Hippie" shop opens in Baldwin
RI: Drug raid nabs 10
Greenville News, SC: War on drugs challenged at Furman
forum
Central Maine Daily Sentinel, ME: CANAAN — Police say
the seizure of more than 160 marijuana plants from a Canaan home over the
weekend is an example of the increasingly year-round nature of ...
GhanaWeb, Ghana: The Agogo Area Police Commander ASP
Yorkyire, advised the people to report those cultivating Indian Hemp (wee) to
the police. ...
East African Standard, Kenya: Five of them were jointly
charged with being in possession of 18 rolls of bhangi (cannabis) which was not
in form of medical preparation. ...
Stevens Point Journal, WI - 16 Jan 2003 Police
have requested felony charges against eight people after searching three homes
Tuesday, finding marijuana, cocaine, psilocybin mushrooms, cash and a
...
Traffic stop yields $55110 Beaufort
Gazette, SC - 16 Jan 2003 ... [Male], 26, of Weymouth, Mass.,
was charged with speeding, simple possession of marijuana, open container and
simple possession of cocaine;. ...
BBQ Vendor's
Trailer Donated After Pot Bust WCJB, FL - 16 Jan 2003 After an 8
month investigation, it turns out owner ...was using his mobile barbecue stand
as a front to deal marijuana. ...
Franklin Favorite, KY - 16 Jan 2003 Kentucky
Vehicle Enforcement officers confiscated 416 pounds of marijuana from a
tractor-trailer truck Friday evening at the Simpson County Weigh Station on I
...
Del Rio News Herald, TX - 16 Jan 2003 A gun
battle erupted Tuesday night beside the Rio Grande between US Border Patrol
agents and a group of suspected marijuana smugglers. ...
READ ABOUT THE FED NARCOP WAR ON CALIFORNIA MEDICAL
MARIJUANA
Alexander Cockburn Creators Syndicate: The right to not be
in pain Feds target Ed Rosenthal in medical marijuana showdown
Three specialists speak about local drug addiction problem says headline. Quote from article: "More kids are using oxycotin and heroin and drugs like marijuana have become much more potent." Right...
HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF A REAL DRUG PROBLEM:
... $171044 to study the effects of lithium in preventing
cannabis withdrawal syndrome, work that could result in effective treatment for
marijuana ... Just great! Use a really hellish harsh pharmeceutical
to help someone who enjoys pot too much. "Cannabis withdrawal syndrome" is
BULL$#!+ psychology terminology. But they'll shape it any way that makes them
money and gives them more power.
PROHIBITION CONTRIBUTES TO DEATH OF VIRGINIA MAN
Roanoke
Times, VA
[He] reported to the jail
July 13 to serve a two-day jail sentence for marijuana possession. ... Jail
authorities have said [he] smelled of alcohol and appeared to be
drunk...
In short, he died from either
maltreatment by guards or from injuries suffered from the DT's. Either way, his
mother is suing them for his death. He had a "history of misdemeanor arrests...
several for public drunkenness..." Alcohol, of course, is legal. But it was the
pot laws sent him to jail. Insanity!
Think of the
children! Think of the chilllldrrreeennnn!
Mike
Cullinan, Mail city editor, Marshfield Mail, MO
A ... woman was arrested Tuesday for endangering her newborn
infant by allegedly smoking marijuana during her
pregnancy... infant born to [her] on Jan. 2, had THC, a controlled
substance, in its system. The same substance was also found in [the mother].
... admitted last week that she had used marijuana on numerous occasions at her
residence ...during the pregnancy. ... allegedly stated "she smoked marijuana
about every other day for the last three weeks before she had her child" [and]
she consumed alcohol on a couple of different occasions during the pregnancy
... added she has used "inhalants, downers, meth and cocaine in the past, but
said she did not use any of these drugs during her pregnancy,"
A
google search on "marijuana, pregnancy" turns up tens of
thousands of references of course. Most of the references are warnings, low
birth rate associated with smoking during pregnancy, children have trouble
concentrating later, that kind of thing. According to
Marijuana Myths, Claim No. 7: A
number of studies claimed reported low birth weight and physical abnormalities
among babies exposed to marijuana in utero. However, when other factors known
to affect pregnancy outcomes were controlled for - for example, maternal age,
socioeconomic class, and alcohol and tobacco use - the association between
marijuana use and adverse fetal effects disappeared. ... Although it is
sensible to advise pregnant women to abstain from using most drugs - including
marijuana - the weight of scientific evidence indicates that marijuana has few
adverse consequences for the developing human fetus.... This woman
may be no saint, but she and her family, have been evilly treated by the fears,
laws, and agents of prohibitionist puritalibanasty taboo-insanity.
Canadian citizen's found pot treasure confiscated by NarCop
thugs
Halifax Daily
News, Canada
...An illegal cache of
marijuana found washed up on a beach and then hid under his bed and buried in
various locations on his property has netted [male, 51] a 21-month conditional
sentence. ... 43.8 kilograms ... Police found 14 kilograms inside the home, and
Cole led them to the other locations on his property. ...
HE
DID WHAT??
Lately, I've been noticing many more stories about two-legged drug
dogs
Daytona Beach News-Journal, FL
...
man was found [with] 105 grams of marijuana after being stopped Sunday ...
because officers smelled burning marijuana ... a plastic bag containing
marijuana was found in the man's pocked and another larger bag containing 45
smaller bags of marijuana was found underneath a jacket inside the car along
with $300 in cash. charged with possession of marijuana with intent to
distribute.
Wouldn't you like to know the real story? See, if they say they
smell it, that alone is just cause for search, and if they find something, it
justifies their olfactory claim in the courtroom, and if they don't then you go
your way and they try the trick on the next character they feel might add to
their quotas. They never actually have to smell anything... or see anything...
just say they did and catch you with something.
