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Title: People as Poultry (Has the US Ever Been a Free Country?)
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Eric Peters Autos
URL Source: http://ericpetersautos.com/2016/04/18/people-as-poultry/
Published: Apr 18, 2016
Author: Eric
Post Date: 2016-04-20 05:56:04 by Deckard
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Views: 1303
Comments: 12
We live in a lunatic asylum .. the lunatics being us. For believing we ever lived in a “free” country. As long ago as the reign of His Rotundity – the second president of the United (at bayonet-point) States – people were being dragooned off the street and roughly thrown into cages for having annoyed the powers-that-be. Or who were deemed “dangerous” by the powers-that-be. This was more than 200 years before The Chimp came along with his squinty-eyed pronouncements about “the enemies of freedom” and being either “with us” or “against us.” Not much is taught in government schools (for the obvious reason) about the Alien and Sedition Acts – or other such clear evidence of a disconnect between what we are told and what actually is. For example, why should a free man have to worry about prosecution for “possessing” anything? In what way does the mere fact of “possession” entail a harm caused to some other person? How is it that a free man can be told – at gunpoint – what he may not put into his body? I refer, of course, to the lunacy that is the “war” on some (arbitrarily decided upon) “drugs.” Of all the many things wrong with America, this is perhaps the most obvious – and yet, the one most people seem to have trouble appreciating. A cop who drinks alcohol – who possesses and consumes this drug – is legally empowered to throw people in a cage for possessing or consuming that drug. Or even if not. In the video above, a salesman from California traveling through Wichita County, TX is followed by police for nearly half an hour before he is pulled over for a minor traffic violation. One so minor, in fact, the cop who pulls him over initially states that he will only be issuing a warning. But then things escalate – and the driver is advised that a drug-sniffing dog will be brought out and that if this dog “alerts” to the supposed presence of arbitrarily illegal “drugs,” the driver’s vehicle will be searched. No surprise, the dog “alerted” – and that was sufficient probable cause for a pair of Drug Warriors to rummage through the man’s vehicle and his personal property in the hopes of finding some arbitrarily illegal “drugs.” Which would have not only resulted in the arrest of the driver but also the likely forfeiture (read, the stealing) of his vehicle, a common practice employed by Drug Warriors and a financial incentive for them to be particularly aggressive in their truffle pig-like sussing out of these arbitrarily illegal “drugs.” None were discovered – fortunately for the victim. That is to say, the driver, whose only crime appears to have been that he was an out-of-state driver. This, by itself, is enough to draw the attention of the Drug Warriors. They will ride your ass for as long as it takes for you to let your tire touch the yellow line – or perhaps signal a left turn not quite 100 feet from the road you’re turning onto. Maybe your windows are “tinted.” They will find a reason – and then it’s open season. The next step is to bring out a dog and let him leap up on your doors and scratch your vehicle’s paint with his claws. Then, like Dr. Doolittle – his handler will converse with the canine and he (the canine) will, through some inscrutable doggy pantomime of yelps and body gyrations, convey to his handler that he smells arbitrarily illegal drugs. That’s all it takes. The “word” of… a dog. This is considered adequate probable cause to remove you from your vehicle and to then root around through your vehicle and its contents in search of … well… whatever they find. Or, plant. You not only have no right to confront/cross-examine this “witness” against you… it is an inter-species impossibility. Except for the handler, naturlich – who tells us (and we must believe him) what the dog is thinking (and saying) and whose “testimony” is accepted at face value… both by the side of the road and later on, when you are before a judge. You – the defendant – might try yelping and rolling on your back to “question” the “witness.” But the answers are inadmissible. All of this over the possession of a substance decreed – arbitrarily – to be verboten to possess. Not even the pretext is offered that some actual harm has been caused to anyone. Or even might be. The government – that is, the people who have somehow assumed ownership over us – simply tell us what we may and may not posses, what we may and may not put into “our” bodies. Few people stop to think about it. Ponder the nature of this business. Grown men – who themselves possess and consume various “drugs” decreed (arbitrarily) to be legal – think nothing of siccing dogs on people, taking their property, throwing them in cages… because they possess or consume some other “drug” just as arbitrarily decreed to be illegal. And are not ashamed or even slightly embarrassed. It is husbandry. I restrict what my animals may consume – and control what they do – because I own them. They are my property, to do with as I see fit. We stand in the same relation to the state as my chickens. 
