The statistics reveal that bigotry, intolerance, racial prejudice and discrimination are epidemic in the drug war. The new prohibition fuels corruption of public officials and injustice in our courts. The official lawlessness exposed in Tenaha, Tulia, etc. is the tip of the corruption iceberg. Help end asset forfeiture!

The Interim Report (pdf, see pp 39-43) of the Texas House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee, quoted below, demanded an end to Texas' regional narcotics task force system as we knew it:"Continuing to sanction task force operations as stand-alone law enforcement entities - with widespread authority to operate at will across multiple jurisdictional lines - should not continue. The current approach violates practically every sound principle of police oversight and accountability applicable to narcotics interdiction."

CJC plainly condemns Texas' network of drug task forces financed by the federal Byrne grant program. The committee , led by Republican former Travis County Sheriff Chairman Terry Keel, R-Austin, unanimously agreed and did not minced words in its rebuke of the task force system.

Links to the statistics quoted & other information:

DRUG WAR FACTS causes of death in US

Criminal Justice Policy Foundation

Texas Prison Stats

Research on the prison industrial complex

Prison Policy Initiative

Prisoners of the Census

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"Drug problems have very little to do with any specific drug, but are rooted in the psyches of the individuals who abuse them." - Jerry Epstein, Drug Policy Forum of Texas "Incarceration has never reduced demand for drugs or the problems associated with an illegal market. What is needed is comprehensive regulation." - Suzanne Wills, DPFT

 

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Drugs, sex and politics; a national shame!
by Ma Freedom Continued from Latest Drug News

using poisonous products instead of the beneficial and virtually harmless plant, cannabis or hemp.

Fear mongering and war runs their gravy train!

America gets an F in two out of three public safety indicators comparing world governments' statistics concerning homicides, assaults and thefts The US is a material world so we get just above average marks for protection from and solving thefts. Where our government fails is in protecting us from and solving homicides and assaults.

Switzerland and Netherlands do a much better job with their violent crime. Their drug laws help lessen the harm to society by triggering less assaults and homicides. Their teen drug use is down. Could it be because they live in a safer, saner world? Maybe, but California's teen use of marijuana is down so maybe it has more to do with drug sales being handled by legitimate business people less likely to sell to a child or to recruit a minor to sell to their peers.

"As females become sexually active at younger and younger ages, state legislatures have stupidly raised the age at which it is legal to engage in sexual activity. Today, a significant percentage of new prisoners are young men imprisoned for engaging in sexual activity with teenage girls. In the US, criminal justice (sic) has more to do with ruining people than with punishing criminals," says Paul Craig Roberts. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions.

In many of these cases the so-called victim did not want to prosecute; meanwhile violent sexual predators get away with murder. Once all voluntary associations were permissible in America -- economic and social.

Have you noticed opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your front door forever or how forbidden fruits create many jams? Sex and drugs, for both abstinence is safest but few choose it. When individuals remain in control of their own bodies (including drug, alcohol, prescription use) society benefits.

Our children are healthy, young animals, entering their sexual primes, over 40% of whom will have had sex before they are fifteen. They should be taught every safety precaution and offered condoms. Still, that is 60% who choose abstinence and they should be free to choose to, "just say no," to Gardasil.

"Every child is an artist. The problem is to remain an artist once he grows up," said Pablo Picasso. There are all kinds of artists. Some make living well an art. Life is pure creative energy; a creative force dwells in each of us.

Take heart, the American dream comes directly from God and God has the power to accomplish it. Spirit filled leaders are channels for Good Orderly Direction! The "Spirit of '76" was and is the Holy Spirit! Return to these roots and the task ahead of us will never be as great as the Power behind us! Ethics will rule America. and we will be a true example of liberty to the world.

Current policies destroy families and official lawlessness rules. Alcohol makes domestic violence 8xs more likely, cannabis does not. Taking children out of homes of nonviolent cannabis users and placing them in homes in which alcohol is the drug of choice is policy bordering on insanity!

Americans deserve policies that build family bonds instead of destroying them. Our children deserve an education free of lies, half truths, innuendoes and any similar government propaganda.

"Freedom to make bad decisions is inherent in the freedom to make good ones. If we are only free to make good decisions, we are not really free." US Congressman Ron Paul notes.

We just have to love our kids, teach them that their body is the temple for their soul and hope they make the right choices. You can't live their lives for them; they will not allow it. Independent individuals will eventually throw off the bonds of tyrannical parents and big government tyranny and oppression (Continue)

Restore justice in America; 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.

James Madison, the primary author of the Constitution of the United States, said this: "We have staked the whole future of all our political constitutions upon the capacity of each of ourselves to govern ourselves according to the moral principles of the Ten Commandments."

"In the end, however, no constitution can be self enforcing....For the Constitution will live only if it is alive in the hearts and minds of the American people." Roger Pilon, senior fellow and director of CATO's Center for Constitutional Studies.

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.Drug testing is useless except as a money making scheme. It is another big waste of our tax dollars.

