Jul 23 2007
King Hemp Part I: From DEA Deadly Birdseed, Toward Power to the People
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By Rand Clifford
7/23/07
America was just starting to crawl, and hemp was such an essential crop that farmers could be fined for not growing it—even jailed during periods of shortage in the mid 1760s. Hemp was legal tender in most of the country until the early 1800s. By 1850, over 8,000 farms of 2,000 acres or more were growing hemp, mostly where slave labor could satisfy the extreme labor-intensity of the hemp industry.
The slavery issue changed after 1865…but by the 1930s, hemp-harvesting machinery was coming out that drastically reduced labor demands. Popular Mechanics magazine ran a cover story, February, 1938, hailing hemp as “The New Billion-Dollar Crop”. Imagine the wealth a billion dollars meant in 1938. Imagine the wealth William Randolph Hearst had amassed by 1938. Twenty years earlier, Hearst had seen hemp looming on the horizon as a threat to his paper-making empire. As soon as new machinery made superior hemp paper competitive, Hearst, as well as Pierre Dupont, owner of patents for the sulfuric-acid process for making paper from wood pulp, both stood to loose vast profits to hemp. Through connections to the very core of American politics, their stealth campaign of sensational lies and propaganda, manipulation, racism and even terrorism, culminated with an illegal tax law essentially outlawing hemp in 1937—yes, the year before Popular Mechanics published their “New Billion-Dollar Crop” article lauding hemp. Talk about stealth! Imagine the chagrin of all the people involved in our domestic hemp industry in 1937 when they suddenly learned that hemp had been banned in America because of “The Killer Weed from Mexico”. Except for during the reprieve of several years in WWII, under the government’s “Hemp for Victory!” campaign, not a single acre of hemp has been legally grown in America since 1937.
The sordid tale of hemp prohibition in America is a superlative example of power working against the population, of corporate profits trumping We the People. Today, if we follow the money, we quickly find the War on Drugs, and the kinds of insanity our various “Wars on Things” engender. For instance, during research for the novel, Castling, I found a most Twilight-Zonish story from Nebraska. A project to elevate a Boy Scout to an “Eagle” involved jerking 40,000 “marijuana” plants…though in fact they were “ditchweed”—wild remnants of industrial hemp varieties bred and cultivated by the Department of Agriculture from 1900 to 1935, and also during the “Hemp For Victory!” war campaign. Ditchweed grows wild across several states, and like all industrial hemp varieties, has no drug potential because of ultra-low THC levels. Undeterred by reality, the young Scout, aided by gung-ho! adults and supervised by police, jerked the 40,000 plants and saw to their entombment in a landfill. For the press, DEA (Drug Enforcement Agency) agents estimated the street value of the plants at over fifteen million dollars. That’s called blatant lying.
The monetary value was zero—if those weeds were on the street, somebody would have to pay to have them hauled away. However, the weeds had plenty of value if they’d been left in the ditch where they belonged; migrating birds prefer hemp seed above all other foods. So in reality the whole farce simply wasted a lot of time and energy to rob migrating birds of a vital meal. To top that, the DEA pours tens of millions every year into state and local police forces to dig up ditchweed. What’s next, a DEA proclamation of America’s War On Birds…?
Industrial hemp is not marijuana. Yet, unlike in countries advanced enough to farm the world’s most useful plant, where the issue of hemp is handled by agricultural, or food or health agencies, in the U.S., it’s the DEA standing in the way of hemp. Industrial hemp has nothing to do with drugs, yet the road to restoration of hemp farming goes straight through our drug enforcement bureaucracy. An end to hemp prohibition in this country is perhaps the DEA’s greatest fear because, they believe, decriminalization of marijuana would automatically follow, killing their ultimate cash cow.
Without marijuana, the War on Drugs might suffer an attack of peace—disaster for any war profiteer such as the DEA. Half of all drug arrests nationwide are for marijuana. Nearly 15% of America’s bloated prison population represents incarceration mostly for marijuana possession. Privatization of America’s prison industry is one of the country’s top growth industries, along with slave labor provided by prisoners. The statistics are as horrifying as primary testimony of high-ranking government official Harry Anslinger before Congress in 1937 regarding why America’s hemp industry should be killed: “If the monster Frankenstein should come face-to-face with the evil monster marijuana, he would surely die of fright….” Hey, that’s good enough for…ahem, good enough for seventy-years-and-counting of denying We the People all the benefits of the world’s most valuable crop, don’t you think?
