I agree with Sedit,
The war on drugs is just yet another piss take by the government, like the war on terror ect. It is a manipulation of words and the truth to accomplish their goals whatever they are? Its been said a million times you cant have a war on an inanimate object (its ridiculous) like a war on chairs or rocks. It is a war on drug users, and a war on privacy and people sitting on large amounts of oil. Both of which bring in billions of dollars into the hands of politicians, illegal drugs make lots of money for the government. I was watching a shitty Ross Kemp on Gangs episode when a guy said something that stuck a note with me, he was a smart guy. And when Ross Kemp was asking why these nasty greedy drug dealers where doing this they guy answered "There is xxx billion dollars worth of drugs transported through rio de janero every year, those street dealers who are the "evil" ones move ALL of it to survive and feed their families they are literally starving in the streets. If they were the evil ones doing this, wheres their money? Why would they not buy their family some food? out of the xxx billion dollars made by passing drugs through here, where is it?"

One thing is for certain it was not in the slums! With the people that were being demonized, and used an excuse to get rid of drugs!

And that sums it up! Follow a dollar,(following a single dollar is hard, but following millions or billions is much easier!) and you find the people really profiting from this are not who you think!! The fact that certain people are put into certain situations where they have no choice, no money cant get a job because of being a certain race ect. This will not change until the whole system changes (or breaks) as we live in time where if your business is big enough and you have enough $$$ you can dictate the rules to the rest. You can make millions every year(more than you would ever need in one year), while others starve in the cold. And not care, look kids if you do bad in school you will end up like that guy in the gutter, ha ha ha ha (the family laughs together from their warm Bentley).

"The Coca-Cola formula is The Coca-Cola Company's secret recipe for Coca-Cola. As a publicity, marketing strategy and intellectual property protection strategy started by Robert W. Woodruff, the company presents the formula as a closely held trade secret known only to a few employees, mostly executives."
from wiki

It is a trade secret because they can keep it secret and still protect it!

"A company can protect its confidential information through non-compete and non-disclosure contracts with its employees (within the constraints of employment law, including only restraint that is reasonable in geographic and time scope). The law of protection of confidential information effectively allows a perpetual monopoly in secret information - it does not expire as would a patent. The lack of formal protection, however, means that a third party is not prevented from independently duplicating and using the secret information once it is discovered."
from wiki (Trade secrets)

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."

The governments screw everything up because two trains of thought exist. There is a battle going on - This is The Individual vs The Collective.

This is one of the videos that has really helped me understand a lot of things about Individualism vs collectivism. I think it is pretty intense - not the best made, but the ideas behind it I think are great. Though... it has nothing to do with drugs.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0o2GCT0z4Q&NR=1

if you watch it, let me know what you think of it.. there are five parts, it is rather long.. :/

Margret Mead IIRC

I long time ago did I read a brave new world. I remember very little of it, and thus I am not sure about what it is you are referencing.

"It will take more than a small group of individuals to change the world now."

See, this is what I am saying. I said "And that sums it up! Follow a dollar,(following a single dollar is hard, but following millions or billions is much easier!) and you find the people really profiting from this are not who you think!" And people start thinking ohh here we go again not another conspiracy theory. But I am talking about history and what goes on to this day in many different ways, and I assume people know what I am talking about. Today its still cocaine from the same old places using the same old routes and now herion from afghanistan ect......

1980's; Iran Contra Affair. (the CIA on reagans command introduced crack cocaine into black(it can be argued if the black part was planned but cant be argued that is where it ended up) communities, and initially used the money to fund the Contras but probably soon after realised the potential).

