Today mass communication, social networking and other high-technologies allow us to band together and form a powerful united front for good over evil more easily and quickly than ever before. Let it be, the guardian spirit of our age is the Holy Spirit! The eternal, sacred spark that gives our mortal bodies life is a truly divine and beneficent force that connects us all.

This Spirit unites us, regardless of religion, politics or culture. Don't throw this baby out with the many socially implemented evils or bathwater of harm committed by our religious, political, financial, medical and cultural institutions.

The Holy Spirit is our true North, our moral compass. As each individual spirit recognizes humanity's similarities, our oneness, we coalesce to create a world changing energy and stand in solidarity tolerant of our differences.

The term Zeitgeist is a loanword from German Zeit – "time" and Geist – "spirit" German translation from Latin genius seculi "guardian spirit" and saeculi - "of the age." It is the general cultural, intellectual, ethical, spiritual, and political climate within a nation or a specific group, along with the general ambiance, morals, sociocultural direction, and mood associated with an era. Zeitgeist means "the spirit of the times" or "the spirit of the age."

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The Zeitgeist Movement has "no allegiance to a country or traditional political platforms. It views the world as a single system and the human species as a single family and recognizes that all countries must disarm and learn to share resources and ideas if we expect to survive in the long run. Hence, the solutions arrived at and promoted are in the interest to help everyone on the planet Earth, not a select group." They encourage us to follow Gandhi's suggestion, "We must become the change we want to see in the world."

The Movement's "defining goal is to install a new socioeconomic model based upon technically responsible Resource Management, Allocation and Distribution through what would be considered The Scientific Method of reasoning problems and finding optimized solutions."

We have the potent tool of nonviolent civil disobedience to effect positive change. The Holy Spirit gives us the goals and Mahatma Gandhi the tactics, "Make the injustice visible."

Our insane, deranged, demented; crazy, morally bankrupt, foolish, irrational drug policy is historically and scientifically brain dead and has perilous, dangerous side effects and too many unintended consequences! Deaths and needless injuries happen too often in botched paramilitary drug raids. How can we consider ourselves in good mental health if we can accept living in such a profoundly sick society?

Did law enforcement's’ "spin"of Michelle "Shelley" Hilliard, turning her into their informant, lead to her death last November? "Hilliard was busted with a small amount of marijuana. Oakland County Drug Task Force officers made an offer of some type of leniency if Hilliard helped them catch a bigger fish. Nearly three weeks later her burned, dismembered body was found on Detroit's east side. Raqib, her dealer, has been arrested and charged with her murder.

Rachael Hoffman, a 23-year-old Florida State University graduate was arrested in February 2007 in Tallahassee, Fla. for 176.7 grams (over five ounces) of marijuana and four ecstasy pills. Police pressured her into cooperating in a sting that lead to her being shot and killed.

The mother of slain Florida teenager Trayvon Martin , Sybrina Fulton, says the authorities are trying to demonize her son by leaking details to the news media about the dubious altercation he had with neighborhood watch captain, George Zimmerman, portraying the teen as the aggressor and revealing his suspension from school. happened because school officials found an empty plastic bag with marijuana traces in his backpack. "They killed my son and now they're trying to kill his reputation," Fulton told reporters.

The statistics reveal that bigotry, intolerance, racial prejudice and discrimination are epidemic in our current "justice system" fueling corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. The drug laws replaced the segregation laws for those with racist inclinations in power, in some cases. Mostly it's less sinister but just as devastating.

Simply put, we are all products of our conditioning or experience. If asked, most of us agree all men are created equal. However, a fascinating tool called the Implicit Association Test, IAT shows more than 80% of all races who have ever taken it have pro-white associations. Our prisons are full of minorities and the poor. Being poor is the key factor to prison population. The poor, no matter what color, receive little legal council of any use. More members of minorities are needed in the reform movement.

We are rebels with just cause, when we exercise our right to nullify bad laws like those brave jurors who refused to convict during the Fugitive Slave Act and until FDR said the Volstead Act was licked! Jury nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack. "Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it," as my mentor Mark Twain put it.

