I support our troops and want to bring them home safe. Secrets put our troops and all of us in more danger than transparency. Truly ethical leaders have no need for secrets, cover ups, covert operations, lies and propaganda. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North!
"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one," declared the man whose pen-name means "safe water." One of the 2010 Rebel with Just Cause portraits will be awarded to Daniel Ellsberg . The other goes to Willie Nelson for his passionate support for marijuana legalization. They are our heroes of the decade, maybe the past century.
"Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship God. And over these ideals they dispute and cannot unite. But they all worship money," the one and only Mark Twain mused and noted, "The lack of money is the root of all evil.." If you believe power corrupts Downsize DC recognizes your genius! Strike the root, downsize DC!
Warmongering, morally bankrupt empire builders and drug warriors think big government needs to solve all our problems. Like Twain I find the "hypocritical self righteousness" of many voting members of the Legislature, when their actions prove them to be morally bankrupt, "particularly galling!" They use fear and propaganda to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
Courageously resist fear, master fear! 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.
Terrorism is mutual suffering. Non-government organizations (NGOs) in unprecedented numbers worldwide are calling for de-nuclearization, de-miltarization, economic justice and responsible corporate behavior. They know education and the nonviolent path are key to make this sea change in our behavior that will save and sustain life as we know it.
Tell Congress to be brave; win the war on terror by NOT being afraid!
Please help prevent unpopular and unnecessary legislation from being bundled together with popular or must-pass bills, expose and prevent the insertion of last minute, corrupt legislative deals and save taxpayers billions of dollars. Ask your Legislators to introduce DownsizeDC.org's "One Subject at a Time Act" (OSTA)! Thanks in advance for taking a stand for limited government, the American dream.
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. The people believe in self-government and self-medication.
"The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become." You've probably noticed that truth expressed by the author who created Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. Use of illegal drugs has increased significantly during the drug war, use of tobacco has decreased due to truth in education and infomercials about this killer. True science based drug education allows everyone to make better health decisions.
I urge you to watch this interview with Neill Franklin, the Executive Director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition.. It will take under 9 minutes of your time.
The video reveals that the Mexican drug cartels have expanded into 230 US cities. Unsurprisingly, the overwhelming majority of police 911 calls are related to this illegal drug trade. And yet, as our police go from one drug-related 911 call to the next, most violent crimes go unsolved, including 60% of rapes, 73% of robberies, 88% of auto thefts and 37% of murders! Please note: in 1963, before the War on Drugs, only 9% of murders went unsolved!
I am afraid, murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. Regulation, science based education and treating abuse as a medical problem is a better drug policy that increases public safety and harm reduction plus frees up billions in wasted funds to use incarcerating the violent and sexual predators.
Prohibition supports despicable people who sell drugs to children, recruit them to sell to their peers and arm them to kill the competition. Across America paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. Again, overkill, to use such force on a nonviolent health issue.
All this unconscionable bloodshed is on the hands of leadership as much as those who pulled the trigger or did the actual butchering and torturing. It is a policy created problem! We are all caught betwixt and between in this scandalous reefer madness war on some drugs.
Drug treatment is at least five times less costly than prison. Change to ethical policy and show fiscal responsibility!
Now is the time to insist American warriors get their adrenaline rush catching murderers and other violent predators.I understand that it will not be possible to stop all murders and rapes. However, get tough on violent crime! Restore Justice, the guardian of liberty!
The DEA and FDA, are both failed government agencies. Our DEA overseers have harassed the sick and dying, shamed and destroyed families, locked up and killed many (including enforcement) over one of the safest therapeutically active plants known to man, cannabis. While FDA"overseers"allowed more pharmaceutical killers on the market, suppressed the truth about cannabis and failed to grant the terminally ill access to investigational drugs. Both agencies exacerbate problems instead of solving them. They should be disbanded.
The first "Foxy" step to "go after the cartels money" (estimated at 70% of it) is to legalize marijuana sales globally. We have the factual information available. Let's construct science based drug policies about saving and rehabilitating instead of ruining lives.
Support for the federal war on drugs is inconsistent with support for individual freedom, constitutional government and the teachings of Jesus, the Prince of Peace.
"We are all alike, on the inside," Twain is full of simple wisdom. Celebrate our similarities and build bridges of tolerance to differences in race, religion, life style or political opinion. United in just cause, we are a powerful force for good.
Author, Jack Herer wanted the information in The Emperor Wears No Clothes, the book that started the hemp revolution, to be available to everyone. Jack published the text of the book here on the Internet for free.
"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society," avowed the always well dressed, most famous story teller from Hannibal,, Mississippi.
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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
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