Peter Bensinger former DEA head and former drug czars, Robert L Dupont and Carlton Turner shamelessly promoted drug testing as the solution to drug problems while they held office. Bensinger, Dupont & Associates is now the world's largest drug testing company. This Association formed by these same big drug warriors is reaping a fortune on the drug testing laws they wrote.

The only beneficiaries of drug testing are the makers of the tests. Statistics reveal that random student drug testing doesn't work and can deter students from extracurricular activities; the very activities that
increase students' connection to their schools and to caring adults. What's worse, studies even show that student drug testing does not deter drug use

Read the story of how one student's life was turned upside down by drug testing and how drug testing created a devastating false sense of security for another family.

The truth about drugs will keep our children off them. Sound medical and unbiased scientific knowledge are the most effective moral persuasions. Present policy falsehoods and scare tactics undermine our credibility.

We want to encourage drug free behavior not awaken their curiosity. Effective drug education based on medical science builds student's confidence to make informed responsible choices. Scare tactics, drug testing and fear don't work as well as truth, trust and reason.

Consider truthfully educating our young, treating our addicts and respecting the rights of adults to choose their social or medicinal intoxicant. It would free law enforcement to better protect us from violence and fraud and create room in prison for those selling drugs to children.

As long as there is a demand for illicit drugs they will be made available. As long as work is available; they will come. As long as people are physically able to make love; they will! The free market with its laws of supply and demand always manages to carry on; no matter what new laws are written to slow the process.

Celebrate our similarities; instead of prisons, build bridges of tolerance to differences in religion, race and lifestyle. Change to a more compassionate policy about rehabilitating all but the most hardened. God Himself does not propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should we? Except to protect our selves from violence or fraud we could adopt a policy of live and let live.

DNA testing has shown our judgment to be totally unreliable! In case after case corruption or ineptness has found innocent people guilty of murder and allowed the real predator to roam free. So many of the incarcerated are mentally ill, nonviolent drug offenders or the innocent; very few should be in prison!

We all agree drug abuse is a problem! Reformers say there is a better way to handle it. Treatment of drug abuse saves people and money. The statistics reveal that racism is epidemic in the drug war. African, Hispanic and other minority Americans are needed to work for reform!

After someone has served their time, they should not have to admit to a nonviolent felony drug conviction on work applications. Maybe make that illegal to ask just like race, age and religious questions. How much do we owe in reparations to all nonviolent drug offenders?

If our mission was to build a paramilitary style police force, huge prison industry and a totalitarian state, by George we've done it! War creates a booming economy for some on the suffering of many. Drug warriors are so befuddled by the noble idea of preventing drug abuse, they ignore the lessons of history.

No legitimate business lasts long if it kills its customers or shoots the competition. No legitimate business would sell drugs to children or recruit minors to sell to their peers. This happened during alcohol prohibition. Once again, today, prohibition triggers more danger to the user and society by increasing violent crime and corruption of public officials. Meth will go away like bathtub gin with regulation.

Recent bar raids bring back shades of the '20s Speakeasies. Less people who hit skid row or stoop to prostitution would get stuck there if we had more compassionate policy offering helpful treatment.

We have accomplished a scary amount of collateral damage beyond that caused by abuse of drugs. Drug abuse, including alcohol and pharmaceuticals, etc. is a medical problem and we'll do a better job preventing overdose deaths, of keeping kids drug free and inebriated folks off the road by offering helpful treatment.

When the innocent, the nonviolent unarmed or our officers are injured or killed in prohibition-triggered violence it is especially disturbing because our policies are causing a scary amount of collateral damage beyond that caused by abuse of drugs. "We just have to keep our guard up for the 1 percent that your mother always warned you about," said Capt. Andrew Lewis, Bay City's lead investigator.

Ninety-nine per cent or most people are nonviolent. Yet, all of us need to keep our guard up. Be careful of the situations we put ourselves in; be safe, make responsible choices. Our policies need to encourage such behavior! Instead we arrest those like, Willie Nelson and buds for a responsible, safer choice!

Concerned citizens want a safer world. Put people in prison for violence and fraud but with compassionate treatment hopeful of rehabilitation for all but most hardened. Most people are responsible drug users. Prohibition triggers a scary amount of collateral damage to our precious lives and resources. Stop drug prohibition, its violence and corruption.

The Controlled Substances Act is one of those bad laws like the Fugitive Slave Act and the Volstead Act. When juries refuse to convict on "drug crime," drug warriors will be politically dead bodies. Jury nullification is a constitutional power tool we the people pack!

The military and law enforcement have recruitment problems because current policy attracts those interested in working in a corrupt 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.

America is not supposed to be a centrally planned economy with guaranteed employment for everyone, as long as they do what they are told by the state. A state of authoritarian tyranny is what that is called. Every one of us is in jeopardy of losing our freedom to think, speak and act. King George of England inspired the rebellion in 1776. Could another self-appointed King George be on the verge of doing the same?

Drugs, sex and politics; leaders responsible for current quagmire will one day answer to a higher power for their crimes against humanity. It's time to end the terror by changing our intrusive, big-bully policies, both foreign and domestic. The monetary costs are staggering and the human suffering unconscionable.

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