[SAME REPORT:] ... Seven
Valium pills were found in a woman's sock after she was stopped ... for a
broken license plate light. Wouldn't you like to know the real story? How do
they get from a little thing like a broken license plate light to seven val
tucked in her sock? Because she's also an idiot: ...driving with license
suspended... [SAME REPORT:] Broken pieces of a glass pipe used for smoking
cocaine were found in the side door panel after the driver of a [parked] truck
was approached by an officer. ... [Male], 44, ...charged with possession of
cocaine while a passenger in a car during a traffic stop ... [Male], 44,
...charged with possession of cocaine during a traffic stopWell, I'm
sure the police are violating no civil rights in any of these
incidents, aren't you?
Drug merchants are just like pharmacists and those who sell alcohol
and tobacco
Laurinburg Exchange, NC
[Female], 29 ... charged
with possession with intent to sell and deliver cocaine [and] ... marijuana and
two counts of maintaining a dwelling. ... [Male], 27, charged with possession
with intent to sell and deliver marijuana [and] ... cocaine. Police found 3.5
grams of cocaine and 12 grams of marijuana. ... [Male], 29, ...charged with
possession with intent to sell and deliver marijuana ... two counts of
attempting to bribe public officers ... two counts of possession of drug
paraphernalia and maintaining a dwelling.
Isn't that quaint? "Maintaining a
dwelling." $#!+ Translated into alcohol prohibition, they were selling beer and
hard liquor and their activities should be just that illegal. But that trying
to bribe public officers, that's bad stuff... and pretty stupid, I'd
think....
Seattle Post Intelligencer, WA
Federal agents have
arrested 14 people in the past week in a major International District drug bust
involving sales of cocaine, marijuana and the hallucinogenic "club drug"
Ecstasy. The group also was involved in sales of illegal weapons, including
automatic machine guns, federal prosecutors say.
You don't end gangs to
legalize substances, but you do end one of their major sources or revenue,
recreational substances for which people are willing to pay even black-market
prices.
Pot in association with real crimes does not justify
Prohibition
Barre Montpelier Times Argus, VT
[Hit-and-run
double homicide of two 18-year-olds ... Male, 38, faces] two charges of
negligent homicide, one count of leaving the scene of an accident and a
misdemeanor drug charge. ... Police found the station wagon, damaged in the
front ... knocked on his door and found marijuana on a table...
No mention
whether he was stoned, drunk, careless, or what.
FORT PIERCE -- Police
arrested a woman who worked as a cashier at a Wendy's restaurant on U.S. 1 and
two other men after receiving a tip that they were allegedly plotting to rob
the business Wednesday morning. [The two men] have also been charged with
violating the terms of their probation for possession of marijuana.
The
kind of people who give fast food service a bad name, too.
Joseph B Nadeau, Woonsocket Call, RI
Police
apprehended [a] 15-year-old boy and girl, both ninth-graders, Wednesday after
investigating [a] spray painting incident in several areas of the school. ...
The students are believed to have taken cans of blue and black spray paint from
a storage closet in the school before starting to spray graffiti,
marijuana-related slogansand expletives on walls and other surfaces in the
building...
Real helpful to the cause, kids. Not!
THURSDAY 2003-JAN-16 11:55 PM CST
THOUGHT-POLICE
TYRANNIZE AIRWAVES IN MALAYSIA
Jonathan Kent BBC, Kuala
Lumpur
Pop music radio stations in Malaysia have been told to submit scripts
of live programmes before they are broadcast. Malaysia's Information Ministry
says the move is intended to put a stop to disc jockeys using sexual innuendo
and bad language.
How will we ever forge a world union where freedom of
communication is permitted by such primitive nationalists as the Malaysians and
the United States of Americans?
THOUGHT-POLICE MEET SOME MINOR OPPOSITION IN
USA
Declan McCullagh, Staff Writer, CNET News.com, News.com/Business
Week Online
...A Pentagon antiterrorism plan to link databases of credit
card companies, health insurers and others--creating what critics call a
"domestic surveillance apparatus"--is encountering growing opposition on
Capitol Hill. ...
If they can do it, they'll do it, whether they have
permission to do it or not. One of the many dangers with such surveillance is
the invasive employment of prohibitionisms. With so many vice crimes, so many
people are criminalized that spy files and spy methods are power against all
but the squeakiest-clean... and they can be framed. Free citizens would not
have to hide their reading material, recreational substances, weapons, or
sexual inclinations from a true rights-respecting government.
MORE SIMPLE VICTIMS OF DRUG WAR-MONGERS
North Missourian, MO: [Male, 22] ... driving without a
valid license and possession of less than 35 grams of marijuana
Kankakee
Daily Journal, IL [Male], 25 ... arrested... for driving under the
influence of alcohol. ... a routine jailhouse search reportedly revealed a
small amount of pot stashed in [his] shoe. ALSO [Male] 19... arrested... for
marijuana possession
Atlanticville Independent, NJ [2 Males, 19 and 20]
charged... with possession of a controlled dangerous substance (marijuana),
possession of paraphernalia and underage possession of alcohol
How can
fully-enfranchised citizens be "underage"? Why can "of-age" citizens have a
truly "dangerous substance" (alcohol) but not a relatively innocuous
substance (marijuana)? Paraphernalia laws are double jeopardy in
disguise.
The list goes on and on and gets longer every day. THESE ARE
NOT TRUE CRIMES!
