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Good morning TEA Party Patriots!
The Spirit was with us here in Texas. We had a great TEA Party in Stephenville, the cowboy capital of the world. It was estimated at least 400 attended. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North! Downsize DC! Join the Campaign for Liberty.
I made a very tall sign with Campaign for Liberty, Downsize DC, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (copy of Howard's portrait), Drug war clock cost of prohibition info and Ron Paul Love Revolution (copy of Ron's portrait) featured on it. I printed materials from these groups to hand out as well as one called "Save the children, just say NO to prohibition! Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!" (copied below) with the Drug Policy Forum of Texas Join the discussion: and the web address on it. I gave out everything I printed up.
Did you attend a tea party near you? Did you point to the drug war drain on our precious lives and resources?
The Boston Tea Party was not just a protest. It was a direct political action and blocked the collection of taxes. Take action by working and voting for less government and ballot initiatives that shrink government.
Buds Forever,
Colleen
Here is some information I gave out at the TEA Party:
- The US federal government spent over
- $19 billion in 2003 on the WAR ON SOME DRUGS THAT MIGHT COMPETE
WITH ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND PHARMACEUTICALS, at a rate of about $600 per
second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source ONDCP.
- State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion.
- Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at
Columbia University: "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State
Budgets," January, 2001. Source: Jeffrey A. Miron, Department of Economics,
Harvard University: "The Budgetary Implications of Drug Prohibition,"
December 2008..
Save the children,Just say NO to Prohibition!
Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!
Our out-of-control drug policies' monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering is unconscionable. The destruction of the sacred family unit is one of the worst consequences of prohibition.
The propaganda is we wage this war to protect our children. The devastating and deadly facts are our babies, especially teens have become collateral damage in this grossly failed war.
*The death and devastation begins on kids before they are even born. Because mothers on drugs are afraid to go to doctors for fear of being arrested or having their babies taken away from them, their fetuses have higher incidences of birth defects, pre-maturity, and miscarriages. The drugs don't cause these problems; it's the lack of prenatal care.
*Kids placed in foster care when their parents are incarcerated for drug use have four times the death rate of kids left with their parents.
*We have deprived millions of children and teenagers of their imprisoned parent(s).
*Our adult murder rate is four times higher than in the Netherlands where drugs are regulated, controlled, taxed, despite having six times their adult incarceration rate. Much worse, this drug war has created an obscene teenage murder rate that's nineteen times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are legally available to everyone over eighteen.
*The drug war has turned a million of our teenagers into drug dealers, many in deadly drug gangs that have four times the death rate of Texas death row prisoners.
*We have more teens selling drugs than the rest of the world combined. Why? The tough Rockefeller drug laws provided for mandatory five-year sentences for anyone over 18 involved in drugs. The result: drug dealers got 16 and 17 year olds to sell drugs for them and we created the teen drug market.
*Only 50 percent of high school students graduate in our ten biggest cities and only 40 per cent graduate in NYC, Baltimore and Detroit. In the Netherlands 92 percent graduate; that's No Child Left Behind!
Stephen H. Frye, M.D. Retired medical school professor just wrote a book giving these facts titled: We Really Lost This War! Twenty-five Reasons to Legalize Drugs.
It is really misleading to call it a drug war or drug fueled violence. The horrific carnage is triggered by the new prohibition and fueled by official lawlessness.
The war waged by Mexican drug cartels has resulted in 610 children deaths reports a study and 3,700 children have been left orphans as a result of the violence or execution of their parents. Many minors who are orphaned have been psychologically scarred after witnessing violent actions against their
relatives.
The Mexican military reported that 420 children who had been recruited have died in the clashes between rival groups. There were many examples of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 dying in fierce battles with the drug traffickers or being tortured and killed as paybacks between feuding
clans.
How much misery can a policy cause before it is acknowledged as a failure and reversed? This international calamity is no laughing matter.
A new study by Glenn Greenwald, writer and civil rights lawyer, looked at Portugal's policy of decriminalization and regulation. He found: "While drug addiction, usage, and associated pathologies continue to skyrocket in many European Union states, those problems - in virtually every relevant
category - have been either contained or measurably improved within Portugal since 2001.
When we enacted the first drug laws in 1914, 1.3% of America was addicted. When the current insane policy began in the '70s that figure remained the same and it remains so today after 39 million arrests. This policy is the very definition of insanity.
The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs The worst public policy since slavery disregards science and punishes families of nonviolent citizens, confiscating their property for making a safer health choice in a social or medicinal drug; that is pretty insane as well!
Users have been around for eons with out this violent bloodletting except during the first "Noble" experiment. Servants of tyranny support prohibition under the guise of good intentions, a con used by them throughout history to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
Across America paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. It is called, "Overkill" to use such force on a nonviolent health issue.
Save the children, just say NO to prohibition!
Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!
Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Join the discussion!
Good morning TEA Party Patriots!
The Spirit was with us here in Texas. We had a great TEA Party in Stephenville, the cowboy capital of the world. It was estimated at least 400 attended. The Spirit of '76 was the Holy Spirit and is our true North! Downsize DC! Join the Campaign for Liberty.