Whoever in the CIA or government planned out how to monopolize that market was a genius and they set a standard! They got poor people who had not really much to lose to do all the legwork, so are not actually doing it themselves more from a far. By allowing it to happen (secretly) and applying a lot of pressure to certain routes of money laundering and leaving others seemingly open, they literally dictate how the drug money is laundered (spent). By helping certain people monopolize the drug market and weeding out the small dealers by death, arresting ect, they can watch where the money goes much easier. In the article linked, the bank had to pay 160 million when getting caught laundering 110 million and had to promise it wont happen again (wrap on the knuckles but they will not do it again! most important part was publicly naming them and the government got its 110 million back plus 50 million so no charges pressed for smuggling 110million!). The mayor of Miami openly states to this day "This city was built with drug money", a city bringing in billions of dollars of revenue and taxes each year was built with drug money, who profits from billions of dollars of legitimate extra revenue and taxes? The dealers from those days are now dead or in prison, or on the run or the one in million that got away. Funny as at the time Miami was being built with drug money so was Panama. So the drug dealers that are in jail or dead dont have the money anymore? A quote from a story about how panama was built on drug money, but relating to their current 2007 boom (where the "same shit different day" aka "same shit different smell" defense could be used). And the writer probably did not want to say something he might regret.

"Not A New Phenomenon: Remember that Panamanian dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega was arrested and jailed for drug trafficking. And, he will now be going to spend more time in a French prison on charges that he used laundered drug money to purchase real estate in France. In Panama the cocaine flows North, and the money flows back South. We're talking like 40 years or more of history here. Just take a wander through the halls of the La Joya prison and talk to the inmates. Many of those guys who are now in prison purchased apartments or other property with drug money. When they are busted its taken away from them. Does anyone think drug money being laundered in the Panamanian real estate market is new? Of course not. Is drug money funding the majority of the current construction boom? Of course not. Are some of those apartments being bought with laundered drug money - of course they are. After all, this is still Panama."
http://www.panama-guide.com/article.php/20071230205729628

By policing certain types of money laundering extra hard and not really at all with others(like property investment), they force the unwitting dealer into spending his money where they want it(generally construction). Rather than risk loading up a suitcase with as much money as he can (not much) and trying his luck smuggling it to a place where he has more opportunity than local property investment and luxury items like cars.



When a bigtime drug dealers house, two lamborghinis, jet skies ect ect is siezed in raids then sold in police auctions (who gets the money?). Thats right! It is beneficial for them to pick a smart guy and give him the green light to let him deal and let them get filthy rich (and watch where every cent goes! keep your eyes on the prize), then when times up collect their chips. The perfect example here is Freeway Ricky Ross as he actually met with the leader of the Contras several times when he was a kingpin in the 80's! (he is now in prison with his fortune gone, the physical stuff sold at police auctions the money seized from bank accounts). Imagine if he said in an interview to someone he has squirreled 10 million away in a foreign account or hid it somewhere (the sharks would come out quickly!) Special agents asking "Where did you hide the money Ricky!", they have setup special units dedicated to recovering proceeds of crime. Which can freeze foreign bank accounts and have other hardcore powers like that (called, asset recovery) the name says it all they are just recovering their assets.

Freeway Ricky Ross claims to have made "2-3 million dollars a week", and was in business for years. But now does not have a cent! The government has it all! You tell me if it is worth their while finding someone smart who will not blow their money rather invest it and save it in an account ect, then letting him do it for a while, then raiding and collecting his millions? To spend how they want (probably not on construction as they already have that covered )

I could go on for a long time about other ways this is done, I also dont think this applies globally like every politician in the world is in on this. But there is too much money in it for people very high up to say no too, enough money to build a city! I think that is a golden example of how much money is actually in drugs that are illegal! If coke was legal how much would a gram cost to buy?

Answer= About 100 times less than what you pay now!

And if you think oh the government would not do this to us, just think about the favors it does for big pharma. Most of those favors where not done in the interest of the general publics interest and good health, but moreso for very healthy $$$ donations regardless of the outcome.