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
You're a one trick AGENDA pony. The sites drug dealer. So here is your dose of reality. When you posted this yella piece of garbage, drugs are still controlled substances. When you wake up tomorrow AND EVERY DAY YOU WAKE UP UNTIL YOU EXPIRE... they will still be controlled substances. You have no hope... all despair. I'll donate the rope if you locate your own tree.
And yet again, you fail to grasp the rampant hypocrisy that permeates your failed war on (some) drugs). Of all the many things wrong with America, this is perhaps the most obvious – and yet, the one most people seem to have trouble appreciating. A cop who drinks alcohol – who possesses and consumes this drug – is legally empowered to throw people in a cage for possessing or consuming that drug.
It would be ok with you if everyone was addicted to heroin or crack or meth or something. Fact is God owns your body and he said to take care of it.
You know what Stone? You says some really stupid shit. I don't want to see anyone addicted to heroin or meth - nobody does. But the fact remains, the war on drugs has done absolutely NOTHING to decrease the use of drugs or decrease the number of addicts. When are you clowns going to realize your war on drugs is an affront to the liberty of ALL Americans? Portugal has decriminalized all drugs since 2001, and the results belie the claims made by you and the other drug warriors here. 14 Years After Decriminalizing All Drugs, Here's What Portugal Looks Like by 2001, the country decided to decriminalize possession and use of drugs, and the results have been remarkable. What's gotten better? In terms of usage rate and health, the data show that Portugal has by no means plunged into a drug crisis. As this chart from Transform Drug Policy Foundation shows, the proportion of the population that reports having used drugs at some point saw an initial increase after decriminalization, but then a decline: (Lifetime prevalence means the percentage of people who report having used a drug at some point in their life, past-year prevalence indicates having used within the last year, and past-month prevalence means those who've used within the last month. Generally speaking, the shorter the time frame, the more reliable the measure.) Drug use has declined overall among the 15- to 24-year-old population, those most at risk of initiating drug use, according to Transform. There has also been a decline in the percentage of the population who have ever used a drug and then continue to do so: Drug-induced deaths have decreased steeply, as this Transform chart shows: HIV infection rates among injecting drug users have been reduced at a steady pace, and has become a more manageable problem in the context of other countries with high rates, as can be seen in this chart from a 2014 report by the European Monitoring Center for Drugs and Drug Addiction Policy ***** In the video above, a salesman from California traveling through Wichita County, TX is followed by police for nearly half an hour before he is pulled over for a minor traffic violation. One so minor, in fact, the cop who pulls him over initially states that he will only be issuing a warning. But then things escalate – and the driver is advised that a drug-sniffing dog will be brought out and that if this dog “alerts” to the supposed presence of arbitrarily illegal “drugs,” the driver’s vehicle will be searched. No surprise, the dog “alerted” – and that was sufficient probable cause for a pair of Drug Warriors to rummage through the man’s vehicle and his personal property in the hopes of finding some arbitrarily illegal “drugs.” Which would have not only resulted in the arrest of the driver but also the likely forfeiture (read, the stealing) of his vehicle, a common practice employed by Drug Warriors and a financial incentive for them to be particularly aggressive in their truffle pig-like sussing out of these arbitrarily illegal “drugs.” None were discovered – fortunately for the victim. That is to say, the driver, whose only crime appears to have been that he was an out-of-state driver. This, by itself, is enough to draw the attention of the Drug Warriors. They will ride your ass for as long as it takes for you to let your tire touch the yellow line – or perhaps signal a left turn not quite 100 feet from the road you’re turning onto. Maybe your windows are “tinted.” This is what you and the other drug warrior scum support. Oh here's another example of your glorious "war on drugs" fucking over an innocent citizen. Police Officer Attempts To Set Record For Most Constitutional Violations In A Single Traffic Stop
we all know the war on drugs isn't about drugs and it isn't about possession. It is about criminality, it is about the things people do to get drugs. Surely one prohibition failure was enough to provide some lessons. The trafficing in drugs is not a local problem. it is an international problem. The whole thing is stupid, stop locking people up and concentrate the efforts on closing the border and you will solve more than one problem. Stop sympathising with the growers as poor peasants and naplam the poppy fields and the coca plantations, it isn't as though you don't know where they are. If it is a war fight it like a war, it is rediculous, the greatest military power cannot control its borders, cannot put an end to the attack on its people and instead fights proxy wars against people who are not their enemy
