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You know, money and drugs have been demonized and made to seem evil but in truth both can be powerful forces for good. Let us be clear, it is not the drugs or money that are wicked, it is how they are used by people. The love of money to the point of moral bankruptcy and the use of drugs to the point of abuse (detrimental to health) are a danger to society; life threatening to the individual.

Our Founders were good Christian men led by the holy spirit but money the root of all evil was part of it. They wanted to create the land of abundance. They knew ethics would have to rule for it to work. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true north. They warned us to be diligent in protecting our freedom and not let things get out of our control. Ooooops!

Big government lies to us and plays on our fears to make us more agreeable to their waste of our precious lives and resources. Perhaps you thought Uncle Sam was a benevolent spirit but the truth is throughout history, big government has caused more harm than good; often hiding tyranny under the guise of good intentions.

Our Founders knew big government would always mean a gang of evildoers and were not into forcing people to be good, they were into self-government and instituted the people are grand and government is small plan! They separated church and state to keep the government out of moral issues. Yet, the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of '76 is still our true north.

Attorney General Holder is seriously considering the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate torture and other human rights abuses that occurred during the Bush-Cheney administration. Please write the President and Attorney General to urge a criminal investigation.

The fear propaganda and outright lies that extend the drug war, the Iraq war and all policies of aggression are distracting diversions to take our minds off the morally bankrupt servants of tyranny's waste of our precious lives and resources. True patriots, warriors for good over evil, don't have to look far to find something better to do.

Our world seems senselessly full of inconsistency, incompetence, ghastly mistakes, atrocious dishonor and horrifying shame. Big government and big churches (in God's name) often do more harm than good. Too, many of these folks want to serve God, but only as advisors. "God loves everyone," but probably prefers fruits of the spirit (those with ethics) over religious nuts and morally bankrupt profiteers!

Human rights violations abound in the misguided war on drugs.

Atlanta police killed 92-year-old Kathryn Johnston in a botched drug raid not long ago and the carnage continues. An Ohio SWAT team killed Tarika Wilson and shot her one-year-old son.

Prohibition's legacy is legend in the waste of our precious lives and
resources. Deaths and needless injuries happen too often in botched
paramilitary drug raids. Overzealous, unconscionable to the extreme,
situations are occurring!

Ashley Villarreal: in San Antonio.DEA agents shoot innocent 14-year-old girl in the head, but deny any wrongdoing.

Rachel Hoffman: a young college grad, coerced by police to act as an
informant after she was arrested for marijuana possession and then killed by drug dealers following a botched drug sting.

We all want, "Resilient Teens, Empowered Parents, Strong Communities!" That is the motto of Joy Strickland's Mothers Against Teen Violence, following the tragedy of losing her son Charles Christopher Lewis (Chris), 19, and his friend, Kendrick Demond Lott, 18, who were robbed and brutally murdered in Dallas. Joy believes the war on drugs undermines the safety of our children.

The drug war's most recent victim is Theresa Anthony. She was serving a short sentence in a Harris County Jail for possession of marijuana and died in custody. The facility has been plagued with overpopulation, which strains overburdened staffers causing unsanitary conditions. "A Houston Chronicle review of state and county records reveals that from January 2001 through December 2006, at least 101 inmates — an average of about 17 a year — have died while in the custody of the Harris County Jail."

The debate over medical marijuana or cannabis is really a scandalous controversy over whether this very safe, effective, easy-to-grow herb should be allowed to compete with expensive dangerous pharmaceuticals.

Weed out morally bankrupt servants of tyranny, gun control fanatics and racists by taking away the main tool they use these days to extend their agenda, the new prohibition.

If you research it you will find there were few overdose deaths before
prohibition. Our current policies send the message to our young people that alcohol and pharmaceuticals are a safer choice, not true!

Many European nations have a Good Samaritan Laws that exempts those who report a drug overdose from prosecution. Here the bodies pile up like cordwood or holocaust victims (more than 33,000 precious lives lost in 2005) but does anyone care if overdose deaths skyrocket!?...That research shows little or no overdose deaths before prohibition? ...That marijuana was once used to help people withdraw from opium and opiates?"

New Mexico is the only state so far to show a little compassion. The NM 911 Good Samaritan law helps to eliminate the fear of arrest when calling 911 for help during an overdose.

Prescription meds mixed with alcohol figure in most suicides. Treating drug abusers compassionately, as patients with an illness might help prevent this tragedy and many others.. The sweet milk of human desire or our consuming passions can destroy us or, as we gain better control, make us stronger.

