B. B. Bovey
August 14th 07, 05:45 AM
million of us were in prisons and jails.
> Incarceration rates for drug offenses - which are not considered major
> crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly
> constant.
* The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989
*
* Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom...
* must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an
* armed camp, by the visions of jails filled with casual drug users and of
* an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight
* evidence.
> Drug offenders were 6.4 percent of state prison populations in 1980.
> Drug offenders were 22.3 percent of state prison populations in 1994.
>
> The growth from less than 20,000 to nearly a quarter of a million was
> nearly tenfold.
>
> Nonviolent drug offenders making up 58% of the federal prison population.
Name a single person ever who was robbed by
someone suffering from marijuana withdrawal.
Law Enforcement Hysteria, Propaganda and Lies:
And that Drug War hysteria commercial about the train wreck by the engineer
on pot? They can't quite bring themselves to tell you he had been drinking.
And they still show this ad...
* "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*
* In one ad, the wreckage of a train is shown. Now, everyone will agree
* that no one should attempt to drive a train while high on marijuana.
* But a man's voice says that anyone who tells you 'marijuana is harmless'
* is lying, because his wife was killed in the train accident.
*
* This contradicts the direct sworn t
> Incarceration rates for drug offenses - which are not considered major
> crimes - have increased significantly while other categories are fairly
> constant.
* The Wall Street Journal, September 7, 1989
*
* Nobel prize-winning economist Milton Friedman, "Every friend of freedom...
* must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the U.S. into an
* armed camp, by the visions of jails filled with casual drug users and of
* an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight
* evidence.
> Drug offenders were 6.4 percent of state prison populations in 1980.
> Drug offenders were 22.3 percent of state prison populations in 1994.
>
> The growth from less than 20,000 to nearly a quarter of a million was
> nearly tenfold.
>
> Nonviolent drug offenders making up 58% of the federal prison population.
Name a single person ever who was robbed by
someone suffering from marijuana withdrawal.
Law Enforcement Hysteria, Propaganda and Lies:
And that Drug War hysteria commercial about the train wreck by the engineer
on pot? They can't quite bring themselves to tell you he had been drinking.
And they still show this ad...
* "The Emperor Wears No Clothes", by Jack Herer, 1992, ISBN 1-878125-00-1
*
* In one ad, the wreckage of a train is shown. Now, everyone will agree
* that no one should attempt to drive a train while high on marijuana.
* But a man's voice says that anyone who tells you 'marijuana is harmless'
* is lying, because his wife was killed in the train accident.
*
* This contradicts the direct sworn t