I made a very tall sign with Campaign for Liberty, Downsize DC, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (copy of Howard's portrait), Drug war clock cost of prohibition info and Ron Paul Love Revolution (copy of Ron's portrait) featured on it. I printed materials from these groups to hand out as well as one called "Save the children, just say NO to prohibition! Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!" (copied below) with the Drug Policy Forum of Texas Join the discussion: and the web address on it. I gave out everything I printed up.
Did you attend a tea party near you? Did you point to the drug war drain on our precious lives and resources?
The Boston Tea Party was not just a protest. It was a direct political action and blocked the collection of taxes. Take action by working and voting for less government and ballot initiatives that shrink government.
Buds Forever,
Colleen
Here is some information I gave out at the TEA Party:
- The US federal government spent over
- $19 billion in 2003 on the WAR ON SOME DRUGS THAT MIGHT COMPETE
WITH ALCOHOL TOBACCO AND PHARMACEUTICALS, at a rate of about $600 per
second. The budget has since been increased by over a billion dollars.
Source ONDCP.
- State and local governments spent at least another 30 billion.
- Source: National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at
Columbia University: "Shoveling Up: The Impact of Substance Abuse on State
Budgets," January, 2001. Source: Jeffrey A. Miron, Department of Economics,
Harvard University: "The Budgetary Implications of Drug Prohibition,"
December 2008..
Save the children,Just say NO to Prohibition!
Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!
Our out-of-control drug policies' monetary and environmental costs are staggering and the human suffering is unconscionable. The destruction of the sacred family unit is one of the worst consequences of prohibition.
The propaganda is we wage this war to protect our children. The devastating and deadly facts are our babies, especially teens have become collateral damage in this grossly failed war.
*The death and devastation begins on kids before they are even born. Because mothers on drugs are afraid to go to doctors for fear of being arrested or having their babies taken away from them, their fetuses have higher incidences of birth defects, pre-maturity, and miscarriages. The drugs don't cause these problems; it's the lack of prenatal care.
*Kids placed in foster care when their parents are incarcerated for drug use have four times the death rate of kids left with their parents.
*We have deprived millions of children and teenagers of their imprisoned parent(s).
*Our adult murder rate is four times higher than in the Netherlands where drugs are regulated, controlled, taxed, despite having six times their adult incarceration rate. Much worse, this drug war has created an obscene teenage murder rate that's nineteen times higher than in the Netherlands, where drugs are legally available to everyone over eighteen.
*The drug war has turned a million of our teenagers into drug dealers, many in deadly drug gangs that have four times the death rate of Texas death row prisoners.
*We have more teens selling drugs than the rest of the world combined. Why? The tough Rockefeller drug laws provided for mandatory five-year sentences for anyone over 18 involved in drugs. The result: drug dealers got 16 and 17 year olds to sell drugs for them and we created the teen drug market.
*Only 50 percent of high school students graduate in our ten biggest cities and only 40 per cent graduate in NYC, Baltimore and Detroit. In the Netherlands 92 percent graduate; that's No Child Left Behind!
Stephen H. Frye, M.D. Retired medical school professor just wrote a book giving these facts titled: We Really Lost This War! Twenty-five Reasons to Legalize Drugs.
It is really misleading to call it a drug war or drug fueled violence. The horrific carnage is triggered by the new prohibition and fueled by official lawlessness.
The war waged by Mexican drug cartels has resulted in 610 children deaths reports a study and 3,700 children have been left orphans as a result of the violence or execution of their parents. Many minors who are orphaned have been psychologically scarred after witnessing violent actions against their
relatives.
The Mexican military reported that 420 children who had been recruited have died in the clashes between rival groups. There were many examples of adolescents between the ages of 14 and 17 dying in fierce battles with the drug traffickers or being tortured and killed as paybacks between feuding
clans.
How much misery can a policy cause before it is acknowledged as a failure and reversed? This international calamity is no laughing matter.
A new study by Glenn Greenwald, writer and civil rights lawyer, looked at Portugal's policy of decriminalization and regulation. He found: "While drug addiction, usage, and associated pathologies continue to skyrocket in many European Union states, those problems - in virtually every relevant
category - have been either contained or measurably improved within Portugal since 2001.
When we enacted the first drug laws in 1914, 1.3% of America was addicted. When the current insane policy began in the '70s that figure remained the same and it remains so today after 39 million arrests. This policy is the very definition of insanity.
The tobacco, alcohol and prescription drug gangs cause more death annually than all illicit drugs The worst public policy since slavery disregards science and punishes families of nonviolent citizens, confiscating their property for making a safer health choice in a social or medicinal drug; that is pretty insane as well!
Users have been around for eons with out this violent bloodletting except during the first "Noble" experiment. Servants of tyranny support prohibition under the guise of good intentions, a con used by them throughout history to make us more accepting of their waste of our precious lives and resources.
Across America paramilitary drug raids trigger violence rather than lessen the risk. It is called, "Overkill" to use such force on a nonviolent health issue.
Save the children, just say NO to prohibition!
Trigger less violence, official lawlessness, racism, tyranny and ruined lives!
Drug Policy Forum of Texas
Join the discussion!
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