Representative Ron Paul from Texas doesn’t think so. Dr. Paul certainly seems to have an affinity for truth. Even before he rattled the GOP presidential primary debates with the truth that “The Terrorists” hate us because we’ve been terrorizing them for decades, and not because we cherish apple pie…or certain other freedoms, Dr. Paul introduced H.R. 1009, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007″. Obviously, the DEA is hissing and spitting about this, throwing heavy lobby lard against the bill. But the DEA has recently taken a big hit to their credibility (such a small target!), and they’ve been burping up a lot of crow.
It’s beyond another case of estimating the street value of a truckload of weeds at $15,000,000; that kind of insanity is so common it goes pretty much unnoticed anymore. This SNAFU actually exposed itself in that bastion of bastionism, the New York Times, and might be called: “DEA Saves Civilization by Seizing Deadly Granola Bars and Narcotic Birdseed.” The real trouble started when Canada advanced as a nation and restored the Canadian hemp industry. This sets our DEA in even starker contrast to thoughtfulness, with Canada enjoying the benefits of again growing the world’s most valuable crop. Faced with appearing sillier, the DEA countered with authoritarian authoritarianism, circling the wagons in the maximized rigidity of Zero Tolerance! No amount of THC would be permitted to cross into this country—Repeat, ZERO!
Again, our DEA has had a bone to pick with Canada since 1998, when Canada looked that evil monster Frankenstein in the eyes, and declared: Industrial Hemp IS NOT Marijuana! Frankenstein broke into tears, blubbering about how it felt to be unloved—our DEA whisked him to Guantanamo, for a little playful and therapeutic waterboarding with Dick Cheney…. Canadian culture did not implode with the resumption of hemp farming, but rather, Canadian farmers and entrepreneurs demonstrated some modern potential of the world’s most valuable crop. So our DEA seized 40,000 pounds of hemp birdseed when it came across the border, impounding the seed in a Detroit warehouse. Also on the Zero Tolerance! Most Wanted List was Nutiva Granola Bars because they were made with the same sterilized hemp seed which tests had shown contain .0014% THC, picked up from contact with other parts of the hemp plant. Coincidentally, that percentage of THC is in the ballpark of the percentage of opiate alkaloids contained in iceberg lettuce. Our DEA isn’t seizing shipments of lettuce–HEY! Zero Tolerance means Zero Tolerance, doesn’t it? Could it be an international borders thing? Perhaps…but after exhaustive consideration of the data, and our DEA’s record, I’m ready to posit that they acted preemptively for the safety of any citizen who may recently have seen news of a man eating something like 52 hot dogs in 15 minutes to set a World Record. Should the desire to get high team up with determination to set a similar record (Guinness Book—the Real Thing!), an American citizen could attempt to eat 100 pounds of hemp seed in a sitting. The citizen might not get high (that’s a super-low THC concentration), but it’s possible they would establish themselves in the Guinness Book of World Records! Remember, though, our DEA is concerned, above all other considerations, with the safety of American Citizens. And of course, eating 100 pounds of hemp seed in a sitting—even though it is one of the healthiest foods on the planet—carries health risks. I mean, why would our DEA even be involved, if not to protect Americans from risk? And if this seems far-fetched, think about declaring the “street value” of a truckload of weeds at $15,000,000. Or, birdseed being yet another casualty of the War on Drugs.
Back to eating crow…our DEA has now reversed its Zero Tolerance dictum, allowing Canadian hemp seed to cross the border. No more seizing birdseed as a schedule I narcotic—a major victory for the birds! And no more “FREEZE! DROP THE GRANOLA BAR AND PUT YOUR HANDS UP”!!
And now, thanks to Rep. Ron Paul, we stand on the verge of joining the world’s advanced nations. The crucial text of H.R.1009, the “Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2007″ is very simple, as truth usually is—it’s the lies that get so convoluted. The essentials of Ron Paul’s amendment to the Controlled Substances Act read:
`The term “marihuana” does not include industrial hemp. As used is the preceding sentence, the term “industrial hemp” means the plant Cannabis sativa L. and any part of such plant, whether growing or not, with a delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol concentration that does not exceed 0.3 percent on a dry weight basis.’.
Thank you very much, Dr. Paul, and Godspeed!
In “King Hemp” part 2, read of the fantastic potential of hemp uniting with modern technology in the world’s agricultural and entrepreneurial superstar! Benefits extend all the way to countering the Devastating Duo: global warming, and globalization.