The only feasible route is via the full decriminalization of drugs (same as has been done in Portugal, more on that is here), this removes the criminal problem (reduces the incredible amounts of public money paid to enforce criminal laws to virtually nothing), and will have the added benefit of bankrupting the Taliban.

In terms of what the coalition of the willing (or COW) should be doing in Afghanistan, they should stop dealing with corrupt warlords, period. They should pay the farmers/villagers an agreed price per acre of poppies, then destroy them in situ prior to them becoming harvestable (collect them and corruption being what it is, the bulk of them will magically disappear, or be 'ambushed' en-route to the destruction point).

The current government has less credibility than the one the US tried to prop up in Vietnam in the 60's, it's only supporters really boil down to the drug-producing warlords, who prefer it to the Taliban. This is not a national problem, or more properly, a problem that can be addressed on a national level. What needs to happen is that the coalition forces incubate and nurture locals who wish to govern themselves, without the corruption endemic to the central government. Once they have experience with local/regional politics being above board, then and only then, will the people themselves be ready (and equipped), to trust a democratically elected central government. It is already happening in at least one province (in the Australian & Dutch Area of Operations) where the locals have, of their own volition, rebelled against the Taliban and their supporters (who live in their own community).

Democracy cannot be imposed at gunpoint and expected to take, yes, it requires force equal to the task of resisting those who wish to keep the status quo (or lawless state) going, but it will take a LOT of time and effort to get the people to trust their own tribal leaders (and that is what will have to be the initial approach) again, supporting them, when they have popular support, will endear the coalition forces to the local population(s), where that is possible (accept it will not always be possible, Helmand Province stands out). Self-Governing and/or autonomous regions are the next step, let the local tribal leaders get back to solving their differences through council (which they always did do historically) and govern their own region.

"The current government has less credibility than the one the US tried to prop up in Vietnam in the 60's,"

LOL, you bring up a great point as it can be argued thats where most of this business began. Whilst in the golden triangle, using mafia and black (Frank Lucas type) gangsters brought back herion, to markets already set up by the Mafia. It could be argued that a cheek turned by the army who on orders from above quietly let it happen(but like the gov still ensuring plausible deniability) , as there are so many other documented cases of in history.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Lucas_(drug_lord)

"This huge profit margin allowed him to buy property all over the country, including office buildings in Detroit, and apartments in Los Angeles and Miami. He also bought a several-thousand-acre ranch in North Carolina on which he ranged 300 head of Black Angus cows, including a breeding bull worth $125,000.[6]
Lucas rubbed shoulders with the elite in entertainment, politics, and crime, stating later that he had met Howard Hughes at one of Harlem's best clubs in his day.[6] Though he owned several mink and chinchilla coats and other accessories, Lucas much preferred to dress very casually and corporately so as not to attract attention to himself.[12] He fathered seven children, including a daughter, Francine Lucas-Sinclair, and a son, Frank Lucas, Jr.[13] When he was arrested in the mid-1970s, all of Lucas' assets were seized.[12]"

To me, "300 head of Black Angus cows, including a breeding bull worth $125,000." sounds like some old white guy that wears a cowboy hat would dream of! But you never know?

A quote from Frank Lucas himself!

"The properties in Chicago, Detroit, Miami, North Carolina, Puerto Rico — they took everything. My lawyer told me they couldn't take the money in the offshore accounts, and I had all my money stored in the Cayman Islands. But that's BS; they can take it. Take my word for it. If you got something, hide it, 'cause they can go to any bank and take it.   ”
    
— Frank Lucas

All that glitters is not gold! Even gold itself if it is just temporary! The person that got the gold in the end and held onto it would be the winner in my book! Old Uncle Sam. To be clear not americans! but the government to build weapons and do other shady shit. Not even a tax break, you still had to pay in full! The whole point of this is getting you to pay! taxes, war on drugs, terror, actual wars. Your food is controlled so have to buy it, with the left over money, To escape you buy an eight ball of coke, and some beer and are bone ass broke after slogging your ass off all week somewhere you dont want to be! Damn nearly slavery and you dont even see it!

