LA County Sheriff Lee Baca and the Anti-Marijuana Stasi

[marmar]

from AlterNet:





LA’s Sheriff Baca Stirs Fear Against Marijuana Days Before The Election
Posted by Linda Milazzo on @ 6:59 am


All through the George W. Bush administration, Americans were fed a steady diet of fear, strategically orchestrated by Bush and Cheney to promote their political agenda. Americans were scared into supporting war. They were frightened into buying masking tape. They were jolted by elevated color codes. They were unnerved about flying on planes. And much much more…

For eight long years Bush and Cheney were masters of mania, preying on a nervous nation through well-timed machinations. What coincidence that terrorist threats would arise before elections and critical legislation. Even Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri would broadcast messages that helped push G.W.’s platform.

Using unjustified fear is an abuse of governance. Sadly for Los Angeles, Lee Baca, its Sheriff of twelve years who is running unopposed in this election, is employing the abusive fear tactic. Mere days before California’s November 2nd election, whose ballot includes Proposition 19, which if passed, would regulate, control and tax marijuana, Sheriff Baca is using free broadcast media to strike fear in voters against the Proposition he vehemently opposes.

As Baca’s luck would have it, Halloween arrives just two days before the November 2nd election. To frighten voters against Prop 19, Baca ordered his sheriffs to confiscate marijuana edibles from legal dispensaries and remove them from circulation so they’re not distributed to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Baca then used the confiscated edibles as part of his free anti-Prop 19 broadcast media blitz. ...........(more)

The complete piece is at: http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/31/las-sheriff-baca-stirs-fear-against-marijuana-days-before-the-election/

[msongs]

1. it's a threat to his empire and his status and his....funding nt

[Sonoman]

3. Yeah, and he's probably driving around

in some dude's Escalade.

[BolivarianHero]

2. I'll make one promise to all of you...

Once we break the back of the prison-industrial and military-industrial complexes, we're going to find things so vile that the Stasi will look like choir boys.

[kestrel91316]

4. Baca is an asshat. There. I said it.

[jaysunb]

5. Baca is an employee of Los Angeles County

where he is bound to follow the laws of California, not the Federal Government.

He lives right down the street from me. Maybe I should go over there and tell him. :evilfrown: