Second. Think before you post. I don’t mind a couple of clarifying posts, but 8 in a row is littering.

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America.

If that pisses you off…good…it should.

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I found this little quote quite interesting: “going to a heroin clinic in Switzerland on my honeymoon last year — & of the Swiss offer to send a 3 person team to Congress to explain their program, if Congress would request it”

Verdad? Really? Sounds like a move we need to start suggesting to our Reps and Senators…

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50% of the voting base became instantly attuned to “children” being “in danger” or “at risk” and no matter how tenuous, unlikely, or irrational the fear, the maternal instict is hard to overcome and thus half the population is easily swayed – too easily – by politicians who threaten TPC (more specifically, who say their opponents are a threat to TPC).

Bleep out the words “child” and “children” whenever a politician says them on television, and we’ll see a huge change in America’s voting habits overnight.

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http://www.citizensopposingprohibition.org/blog-home

This is Howard Wooldridge’s new site. If your not familiar with him, hes the one who rode his horse cross country to bring attention to drug reform…Former member of LEAP.

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The cowardice in not standing and facing the electorate and explain that the DrugWar has been a ruinously expensive farce is understandable…but no less contemptible. (After all, how many had voted to maintain it?) The opportunism is also understandable…and equally contemptible. But the blind spot is the key to it all. Many just don’t see the octopus, as all they see is the one or two tentacles.

So much of what’s wrong in this country was started with the DrugWar, and an enormous amount of what’s wrong in this country is perpetuated by it. And if you refuse to look at it, it makes it easier to continue it.

A long time ago I read a Kipling story, “The Man Who Would Be King”, in which a religious order was described that went around with their eyes shut so they would not have to look at the ugliness of the world and be affected by its’ sinfulness. They were led around by the hand by others. That’s the pols who rely on the prohibs to guide them. Needless to say, the prohibs have their own motivations, few of them pristine. The pols need to be made to feel ‘safe’ in opening their eyes so that they can look at the octopus and see it for what it is, and realize that there’s more tentacles than the ones they’ve assumed…and that they’ve been led around, not by the hand, but by the nose.

(Of course, there’s a small group of pols who’ve been feigning that they were closing their eyes, too. They’re the ones directly benefiting from the DrugWar, the kind that people like the brave Sibel Edmonds testified against recently last year. They know their financial gravy train depends upon keeping this tragic farce going, and have no intention of allowing real justice be done until they are safely out of the country with their ‘filthy lucre’.)

Those eyes could remain closed as long as it wasn’t expensive to them politically to do so…but with the fiscal conditions eroding in this country, the ‘cost’ of that will be more than just political or monetary, it will be social. It’s either begin to jettison the baggage that is causing the ship to sink, or sink with all their perks. And the way things are going, that won’t be too long forthcoming…

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All that white powdery stuff, and the adrenaline rush it delivers on skis or snowboards; it’s just too tempting of a high.

The litany of broken legs and cracked skulls on ski slopes will continue as long as people refuse to swear off snow.

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