The cultivation of opium poppy in Afghanistan—a nation under the military control of US and NATO forces for more than twelve years—has risen to an all-time high, according to the 2013 Afghanistan Opium Survey released Wednesday by the United Nations. According to the report, cultivation of poppy across the war-torn nation rose 36 per cent in 2013 and total opium production amounted to 5,500 tons, up by almost a half since 2012. “This has never been witnessed before in the history of Afghanistan,” said Jean-Luc Lemahieu, the outgoing leader of the Afghanistan office of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, which produced the report. *** The U.S. military has allowed poppy cultivation to continue in order to appease farmers and government officials involved with the drug trade who might otherwise turn against the Afghan Karzai government in Kabul. Fueling both sides, in fact, the opium and heroin industry is both a product of the war and an essential source for continued conflict. Public Intelligence has published a series of photographs showing American – and U.S.-trained Afghan – troops patrolling poppy fields in Afghanistan. Public Intelligence informs us that all of the photos are in the public domain, and not subject to copyright, and they assured me that I have every right to reproduce them. We produce these photos and the accompanying descriptions from Public Intelligence without further comment. CIA “Manages” Drug Trade, Mexican Official Says Some of the most prominent officials to level charges of CIA drug trafficking include the former head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Robert Bonner. During an interview with CBS, Bonner accused the American “intelligence” outfit of unlawfully importing a ton of cocaine into the U.S. in collaboration with the Venezuelan government. Even the New York Times eventually covered part of the scandal in a piece entitled "Anti-Drug Unit of C.I.A. Sent Ton of Cocaine to U.S. in 1990." And the agency’s Inspector General, Frederick Hitz, was eventually forced to concede to a congressional committee that the CIA has indeed worked with drug traffickers and obtained a waiver from the Department of Justice in the 1980s allowing it to conceal its contractors’ illicit dealings. An explosive investigation by reporter Gary Webb dubbed the “Dark Alliance” also uncovered a vast CIA machine to ship illegal drugs into the U.S. to fund clandestine and unconstitutional activities abroad, including the financing of armed groups. Webb eventually died under highly suspicious circumstances — two gunshots to the head, officially ruled a “suicide.” Responding to Webb’s discoveries, top officials and even lawmakers eventually acknowledged that the CIA almost certainly had a role in illegal drug trafficking. "There is no question in my mind that people affiliated with, or on the payroll of, the CIA were involved in drug trafficking," explained U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Mass.) after the Dark Alliance series. Top-level Mexican officials have suggested complicity by U.S. officials in drug trafficking as well — even recently. “It is impossible to pass tons of drugs or cocaine to U.S. without some grade of complicity of some American authorities,” observed Mexican President Felipe Calderon in a 2009 interview with the BBC. Last year, an explosive report in the Washington Times, citing a CIA source, speculated that the agency may be deliberately helping certain Mexican cartels to beat out others for geopolitical purposes. According to the sources, the intelligence outfit might have also played a key role in the now-infamous Fast and Furious scandal, which saw the federal government providing thousands of high-powered weapons to Mexican cartels. Shortly before that, The New American reported on federal court filings by a top Sinaloa Cartel operative that shed even more insight on the U.S. government’s role in drug trafficking. The accused “logistical coordinator” for the cartel, Jesus Vicente “El Vicentillo” Zambada-Niebla, claimed that he had an agreement with top American officials: In exchange for information on rival cartels, the deal supposedly gave him and his associates immunity to import multi-ton quantities of drugs across the border.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestI refer, of course, to the lunacy that is the “war” on some (arbitrarily decided upon) “drugs.”
#2. To: GrandIsland (#1)
#3. To: Deckard (#2)
#4. To: A K A Stone (#3)
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It would be ok with you if everyone was addicted to heroin or crack or meth or something.
#8. To: Deckard (#4)
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#11. To: paraclete (#8)
Stop sympathising with the growers as poor peasants and naplam the poppy fields and the coca plantations, it isn't as though you don't know where they are.
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