Rand Clifford is a novelist and essayist living in Spokane, Washington, with his wife Mary Ann, and their Chesapeake Bay retriever, Mink. His novels CASTLING and TIMING are published by StarChief Press: http://www.starchiefpress.com
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The DEA, like most of Washington’s bureaucracies, survive and thrive on constantly inflating non-existent threats to obtain the money necessary to continue operation.
That the DEA treads upon the Constitution and the Bill of Rights on a regular basis in order to enforce it’s own peculiar brand of insanity never enters the mind of these tax payer funded goon squads.
This past week, the “Drug Czar” was making up another one of the vast lies used to support these tyrants.
He claimed that people growing marijuana were the equivalent of aL-CIAduh terrorists, since these “homegrown” terrorists would have no problem with supplying money to the overseas variety of terrorists.
Such is the mindless BS and outright lying that supports and keeps the DEA in action, dashing across the nation protecting people from themselves.
If the DEA had been around 200 years ago, they would have had to arrested George Washington, since ol’ George grew hemp.
The DEA even invades sovereign land, like the Native American’s in South Dakota. The Lakota Sioux had the audacity, the audacity, mind you, to think that sovereign meant they were fully independent and controlled their destiny.
Not when they tried planting some industrial hemp. The DEA swooped in on their helicopters, then took to chopping down the industrial hemp plants.
Such is the stupidity and naked power exhibited by the DEA. They need to be put to sleep, like the rabid, foaming at the mouth mad dog they have become.
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Yes! The emperor has no clothes…the war on the sacred proceeds. It seems no matter how many times this true science fiction story is told, it just ends up down the Memory Hole. Anyone who has ever visited his stupid fake castle knows what a kitch, culture killing prick Hearst was…tacky beyond comprehension!
Naked power is always stupid, the goons are always cross-eyed pinheads atop Schwarzzenoid steroid crazed blimp phyiques. The entire federal alphabet should be erased, the bill of goods sent back to the bankers, the stinking apple barrel dumped of its putrid, mungfilled cider-vinegar, and a new container built for new apples.
Pluck out the all seeing eye of Horus, only then can the party begin.
ta panta nous, we be poets who know the gulf between the clever and wise is vast and wide, we have the drawbridge of the imagination, but they are morooned. Think of it, and they cannot win.
I’m surprised the a** kissing Kanadian gov would do anything to irritate the drug lords in dc. Look what happened to the Afghanis when the Taliban stopped production of heroin.
The outlawing of hemp smacks more of communist social engineering than anything else. Joe Stalin could really get behind a government controlled command economy like the one the DEA is enforcing. Anyone who supports hemp’s ciminalization is more than likely a big government socialist looking for excuses to expand the police state. Free people grow hemp - slaves aren’t allowed to.
bonanzaman - Bloody good point, something I never would have thought of myself.
There is a YouTube video of an American army detachment in Afganistan, stopped on a dirt trail, in the middle of a hemp forest. I was wondering why the DEA didn’t fly over there with a bunch of Boy Scouts and start chopping it all down. Now, I think I have an answer.
The whole matter is a very lucrative racket .. exactly how much of authority and police confiscated marijuana finds its way back onto the street? As an educated guess I would posit a minimum of 85%
So could the ban be legitimised on health grounds? I have published a series of monographs on cannabis the health effects I feel are fairly treated in Martindales 24th and the USD 1926 ..
http://www.herbdatanz.com/cannam24.htm
http://www.herbdatanz.com/cannabis_picture_monograph.htm
A perusal of those monographs and those that are linked to them quickly leads one to the conclusion that any real health concerns are spurious .. as a young man I moved freely in the student and Jamaican sub cultures so I understand the potential for abuse but abuse applies to many things and substances, and marijuana has no divine prerogative.
Correctly used it is a consciousness expanding substance, I can well understand why the drug would be politically unpopular .. it may wake some people up as to what is really going on .. in this phantasmagoria upside down place called world.
The real reason that it is illegal is because that way it is enormously profitable and funds many black ops for Britain and America .. the Empire mongers are alive and well. We are all well aware the Afghani Taliban had stamped out the poppy growing trade .. That was when we started to get the misinformation that led to the invasion.
As one may expect such an enormous toll in Afghani lives not to mention those of NATO has reinstated the Opium trade with one sharp difference .. much of it is now being processed into heroin .. Good One Chaps!
