The new Director of the UNODC
http://transform-drugs.blogspot.com/2010/07/giant-leap-backwards-as-ban-ki-moon.html
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Wow,why didn’t they just Calvina Fey in there?
We saw something like this coming, didn’t we.
ummm…fuck.
“More likely is that the Russian influence will be subtle but corrosive.”
When I first saw the picture of the career dip stick Fedotov I thought of Kerli-boy. Would like to see their pictures side by side.
Most prohibitionists are beginning to look alike. Sickeningly alike in body, mind, and soul. Wait !!! They have no soul, they sold out to the devil.
The longer I live, the more I see we are surrounded and rules by corruption, lies,theives and thugs. Why do we tolerate this? Is this just some level of hell we unknowingly exist in.
If there truly is a lord in heaven, I pray he comes soon and saves this world, fore the evil of men seems unstoppable.
“Why do we tolerate this?”
At the risk of answering a rhetorical question, a lot of effort and sacrifice are usually needed to uproot corruption.
Getting the public majority interested enough to wield their serious strength in numbers is really tough.
And so interest groups bypass the public majority, forming “back scratching” power systems (e.g. political iron triangle).
Our movement faces those systems nationally and internationally.
We do not yet have enough power to dominate in those systems, so we need to work hard for sufficient public support.
Since most people do not feel seriously negatively impacted by the Controlled Substances Act (CSA), they do not care enough to help us break the system wielded against us.
In the U.S., there is a lot of anti-government emotion rising from the people due to “public servants” ignoring those people to embrace those systems.
A lot of us frustratingly pull the voting lever for ‘blue’ or ‘red’ and get the same ‘screw the people’ result blatantly violating the “We the people” essence of our country.
As people increasingly feel the resulting oppression naturally due to being left out of the aforementioned back scratching, they make more “noise”, and if our effective oligarchy ignores that noise, there will likely be a major backlash.
We need to tap into that noisy crowd and convince them that the CSA is part of their oppression (not ours) — e.g. for Republicans, they will loathe the ruling of Gonzales v. Raich when it is judicially wielded as legal precedence to justify ObamaCare and, if it passes, Cap and Trade, etc.
We need to resonate with enough of the public, and we have not yet found a way to do that.
And so we continue to be totally right while the CSA continues to exist, and rights-infringing jerks continue to thrive in the UNODC, ONDCP, DEA, etc.
That all said, since the case against the CSA is the ultimate slam-dunk (literally not one sustainable point supporting it), repealing the CSA (instantly ending our obligation to relevant international treaties, btw) is not a matter of if, but when.
That timing depends on how well we sufficiently expose that the CSA is non-beneficial and destructive.
And that depends on how well we work with the public, the mainstream media and other allies in those back scratching systems to discredit CSA proponents by challenging them to prove the CSA is justified (constitutional, effective, non-destructive, and — if you like your science conclusive, not suggestive — warranted).
California Dems Endorse Pot Legalization, Proposition 19
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/california-dems-endorse-p_n_639933.html
Daniel Okrent On Jon Stewart: The Wild World Of Prohibition (VIDEO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/08/daniel-okrent-on-jon-stew_n_639530.html
Inquisitive minds want to know!
This is why people who care about liberty AT ALL must oppose global governance. The farther away the government is from the people, the more dumb evil shit they can get away with.
off topic but I just saw a report on CNN about how PETA is taking up the cause of setting free the octopus that was used to pick World Cup matches. These fucking idiots couldn’t possibly care less about dogs killed by pigs in body armor that raid peoples’ houses looking for dust-size amounts of drugs but they devote their time to attempting to free a fucking octopus in an aquarium? Honestly, I knew people at PETA were retarded and all, but I thought they were at least actually committed to their cause. Even their claimed devotion to their cause is bullshit. Human blender for these fucks is lenient punishment for their hypocrisy.
Russia In—Science Out
A fatal flaw persisting among many Marxist influenced cultures is a belief that human desires and emotions are infinitely malleable, that no basis exists for behaviors that are genetically directed. Thus we have the Russian imperial assumption that eliminationist procedures up to and including willful neglect or brutal force perpetrated against its own free-willed citizens are all that is necessary to achieve some idealized Russian utopia.
Science has demonstrated that the tabula rasa (the mind as a blank slate) is only half correct. The other half of our behavior is wired. A lot of it is wired for drugs.
What this means for the world’s petty tyrants is that those who control the drugs control the people.
Tyrants do not give up power willingly. It must be taken from them through whatever process appears civilized to a civilized world. We can be under no illusion of who and what we are confronting on the stage of international drug politics and prohibition economics. It is nothing less than a fight for freedom itself.
Have you heard about 40+ warships and 7000 marines going to Costa Rica to help fight drug smuggling?
East Haven Cop Shoots Dog in Front of Children
http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/featured-news/east-haven-cop-shoots-dog-in-front-of-children-10
More cruelty for PETA to ignore.
Control freaks rule the world. Freedom is measured by wealth and spoiled brats horde it all.