America once stood proudly for freedom! There is little or no justice where corruption and racism thrive. We're overtaxed and regulated until we can barely survive. True patriots of Liberty are rising again to emulate our dream of self-government; free of tyranny and oppression. "Freedom is popular,"Ron Paul crows.
A real cowboy hero, riding for freedom to save justice in America, Howard Wooldridge advices, "Drug prohibition causes more pain, suffering and death than the drugs themselves. Prisons should be full of people we are afraid of, NOT someone we are mad at!" He is a founding member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Howard lobbies for us in DC and writes a weekly column about it, LEAP on the HILL.
It is easier for retired New Jersey State Police Lt. Jack Cole to look himself in the eye theses days. He made headlines when he teamed up with other former cops to form the drug policy reform group LEAP. The organization's message is an "aha" moment for many: "The Drug War is a lie that ruins lives and damages the reputation of and respect for police. If you want to control the market for illicit drugs, legalize them – it's the only way to regulate their distribution and use."
Cannabis or marijuana is a safer choice. It is policy bordering on insanity or reefer madness to punish people for making a safer choice for their health. Cannabis medicines, until they were declared illegal, had been used in about 30 prescription medicines for a 100 specific medical problems.
Barry Cooper is another former law enforcement officers in opposition to marijuana laws. Barry's reflections on his career as a narc are enlightening but his DVD is no joke to many Texas narcotics officers.
"I don't know how he justifies having played one side of the fence and putting people in jail, and now playing the other side and helping them avoid it," says Herschel Tebay, commander of the Tarrant County Organized Crime Narcotics Unit in Fort Worth. "I don't know how he lives with himself and looks in the mirror."
Drug abuse is a disease. Compassionate treatment is the answer. How can drug warriors look themselves in the mirror when across the US last year 40% of the murders, almost 60% of the rapes and about half of the aggravated assaults went unsolved? The horrendous cumulative effect of this is becoming obvious. While we police individual recreational and medicinal use of drugs; murderers and violent sexual predators roam free.
Save the American Dream of self-government; free of tyranny and oppression! Construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives.
Get tough on violent crime! Restore justice! Warriors can earn their pay and get their adrenaline rush solving homicides, molestations and rapes.
Prohibition
is backed by drug dealers! Cut the cartels'/terrorists' throats by legalizing
and regulating drug distribution. It would immediately end their major source
of funding and would increase our tax base instead of draining it.
Our founders knew big government would always mean
a gang of evil doers. Support Ron Paul's "American
Freedom Agenda Act of 2007." It will restore basic Constitutional
protections and empower Americans to support human rights, democracy, and
the rule of law in the world at large. It frees us from the stench of hypocrisy
and will protect Americans and our troops from retaliation by foreign powers
for Uncle Sam's transgressions of America's most hallowed principles.
Bless Katie
Heath and her family. She has become the poster child for what is wrong
with the sentencing policy. "Federal conspiracy charges, by the way,
not only allow federal prosecutors to retry crimes for which you've already
done time or even been acquitted of in state court, they can also dredge up
incidents that happened a decade or more ago--alleged crimes for which state
statutes of limitations have already expired," reports Radley
Balko. The judge in the Heath
case rebuked the prosecutors but that won't deter them.
Harvey Silverglate, a Boston defense lawyer, says the rewards for informers encourages them "not only to sing, but to compose." The American Civil Liberties Union warns: Unreliable informant testimony is one of the largest sources of wrongful convictions in this country.
Uncle Sam is an unnecessary evil; downsize big government! Shame on our system, it reeks!
There is still time to sign up for The International Drug Policy Reform Conference, the world's principal gathering of people who believe the war on drugs is doing more harm than good. No better opportunity exists to learn about drug policy and to plan and mobilize for reform. This year's conference will be held December 5-8 at the Astor Crowne Plaza in the legendary French Quarter in New Orleans, Louisiana. Hope to see you there!