I was happy to see your name in the last person posting on this thread! Have you been in the army (sounds like it!), a great person to be having this conversation with!!!!

Just quickly (I will post relevant links for my comments!),

"The Taliban did NOT prevent, preclude or prosecute the production of heroin on a grand scale, in fact, they amongst the other members of the anti-Russian forces, used it as a weapon against the low-morale, predominantly conscripted "Russian" (although most were anything but ethnic "Russians") Army, exactly the same way the Chechnyan's are now (and precisely as the CIA etc. suggested they should do against the big, bad Russians). The Taliban prevented rival warlords from growing/selling opium, they did not stop the trade per se, all they did was impose a monopoly, thereby controlling the trade and starving their competitors of $$$$. The rival warlords are the scum who are now our "allies" and their price, being allowed to distribute heroin."

ALL that was true, the Taliban took actual control in 1996 after the war with the Soviets ended'

"The initial Soviet deployment of the 40th Army in Afghanistan began on December 24, 1979 under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.[3] The final troop withdrawal started on May 15, 1988, and ended on February 15, 1989 under the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Due to the interminable nature of the war, the conflict in Afghanistan has often been referred to as the Soviets' Vietnam;[4] the analogy compares the conflict to America's role in the Vietnam War."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

Anyway, the Taliban took control as stated in 1996 and banned opium in 2000. So it is agreed that up until that point in 2000 everything you said was correct, and the Taliban were actually quoted syaing things like;

"Abdul Rashid, the head of the Taliban's anti-drugs control force in Kandahar, spelled out the nature of his unique job. He is authorized to impose a strict ban on the growing of hashish, "because it is consumed by Afghans and Muslims." But, Rashid told me without a hint of sarcasm, "Opium is permissible because it is consumed by kafirs in the West and not by Muslims or Afghans.""

"But in 2000 the Taliban banned opium production, a first  in Afghan history. In 2000, Afghanistan's opium production still accounted for 75% of the world's supply. On 27 July 2000, the Taliban again issued a decree banning opium poppy cultivation. According to opioids.com, by February 2001, production had been reduced from 12,600 acres (51 km2) to only 17 acres (7 ha).[75] When the Taliban entered north Waziristan in 2003 they immediately banned poppy cultivation and punished those who sold it."

"Mullah Amir Mohammed Haqqani, the Taliban's top drug official in Nangarhar, said the ban would remain regardless of whether the Taliban received aid or international recognition. "It is our decree that there will be no poppy cultivation. It is banned forever in this country," he said. "Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country."[75]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban#Opium

The Lies About Taliban Heroin
Russia and Oil the Real Objectives With Heroin As A Weapon of War
A Replay of CIA's Vietnam-era Drug Dealing
FTW Revises Its Map On Economic Impacts

by Michael C. Ruppert
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_10_01_heroin.html

"U.N. drug control officers said the Taliban religious militia has virtually wiped out opium production in Afghanistan - once the world's largest producer - since banning poppy cultivation in July.

"A 12-member team from the U.N. Drug Control Program spent two weeks searching most of the nation's largest opium-producing areas and found so few poppies that they do not expect any opium to come out of Afghanistan this year.

"'We are not just guessing. We have seen the proof in the fields,' said Bernard Frahi, regional director for the U.N. program in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He laid out photographs of vast tracts of land cultivated with wheat alongside pictures of the same fields taken a year earlier - a sea of blood red poppies."

Saying stuff like ;
"Whether we get assistance or not, poppy growing will never be allowed again in our country"

Is not going to go down well! And history shows it was invaded soon after (in time for next years crop),

"Only belatedly have major outlets like the Wall Street Journal (Oct. 2), The Associated Press (Oct. 5), and the Washington Post (Oct. 5) begun to acknowledge, in stories placed well back in the paper, and with much less emphasis, that the Northern Alliance - our allies against the Taliban - are now in real control of the heroin trade. Smuggling routes have shifted from south through Pakistan northward through Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Turkmenistan. They acknowledge the obvious - that the Taliban is no longer the primary supplier of heroin. How could they be?"

