Ta policja federalna Kanady robi sie juz tak groteskowa, ze nie wiadomo czy smiac sie czy plakac, czy byc przerazonym. Wstyd przynosza na caly swiat. Obrazaja sie wszyscy, bo ostatnio jeden z Liberalow w B.C. nazwal polityke dyktatora Harpera "nazistowska". Krzyki w nieboglosy za to, ze powiedzial prawde. A kto ma prawde powiedziec? Polityczno-poprawne media, uciszone i zastraszone?
Tak gorliwe wdrazanie prawa, ktore zostalo stowrzone w erze nazizmu w latach 30. ubieglego wieku mamy nazywac liberalizmem czy konserwatyzmem, a nie nazizmem? Swiat stanal do gory nogami, ale ktos musi mowic prawde. Prohibicjonizm zostal stworzony przez umysl nazistowski i rasistowski. I to trzeba klepac swiatu, a nie bac sie jak obecne media i politycy, bo mozna byc poklepanym pala policyjna po plecach. Prawda, a nie korupcja i strach przed policja tworzy nas chrzescijanami. Pomalu sie o tym zapomina.
RCMP MISTAKES TOMATOES FOR MARIJUANA
Courtenay, B.C. RCMP have apologized to a Vancouver Island couple for mistaking their tomatoes and dahlias for marijuana plants. A Courtenay, B.C. man said he was roused from sleep by police officers on Aug. 29 and went downstairs to see his wife in handcuffs. An RCMP officer told him he was under arrest for growing marijuana, said the man, who asked not to be named. The man was allowed to change his clothes and by the time he made it back downstairs, his wife's handcuffs were removed and he saw police officers with flashlights searching their backyard. He turned on the garden floodlight to allow the police to get a better look. "Almost in the blink of an eye there was a change in the atmosphere as the cop that accompanied me upstairs advised us that there had been a mistake," the man said. Postmedia News (NATIONAL POST, Thursday, September 9, 2010).
A NOTABLE DEFECTOR IN THE WAR ON POT
Even Marc Emery's prosecutor now believes that 'marijuana prohibition has failed'
CHRIS SELLEY
If someone were to assemble a world ranking of unjustly imprisoned people, and if he were to put Marc Emery anywhere near the top, I would not be sympathetic. Canada's so-called "prince of pot," scheduled to be sentenced today in Seattle to a stiff five years in prison (that's the sentence he plea-bargained to!) flagrantly violated the law. Wanting to smoke and sell pot isn't like being gay in Iran: It's something you can easily avoid, even though you shouldn't have to. However asinine, the law's the law. Like alcohol, which is legal - and very much unlike tobacco, which is also legal - marijuana is no better than harmless. We should all have the right to partake of our drug of choice, but on a spectrum of rights worth fighting, going to prison or dying for, it's not likely to win you a Nobel.
That doesn't change the fact that our marijuana laws are criminally asinine, or that Canada debased itself in its dealings with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) with regard to Mr. Emery - basically allowing it to call the shots because we didn't believe enough in our own cannabis laws to prosecute him at home. But Mr. Emery was, after all, mailing marijuana seeds to the United States for profit. Caveat vendor, dude. That's not something anyone should expect the DEA to ignore, and grim-faced demands from Washington aren't something anyone should expect Canada to ignore.
America tends to get what America wants. And what America wants - officially, anyway - is to continue prosecuting what Conrad Black memorably called the "corrupt, sociopathic war on drugs." This, as you've heard a thousand times before, is why we can never legalize cannabis in Canada.
In the past, maybe. But now, as Americans begin in earnest their own re-examination of the drug war, that idea is hopelessly passe. "We need to honestly and courageously examine the true public-safety danger posed by criminalizing a drug used by millions and millions of Americans," John McKay wrote last week in the Seattle Times. "Marijuana prohibition has failed ... Few have addressed the dangerously potent black market [prohibition] has created for exploitation by Mexican and other international drug cartels and gangs. With the proceeds from the U.S. marijuana black market, these criminals distribute dangerous drugs and kill each other (too often along with innocent bystanders) with American-purchased guns ... While I suspect nothing good can come to anyone from the chronic ingestion of marijuana smoke, its addictive quality and health risk pale in comparison with other banned drugs such as heroin, cocaine or meth. Informed adult choice, albeit a bad one, may well be preferable to the legal and policy meltdown we have long been suffering over marijuana."
