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Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia authored S-714 to create a national criminal justice commission to look into all aspects of the use of America's criminal justice system. Sen. Webb has even indicated that marijuana legalization is "On the table"

Thus far 35 senators have signed on to Sen. Webb's S-714 as co-sponsors. S-714 tally sheet of senators thus far co-sponsoring the bill. The bill needs all the support it can get because drug war supporters have offered a counter bill in the House of Representative.

H.R. 2943 To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use, and for other purposes. Please consider writing to your representative and asking that they support this bill.

Treason

The Constitution of the United States of America
Article III 
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort.
Contact your representative in the U.S.Congress
Contact your U.S. Senator
Email President Barack Obama
Letters to the editor of you local and national newspapers are often a more effective way to get the attention of your representatives in government. So when you write to your representatives and to President Obama dash off a brief letter on the issue to your favorite local and national newspapers at the same time.

Dallas Morning News March 15, 2009

A brief 3 segment looping animation of a quote of Drug Warrior President Barack Obama defining his War on Drugs policy.


Thursday, December 10, 2009

Obama's Nobel Prize is Disgusting

I am glad to see that the Washington Post recognizes the contradictions and incongruity of giving President Barack Obama the Nobel Peace Prize.

"Obama accepts 2009 Nobel Peace Prize just nine days after announcing plans to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan."

I will never again look at that prize with the respect that I have always had for it.

Barack Obama is a war mongering hypocrite.

In Oct. 2009 the Washington Post reported that "A U.S. military hit list of about 50 suspected drug kingpins is drawing fierce opposition from Afghan officials..". An assassination list of Afghan civilians. Other reports have informed us that the infamous Blackwater Group is on contract to run assassination squads for the United States, under Barack Obama, in Pakistan.

Add to this Obama's ardent support for both the domestic and international War on Drugs. A war that locks thousands of poor Americans out of our democracy each year. A war that is fostering the violence in Mexico and killing thousands of people there each year. A war that is inimical to every national aspiration that Martin Luther King died to instill in America. A war that is antithetical to America's core founding constitutional values of social justice, civil liberties and human rights.

I look at these things and get sick seeing Barack Obama receive the Nobel Peace Prize. No person, who runs assassination squads and prosecutes a murderous unnecessary forty year social engineering war against the poor of his own and other countries, against democracy and against the very founding principles of his nation should be considered for recognition as a peace maker.

Sunday, December 6, 2009

President Obama Promises Full Employment

For drug addict dealers, drug gangsters, cartels and their terrorist suppliers.

That is the only full employment promise that authoritarian Barack Obama made; full employment for drug addict dealers, drug gangsters, police and prison guards. These are the people who have job security as long as drug warrior Barack Obama continues his drug war.

As the Morning Call of Allentown reported of an early campaign whistle stop in Allentown, PA on Friday Dec. 5, 2009 President Obama was asked

"The first question from the crowd drew gasps and laughs, with a second-year student asking if legalizing drugs and marijuana might help stimulate the economy."

Obama mindlessly responded:

"I appreciate the boldness of your question," Obama said to laughter. "That will not be my job strategy."

America could put the addict dealers and drug gangsters, who have a vested interest in selling addictive drugs to new generations of American children, out of business with regulated, licensed and taxed responsible adult supervision of the distribution and sales on intoxicant drugs but drug warrior Obama 'just says no'.

As long as intoxicant drugs remain illegal drug addict dealers and gangsters will have tax free full employment in America's $141-bn a year retail drug trade. Equal opportunity to sell drugs to new generations of American children without competition from responsible, government regulated and adult supervised American business.

Sunday, November 29, 2009

Drug War Related Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

On Thursday Dec. 3, 2009 the United States Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Virginia Sen. Jim Webb's S-714, "to establish a national criminal justice commission". This could be the most important piece of legislation for drug policy reform in the past thirty-nine years since Richard Nixon declared the modern War on Drugs as his way of re-invigorating Jim Crow by subverting the Voting Rights Act and the 26st Amendment.


S-714 Tally Sheet of co-sponsors.
Of the 18 member Senate Judiciary Committee these ten members of the committee are NOT co-sponsors of S-714.


Contact the Senate Judiciary Committee and both the majority and minority offices.