ENTREPRENEURS INTERRUPTED BY NARCOP THUGS
Northeast Philadelphia News Gleaner, PA: [K., male, 29
and some of K's relatives, male, 54, female, 22. Agents] ...seized about
$43,000 in United States currency, about $39,000 in cocaine, about $29,000 in
marijuana, about $4,000 in prescription pills, including OxyContin and Xanax,
and about $20 in hashish. Police also confiscated drug paraphernalia, five
guns, a 2002 Lexus sedan, a 2003 Lexus sedan and a 2003 Lexus SUV. ... [K] owns
more than a dozen properties in the Northeast. All of the properties involved
in the drug bust were registered to him. Most of Kull's properties are rentals;
a few are businesses. He recently purchased a $400,000 property in Huntingdon
Valley. "We're pretty sure he purchased all these properties as a result of
selling drugs," [Officer] Muldoon [really!] said. "The city is in the process
of trying to confiscate them through forfeiture."
South Florida Sun-Sentinel, FL: MIAMI A joint task
force on Wednesday said it seized almost 500 pounds of marijuana that were
dumped in the waters in the southern Bahamas from fleeing go-fast
boats.
There's no arguing that drug dealers are frequently not-nice people.
The people desperate enough to take the high risk and greedy enough to want the
high profit of attempting to circumvent the taboo priests are often shady and
unscrupulous. If repeal were made today all across the board, all across the
world, in gambling, prostitution, drugs, and other so-called vice laws, some
moral-minded black-marketeers would be left with no such shady easy-money
venture they could morally justify, but many black-marketing thugs would move
without missing a beat into true criminal activities like protection rackets or
fraud or what-not. Sic the ex-drug cops on them then.
PURE PROHIBITIONIST
PROPAGANDA
WKYT, KY
Headline: Marijuana Problem is Just
as Big as Ever ...while methamphetamine and prescription drugs are getting
the most attention these days, Kentucky's marijuana problems are as big as
ever.
The problem is that it's illegal because insane taboo "laws"
and crude and hateful beliefs hold sway.
KANGAROO
DRUGTHUG COURT "TRIES" POT ACTIVIST BY DIALLOWING CRUCIAL
POINTS
Josh Richman, Tri-Valley Herald, CA
Jury selection
began Tuesday for the trial of pro-marijuana author and activist
Ed Rosenthal of Oakland, who faces federal drug charges for growing
marijuana under the state's medical marijuana law. But evidence of that state
law and Oakland's city ordinances will be excluded from his trial under an
order U.S. District Judge Charles Breyer of San Francisco issued Monday
barring Rosenthal from mounting a defense based on medical issues. The trial
begins next Tuesday and is expected to last more than a week.
Google search for "Ed Rosenthal marijuana"
Ask Ed's Marijuana Law : Don't Get Busted by Ed Rosenthal,
William Logan
Just another great link:
Two of the most important
people of the last century.
PROHIBITIONISM HAMPERS TREATMENT, WORSENS SITUATION
Seattle
Press, WA: Heroin and cocaine-related deaths in the Seattle-King
County area increased in 2002. ... increases in the use of club drugs,
marijuana and prescription opiates. Methamphetamine use, however, seemed to
level off after years of increases. ...
Not just prohibitionism, of course,
but the whole Vice-Law mindedness behind it.
PROHIBITION KEEPS
AFGHAN FARMERS GROWING DOPE
Pam O'Toole BBC regional analyst
The
executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime says that the price of
Afghan opium has recently risen to around $600 per kilogram, making it more
difficult to offer attractive incentives for farmers to grow legal crops. ...
Afghan opium is currently selling for almost twice the price it was this time
last year and around 17 times more than the lowest price reached during the
1990s. ...
Gee. I wonder what could possibly remove this powerful economic
incentive OTHER than a barbaric false-religion-driven decades-long
multibillions-dollar attack upon personal civil liberties worldwide? How
about... repeal? repeal! REPEAL! REPEAL! Then we sort out how to deal
with junkies in a truly civilized society.
ADMITTEDLY, MANY DRUGGIES (AS WITH OTHER PEOPLE) SHOULD BE ARRESTED
JUST FOR STUPIDITY
TODAY'S EXAMPLE
#1
WMAQ-TV, IL
Follow-up to Chicago NarCop attack upon four
Hispanics with 207 pounds of pot
...At around 3 p.m. Tuesday, officers
discovered about 100 grams of marijuana "in plain view in the front seat" of a
car after pulling a man over ... for running a stop sign .... When the officers
asked questions, either the driver or a female who was with him "starting
blabbing about a big load (of marijuana) back at the apartment"
....
Sheesh!
TODAY'S EXAMPLE
#2
KBIM, NM
[Male, 20] ... police found him doing drugs in
front of a child. ... was babysitting an infant child while smoking marijuana.
Cops smelled it ... They say he was disoriented and he did not know the age of
the baby or where the food was for the child. ... was cited for possession of
marijuana and cruelty to children.
Wrong babysitter!
TODAY'S EXAMPLE
#3
KESQ, CA
... teachers at Yucca Valley Elementary noticed
one of their first graders doing a show-and-tell with marijuana they say he
brought to school. ... a bag of marijuana, a pipe to smoke it in, and a
lighter. ... The boy's parents are under arrest for child endangerment. ...
police say they've been to their home before to search for drugs....
Sadly funny highly-fearmongering prohibitionist propaganda piece, in some
ways:
[A mother of another student at the school said her son] is seven
years old. Too young, she thought, to understand what marijuana is. Now
she says it's a topic she's going to have to tackle I've warned my kids, but
they don't know what it looks like. He would think it was
candy.
Doesn't he watch the drug advertisements on TV provided by the
Partnership for a Drug-Freaked America? Since when do kids smoke candy? Anyway,
kid! it looks like spinach! But it's not funny. Pot-fear madness
destroys a family, however poor a family....
Carolina Morning
News, SC
...passenger, [Female], 20, of Hingham, Mass., gave a deputy
permission to search the car, which she owns, after handing the officer an open
container of beer... search allegedly yielded $55,110 in cash, including
$50,000 found in a suitcase in five bundled stacks of $10,000, less than an
once of marijuana, less than a gram of cocaine and drug
paraphernalia....
