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US Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) has announced he will not seek reelection in nearly two years but he has reintroduced the National Criminal Justice Commission Act and he plans to push for it's passage. The measure, after a top-to-bottom review, hopes to offer concrete recommendations for reform of the nation’s criminal justice system and had bipartisan support last year; it cleared the Senate Judiciary Committee and passed the full House of Representatives. The Senator is confident it will pass in this session.

"We're going to get it done," proclaimed the true patriot; servant of the American dream of self-government! Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers, child molesters and rapists.

The carnage and crime associated with illicit drugs are triggered by our demented, punitive policy. It is a policy created problem! Notice alcohol distributors no longer kill off the competition! The people believe in self-government and self-medication.

Blame the drug war for the disastrous shooting in Arizona recently! Jared Loughner was self medicating with cannabis but an arrest got him off his medication. I believe the cannabis aided in calming his violent tendencies until he could not use for fear of failing to pass a piss test.

Cannabis promotes a feeling of being connected, of calm and peace, "a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world." As Carl Sagan so aptly put it.

It is overkill and morally bankrupt to arrest nonviolent people for making a safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other medicinal/social drugs.

I have always maintained that Drug War II is a war on our best and brightest. .People who use the term doper for individuals who make a safer choice are showing their ignorance. We can educate them. One of 20 Scientifically-Proven Signs You're Smarter Than Average is: you use social drugs.

Cannabis oil is that cure all some of our ancestors used! Thank God, they did not let us all be brain washed into forgetfulness about the wonder of it! Oooops, they spilled the beans, in spite of the oppression promoted by medical profiteers.

I am afraid; murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. That's real soft on public safety, soft-in-the-head, out-of-control, historically ignorant policy.

The spiraling violence triggered by this scandalous, senseless, morally bankrupt war on some drugs and government impotence in the face of it are a threat to public safety around the globe. Paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. All this unconscionable bloodletting is on the hands of leadership as much as those who pulled the trigger or contributed in other ways to the monstrous, unnecessary bloodshed.

Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!

Some of our leaders live in a state of denial. Others are like bad horseman; too concerned about staying in the saddle to worry about where they are headed. Many are outright servants of tyranny; good at ignoring the rule of law, history and science while catering to the needs of special interests but very bad at determining what is best or safer for the individual or society.

Big government or the establishment ideology of unethical capitalism and the welfare/warfare state is an assault on the American dream of self-government, free of tyranny and oppression.

True patriots, lovers of liberty, insist morally bankrupt US warriors are held responsible for torture and wars abandoning our ideal of nonintervention. The world knows they violated international law. They are traitors to the republic for which we stand. We will be derelict in our duties to maintain an in fact, free republic if we don't insist on it.

Truth is always the first casualty of any war. Violent, hate filled, morally bankrupt, authoritarian warmongers are a different species than us, mere human beings. They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. They are the opposite of true patriots; who believe in the American dream of self-government and value public safety first!

Everyone on this planet's DNA is 99.9% the same; we descended from the same scientific Adam and Eve, out of Africa. We are brothers and sisters as Jesus taught us. Genetically there is no such thing as race, according to National Geographic's "The Human Family Tree" This should make us all more tolerant and reinforce our great shame over race hate crimes. Fifty per cent of black males in America carry a white y chromosome marker from a European male! Race and features are differences that literally are only skin deep.

Plato said "Only the dead have seen the end of war." But with tolerance of our differences and celebration of our similarities we can build bridges that unite us and prove him wrong!

If you research old newspaper reports about heroin, cocaine, morphine and other addictive drugs before Drug War II you'll find no evidence of these drugs causing society problems but you'll see plenty violence and chaos triggered by prohibition of alcohol during Drug War I.

Demented prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Society has always been caught betwixt and between in these scandalous, senseless morally bankrupt wars on some drugs.

Throughout history people have found ways to alter their consciousness. In primitive societies psychoactive plants were sacred and ingested with care, with supposed spiritual intent, but use was often limited to a corrupt powerful few who used fear and superstition to control the masses. If some carry on the ancient tradition of using drugs as a sacrament, to enhance spiritual growth, it is cause for rejoicing not incarceration.

"When it comes to drug abuse, treatment is seven times more cost effective than incarceration. Seven times. It’s an indisputable fact.” - Harriet “Harry” Korn (Kathy Bates in Harry's Law)

And as Harry so effectively points out, prison “neither treats nor trains nor rehabilitates” — it merely risks making someone more dangerous and more likely to commit crimes in the future. Harry is right; these are the facts. Watch a murderer's autobiography, Killer: A Journal of Murder.

Didn't I read that Marc Emery and Roger Christie are being kept in solitary? Does anyone know how many enter the system on a nonviolent drug charge (and history) but end up in solitary confinement, " tantamount to torture"?

National Geographic's Solitary Confinement explores the potentially devastating psychological effects of isolation, paying particular attention to the thousands of Americans who spend, sometimes, years on end imprisoned in solitary confinement. While correctional officers claim the practice effectively controls unruly prisoners, others say being alone in a small space without any outside contact is tantamount to torture.

This injustice system makes me so ashamed. Only fools can believe we are presently the land of the free. Over "80,000 poor souls" in solitary right now! This injustice system creates serial killers and drives sane people over the edge. Where is the public safety in that?

The scourge of meth will disappear with change to a better, safer drug policy for society and the individual just as the deaths and blindness caused by bathtub gin ended with repeal of alcohol prohibition. Overdose deaths were virtually unheard of before Drug War II because callers for help did not fear arrest.

Veterans in states where medical marijuana is legal may use it without getting thrown out of killer Veterans Administration pain treatment programs, a life saving victory!

Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is rational; a better drug policy increasing public safety and harm reduction plus freeing up untold billions in wasted funds to use toward catching more violent and sexual predators or incarcerating more of those morally bankrupt, who sell drugs to children or drive intoxicated.

Less than one per cent of the population are actually addicts and drug treatment is seven times less costly than prison. Restore public and law enforcement safety! Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility! Save lives instead of ruining them. Get tough on violent crime!

Join LEAP, COP and DownsizeDC! Get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!

The web is the fastest growing communications medium in the history of the world. A powerful tool, a window of opportunity, in our war of good over evil; the Internet continues to revolutionize the way we communicate and has enormous potential for reshaping the political process.

Only agents of tyranny; ones happy with the status quo want to regulate this modern marvel. Tell those authoritarian purveyors of oppression,"Hands off the Internet!"

Congratulations! You've had another victory! The House passed one of the bills in our Downsize DC Agenda, the Enumerated Powers Act. Every House bill must now cite its Constitutional authority.

"The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it. The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people. Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal." - MLK

The only real wealth is well being and happiness. We, the nonviolent members of the pro-better-world society, far out number the violent evil doers. Get tough on violent crime! Take away violent offenders' and sexual predators' ability to reproduce. Aggressive behavior can be bred out of us as it has been done in dogs. We shall overcome the violent and inherit the earth. We shall create Peace on Earth!

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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