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/10_10_01_heroin.html

In fact the Northern Alliance was still producing Opium when the Taliban banned it, so you can see why that ally was picked! They have the same interests!

"Why is this not in place already? Simple, too many vested interests need the war to continue indefinitely..."

See! When it comes down to a rational answer, there is only one! "too many vested interests" and there is no personal love lost between them, those vested interests are purely $$$$$ related. Now with no oil, but lots of sand and the capacity to produce upwards of 90% of the worlds illicit herion, ask yourself where the dollars are to be had in Afghanistan where are there interests? And ask yourself if on that crazy chance the government does has a vested interest in the illicit proiduction of herion in Afghanistan, enough to go to war over (what the fuck type of world do we live in?). It would mean the war on drugs is just to produce extra revenue and a keeping up appearances campaign. Because if thats true the guy on the street corner (although in possession) did not supply your kids with herion it was good ole Unc Sam.


The shady part also nowadays, its been going on for years is, how they send in CIA proprietary or contract operations subcontrators (read; Blackwater, Southern Air, Evergreen), to fight dirty fights that the actual army is not allowed to fight. As it would be illegal and they could be held accountable, so they employ ex-special forces soldiers to come in and do what they are not allowed to (whether under UN or US laws they would be breaking otherwise). They sent those to Afghanistan early days, but that is a whole! other story!!!!

Would it be a good time to bring up Marijuana? Since the internet, it has become an internet weed! Meaning marijuana in the past had been cultivated in specific regions, Thailand and that region of Asia example=Thai weed, Mexico example=Acapulco gold,Hawaii example=Maui Wowie, Columbia example=Columbian Gold, Afghanistan example=Mazar-i-Sheriff Hash and a few others not mentioned (like the Kush mountains, Nepal, morrocco, lebanon, but all those ones middle eastern). So was like cocaine or opium it was only available in certain remote places, it needed to be organized, imported and sold, i.e; A market which they could totally monopolize, like opium, cocaine ect. So like they always did they used people usually someone from a minority or a gang member or decent criminal past (so is very easy to convict them after it is said and done, also if anything goes wrong they are the scape goat) you see it all the time a shady criminal drug dealer versus a respectable officer (to the jury the officer has already won!). So they used people like Howard Marks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Marks (one of the biggest of his time, do I have to mention he was caught and everything he ever made taken by the government leaving him with nothing?) Like Pablo Escobar, Boston George and ALL the rest!

So thats why it was illegal, unlike alcohol (which they learned prior, that people will just make their own and cut the government out thats why they say prohibition does not work! because theydont get paid) and tobacco which where easy to come by marijuana was able to be used like other cash crops like opium and cocaine and lots of money made from it.

Now with the advent of the internet, everybody can not only get seeds, but growing instructions and feel safe by talking to the millions of others online doing it. And inspire each other and now days the best marijuana is grown by the discerning connoisseur in his setup specially made, and grown with love (cant be beat on a mass scale). So the fact that every man and his dog has weed or someone they know growing it, the above tactics are useless. And they had to move on it, and weed is nearly available all over US now in legal dispensaries if they did not do it they would have been still left out of the loop. So now add their taxes ect, and you can have it if you pay them for it.

The way to put an end to the war on drugs has nothing to do with drugs and everything to do with politics.

