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Damn, the dude got Nutt sacked! Bummer.

(PS, not my original idea, I’ve seen it on the web in two places. 3 if you include this site.

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Reefer madness across the pond

Reporter Smokes Marijuana to Enhance Story comments

The BBC is understood to be keen to show the film on the eve of a decision by Jacqui Smith, the Home Secretary, to recriminalise cannabis by upgrading it from C to B status. Her decision is expected in the spring.

How’s that war on drugs going? Brit/Mex\DeCrim

Brits Copycat U.S. D.E.A.th… A-Motivated?

It’s Official: Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith Have Lost Their Minds

Yep, despite all the evidence and the science,
British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith is calling for cannabis
to be re-classified back up to “B” from “C.” Pete Guither

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Big Brother’s machine is so well organized, it has code numbers for each section. Scary.

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It doesn’t matter what country, form of government, etc. The dynamic is the same. The Founders knew long ago that governments always, always, ALWAYS seek to accumulate power at the expense of the individual, and when they have achieved a certain degree of power, become despotic.

As we have under the DrugWar.

And the process rarely happens at lightspeed; it usually is applied bit-by-bit, one quarter-turn of the screw at a time, to accustom the masses to having their freedoms curtailed. If those turning the screws are not in fear for their lives for their effrontery, the screws are turned again…and again…and again. Until finally freedom is crushed in the press, and innocent blood pours out from between the jaws of the vise.

Again, as has happened with the DrugWar.

It usually takes two things to get the masses so pissed off that they do something, and those two things are threatened children and stolen money.

In the article above this one, we read how parents are horrified that their children are being observed engaging in one of the most intimate of acts as if those children were no more than cattle in a pen. Well? THAT’S JUST WHAT THOSE PARENTS ACCEDED TO WITH THEIR SUPPORT OF THE DRUGWAR!

That they would be so shocked at this turn of events is only more evidence at just how far rights and freedoms have been so spinelessly surrendered by those who evidently never valued them to begin with, for they even went so far as to strip their own children of them, and now they have the temerity to complain? FOOLS!

And now police in the UK are (just as predicted, thanks to the example provided by US police) acting like the very highwaymen of Merrye Olde England, stealing from their paymasters and daring said paymasters to do something about it.

If this keeps up, the predations of The State will one day be answered with those ‘words, or blows, or both’; witness the armed Tea Baggers at public gatherings. The time is coming soon when those predations may be answered with force. And the predators may learn much to their surprise that what they thought were sheep were every bit as good marksmen as the predators believed themselves to be.

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Yes, this particular incident was quite audacious but if this same even happened in the US under the pretext of the drug war, I doubt anything beyond some grumbling would happen. Keep in mind that we essentially did this same thing in Tulsa, only instead of raiding safety deposit boxes we arrested people. Yes those people were later reimbursed but there was no immediate backlash.

Consider the fact that principals (not cops) can strip search girls based on rumors. Don’t have probable cause? don’t worry we’ll just call in the drug dogs and get it whether or not you actually have drugs.

The UK might be more organized in their acts but our police are better as individuals at violating our rights.

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The UK has plenty of other outrages to contend with on a daily basis, and it looks like it is micromanaged by the bureaucracy much more closely. They have the drug laws, the surveillance cameras, and no constitutional rights. And they also have the new pervert witch hunt taken to extremes that will blow your mind if you start to follow the stories.

I don’t live there and have only visited once, but from the outside it looks like the UK has become a police state. People wonder if they will reach a tipping point and become an openly fascist country, but it looks like it is simply sliding into it bit by bit. The form of the authoritarianism is different. I think people are more on guard for a racist or religious fascism, but this is evolving in a different way.

Imagine the cojones it would take to come up with a scheme to seize thousands of bank boxes at random and then demand people prove they own their own property. No American police force would dare conceive such a plan–people would not tolerate it, and probably a few of the gun owners may become violent.

I guess my point is that police in the UK have taken the measure of the public and find they are so beat down and cowed by the bureaucracy and the cops that police can do anything…ANYTHING they want. And nobody can stop them.

And THAT is what I call a police state.

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