She probably didn't make real good friends with the two
guys arrested!
THURSDAY 2003-JAN-16 04:20PM CST
Drive
safely, keeds!
Chris Tucker, Ashland City Times, TN
A
Clarksville man's erratic driving attracted the attention of a Sheriff's
corporal and eventually led to his arrest last Wednesday ... [for] felony
possession of marijuana. Sheriffs... observed the turquoise Camaro ...swerve
across the double yellow line two times. ...[The man, 20] allegedly had
bloodshot eyes and acted nervously. ... [Officer] asked for permission to
search the vehicle and discovered a purple Crown Royal bag containing six
individual baggies of marijuana. ... seventh bag found ...during a pat-down
search. ... said the marijuana was his ...[and] he had smoked three
marijuana cigarettes prior to his arrest.
There's so much wrong here, where
can I begin? Acted "nervously?" Dumb kid. Smoked three and couldn't stay in the
lane. That's pretty bad. Never believe that "gave permission for the vehicle
to be searched" stuff! I'm not sure how the cops do that, but I know there
are Constitutional rights constantly violated in the name of the insane Taboo
Laws. Still, we salute good police work spotting an apparently erring driver in
need of a reprimand or arrest, whatever the good traffic officer deems right.
At 18, the driver should be legal to smoke, and also be responsible for
operating a vehicle properly. (Dumb kid.)
Entrepreneurial importers
attacked by NarcoThugs, defend their
liberty
AP/KOLD-TV, AZ
Border Patrol agents in southern
Arizona have been shot at twice this week. No one was hurt. ...shots in
both cases fired from Mexican side of border. ... Near Naco... vehicle got
stuck ...driver got away, crossed back into Mexico, turned around and shot
at the agents. Agents found 12-hundred pounds of marijuana.... Near
Douglas ... somone fired from Mexico side of border... agents found 170
pounds of marijuna in the area.
Okay, the headline doesn't really mean
that the Radical supports armed thuggery like this. The Radical supports
eliminating the black market completely at the root, not one or the other side
of the divisive and insane civil conflict generated by ill-conceived
prohibitionism. Legalize it!
Something
doesn't smell right here...
Steven Shoob, WTOC, GA
...deputy
stopped a car for speeding ... A passenger in the vehicle--also the owner,
20..., gave consent to search the car after handing the officer her open
container of beer. [?!]Deputies detained the driver, 26-year-old Stephen
Azar, and a search turned up over $55,000 in cash. $50,000 was found in
a suitcase in $10,000 bundles. Azar and Wagner, along with another passenger,
33-year-old Robert Abruzzese, were arrested at the scene. Marijuana and
cocaine were also found during the search. The suspects are in the
Beaufort County Detention Center facing various charges.
Were these people
out of it? Why didn't the 20-year-old hand the can of beer to a male? Why would
people with pot, coke, and $55,000 in cash be driving with an open container?
Must be the coke, I'd say. In any case, speeding, that was probably wrong. The
rest is just PROHIBITION INSANITY, even unto the 20-year-old with the can of
beer. Why can't fully-enfranchised 18-to-20 year olds drink? This is mischief
of the most mangled sort!
Science, Propaganda, and Reporting 2, real-life hard-case
follow-up on earlier item regarding studies showing
correlation between earlier substance use and later psychiatric
disorders:
AP/KPRC-TV, TX
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Convicted killer
Samuel Gallamore, who brutally beat and stabbed to death a partially paralyzed
woman, her husband and daughter, was executed Tuesday night. ... began using
marijuana when he was 5, dropped out of school as a teenager and often fought
to protect his older brother who was in a gang. "When it comes to having a
life, you can pretty much say mine was a failure," he said. On the night of the
killings, Gallamore said he and Steiner were on a two-week drug binge.
...
Horrific story. Certainly, he was not raised to respect the peacable
potentials of the weed! The prohibitionists aren't lying when they say pot-high
isn't always about like, peace, man. But we've known that since Manson showed
us LSD was no "love" drug. The prohibitionists are lying, though, anyway.
THURSDAY 2003-JAN-16 02:00AM CST
Two enterprising salesmen robbed and kidnapped by
New Jersey NarCops
NorthJersey.com, NJ
18 pounds of
marijuana worth $36,000 in the cab of their tractor-trailer ... state trooper
patrolling the New Jersey Turnpike rest stop noticed them acting suspiciously
... had been standing outside but quickly jumped into the passenger seat of the
tractor-trailer and pretended to be asleep ... [Trooper] smelled marijuana ...
They had a nice roadside sales thing going, but you can't really allow
commercial booths like that at rest stops, can you?
GEORGIA
CITIZENS ABUSED BY NARCOTHUG CONSPIRATORS
Rockmart Journal
Follow-up:
Pot found in Mex Narc offices linked to drug cartel
Anna Cearley,
San Diego California Union-Tribune
TIJUANA Almost 5 tons of unreported
marijuana found in a federal anti-narcotics office last week is believed to
have originally belonged to the Arellano Félix drug cartel.
Earlier article, Sandra Dibble, San Diego
Union-Tribune:
The cartel only profits from marijuana trade because of
prohibition. Prohibition isn't about law because it isn't about personal
transgression, theft, threat, or harm, by drug users, but it is about
the constant transgression against world citizens' personal-use of any taboo
substances.
Expelled students have Choices
Luisa
d'Amato Waterloo Record, Canada
Phil Ha was expelled from school
because he tried to make money selling marijuana. But that was more than a year
ago... after spending almost all of the last school year in a special "strict
discipline" program called Choices for Youth ... instead of selling dope, he's
hoping to market that poster to elementary schools.
Well, at least they
recognized and encouraged his entrepreneurial and capitalistic
interests....