That keeps the war chest funded for the extra judicial acts .. the many police of all nations who have been corrupted were first compromised by their own greed and of course the inevitable bonding of the criminal/police duopoly two sides of the same coin .. Set a thief to catch a thief is an old truism that holds as true today as it did then.
As I said .. its a racket!
Ivor Hughes
Wouldn’t commercial hemp farming mean that lots of pollen would be in the air? That would pretty much wipe-out anyone who WAS trying to grow ‘high-quality’ (sorry) smoke? It would be like the neighbor’s mutt knocking-up your pure-bred pooch. How come I never here about THAT as an argument on this issue?
Meanwhile, over on the other side of the world:
They stamped out the opium trade, and impoverished and drove out the drug warlords whose warring and rapacity had ruined what was left of the country after the Soviet war.
That is about the only good thing you can say about the Taliban; there are plenty of very bad things to say about them. But their suppression of the opium trade and the drug barons is undeniable fact.
Now we are occupying the country, that has changed. According to the United Nations, 2006 was the biggest opium harvest in history, smashing the previous record by 60 per cent. This year will be even bigger.
Our economic achievement in Afghanistan goes well beyond the simple production of raw opium. In fact Afghanistan no longer exports much raw opium at all. It has succeeded in what our international aid efforts urge every developing country to do. Afghanistan has gone into manufacturing and ‘value-added’ operations.
It now exports not opium, but heroin. Opium is converted into heroin on an industrial scale, not in kitchens but in factories. Millions of gallons of the chemicals needed for this process are shipped into Afghanistan by tanker. The tankers and bulk opium lorries on the way to the factories share the roads, improved by American aid, with Nato troops.
How can this have happened, and on this scale? The answer is simple. The four largest players in the heroin business are all senior members of the Afghan government – the government that our soldiers are fighting and dying to protect.
When we attacked Afghanistan, America bombed from the air while the CIA paid, armed and equipped the dispirited warlord drug barons – especially those grouped in the Northern Alliance – to do the ground occupation. We bombed the Taliban and their allies into submission, while the warlords moved in to claim the spoils. Then we made them ministers.
Above snip from the article “Britain is protecting the biggest heroin crop of all time.
Posted here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=469983&in_page_id=1770&in_page_id=1770&expand=true
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Good to read Rand’s piece, if the American people knew these facts they’d legalise hemp tomorrow. BTW, the NYT just did an article on Dave Monson’s fight for legalisation, there is a link at www.hempforvictory.blogspot.com, see article posted 23 July.
I just finished a book on hemp with a number of people in the movement, including Woody Harrelson and Mina Hegaard. It is for sale in the US at www.minawear.com, titled “Hemp for Victory: History and Qualities of the World’s Most Useful Plant”.
A good thing to do is to call your Congressman and Senator and let them know about hemp. The more you press them the more they have to work for you and not some sleazy corporation.
Kenyon Gibson,
editor at the Journal of Industrial Hemp
Good to read Rand’s piece, if the American people knew these facts they’d legalise hemp tomorrow. BTW, the NYT just did an article on Dave Monson’s fight for legalisation, there is a link at www.hempforvictory.blogspot.com see article posted 23 July.
I just finished a book on hemp with a number of people in the movement, including Woody Harrelson and Mina Hegaard. It is for sale in the US at www.minawear.com, titled “Hemp for Victory: History and Qualities of the World’s Most Useful Plant”.
A good thing to do is to call your Congressman and Senator and let them know about hemp. The more you press them the more they have to work for you and not some sleazy corporation.
Kenyon Gibson,
editor at the Journal of Industrial Hemp
Greg Bacon, you are right on. “…stupidity and naked power exhibited by the DEA.” What a hogtie–that for us the road the hemp leads through the insane DEA toll miasma. Is DEA really an acronym for: Destruction Ever After?
Naked power is always stupid, the goons are always cross-eyed pinheads atop Schwarzzenoid steroid crazed blimp phyiques—Way To Go Willy Whitten! Memory Hole for sure…truth? What truth? The Hole Knows….
Bonanzaman, I agree with Snowden, Bloody Good Point!
Peawhitler…the heroin production realities—what media-mislead American would believe it?
Keep up the truth Kenyon, and send me a book.
Thanks for truth, with people like all of you, we shouldn’t keep losing.
Speaking of naked power, an older resource that opened the eyes and minds of many for years was the book, The The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana, by Jack Herer.
