Blood is on the hands of all who support this insane Drug War II. It is soft on public safety, out-of-control policy. Our troops' blood is on the hands of empire building, warmongering government and business leaders. Big corporations and governments are often lacking in conscience and empathy. These are psychopathic tendencies by definition! Big churches seem to have the same problem, in God's name!
What is missing? The very qualities that allow human beings to live in social harmony. Celebrating our similarities, free trade or the free market plus building bridges of tolerance to differences in religion, race and lifestyle will create a world of abundance and peace.
All the unnecessary deaths triggered by our warmongering and drug policies are democide (death by government). Servants of tyranny play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
Morally bankrupt, war-and-fear mongering politicians are traitors to the American dream of self government; free of big government tyranny and oppression. They support policies that create chaos and situations that lead to a police state.
One of my 2012 Rebels with Just Cause is journalist and poet Javier Sicilia, whose son was killed in drug prohibition-related violence inspiring him to galvanize Mexican society and awaken international debate. In the summer of 2011, tens of thousands marched across Mexico to protest the drug war and the 50,000 drug prohibition related deaths in the previous five years.
The Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity is planning a caravan through the United States that will bring the discussion of the War on Drugs to Americans. Follow the progress of the Caravan for Peace with Justice & Dignity! Anyone interested in participating can check the route map for the US city nearest you.
Forget borders. Drug prohibition is a worldwide
problem! Current out-of-control policy creates a nightmare of violence, official
lawlessness and prison over population! Take control from the hands of despicable
people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and
don't
mind killing off the competition.
The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our idiotic, punitive policy. Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
Murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. It is morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs.
Support HR 6335! End Asset Forfeiture! Civil asset forfeiture programs violate several provisions of the Bill of Rights. Ask your Representatives to cosponsor this legislation to abolish civil asset forfeiture. The States Medical Marijuana Property Rights Protection Act authored by US Representative Barbara Lee will protect responsible, law-abiding property owners who rent to medical cannabis (marijuana) tenants from federal prosecution and civil asset forfeiture proceedings. Ask your Senators to please introduce or cosponsor a companion bill in the Senate. It is unfair to victimize property owners who are caught in the middle of a conflict between federal law and the laws of the seventeen states and the District of Columbia where medical cannabis is already legal.
Vermont man crushed cop cars with tractor! "A man on a big farm tractor, angry about his recent arrest for resisting arrest and marijuana possession, was rolling across their vehicles 'five marked cruisers, one unmarked car and a transport van." What is surprising is that more retaliation like this has not happened considering all the asset forfeiture going on in this country. End asset forfeiture! Deny your consent for using our resources to enforce legalized extortion!
A groundbreaking ceremony in Danang, Vietnam was held recently at a former US air base as we began (for the first time) cleaning up dioxin fifty years after American planes first sprayed Vietnam's thick jungles with the chemical defoliant,.Agent Orange, to destroy enemy cover. This chemical is linked to cancer, birth defects and other disabilities. It has seeped into Vietnam's soils and watersheds, creating a thorny issue between the former foes nearly four decades after the Vietnam War ended. Our "government" has been slow to respond. This is its first direct involvement in the dioxin cleanup. Since 2007 we have given about $60 million for environmental restoration and social services there. Of course our "government" continues their chemical defoliant spaying in S. America to this day!
Pentagon Papers whistle-blower Daniel Ellsberg, the Center for Constitutional Rights, and the Bradley Manning Support Network call on you to sign their petition to free Bradley Manning. It is not a crime to report war crimes. One of my 2011 Rebel with Just Cause portraits will be shared by Bradley Manning and Julian Assange: for posting the Afghanistan war diaries on wikileaks.
Educate the powerful, be brave and end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable.
A system or establishment that commits crimes is NOT a government. "The actors managing The State are lawless, engaging routinely in immoral acts -- even going so far as to interpret our Constitution as a protection for their powers instead of our rights. They've rigged the game. I'm tired of begging them to behave just a bit better. That's no longer enough. Peacefully, we need to rewrite the rules," – Jim Babka, DownSize DC Founder. The Internet is a powerful tool; a window of opportunity in our war for good over evil. It continues to revolutionize the way we communicate and has enormous potential for reshaping the political process.
"Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed."
A more accurate label for our "government" would be, "criminal gang," though many will find that shocking due to the Stockholm Syndrome. The entire world suffers from Stockholm Syndrome when it comes to politicians and The State. If you or I kill, rape, assault, steal, or defraud, we are criminals and the same moral standards must apply to government. They can NOT magically turn wrong into right. No matter how hard they try with the Euphemism Disease, allowing the speaker to make criminal and immoral acts sound virtuous. For example: using threats of violence to take money from people against their will, don't call it theft or looting or legalized extortion - call it forfeiture, taxation, insurance or investment.