Canadian PuriTalibaNazi priest-judges use threat against man's
father and daughters against him
Frances Barrick, Waterloo
Record, Canada
KITCHENER -- A 51-year-old man who recruited his elderly
parents and two daughters to operate six indoor marijuana grows in five cities
in southwestern Ontario was sentenced yesterday to 30 months in jail. David
Chown of Mississauga pleaded guilty in a Kitchener courtroom to conspiracy in
the production of marijuana in six residences in Mississauga, London, Hamilton,
Niagara Falls and St. Catharines from Feb. 1, 2001, to Jan. 19 of last year. In
exchange for his guilty plea, similar charges against his 75-year-old father
and two daughters, 20 and 21, were withdrawn. ... Krug said her client, the
father of seven children from two marriages, got into the marijuana-growing
business to make money, but ended up losing more than he made because he wasn't
very successful in growing high-quality marijuana. ... Chown's previous
criminal record, which dates back to 1975 and includes robbery, assault causing
bodily harm and uttering threats.
There is no justice possible in such a
case. I can't know his character, which this piece of propaganda looks bad, and
he sounds like a sad loser, but the man is taking the fall for his family
members. In any case, it is the psychotic prohibitionists if anyone who
should be serving time in the prison for their corruption of the Constitution
and the usurpation of so many citizen's rightful liberties.
Four Chicago men's property taken, lives invaded and ruined by
PuriTaliban goons
Chicago Sun-Times
Police seized 200 pounds of
marijuana with a street value of almost $1 million on Chicago's Northwest Side
Tuesday. ...
Traffic stop leads to home invasion and confiscation of what
narco nutzis say is a million dollars worth of vegetation. The narcops
should know what the black market price is because they keep it
going!
Insane religious tyrants invade privacy and usurp liberty of
California man with small home pot farm
Harry Harris, Alameda
California Times-Star
OAKLAND -- A pungent odor and a "spinning" PG&E
meter led police to a sophisticated marijuana harvesting operation allegedly
run by a man with a history of mental problems. ... [Officer] said the
harvesting operation was "super-duper nice." "I was impressed," he said. "It's
hard to say how long he has been doing this because we haven't gotten any calls
before. We don't know how long he has been living here. He could have been
doing it for some time."
Actually, it was reports the man was "acting
erratically and was a suicide risk" that led to the Brain Police attack. The
man, 50, claimed the mother plant and 188 daughters were for medical use but he
had no smoking stuff around, and there were scales and bagging stuff there, so
the NarcoNazis assume it was grown for sale. So, a harmless semi-loon
loses his freedom because full-blown religious lunatics rule the country and he
violated their primitive taboos.
Drug war is meant to go on forever, as stats in Arkansas
show
Jeff Niese The Morning News/NWAonline.net
FAYETTEVILLE --
Drug agents seized more marijuana, crack cocaine and methamphetamine in 2002
than in any year since the inception of the local task force, officials
announced Tuesday. ... The agents seized 52 meth labs last year, one less than
the 53 in 2001. "We felt like that was more of a priority then going out and
putting our efforts into actively seizing meth labs," Reynolds said. An officer
can spend 10 hours, from making the initial raid to waiting for the lab to be
cleaned up, to seize one meth lab. ...
Skanky skanky meth. Legalize use.
Legalize sale. Legalize the meth market. Keep prices reasonable so no one will
be tempted by black-market profits to put a stinky dangerous meth lab anywhere
near where other people live. Voila! no meth labs. Meth heads, sure. But you
have them anyway. And they need help they can't get the way an alcoholic or a
nicotine fiend can.
Science, Propaganda, and
Reporting
ScienceDaily.com reports on the recent finding of correlation
between earlier (early-teen) substance use and later (late 20's) psychiatric
"disorders." The lead line of the article:
Children who start to use
alcohol, marijuana or other illicit drugs in their early teen years are more
likely to experience psychiatric disorders, especially depression, in their
late 20's.
This is the kind of statement that prohibitionists would use to
pervert science in the cause of their silly taboos, because this statement can
be misinterpreted as demonstrating cause (substances) and effect
(psychiatric disorders). Science sees correlation, not causality,
signals for helping people not agendas for absurd blanket religious taboos. The
last of the article:
WHAT IT MEANS: This study adds to the growing body of
knowledge about the complex relationship between drug abuse and psychiatric
disorders. Such findings will be useful in efforts to develop more effective
prevention and treatment interventions for individuals at risk for these
co-occurring conditions.
Note the precise language. Co-occuring conditions.
One man's refreshing beverage at the end of the day is another man's poison.
Let individuals be responsible and governments deal with true
transgressions.
WEDNESDAY 2003-JAN-15 12:05AM CST
BATTLE REPORTS IN THE WORLD-WIDE WAR FOR HUMAN LIBERTY
LOTS OF NEWS... LET'S GET STARTED...
ALASKA GOV DISALLOWS POT DECRIM PETITION
Kenei Peninsula Online: Juneau Alaska (AP) -- Lt. Gov.
Loren Leman stopped an initiative drive seeking to decriminalize marijuana,
ruling Tuesday that hundreds of signatures collected were not valid.
PURITALIBANAZI ZEALOT TYRANTS ON RAMPAGE AGAINST WISCONSIN
CITIZENS
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: All this in just one police
report...