Mr. Herer can be considered a real pioneer in the hemp movement and he has provided important information, both about the true profit-driven motive behind demonizing the weed, as well as its benign nature. The book, (originally published in 1977) has sold over 600,000 copies to date and is it its 11th edition.
The book provides a very solid, and well-researched, foundation for any clear understanding of the reasons and facts behind the devastating, long-term “war” on this particular plant. It is a war that takes a far greater toll by damage to its causalities, (and society) than any of the proposed, false benefits for the waging of the “war” provides. The price we pay for any support of the false doctrines imposed upon the population for ulterior motives is staggering and, when clearly understood, both shocking and appalling. The information has yet to be refuted by opponents and propaganda.
It is highly recommended, for those who have interest in this subject, that swing over to his site and read the rather generously given, free parts of the book online:
http://www.jackherer.com/chapters.html
This is the kind of a primer that people who are interested in the real history and incredible value of hemp as an important, across-the-board resource, would defnitely benefit from reading. It is also just as crucial those who are curious or concerned about the majro assault on consciousness and health that its prohibition viciously attacks in the process.
When people feel incredulous about information that counters the bulk of agitprop presented as totally factual, altruistic information provided to socially engineer public opinion and behavior, (under a loud and authoritative veneer of assumed veracity) seeing into the historical success of campaigns that have effectively pulling the wool over their eyes and glued them shut has a sobering and dramatic impact. It is the kind of impact that can shake the fetid ground of commonly accepted supposition. That kind of shaking, in sufficient and persistent quantities can also shake the foundations of postiche empires.
Obviously, the most important byproduct of this kind of knowledge, (and it should be more pervasive and common) is that it illustrates just how far expert and blatant propaganda can go to transform a non-theoretical, conspiratorial agenda of deception into an accepted belief-as-fact for millions of people without as much as a stir or prevailing exposure on the skin of superficial media that pretends to be presenting, without special interest or bias, facts and important information for the benefit of the public.
Free your mind if you think you have one! That is the only true place, position, or perspective that real freedom can ever exist. The rest is commentary.
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Mr. Miller’s articles on hemp are excellent. However, I think he attributes too much power to the DEA. This agency is a tool of supercapitalists. I mean the men behind the curtains who run this country.
The real reason hemp and marijuana are illegal is because big pharma and the liquor lobbies don’t want it legalized. Tens of millions of people have discovered that m.j. is a relaxant, painkiller and aphrodisiac. It is cheap, organic and safe if used moderately. So what will happen to sales of percoset and viagra if m.j. is legalized? You know the answer.
Also the bureaucratic angle. When FDR administration repealed the amendment (which number was it?) in 1933 that outlawed liquor, there was this huge law enforcement apparat that had been busting rum runners and speakeasies. Thousands of armed agents. What to do with them? It was a bad idea to turn them out on the street at a time of 20 percent unemployment. So various “planners” came up with idea to invent a new threat. It was m.j., which at that time was an exotic substance known mostly to sailors of the South American ports, and blacks in New Orleans. It was called “muggles” and a minor thing.
The government and liquor lobbies started propagandizing against m.j. The classic film “Marijuana: Assassin of Youth” was one. Watch it. It’s goddamn ridiculous and reflects the opinion its makers held of the general public.
M.j. keeps me sane. I don’t think I could live in a big city without it. M.j. also keeps the pain down from my arthritis. And I’m getting goddamn tired of skulking around like some pedophile to get this substance that I need. I can’t afford, nor do I want, the ripoff drugs big pharma wants to sell me. Fuck those people. Goddamn capitalist pimps.
Yours for a legal hemp republic,
D.R.
Baltimore, MD
Addendum:
My apologies to Mr. Clifford. I attributed his article to Mr. Miller.
Also, re the goody Eagle Scout who killed the hemp plants. The Boy Scouts were the idea of the Englishman Baden-Powell. He was concerned that young men were becoming overly urbanised–in fact, a new sort of Man, one divorced from the land and losing knowledge of living with natural systems. This idea of his is commendable….
But, turns out the British leadership loved the idea too. Why? Because Scouting imparted skills to boys which would be useful to the Army. If boys were taught to land navigate, build fires, live off the land, hike long distances, etc.—if this was taught to urban boys of the factories, would it not save the British Army much training time? Yes. Food for thought.
I meant to mention as well the fact that keeping m.j. illegal keeps its price high. Re the comment about heroin in Afghanistan. Now, as one commenter pointed out, refinement facilities have been built there. Now Afghan. ships finished heroin, whereas before it shipped opium to Europe and Turkey for refinement.