Another fine example, calling NO just cause, "Operation Just Cause." Warmongering tyrants use empty rhetoric, outright lies and covertly cause violent conflicts then cover-up the civilian casualties. For example: Operation Just Cause (how sick!), was the code name for the invasion of Panama by the United States in December 1989.
It was NO just cause no matter what name the servants of tyranny called it and was a foreshadowing of the empire building to come. The invasion of a sovereign nation was condemned by the international community. The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution ''strongly deploring'' the American invasion as a ''flagrant violation of international law.' (75 to 20 with 40 abstentions)
Statist politicians take our money with threats of law enforcement guns backing them and use it to fund things we often don't want, or actively hate. We must submit on threat of prosecution.
Our "government" is an out-of-control criminal gang. Help cure Euphemism Disease and the Stockholm Syndrome. We need governmental institutions to use violence only as a last resort, defensively. DownSize DC has created new Declaration of Independence, the Zero Aggression Project. Provoke questions and discussions by putting, "government." in scare quotes or use air quotes when speaking. ZAP the State!
"It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds." - Samuel Adams, signer of the Declaration of Independence.
A declaration is an affirmation. Independence means self-government. They could have called it, The Affirmation of Self-Government. However I am sure we can all agree, The Declaration of Independence, sounds way more cool!
More than 250,000 cannabis fans and their live free allies are expected this year at the Seattle Hempfest., Libertarian Party presidential candidate Gary Johnson as well as Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein are scheduled to speak.“Shockingly,” Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and President Obama declined.
Politicians who use the, "they don't want to be considered soft on crime" argument for continuing DWII are ignorant of science and history or have minds like concrete: totally mixed up and permanently set. Most of the unconscionable warmongers are profiting, probably under the table, on the suffering of others with this demented, irrational policy.
Tell the servants of tyranny they do not have our consent to police the world, the market or what we, as individuals choose as our medicinal/social drugs. Less than 1% of US are actually addicted to anything. Treatment is seven times cheaper than prison. Save lives instead wasting or ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!
Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty! Use resources to catch or prevent violent offenders like James Holmes and sexual predators like Phillip Garrido. Incarcerate more of those morally bankrupt, selling drugs to children or driving intoxicated. Drug warriors can get their adrenaline rush chasing murderers and sexual predators.
Return to our roots of self-government, make us the land of the free in reality, with the lowest prison population in the world!
Gary Johnson and Ron Paul agree on nearly every single issue that matters to true patriots; liberty-minded Americans. Dr. Paul can still win by supporting Johnson in 2012. The reverse works for me as well, if Paul snags the republican nomination or is offered the VP then we can win by giving our support to his ticket. Johnson's VP Candidate, Judge Jim Gray gives one of the best arguments ever for legal marijuana. We will not find a better pair to vote into our top two offices, with both in strong support of legal marijuana. Issues not politics as usual may actually play an important part in this presidential election.
A Kickstarter campaign has been launched into action with patrons paying for their copy in advance for the new film revisiting the subject of cannabis policy, "The Culture High."
"This prospect is undeniably brilliant in its simplicity. Could this be road ahead for entertainment?"
"Yes, this could well be the future of film making, the fans have the power to fund what they want to see for the first time in movie history; this is truly a life changer, and this is a big move in how we do things in the modern world. Like the Internet's infamous entrepreneurs can attest to, the power has shifted from 'the establishment' to the people."
Michael Phelps is another Rebel with Just Cause, a true American Patriot taking a stand for freedom against tyranny and injustice! Michael won 22 Olympic career medals and 18 were gold medals, the most by any Olympian! Last I checked, Phelps has broken 39 world records (29 individual, 10 relay) in swimming! Congratulations to all the great Olympians!
25 craziest things the US government spends money on!
Save the American Dream, self-government; freedom from big government corruption and oppression. "For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'." - John Greenleaf Whittier
Ethical, compassionate team work makes the dream work! Consider the life-altering qualities of kindness and compassion. Stop financing war or the industrial weapons complex and spend more tax dollars to end poverty, hunger and to improve education. Even better; let's end taxes, pay for services as we use them and donate to our favorite church or charity foundation to help the local needy.
We have the potent tool of nonviolent civil disobedience to effect positive change. True patriots are rebels with just cause. "Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
Save lives instead of ruining them. Join LEAP! It is a LEAP year!! Join COP and DownSizeDC!
Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
"Strike the root!" Be brave, that's how we end terror. All we have to do is stop being afraid, and stop acting out of fear. True patriots never forget America is the home of the free and the brave.
Revolution is Easy! Exercising your political might is just a click away. Thanks for all you do for reform!
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Changing who's in charge will not affect much. The real cause of this huge quagmire of failed policy is the beast, big government, that money hungry beast, Uncle Sam! Ma Freedom tells it like it is! The beauty of it is when we focus on down-sizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for future generations and ourselves.
Compiled and written by Colleen McCool