If you want to end the war, you have to bust your ass to get candidates elected to office who agree to end the war on drugs. Until you start campaigning for candidates for office, start canvassing the voting public, start contributing to the campaign war chest in dollars... that is not going to happen. Most politicians consider the idea of lessening drug penalties as being "soft of drugs" and think the majority of the electorate will hold that against them. The politicians know the drug war is a failure. They know its a waste of money. They know it has not taken drugs off the street or kept people from using them. They know we have too many people warehoused in prisons in this country for drugs, that it costs too much to warehouse them, and that we waste resources by leaving them locked up. But that is not important. What is important is how many votes they get in November, and who helps them raise the money to advertise their special face and policy sound bytes... Persuade them there are political contributions to be had from those who want drug law reform. Show them the reality of it. Help get the vote out for any politician willing to take on the drug war.

When elected officials start seeing some of their own numbers advocating drug law reform being sworn in for office, they will know that "being soft on drugs" will not cost them an election. The point is that we have to persuade them that it might win an election for them by registering, campaigning, and voting.

You want to change the law? You have to be involved in politics to change laws, and you have to be active about it. You have to admit you've done drugs and don't think they are harmful. You have to stand up and be counted. Until you do, expect federal minimums to continue to be the norm.

There is either money and votes behind drug law reform, or there will be no drug law reform. Period. If you want drug law reform, you have to be a voter, a contributor to political campaigns, and you have to be vocal. We haven't been, and you can see what we've accomplished since Nixon declared a war on drugs. We have become the nation that locks more citizen up in prison that any other country on the planet. We've allowed police to invade areas of privacy we once considered inviolate. We've accepted drugs and hard time go together and are not even outraged that a drug dealer gets more  time in prison than an armed robber gets.

Public policy shapes legislation. Legislation is shaped by the views of the people we elect as legislators. We have to persuade the legislators that it is in their interest to take a look at ending the war on drugs. Make a contribution to every candidate you will vote with a message that its time to end this nonsense about war on drugs. Time to decriminaliize marijuana. Time to open the debate on better ways to control the distribution of dangerous substances. Time to open the debate on the failures and consequences of prohibition of controlled substances. Give money, work for candidates, and speak out that you believe it is time to end the prohibition and the penalties involved with possessing and using controlled substances.

That is the only way to get where you want to go. Everything else relied on reason and logic, which carry no more weight than science does for most politicians. If reason, logic, science and common sense were involved in passing legislation, we wouldn't be where we are now with regard to drugs. The fact is politicians have bought into being anti-drug as a vote getting sound byte for the nightly news, and until the people actually vote in ways that show that sound byte gets no votes, the politicians will continue to do what they have been doing. All politics is local, all of it is about greed and power, and until you tackle the problem by being part of it, you can't solve the problem.

Register. Campaign. Contribute. Be vocal. Vote. Own up to your position.
Otherwise, you are asking someone else to do for what you will not do for yourselves.

Be vocal

Fuck it im bord....


Can't I just shoot and stab my way to the top like normal people do? Seems to be working well around my area, there taking over the place faster then the politicians are

i used to buy "Stop the Drug War.org" stickers from DRCnet in bulk for about $.10 each.

i put one up on the wall in the busiest airport on earth in direct view of 100 people per minute traveling past by escalator.  some friends said i might be "undermining the legitimacy of the movement" by breaking one law to protest another.  but i have not much hesitation to post bills in public places without permission when innocent people are being jailed for life.  reclaiming the commons and such...  if those dudes were free from jail they would gladly post the sticker up.  so i represent them when i do it.  i'm fucking MAD!

yeah geez, you are 100% right that change is driven by money and votes.  the last round of change was driven by heavy contributions from Soros, Lewis, etc.  (and a bit of dispensary money from Peron.)

the current marijuana legalization bill in California is driven mainly by dispensary money.  it's actually a for-profit campaign.  the dispensary owners who contributed expect to make more money after their law passes.  (some of them have their own angles worked out ahead of time i think.)

much of the work in changing the public's perspective has been accomplished by decades of activism in concert with an internet boom.  also, the fact that they are arresting almost a million people a year for pot is generating a backlash over time...  the drug war undermines itself steadily by failing to accomplish anything useful (to the majority) while torturing so many honest folks.  it loses friends and gains enemies...

