Archive for April 16th, 2009
Just turn on your tv and you can see plenty of the propaganda. That “What has weed done for you lately” one makes me laugh and get sick at the same time. It really should be “What has alcohol done for you lately”. Who calls there ex 27 times when they’re high. That’s drunk dialing and to associate smoking cannabis with theft, idiocy and just being a dick (guy leaving friends at party) is ludicrous and propaganda just as bad as reefer madness. Here’s the video below so you can see for yourself.
Reporting from San Francisco and Los Angeles — Citing “overwhelming” evidence that marijuana eases pain and anxiety for the chronically ill, medicinal pot advocates told a federal appeals panel Tuesday that the federal government should be stopped from spreading “false information” about marijuana.
As was argued in the debate over whether stem cell research should be resumed, Americans for Safe Access cast the Bush administration’s opposition to any legalized use of marijuana as being shaped by conservative sentiments instead of hard facts.
President Obama has signaled to Cabinet members that science should be guiding government judgments in controversial matters of medicine and technology, not the prevailing political mood. On Tuesday, however, a government lawyer told three judges of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals that the administration wasn’t required to explain or retract its statements that marijuana “has no currently accepted medical use.”
Marijuana is banned under federal law but is legal for cancer patients and others suffering chronic illnesses in California and a dozen other states. Safe Access sued the federal government under a law that prohibits it from disseminating inaccurate information.
U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric Holder signaled last month that the administration wouldn’t interfere with medical pot dispensing in states where it is legal as long as users abide by state law.
Since California became the first state to partially legalize medical marijuana 13 years ago, the federal government has prevailed in all challenges to the state’s practice, including a 2001 U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the federal government’s right to prosecute offenders.
Safe Access argues that the federal government needs to update its assessment to conform with the reality of marijuana’s broadening legal use as a pain reliever.
“The science to support medical marijuana is overwhelming. It’s time for the federal government to acknowledge the efficacy of medical marijuana and stop holding science hostage to politics,” said Steph Sherer, director of Americans for Safe Access.
The group petitioned for revision of the federal judgment in 2004 but was ignored by Bush officials, who also sought and won federal district court dismissal of a 2007 lawsuit filed by Safe Access.
Justice Department lawyer Alisa Klein told the appeals court panel that the government shouldn’t be forced to defend the accuracy of “countless pieces of information” in its massive archives. U.S. Circuit Court Judge Marsha S. Berzon, an appointee of President Clinton, said the law at issue in the case was “amazing” because it did appear to require the government to correct all inaccurate statements, a result she called “troubling.”
Despite the positive signals emanating from Washington lately, Alan Morrison, founder of Public Citizen’s Litigation Group who argued on behalf of Safe Access, said the plaintiffs hadn’t expected a government turnaround just yet.
Amid economic turmoil and global crises, he said, medical marijuana “is well below the radar scope of the Obama administration.”
Kurt Nimmo
Infowars
Texas Governor Rick Perry says the state may secede. Perry made the comment after a Tax Day Tea Party speech he delivered at the Austin City Hall.
“An animated Perry told the crowd,” reports the Houston Chronicle, “that officials in Washington have abandoned the country’s founding principles of limited government. He said the federal government is strangling Americans with taxation, spending and debt.” He later told the media Texas might want to secede from the union. He then said, well, not really.
Gov. Rick Perry speaking to about 1,000 participants at the Austin Tea Party on April 15.
According to Politico, Perry’s theatrical rejection of Obama’s “stimulus” (debt to the bankers) money has “made him popular among the big government opponents who attended Wednesday’s ‘tea party’ events across the nation.”
Instead these opponents to the banker plan to stack up debt for the foreseeable future are unwittingly falling victim to Perry’s cynical brand of election politics. Perry is running against fellow Republican Kay Bailey Hutchison, who he bombastically defines as part of the Washington problem, not the Texas solution.
Part of his election strategy is to back House Concurrent Resolution 50 confirming the Tenth Amendment.
“I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion on the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” he declared on April 14. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.”
“He’s all upset about the bailout money, TARP money, the stimulus money. This is great stuff,” gushed Rush Limbaugh, who then said the Department of Homeland Security had Perry in mind when it wrote the right-wing extremist paper posted on Infowars and then broadcast across the corporate media.
Alex Jones critiques Rick Perry’s Tenth Amendment speech, April 15, 2009
Please. Rick Perry is a consummate insider who is merely exploiting the tea party movement for his own shrewd political ends. He was instrumental in the development of the Trans-Texas Corridor, part of the CFR’s plan to build a “North American Community.” He was at the center of a plan to privatize Texas Utilities and sell them off to global investment firms, including the bankster outfits Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse First Boston (see Aaron Dykes, Gov. Perry Summoned to Bilderberg While Insider Trading Charges Mount in Related Texas Buyout). He also advocated subjecting Texans to the HPV vaccine.
“The NAFTA ’superhighway’ linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada is already underway. A Texas legislator tried to stop this massive mile-wide structure, but Texas Gov. Rick Perry vetoed the bill. The governor is a Bilderberger with the same CFR viewpoint,” Don Snyder wrote for the Napa Valley Register.
Rick Perry attended the Bilderberg Group meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, in 2007. “Robert Black, the governor’s press secretary, said the governor was invited to attend and speak about state-federal relations,” the Dallas Morning News reported on May 31, 2007. It should be noted that state governors are often invited to Bilderberg meetings to be groomed for the presidency, as Bill Clinton was groomed at the Bilderberg meeting in 1991 held at Baden-Baden, Germany.
In June of 2007, Ron Paul said Perry’s elbow rubbing with the cabal of notorious Constitution-hating globalists and royalty should be investigated under the Logan Act. The Logan Act is a federal law that forbids unauthorized citizens from negotiating with foreign governments and is a felony punishable with imprisonment of up to three years.
The CFR, with Rick Perry’s help, is working to convert “the U.S. from a sovereign Constitution Republic into a servile member of a one-world dictatorship,” as Congressmen John R. Rarick once described it.
He is not a friend of the Constitution and the Tenth Amendment.
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