I highly recommend that you FAX correspondence to your members and the committee whenever possible. FAX gets into the offices immediately. Emails get blocked together with tens of thousands of emails received each day. Snail mail takes months to get through the security at the Post Office. Telephone calls are the next best thing to FAX.
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
D-Wisconsin
330 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
(202) 224-5653
Fax: (202) 224-9787
Ranking Member, R-Alabama
326 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510 -0104
Main: (202) 224-4124
Fax: (202) 224-3149

D-California
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-3841
Fax: (202) 228-3954
R-Iowa
135 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-1501
(202) 224-3744 (O)
(202) 224-6020 (F)


D-Wisconsin
506 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510-4904
(202) 224-5323
TDD (202) 224-1280
Fax (202) 224-2725

R-Arizona
730 Hart Senate Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Phone: (202) 224-4521
Fax: (202) 224-2207

D-Minnesota
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Main Line: 202-224-3244
Main Fax: 202-228-2186
Toll Free: 1-888-224-9043
R-Texas
517 Hart Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-2934
Fax: 202-228-2856

D-Delaware
383 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
tel: (202) 224-5042
fax: (202) 228-3075
R-Oklahoma
172 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
Main: 202-224-5754
Fax: 202-224-6008

U.S. Senate Members co-sponsoring S-714
These co-sponsors would greatly appreciate hearing from constituents in support of their co-sponsorship of S-714.
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
Patrick J. Leahy
Chairman, D-Vermont
Orrin G. Hatch
R-Utah
Chuck Schumer
D-New York
Lindsey Graham
R-South Carolina
Dick J. Durbin
D-Illinois
Benjamin L. Cardin
D-Maryland
Sheldon Whitehouse
D-Rhode Island
Arlen Specter
D-Pennsylvania
Al Franken
D-Minnesota
If you senators are not on the Judiciary Committee please contact them and encourage them to express, to the Committee, your support for S-714

Friday, November 20, 2009

Anti Drug War Challenge to Chuck Schumer

Political satirist, social justice activist and Director of the William Moses Kunstler Fund for Racial Justice, Randy Credico, is leaving the Fund to run for the United States Senate in the 2010 Democratic primary against long-time incumbent Chuck Schumer.

Hurray!


Chuck Schumer has been a pillar of the intolerable authoritarian status quo in the U.S. congress for far too many years. An activist social justice challenge is just what is needed today to rock the foundations of the police state that has done nothing but grow to constitution threatening proportions under the phony "liberals" like Chuck Schumer.

Win or lose America needs campaign challenges by patriots like Credico to restore credibility to our once democratic political process. For too many decades political campaigns for congress have been nothing more than charades. Facades of democracy covering the authoritarian hegemony of a single-minded right-wing two party dictatorship. A predatory status quo protecting itself with an ever-growing police state and prison industrial complex.

With Democrats in the pockets of rich and aggressive police and prison guard unions and Republicans in the pockets of rich and ruthless police and prison supply and building industries the poverty oppressed and minority communities of America have no say in today's political process. Randy Credico will bring a voice to congress for the socially and criminally disenfranchised majority.

Nothing hurt America's economic stability more than repealing the Great Depression era Glass-Steagal Act. Credico points out that Chuck Schumer voted for the repeal.

Randy Credico Demands

• Immediate pull out of Afghanistan
• Immediate pull out of Iraq
• Immediate pull out of Colombia
• End Drug War at home and abroad
• Repeal Patriot Act
• Legalization of Marijuana
• Abolish Mandatory Minimum Sentencing
• Repeal 1996 Omnibus Crime Bill
• Constitutional amendment abolishing death penalty

The Credico campaign is a New York state campaign but his issues are national issues in scope. Since there are few, if any, members of the U.S. senate actually fighting full time for civil liberties, human rights and social justice all Americans, who hold these constitutional values sacred, have a vital interest in supporting the Credico campaign.

Credico, I believe, sees clearly the national security, public safety, public health and social justice imperatives in ending the human rights atrocity of the war on drugs. He understands that the war on drugs subverts American democracy and significantly undermines the promises of our founding fathers constitutional mandate: "..to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity...". It is in the interest of America, our people and our constitution that constitution loving Americans, in every corner of our nation, support Randy Credico in any and every way that we can.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Snitch: The Drug War “crisis in black America”

"[President Nixon] emphasized that you have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this while not appearing to." H.R. Haldeman's diary according to former Wall Street Journal reporter Dan Baum in his book "Smoke and Mirrors: The War on Drugs and the Politics of Failure".

I have always believed that the American War on Drugs was, at its inception under Richard Nixon and the Dixie-crats in the 1970 Congress, and still is today the re-invigoration of Jim Crow in America following the noble effort of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. The disproportionate minority populations in American prisons and electorally disenfranchised by the War on Drugs is ample proof of this assertion.