Staff Sergeant Robert Bales, who is suspected of killing 16 people, including nine children, in a shooting rampage in Afghanistan, received a traumatic head injury and lost part of a foot during previous deployments in Iraq. The incident raised questions about the stress of repeated deployments, but a military representative said four deployments was not uncommon. Returning troops to front-line duty while they are taking medication such as Lithium or Prozac makes one wonder if the method to our military's madness is to use the link between psychotropic pharmaceuticals and violence.

Patients testify to Cannabis' help in treating post traumatic stress, depression, chronic pain, multiple sclerosis, gastrointestinal (GI) tract disorders, Alzheimer's, Cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma, hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS and more! They swear it is an effective safer replacement for very perilous pharmaceuticals. Cannabis helps produce serenity with insight and sensitivity. It awakens empathy, a feeling of being connected or in fellowship with the world. There is a link between cannabis and nonviolence.

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.

The military and law enforcement have recruitment problems because current policy attracts those interested in working in a morally bankrupt system and milking it, thereby creating a pervasive disrespect for the law. Our system could run with the milk of human kindness, if America had the ethical, efficient and constitutionally limited government; our founders envisioned.

End ALL federal drug laws. Please, consider the fact that the tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death and destroyed lives annually than all illicit drugs.

The Drug Policy Alliance recently hosted, "Turning Point in Texas: Rethinking Drug Policy" in Austin. Speakers included: Susie Byrd, El Paso City Council Representative -Marc Levin, Director, Center for Effective Justice,Texas Public Policy Foundation - Ethan Nadelmann, Executive Director, Drug Policy Alliance - Joy Strickland, Founder and CEO, Mothers Against Teen Violence.

It is overkill and morally bankrupt to punish nonviolent adults for making a definitely safer health choice, cannabis or marijuana, compared to other legal medicinal/social drugs. According to science cannabis is a herbal supplement. Reclassify it as such or regulate it like alcohol and tobacco.

Less than one percent of the population are actual addicts. Drug treatment is seven times less costly than prison! Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility.

Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is rational, 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 selling drugs to children or driving intoxicated.

Restore public and law enforcement safety! Save lives instead of ruining them. Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty! Save the American Dream, self-government; freedom from big government tyranny and oppression. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.

Ron Paul has sponsored the "One Subject At A Time Act," (OSTA). It now has 8 sponsors. You can use Downsize DC's super-quick system to send one simple letter that will go to all three of your elected representatives asking them to sponsor OSTA.

Most legislation aims to control you. But OSTA will control Congress. It will stop Congressional leaders from ramming through unwanted laws by clustering them with popular but unrelated bills and require each bill to be about one subject ONLY -- so each proposal would have to stand or fall entirely on its own merits. OSTA gives the people expanded influence by making bad legislation more vulnerable to public opposition and make it easier for elected officials to represent their constituents, by allowing them to vote on specific proposals, instead of on groups of bills containing divergent measures. It will actually create a de facto "line item veto" by putting only one measure under the President's pen at any one time.

Repeal Obamacare! Right now the Supreme Court is hearing two of the Obamacare cases. Downsize DC is in this fight, with two amicus briefs. Some legal analysts think the justices are ready to invalidate the individual mandate, a step that could put the entire law in jeopardy.

Servants of tyranny play on our fears to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources. Do we want to be known as a disgusting military super power, policing the world or as a humanitarian super power? "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.

In "DEFINING PEACE," a lecture by Peter Joseph, I was happy to see him mention the baboon study about the alpha males in a troop being poisoned and killed by pigging out on rancid meat leading to a more peaceful baboon society, Killer Stress A National Geographic Special . I could not help the thought flashing into my mind of a round up of all human alpha males in central locations around the world to hold "fight to the death" tournaments. Divide them into troops, propagandize them into fear of their enemy troop and let them kill each other off. Then my peace maker side suggests just putting them all in prison and force them into anger management classes for as long as it takes!

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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