Recent celebrities' overdose deaths created a media blitz about dangerous prescription drugs. Uncle Sam is starting to take steps to reduce access to Dr. Feelgood. Databases are in the works that track your medications and threaten your privacy.

Unless the medication is approved by a physician within federal guidelines, drug warriors are against anyone feeling good, being at ease, being pain free. The people believe in self-government and self-medication. Warriors can get their adrenaline rush making us all safer, catching violent predators! Harassing the sick and dying is an un-American activity.

The really risky drugs are the legal ones. Over a thousand people die each day due to tobacco use! Close to 300 a day die from prescribed pharmaceuticals. The tobacco, alcohol and pharmaceuticals gangs deal drugs causing more death annually than all illicit drugs We tolerate their salesmen!

Our under-treatment of pain is medieval or just plain evil! Dr. David E. Joranson of the University of Wisconsin Medical school thinks, "The use of pain medications has become a crime story when it should be a health care story."

Drug Policy Alliance announced Rep. Donna F. Edwards (D - MD) has introduced a balanced and evidence-supported program for overdose prevention to Congress." This bill provides a sensible alternative to unfair restrictions on access to medication, and gives public health professionals more power to effectively prevent overdose."

Most Americans and Texans agree and believe health care is the responsibility of the individual. The use of marijuana has been demonized and made a crime, when in truth, it is a health care story about an easy to grow, safer, effective medicinal choice compared to expensive pharmaceuticals with negative side effects.

Problems don't go away just because the government makes them illegal; they just go underground. Then a black market creates worse problems; since sellers cannot rely on police to protect their property, they arm themselves and form gangs. The more despicable sellers recruit minors to sell to their peers, charge monopoly prices and kill the competition. Some buyers steal to pay the high prices.

The family is far superior to the state as a means of moral development and social control. The marriages and families destroyed, not to mention imprisoning so many young people discouraging marriage and the formation of more families, all contribute to our moral and
social breakdown.

No one was robbing, whoring and murdering over addictive drugs before drug prohibition? All are consequences of the idiotic drug war. The "evils" of drugs come from their illegality, not from the drugs themselves.

Since time began 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.

Today to celebrate, to relax, to just feel better, to live without pain, fear, uncertainty, depression and doubt we use our favorite legal or illegal drug. Nationally, globally, en masse, we are a High Society!

Stop prohibition triggered violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny
and ruined lives! Murderers and other violent predators roam free, while we police nonviolent adult social, medicinal and religious drug use. Limited resources can be better-spent catching pedophiles, rapists and killers. More time could go toward stopping DUI and those selling drugs to minors. Some of the estimated $50 to $70 billion per year local/state/federal budget could go toward true education.

Help restore justice!

Both the Real ID Act and the PASS Act result in Americans being enrolled into a single global biometric identification system that links a person's body to their ability to buy and sell. The senate committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs will be considering the legislation very soon. Contact committee members and ask your neighbors, friends, co-workers, relatives and everyone else you have contact with to make the calls as well.

Contact each of the Senators on the Committee and say: You are opposed to the Real ID Act and the PASS Act. You are opposed to being enrolled into a biometric identification system. You do not want our social security numbers in state DMV databases. You do not want RFID chips in our drivers licenses. You are opposed to the federal government intervening in the issuance of state driver's licenses.

The Almighty Creator is the source of all creativity. Our individual dreams, the American dream and all dreams of freedom around the world come from our source. What kind of life, what kind of world do we want to create? Focusing on the true nature of creativity as a spiritual issue, not an ego issue, can help us transform ourselves and our world. This simple shift in focus creates the nurturing atmosphere needed to work together to overcome obstacles and solve problems.

Join the Easy Revolution. 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.

Thomas Paine, author of "Common Sense," returns to modern times to plea for a second revolution to take back America, Now!

Please contact your Legislators: US Senate, House, TX Senate, House.

Changing whose 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 downsizing our government we regain our roots of self-government and secure the blessings of liberty for future generations and ourselves.

My fellow, lovers of liberty hold fast to the American dream, visualize a better world without so much violence, official lawlessness and oppression, believe it into reality. Downsize DC, make that LEAP of faith, let ethics, compassion and the free market rule! Get tough on violent crime!

If you get misty at liberty as Howard Wooldridge, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition and I do, please dedicate as much time as you can, using the talents you were blessed with, to end the evil we suffer and abolish these insane forms to which we have become accustomed! Take action now, join the Campaign For Liberty!

Compiled and written by Colleen McCool