Who is Mr. McKay? Why, he's the prosecutor who indicted Mr. Emery in Washington State in 2005. It's not quite Patric Fitzgerald repudiating the concept of honest-services fraud, but it's pretty darn noteworthy. Mr. McKay is a Republican. He thinks the Patriot Act is just boffo. A hippie, he is not.
Meanwhile, in California, the latest SurveyUSA poll shows 47% in favour of Proposition 19 - vs. 43% opposed - which would legalize possession of up to an ounce of marijuana for personal use on private or licensed property and the use of up to 25 square feet in a private residence to grow it, and which would allow local governments to license retail sales of marijuana and collect taxes and fees from it. It is almost breathtakingly sane. There's lots of hippies in Californa, of course, but fully 48% of Republican-affiliated voters are either for Prop 19 (39%) or unsure of how they'll vote (9%). It might not pass, but times, clearly, are changing. South of the border, anyway.
Speaking of south of the border, historian Hector Aguilar Camin and former mexican foreign minister Jorge Castaneda argued in Sunday's Washington Post that Proposition 19 could fundamentally alter the calculus of the Mexican drug war, which has taken more than 28,000 lives since 2006. Mexicans use drugs, of course, but it's overwhelmingly an export economy. Some estimates have marijuana providing 60% of the cartel's income. If Californians could grow it in their back yards, the demand would shrink significantly; if all Americans could, it would presumably disappear. Camin and Castaneda ask: "Will Wild West-style shootouts to stop Mexican cannabis from crossing the border make any sense when, just over the border, the local-7-Eleven sells pot?"
Mr. Emery's campaign has been mostly a libertarian one - and while I'm sympathetic to it, again, he'll have to sleep in the prison bed he made. If history records him as a hero, it will likely be for a far greater (if perhaps inadvertent) accomplishment.
As the guy who turned a hard-hearted Republican prosecutor soft on cannabis prohibition, he'll have modestly contributed to a long overdue debate that could quite literally save hundreds of thousands of lives around the world - drug dealers and gangsters, yes, but also all those "innocent bystanders" Mr. McKay mentioned. That's worth five years in prison, easy (NATIONAL POST, Friday, September 10, 2010).
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11:50 Hrs. Lektura tronowa. "The Philadelphia Trumpet".
In The United States and Britain in Prophecy, Mr. Armstrong employs a host of scriptures to explain in detail how God has fulfilled His promise to David (and Abraham) and has overseen the perpetuation of this royal heritage. Indeed, one of the most unique and riveting truths in that book is the truth about BRITAIN'S ROYAL FAMILY, and the fact that it is descended directly from the line of King David!
Of course, it's intellectually unfashionable today to rely on the Bible (but not the Koran, apparently) as a source of knowledge. So let's set aside the Bible for a moment and consider some of the secular evidence showing that the British royal family traces its lineage all the way back to King David.
First, consider the coronation of an English sovereign. A coronation is an event of international importance, a captivating occasion filled with pageantry and grand celebration. Beyond the pomp and circumstance, as the official website of the British monarchy admits, it is also a "solemn religious ceremony." Each coronation is replete with fascinating detail and tradition, much of which "has remained essentially the same over a thousand years" (www.royal.gov.uk).
For example, before being crowned, the sovereign is seated on King Edward's throne, where he is anointed with oil, then blessed and consecrated by the archbishop of Canterbury. The monarch then receives the royal orb and scepters, then the royal crown, after which the audience bursts into enthusiastic shouts of "God save the King! Long live the King." If you've wondered where these detail originated, read the details surrounding the coronation of King David's son Solomon in 1 Kings 1. Verse 39 reads, "[T]he priest took an horn of oil ... and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon."
British monarchs are crowned according to the tradition of Solomon! (Brad Macdonald, "A Heartfelt Request to the Leaders of Britain", THE PHILADELPHIA TRUMPET, August 2010).
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