Any movement, any ideology, in America that promises independence–economic or ideological—is suppressed. I say the U.S. state is a beast, a gluttonous, muderous thing that can’t last much longer. Good riddance, and let people decided for themselves what they put in their bodies and with whom they associate.
DR
Though one day we also might have to think about the prohibition of marijuana again, for the moment it might be a good slogan to say, “prohibit marijuana, but legalize hemp”. Just by putting the terms “marijuana” and “hemp” in juxtaposition, many people would be triggered to think.
This info is long overdue! TY 4 the applicative senses. I have had medical problems, for years; and this has definite effects that are noticibly “there”. Yes, beneficial characteristics that go WAY beyond what is considered by most to be just a “high”. This, while careful we must walk, and responsibly, is a MUST!! Now!!
nomari has it right with the slogan: “prohibit marijuana, but legalize hemp”. Just by putting the terms “marijuana” and “hemp” in juxtaposition, many people would be triggered to think.
Unfortunately, showing a photo of very pretty and potent marijuana buds — to lead an article about King Hemp — sends the WRONG message. Personally, I’m for legalizing both hemp and marijuana. But some people will have a problem with the latter, especially where their children are concerned. NO ONE should have a problem with legalizing the growing of hemp, if all the facts are put out there for them.
Please keep the two separate when talking about legalization.
I just have to say a big THANK YOU for your article on hemp and the debunking of the bogus authoritarian mendacity that they could possibly care for the masses.
Just how utterly ridiculous and ‘agenda riddled’ this modern day tenet is. It is the crux of their ’sleight of hand’ over our minds. Its like we are being controlled by a bunch of’robots’ or ‘manchurian candidates’, people without souls or conscience!
I dare these misguided fools, that if they truly cared for ‘real’ well being of anyone, they could start by investigating just what is going into our foods(chemicals, additives), GMO corn and rice, the hideous raising of livestock and poultry in these corporate farms, look up at the chemtrails crisscrossing our skies(just what the hell is in that?), impeachment of war criminals in this current white house and congress, Ruppert Murdoch and the devouring of our fourth estate. Boy, they’d be a thousand times more busy if they had hearts and minds of their own!
Oh, and I also want to say thank you for pointing out Dr. Ron Paul and his attempt at bringing back the common sense that this country use to be noted for. He will definitely get my vote and I am campaigning for this man who’s creed may well be, “Live Simply So Others Can Simply Live”! Damn Right!
Its up to each American citizen right now to pay close attention and DISCERN right from wrong. Don’t be distracted for one minute with their ‘junk’ news! Vote with your money and vote with your conscience!
When all is said and done, we will have to re-build this country all over again and we will have to ensure that this ‘hell’ we are currently living in can NEVER be allowed to happen again! We must seek those ‘behind the curtain’, name them, and prosecute them. Who are these secret government? How dare they! War on Drugs, indeed! If there ever was a true ‘War’ on terror, Americans would be storming the white house and pentagon for the REAL TERRORISTS! I say, let the trials begin!
It may well be that the future public servants will have to ‘give up’ their self interests so they can truly have the ‘publics’ interest in their hearts and minds!
Oh yes, I also forgot to mention, if they really ‘cared for the safety’ of others, then why did our bridge collapse yesterday right here in Minneapolis? Care, indeed! Hooey!
Again I must respond to some of the thoughtfulness here. Anisha, your: “Boy, they’d be a thousand times more busy if they had hearts and minds of their own” is splendid. Also, your “Vote with your money….” is absolutely germane. Money is the only language CorpoGov understands. I fear that now it’s the only way to get through to them. We all have power, especially in terms of where we choose NOT to spend our money. The next step is mass awareness, and coordination.
I might be just a dumb lymie, but I thought the DEA was the Drugs Export Agency and the CIA was the Cocaine Import Agency am I wrong.
Since Canada has allowed the farming of industial hemp ( I think some kind of registration is required) I have been able to sample the seeds made into various snacks. They are all soooooo good. It has something to do with Omega fatty acids, but I dont carewhat it is, I want more. I’d like to be able to eat my fill, but everything is just so expensive and will be until more more land is under cultivation.
All this DEA nonsense about Canada and out Vichey government in Ottawa will come to an ugly head in about two and a half years. If you google North AMerican Union 2010 you can see that the documents have already been signed for Canada the USA and Mexico to share a common set of laws, currency, history and security. Lets see what happens when the ante is increased. Green rage.
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