872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007 Inhaling or Not

[DdC]

"We're in a war.
People who blast some pot on a casual basis are guilty of treason."
-- Daryl Gates, LA Police Chief

872,721 marijuana arrests in 2007
Monday, September 15, 2008



"If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State."*
-- Joseph Goebbels, German Minister of Propaganda, 1933-1945

Drug War's Latest Tally: 872,721 Pot Arrests By Paul Armentano
CN Source: AlterNet September 16, 2008 USA
If denial is the first sign of addiction, then Drug Czar John Walters is hooked to the gills. He's addicted to targeting and arresting marijuana consumers, and he'll do and say anything to keep this irrational and punitive policy in place.
continued...



Faith-Based Rehabilitation

SCAPEGOATING -
Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behaviorial group.

PREJUDICE -
Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are 'bad' people.

LIES -
'Facts', which cannot be verified, and pseudo scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten.

NO PUBLIC DEBATE -
"These people have no right to have their viewpoiunt aired." and " Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them!"

DEHUMANIZATION -
Characterizing all members of a targeted group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and/or crimes.

PROTECT OUR CHILDREN -
"They corrupt, seduce and or destroy our children."

CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED -
"We must give up some of our freedoms, liberties, and rights in order to combat this menace to society."

LEGAL DESCRIMINATION -
Laws criminalize members of targeted group and they may be denied jobs, the right to own property and/or be restricted as to where they may live or go.

INFORMERS -
Citizens are urged to 'turn in' friends, neighbors, co- workers and family members.

SECRET POLICE -
Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on targeted groups utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment.

CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY -
Property and assets are seized from people who are members of targeted group. Property may be divided between the informer and the state.

REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY -
Prisons, rehabilitation camps, 'hospitals', executions and genocide...
("kill them all" "Zero Tolerance")



Journey for Justice Pedaling for Pot

"Soon after Drugczar Carlton Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty."
-- Emperor Wears No Clothes by Jack Herer

U.S. Lawmakers consider 'Piss Tasting Grity Act of 2005'

"If I instituted drug testing at Cypress,
I would get a brick through my windshield, and I would deserve it."
--T.J. Rogers, President, Cypress Semiconductor

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

"Sometimes the law defends plunder and participates in it. Sometimes the law places the whole apparatus of judges, police, prisons and gendarmes at the service of the plunderers, and treats the victim -- when he defends himself -- as a criminal."
-- Frederic Bastiat, "The Law"


They never listen... Selection 2k

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"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals
in the street but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
-- Robert Ingersoll - Former DEA Director (1972)

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"Mistrust those in whom the urge to punish is strong."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)