John H. McWhorter, Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and a prolific writer on race issues in America has reviewed ten books at

The Root
blog that, as he says, didn't get the Oprah book treatment. One in particular deserves to see the light of day among Americans who see the American war on drugs for the Jim Crow policy that it is.

by Ethan Brown

Snitch: Informants, Cooperators, and the Corruption of Justice
McWhorter writes: "Brown got a lot of press for his 2005 book, Queens Reigns Supreme: Fat Cat, 50 Cent, and the Rise of the Hip-Hop Hustler, about hip-hop and murders. Predictably, his next book, unconcerned with 50 Cent and his secrets, didn’t get as much attention—but it was much more important, investigating the culture engendered by the War on Drugs. If there were no War on Drugs, I sincerely believe that within a single generation, there would be no perceptible “crisis in black America,” and this book shows much of why that’s true. The War on Drugs turns whole neighborhoods against the cops—with no discernible benefit after more than 30 years. Brown’s book is very The Wire–except the people he writes about are real."

Jim Crow stood on two legs until 1965. 1.) The direct denial of access to polling and the electoral process. The VRA kicked this leg out from under the racists who controlled America's body politic in those days. 2.) The other leg was the invidious use of the criminal justice system to mass disenfranchise targeted communities using trumped up criminal charges, including drug crime, to mass disenfranchise large segments of the population by enticing poverty oppressed Americans with easy tax-free money and the shear intoxication of drugs.

Richard Nixon's 1970 War on Drugs was then and still is today the "system" for restoring and re-imposing Jim Crow in America. As long as this underlying motivation for the War on Drugs is not confronted by America's political leadership the oppression of black and all poverty oppressed communities in America will continue unabated. As Jim Crow has continued strong and healthy well into 21st century America.

Monday, October 19, 2009

Drug Warrior Obama's Disingenuous "New" Medical Pot Rules

The Washington Post reports today that Drug Warrior President Barack Obama this week is issuing a policy statement that is touted as "new" but is in fact simply a reiteration of the dishonest and disingenuous medical marijuana policy that he has pursued since taking office in January. Pursued aggressively with more than a dozen raids of medical cannabis facilities under the guise of state law in California.

Lets be clear, President Obama cannot unilaterally stop medical pot raids. To do so is a violation of existing federal law.

If the president truly wanted to change anything regarding the medical pot laws he would ask congress to take up H.R.2835 "To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States." Or he would publicly support such a change in the federal laws.

But no, he is not doing anything of the sort.

What Obama is doing is issuing a smoke screen policy. Federal officials do the ground work and then hand the case over to local police prosecutors to act on. The policy is frankly a lie. A load of political obfuscation. CRAP! Change we can be deceived with.

UPDATE

DEMAND REAL CHANGE!!!

Write to you representatives in congress and to Barack Obama demanding that they support:

H.R.2835 "To provide for the medical use of marijuana in accordance with the laws of the various States."

Going further. If you are fed up with the authoritarianism of the war on drugs Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia authored S-714 to create a national criminal justice commission to look into all aspects of the use of America's criminal justice system. Sen. Webb has even indicated that marijuana legalization is "On the table"

Thus far 35 senators have signed on to Sen. Webb's S-714 as co-sponsors. S-714 tally sheet of senators thus far co-sponsoring the bill. The bill needs all the support it can get because drug war supporters have offered a counter bill in the House of Representative.

H.R. 2943 "To eliminate most Federal penalties for possession of marijuana for personal use..."

These bills will eliminate the ongoing human rights atrocity known as the war on drugs. Write or call your members in congress and DEMAND that they support this legislative agenda.

Sunday, September 27, 2009

Why does President Obama hate American children?

As long as President Obama's drug war fanatics hold sway over drug policy addict drug dealers and gangsters will be in control of drug sales and distribution. Addict dealers and gangsters who have a vested interest in growing their markets with new generations of American children.

And as long as President Obama's drug warrior mentality holds sway over drug policy the drug war prohibits responsible regulated and licensed adult supervision over the drug distribution. Adult supervision that would reflect and respect the values of American society against drug sales to children.

America could have responsible adult supervision over drug distribution and sales but drug war extremists 'just say no'.

So I ask and ask without any drug warrior ever answering:

WHY DO DRUG WAR LEADERS LIKE PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA HATE AMERICAN CHILDREN?