A 23-year-old woman was taken into custody for possession of
marijuana ... A 34-year-old man was taken into custody for possession of
marijuana (traffic stop) ... Two men, 19 and 20 years old, were taken
into custody for possession of marijuana (traffic)... The 20-year-old,
along with a 19-year-old man, 18-year-old woman, 19-year-old woman and
20-year-old man, was cited on allegations of underage drinking. ... A
16-year-old boy was taken into custody for possession of drug
paraphernalia ... A 19-year-old man was taken into custody for
possession of marijuana (was speeding) ... A 24-year-old Shorewood woman
was cited on allegations of possession of marijuana and drug
paraphernalia after a traffic stop ... A 22-year-old Franksville man was
cited on allegations of possession of cocaine and drug
paraphernalia after a traffic stop ... A 39-year-old South Milwaukee man
was cited on allegations of possession of marijuana and drug
paraphernalia after a traffic stop ... An 18-year-old Milwaukee woman
was cited on allegations of possession of marijuana after it was found
in her car ... A 20-year-old Oak Creek man was arrested on allegations of
possession of marijuana ... An 18-year-old South Milwaukee man was
arrested on allegations of possession of drug paraphernalia ... A
resident in the 6300 block of W. Mitchell St. was arrested Dec. 30 for
possession of drug paraphernalia after police searched his residence and
found crack cocaine and related paraphernalia ... Another
17-year-old boy, a passenger, was cited for marijuana possession. A
14-year-old boy, also a passenger, was cited for curfew violation and
underage tobacco possession. ...
ALSO IN WISCONSIN
Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers: Insane religious fanatics
sentence farmer to nine months in jail and five years on probation simply for
growing organic marijuana.
Sussex Sun, WI: Deputies found marijuana and a pot
pipe in the possession of a passenger during a traffic stop.... discovered a
prescription bottle filled with marijuana. A 17-year-old from Milwaukee was
given a village of Sussex citation for the possession of controlled substances.
The citation carries a fine of $500 and court costs.
CITIZENS ARE TYRANNIZED IN ILLINOIS
Kankakee Daily Journal: [A
woman, 37], was arrested today for possession of cannabis, attempted
obstruction of justice and a traffic warrant. ... She allegedly had a
"one-hitter" box holding a small amount of marijuana in her waistband. She also
lied about her identity, police said. ... [A male, 19], was arrested ... for
marijuana possession...
NARCONAZIS HARRASS MICHIGAN GRANNY
A 72-year-old
grandmother pleaded guilty Monday to possessing a large amount of drugs, but
police believe that she might be covering up for someone else... marijuana,
cocaine and a scale ... The grandchildren told Local 4 that she is not a drug
dealer. "She is a very nice lady," granddaughter Tanisha Alexander said. "She
helps out a lot of people." The insane narconazis could hold her prisoner
for up to 20 years under their misguided immoral religious agenda!
LIBERTY-DESTROYING TYRANTS AT WORK IN MISSOURI
Skieston Standard Democrat, MO: An unspecified "large
quantity of marijuana was seized" and two citizens were charged with owning the
vegetation feared by the fanatic tyrants. These insane fanatics can hold these
citizens hostage for five to fifteen years under their perverted system of
so-called "laws."
...IN FLORIDA
Palatka Daily News, FL -Male, 40, charged with
resisting arrest without violence, possession of cannabis (under 20 grams) and
possession drug paraphernalia. ... Male, 22, charged with possession of
Percocet and paraphernalia ... Male, 31, in traffic stop, had what NarcoNazis
believed was a piece of crack ... A struggle reportedly took place ... the
"drugs" turned out to be a counterfeit substance [he] admitted to having just
purchased for $20 believing it was crack cocaine ... male, 24, possession of
cocaine with intent to sell, possession of cannabis (over 20 grams), resisting
arrest with violence and possession of drug paraphernalia ... they approached
[his] vehicle and observed cannabis spread over his lap... (lay off the coke,
dude!) ... Male, 22, charged with possession of cocaine with intent to sell,
possession of cannabis (under 20 grams) and possession of drug paraphernalia
... Female, 39, charged with possession of drug paraphernalia. Male, 28,
charged with possession of cannabis (under 20 grams), possession of drug
paraphernalia and resisting arrest with violence ... Male, 29, charged with
possession of counterfeit drugs with intent to sell (possibly the fake crack
mentioned before?) ... Juvenile, 16, charged with possession of
paraphernalia
That "RESISTING ARREST WITHOUT VIOLENCE" is any move to try to
prevent yourself from being attacked and kidnapped by the narconazis, like
trying to ditch your weed.
THE STRUGGLE FOR LIBERTY AND JUSTICE IN OREGON
Oregon Daily Emerald: Eugene and Springfield citizens
opposing a new city ordinance aimed at increasing the fine for possession of
less than an ounce of marijuana voiced their concerns Monday night before the
Eugene City Council.
ARIZONA NATIVE AMERICANS SEDUCED BY ANTIDRUG CULT — SIMILAR TO
HOW ETHNOCIDAL EUROS USED AMERINDIAN TRACKERS TO WIPE OUT THEIR OWN
KIND
Luke Turf, Tucson AZ Citizen: Eight separate seizures of
marijuana in the past four days by Native American trackers in the U.S. Customs
Sells, Ariz. office totaled 3,660 pounds and resulted in 11 arrests,
according to the agency. The seizures are estimated at a street value of
$3,660,000, according to Customs spokesman Roger Maier.
THERE IS ONE AND ONLY ONE REASON DRUG PRICES ARE SO HIGH, THAT GANGS PROFIT BY THE BLACK MARKET, THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE IN JAIL FOR SO-CALLED "DRUG OFFENSES" AN INSANE EVIL STREAK OF UNCONSTITUTIONAL RELIGIOUS TABOO THAT AFFECTS GOVERNMENT AND LAW: END PROHIBITION! REPEAL! REPEAL! REPEAL!
PROHIBITIONIST PROPAGANDA INSTRUCTS PURITANAZIS HOW TO SPOT POT
GROWING OPERATIONS AND REPORT THEIR FELLOW CITIZENS TO THE ZEALOT MULLAH-PRIEST
STORM TROOPER OPPRESSORS
CFCNplus.ca: A recent series of drug busts have some people
wondering how marijuana grow operations could exist in well-populated
neighbourhoods without anyone suspecting. ... Residents in the close-knit
community are shocked it could happen here. You don't really expect it in
Chestermere, it's a small town and everyone seems to know everyone, said one
resident. ...
