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They have had it with our INSANE policy of making no distinction between traditional use of the highly nutritious coca leaf for tea and chewing, and the criminal syndicates into cocaine production in the U.S./Bush client state, Colombia.
The corrupt, failed, murderous U.S. "war on drugs" is just one more war profiteering boondoggle. Here we target users, small traffic and the poor--and demonize another highly nutritious medicine--marijuana--and we are never rid of the floods of dangerous drugs pouring into the country from Bush Cartel client states--cocaine from Colombia, heroine from Afghanistan--with all of its attendant crime.
We should de-criminalize all drug use. Period. And herb chewing, and herb smoking, and tea drinking should be de-criminalized immediately. Our policy is INSANE, and a gross affront to civil rights, and an insult to all of us, and totally counter-productive.
And in Bushite hands, the abuse of these multi-billion dollar expenditures is as bad as you can imagine. Spying, war planning, support for fascist coup plotters, violations of the sovereignty of countries, collusion with the major drug traffickers and death squads running Colombia, toxic pesticide spraying of food crops, children, farm animals, displacement of millions of small farmers, and USAID money supporting rightwing causes.
The "war on drugs" is nothing more than a "war on the poor," here and there. And we see its far-reaching bad effects here, in the militarization of police forces, for instance, in the out-of-control police forces in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Ramming down the doors of peoples' homes, going in with guns drawn, beatings, gassings, PRE-EMPTIVE arrests of peaceful citizens, the arrest of journalists. All this derives from the "war on drugs," which is a war on the citizenry of this country--not to mention the trillions of dollars in costs-- and a war on the peasant farmers of South America, to drive them from their lands, so Monsanto & brethren can move in.
Get rid of the "war on drugs"--and Diebold & co.--and maybe we can have democracy here again. The South Americans are doing both--abandoning this insane "war," and counting their votes in the PUBLIC venue. The latter is how they are able to do the former.
Know this: neither Mayor Coleman of St. Paul, nor Mayor Rybek of Minneapolis, nor any elected public official in the U.S.A. can prove that he or she was actually elected.
That's why we have totally unaccountable, out of control, fascist government, with totally unaccountable, out of control, fascist, militarized police forces running rampant over the Constitution. The basic accountability of transparent vote counting--the most fundamental condition of democracy--has been lost. Government is no longer accountable to us. We are its slaves, its cannon fodder and its prisoners.
We should take heart from the South Americans, who are "just saying NO" to this extremely corrupt policy.
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