80% of people are now supporting medical access to marijuana.  and more than 50% of people recognize that recreational use of pot is less "dangerous" than use of alcohol.

under the weight of a consensus like this our opponents will look more and more like flat-earthers as they pidgeon-hole themselves in an increasingly unpopular and irrational position.

personally i think i have about three main arguments in favor of general legalization-

1) usage of the most harmful drugs would decrease as less harmful drugs take predominance
2) usage of all drugs would decrease
3) availability of drugs to children and usage of drugs by children would decrease

not to even mention all the "indirect" benefits like the reduction of collateral crimes, diseases, graft, and corruption, and the restoration of our "inalienable rights" and "constitutionally limited government."

regarding pot (which is our hardest driving wedge issue right now), i think we can make a good mockery of the opposition with the simple fact that natural cannabinoids are being used to cure and successfully treat dozens of kinds of cancer in laboratory mice/rats.  after the president and drug czar told us for so long that pot was "proven to cause" lung cancer.  we caught the fuckers in a red-face lie- a lie that denies innocent sick people a natural medicine that could slow or halt a fatal and widely prevalent disease.  this sort of behavior is impossible to justify, no matter how hard the authorities try to rationalize it many people will be appalled and unconvinced.

i think this is the angle (growing hemp for fiber/food/fuel is a strong angle also but does not have the immediate LIFE&DEATH impact that cancer does) to convince sensible people (who don't want to get high) that not only is cannabis "not such a bad thing" it is actually a wonderful healing herb that has been slandered heniously by disingenuous greedy bastards who in fact care nothing for the health of the common man despite their strident claims to the contrary.

if the newspapers will not cooperate then we shall ridicule them for their bias until people stop trusting them.  their business is threatened today already.  they are not in such a strong position as they were some decades ago to provide crappy service to their customers in the form of incomplete, incorrect, and irrelevant information.

another idea for how to legalize drugs- deserve it.

hell, the punks in this shithole don't hardly deserve any freedoms at all today.  we just let the president blow up our own buildings, frame islamists for it, and run the economy into the ground by siphoning all our money into crooked defense contracts for a cabal of aristocrats and invading another people's homeland based on obviously fabricated lies.

instead of hanging the traitors responsible from a rope until they cease to live as prescribed by law and custom we elected a niggar who isn't sorry for any of it, didn't apologize for the lies or blowing up of our own buildings, and is totally happy to stay the course and keep violently occupying other people's countries based on the same stale-as-hell-now lies.

the problem with this fucking country is the heart and soul of the people is lost to the point where they think that doing the right thing is "impossible," "pointless," and "just gonna get you knocked down first."

i think some are confused about which part of the swing of the pendulum we are now in...

the pendulum has swung *VERY* far one direction here.  but it has clearly reversed course and is now accelerating rapidly the other way.

this is the time for patriots (and matriots too?) to apply the strongest pressure possible to the weakest positions of the enemy.

that said the entire concept of representative government is a sham, a scam, and a total crock of shit.

51% of the idiots who show up to punch a lever on a certain day DO NOT have the right to elect another idiot who DOES NOT have the right to lock adults in cages because they are found to possess a few herbs for personal medical use.

the very foundation of this government is totally insane.  you could call it Satanic if you believe in Satan.

i've tried to point out to some people that "just because it's legal doesn't make it right" and "just because it's right doesn't make it legal."

but many of those people remain UNDER THE IMPRESSION that what is acceptable and what is righteous are always one-and-the-same.  perhaps they just didn't have the courage to deal with the cruel reality that in these dark times the exact converse is more probable.  don't expect THAT to be taught in public schools anytime soon.  (hell the public schools were designed SPECIFICALLY to erase such sentiments from the youth, if i'm not mistaken).