TYRANTS ROB AND SEIZE AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN FOR GROWING
VEGETABLE
Goulburn Post, Australia: The Goulburn police drug
unit acted on a warrant for a Goulburn home at about 2.20pm last Thursday where
they allegedly located a hydroponic cannabis cultivation, ammunition for
firearms and a shortened .22 calibre rifle. Also allegedly located at the
premises was a recreational use amount of green vegetable matter, believed by
police to be cannabis
THEY'RE LYING TO YOU, CANADA. WHAT DID YOU THINK? (REPRISE)
Dean Beeby, Canadian Press, Toronto Star:
The chief of Ottawa's medical marijuana program has been putting the brakes on
a Health Canada proposal that would give needy patients direct access to
government dope. ["DOPE"?]
EX-SUBLIME DRUMMER
ARRESTED, POSSIBLY FOR POT
mtv.com: Floyd "Bud" Gaugh, former drummer for Sublime and
the Long Beach Dub Allstars, was arrested Friday night in Reno, Nevada. Though
Reno police wouldn't confirm the charges, Reno NBC affiliate KRNV-TV reported
that Gaugh was arrested for possession of marijuana.
(I usually avoid
celebrity arrests, but I wanted to run his picture....)
TWO OKLAHOMA WOMEN ROBBED AND KIDNAPPED BY INSANE DRUG
NAZIS
Talequah, Oklahoma, Daily Press: Two women, 39, and 43,
face drug possession charges after a traffic stop merely for speeding led
PuriTalibaNazi storm troopers to allegedly search and find marijuana, so-called
paraphernalia, and an unidentified "white, powdery substance," in their
vehicle.
OHIOLancaster Eagle Gazette, OH... BRIDGETON -- The prosecutor's
office announced they confiscated substantial amounts of marijuana and crack
cocaine during separate busts in late December.
MISSISSIPPI
Hattiesburg American, MS: Male, 32, kidnapped on
sale of controlled substance charge ... student at high school popped on
possession of controlled substance charge; student accused of having bag of
green leafy substance believed to be marijuana ...
INDIANA
Wabash Indiana Plain Dealer: Male, 29, charged with
possession of methamphetamines, marijuana, a controlled substance, drug
paraphernalia, and unlawful use of a police radio (meaning what... listening to
what is broadcast through the air??? Or is this one of those
double-jeopardizing "compound" crimes where it's only taboo if you're doing
something else that's wrong at the same time, and then the activity or
possession is miraculously transformed into something it otherwise wasn't?).
Wabash police allegedly discovered the drugs when called by a business owner to
check out someone asleep in a vehicle in the parking lot. Z.
NORTH CAROLINA
Dunn North Carolina Daily Record: 110 marijuana plants in
"high-tech growing operation" destroyed by Narco Nazis
FINE DINING IN VERMONT
WPTZ-TV, NY: BURLINGTON, Vt. -- A University of
Vermont student, 21, has pleaded not guilty to drug charges after police say
they found cocaine, chocolate-covered hallucinogenic mushrooms, and
marijuana in his apartment.
THERE'S NOTHING THERE TO BE PLEADING GUILTY
ABOUT THAT I CAN SEE? UNLESS... WAS IT LIGHT OR DARK CHOCOLATE? IT'S NOT
FUNNY! He faces up to two and a half years in prison and a $4,500
fine.
GEORGIA: "Area drug arrests mounting"
Northwest Georgia Community Newspapers, GA: Ack-ptui!
the usual
CALIFORNIA STILL, just a few of the many....
Santa Rosa: Woman busted with eight pounds of pot
Lodi: Nineteen-year-old busted for having cocaine,
marijuana, scales and cash at his residence
EVEN THE NETHERLANDS ANTILLES
Daily Herald, Netherlands Antilles: two locals were
arrested, handcuffed and taken to the police station for the illegal possession
of marijuana.
AND MALTA
di-ve.com, Malta: Zejtun, MALTA (di-ve news) --
So-called "police" seized around 100 cannabis plants which were merely being
grown in a residence in St. Peters Street, Zejtun, two men 20 & 30 taken
hostage, during a raid following days of observation by the Anti-Some Drug
Priests. Jerks!
But isn't that a great picture with this article?
(right)
IPSWITCH 50-YEAR-OLD INVALID'S HERBAL REMEDY SEIZED BY NARCONAZI
THUGS
Suffolk Evening Star, UK: Thirty-six pot plants seized
from home of male, 50, of Ipswich ... claims he suffers from a number of
ailments including an aggressive form of arthritis and pancreatitis, told
officers he was growing the cannabis for his own pain relief.
Eccott admitted cultivating the plants and a further charge of
possessing five ecstasy tablets after a police searched his ... home...
cultivated the cannabis for his own personal use after he was suffering from
depression for a number of years.
MEDICAL POT IS FEDS' MAIN TARGET
Stockton Record, CA: "I think this whole panic over
terrorism is creating a smoke screen under which the DEA sees an opportunity to
do what it wants, especially in California with medical marijuana. There have
been some pretty outrageous actions while the public focused on Iraq and on
9/11," said Dale Gieringer, director of the California chapter of the National
Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws (NORML).
SING IT BROTHER! AMEN! AMEN!
