Comments on: PATRIOT Drug War Act – what we’ve been telling you all along

By: Servetus

Servetus — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:09:29 +0000

More proof that drug wars corrupt, and absolute drug wars corrupt absolutely.

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By: Pokes his head in the room - Marijuana Growing

Pokes his head in the room - Marijuana Growing — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:00:20 +0000

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By: Nick Zentor

Nick Zentor — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:38:06 +0000

Ddc, I dunno about exactly who wrote the Patriot Act, all I know is several officials have admitted that it was impossible for it to have been written, in complete, between 9/11 and the time it was passed through Congress later that year.

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By: claygooding

claygooding — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:54:11 +0000

Our country became a police state when they went from “Protect and Serve” too “Search and Seize”. Our elected officials ignore their constituents and protect big money interests and their own agendas. How do they expect to gain support for a health reform when their first act is too exempt their health care from any reform act? If it’s not good enough for them,it ain’t good enough for US either.
Our economy is in the worst shape it has ever been,and they vote themselves a raise.
No present sitting legislator should be there the next election they come too. We need too replace everyone of them with new thoughts and ideals,and we need to stop all lobbying in our legislature,too stop the wealthy and greedy people from buying our country.

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By: claygooding

claygooding — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 18:45:16 +0000

Even tho these laws were enacted in haste,the seizure laws and sneak and peeks,they will require mucho money to overturn in the Supreme court,and a very good case and lawyers too match. I also think that any organization that is mandated by congress to lie to the American public,is unconstitutional,but again,lottsa dollars to get it ruled on.I base that on the supposed fact that this is supposed to be a government for the people,by the people and not a government of the people,for the government,by the government.

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By: Pete

Pete — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 02:11:22 +0000

Cptncaveman – nothing quite so dramatic for me. I don’t even know that I could identify a specific moment. I had always been against most drug prohibition laws going back to college days in the 1970s, although not in any organized way (I didn’t read High Times or belong to NORML). Throughout my life, I’ve always been a very strong civil libertarian – huge defender of free speech, particularly as it related to art — active against arts censorship and any other kind of censorship, especially including the Communications Decency Act. I was an early player in working to protect internet freedoms and was proud to be part of 24 Hours of Democracy. At some point in the 1990s, I started to pay more attention to the sad absurdity of drug laws. I started doing performance rants at an open mic event about the drug war, and occasionally writing letters to the editor. In the early part of this decade, I started faculty advising a hemp-related student organization (which later became an SSDP chapter) and then in 2003 started this blog, mostly as an outlet to vent. Once I started writing the blog, it forced me to constantly learn more, which got me even more determined to end prohibition, and helped me refine my views. Every post I wrote got me more involved (and now it’s been 3,639 posts).

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By: Cptncaveman

Cptncaveman — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 01:22:58 +0000

Hey Pete, long time lurker (3 years) first time poster. I wanted to take this opportunity to thank you for keeping your finger on the pulse, your site is an invaluable resource to those fighting the good fight. I apologize if you’ve been asked this before and have already answered, but I was wondering if you’ve always felt this way about drug policy reform, or if there was a specific moment in your life when the absurdity of this situation hit home. For me, it was my first (and only) arrest for “possession of controlled dangerous substances” I.E marijuana. I was 15 at the time, and was recommended to go through a juvenile review panel. My parents were fined and I was “sentenced” to 30 hours of community service. Most of the people I worked with during that time were working off community service, the entire store essentially ran off of it. I still remember how outraged I was when I discovered that one of the people I worked with was sentenced to 80 hours for possession of less than a gram of cocaine, while another girl was sentenced 8 hours for STABBING someone with a knife. Sorry about the wall of text, and I look forward to conversing with you in the future

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By: Cannabis

Cannabis — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:14:48 +0000

This made the rec list at DailyKos:
http://www.dailykos.com/…

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By: DdC

DdC — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:06:23 +0000

I agree,
The Patriot Ax was written by Janet Edgar Reno for Billybob Klintoon and even protested by John Askrap, until he became AG under Boosh junior that is.

About Ashcroft
Senator John Ashcroft sounded the alarm in 1997 when the Clinton administration pushed for greater powers to eavesdrop on electronic communications. Now in power in Bush’s cabinet, he is presiding over a massive endrun around the Constitution that far surpasses former plans. See recent accounts of Bush Administration plans in the New York Times and Washington Post.

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By: PATRIOT Drug War Act – what we’ve been telling you all along

PATRIOT Drug War Act – what we’ve been telling you all along — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:34:01 +0000

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