"This war against marijuana smokers has
become a jihad. It's a holy war for these [Bush administration] fools. Truth is
a first victim of war." Keith Stroup, executive director of
NORML
SICK SIMPERING RELIGIOUS TYRANT:
"The clash of ideals will be severe,
but we cannot back down now. The lives and futures of millions of Americans are
at stake. For their sake, we must continue to fight this war on drugs on every
front." -Barrett Duke, vice president for research with the Southern
Baptist Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission
NOTE THE PROPAGANDISTIC
ABUSE OF LANGUAGE. "IDEALS" means "OUR TABOOS." "ETHICS," means "THE WAY WE
WANT THINGS." AND WORST OF ALL "LIBERTY" means TYRANNY AND OPPRESSION AND
PERVERSION OF GOVERNMENT TO THE ENDS OF EVIL STINKING PURITALIBANAZIISM! FIGHT
THE OPPRESSORS! JOIN THE RELIGIOUS STRUGGLE FOR PERSONAL SPIRITUAL LIBERTY!
REPEAL!
Both quotes above from article in BAPTIST PRESS.
LORD FREE US FROM THE TYRANTS WHO OPPRESS IN YOUR NAME! TEACH THEM YOUR TRUTH AND YOUR WAY!
WEEDSTOCK UPDATE
WISN: MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Court of Appeals has
agreed to hear a legal dispute over a pro-marijuana rally that was shut down by
police in 2000...
BELGIUM LEGALIZATION OF POT
expatica.com: Belgium's cannabis law will be put into
effect before the 18 May general election, according to Public Health Minister
Jef Tavernier.
Under the law, the use of cannabis by adults will no
longer be prosecuted if it does not cause inconvenience to others.
The
drugs law is based on an instruction by former Health Minister Magda Aelvoet.
The law was approved two years ago by the government.
The Coming Canadian Drug Revolution
While Latin America
Rises, U.S. Policy Losing Northern Front
by Alejandro Bustos,
Narco News Canadian Correspondent
2002: The Year in Marijuana
Daily
Nexus Online, UC Santa Barbara student newspaper by Kristina Ackermann
Tories Should Use Cigarette Taxes by Jane Kansas The way the government deals with tobacco is two-faced. Its like government wants us all to stop eating cake, so it takes away our desserts, but then stands there licking the icing off our plates...
Lite reading:
studentnewspaper.org: Rocking For Your Rights With
the threat of another war in the Gulf looming ever larger, and at a time when
musical protest is sorely needed, Rob Jenkins finds that the rock community is
keeping strangely quiet....
TUESDAY 2003-JAN-14
MORE REPORTS FROM THE WAR'S WORLD-WIDE FRONT
NOT EXACTLY NEWS:
CORRUPT MEXICO GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS PROFIT FROM
SO-CALLED "DRUG WAR"
Sandra Dibble, San Diego Union-Tribune: TIJUANA Two
alleged traffickers have claimed that federal anti-drug agents solicited a
$2 million bribe in exchange for their liberty and the return of nearly
5 tons of marijuana, Mexican authorities said yesterday.
CANADA GROW OPERATIONS OVERTHROWN BY PURITALIBANAZI FANATIC
FORCES
calgary.cbc.ca: Calgary - A raid of 10 homes in Chestermere
resulted in the bust of marijuana grow operations with almost 3,000
plants. Police are putting the value of the busts at $4.5 million,
including the grow equipment seized.
CHRIST FREES NASSAU NON-DRUG USER FROM CLUTCHES OF ANTI-SOME DRUG
THUGS
Nassau Guardian: I tried to explain to him that I had just
picked up the bag out of the road, his reply to me was I was to be locked up, a
few more officers came over, placed hand cuffs on me and put me into an
awaiting van. If I never called on Jesus before I sure called on his name
then.
PROHIBITIONIST TYRANNY AND IMMIGRATION SMUGGLING DESTROYING ARIZONA
PARK
Tom Clynes for National Geographic News: The park rangers
at Arizona's Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument wear camouflage, carry assault
rifles, and chase drug smugglers through the blazing desert. They're at
the front lines of a violent border warand they're losing.
SOME YOUTH IN AMERICA SMOKE POT
Everywhere in the USA: One Lincoln County High School
student was charged with simple possession and two other juniors were suspended
for 10 days, pending the results of drug tests, for allegedly smoking marijuana
on a county school bus Thursday morning.
THEY'RE LYING TO YOU, CANADA — WHAT DID YOU THINK?
Dennis Bueckert, Canoe News: OTTAWA (CP) - Don't expect
marijuana to be decriminalized any time soon despite promises from Justice
Minister Martin Cauchon, say some experts and drug advocates.
CANADIAN PROHIBITIONISTAS ATTACK PRIVATE TRUCKLOAD OF POT
Edmonton.cbc.ca: Calgary - More than 500 pounds of cocaine
and 3,500 pounds of marijuana with a street value of almost $19 million has
been found in a semi-trailer.
HELPFUL OKLAHOMA MOTHER NOT TOO BRIGHT THOUGH
Jeremy Cantrell, Ada OK Evening News: ...Kim Tatum was
charged with unlawfully bringing contraband into jail after Jailer Paul Garner
discovered a green leafy substance in a plastic bag inside a box of envelopes
she delivered to her son, Glen Tatum, who is incarcerated in Pontotoc County
Jail for Drug Court violations.
NAM VET SUES USA OVER POT SEIZED
Reuters: PORTLAND, Ore., Jan 13 - A quadriplegic Vietnam
War veteran sued the U.S. government on Monday, saying the Drug Enforcement
Administration illegally seized medical use marijuana he grew under a license
from the state of Oregon.
ONE SMALL VOICE SPEAKING TRUTH IN THE WILDERNESS
George Deutsch, The Battalion: If most parents knew there
was a federally funded organization lying to their children about the effects
of drug use, they would likely be appalled and seek to have the organization's
funding removed. Yet the frightening truth is that such a group exists,
operating under the family-friendly monicker, Partnership for a Drug Free
America....
An odd little piece of prohibitionist propaganda about Hawaii's schools at http://64.29.65.199/sb/ros_btm.html "Some students believe they can still function after smoking marijuana." Imagine!