feds now threaten city officials w/ arrest *for passing pro- - Oh man this is an issue that really gets me going. There is no reason for this plant to be illegal. Its all about money and control. This is why people freak out. Humans are a free spirit and when you slap control like this on them its hard to understand.

Newbie Joined: Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 12

This is why your local officials wont stand up to federal belligerence. Local legislators are now themselves being threatened with arrest for daring to pass local laws that defy the illegal wishes of the gestapo.

No one wants to fight his own brothers. But when our own brothers have crossed the line and now abuse the people in the king's name, it's our own brothers who have chosen to fight *us* - leaving us with no other choice.

I dont care that they're deluded, or think they're doing the right think. We've been forgiving them on those grounds for DECADES now, hoping they'd see reason.

All they see is retirement on a comfy pension and a successful life spent robbing and abusing the people, while they train up another generation of young, willing recruits to continue the abuse while patriotic anti-tax anti-federalism pro-liberty people and groups are crushed year after year.

You cant win a defensive war. It's time for public accountability.

> OFFICIAL DOWNPLAYS THREAT OF PROSECUTION
>
> President Bush's nominee to become U.S. attorney for the Inland and
> Los Angeles areas appeared to take the federal government's
> campaign against medical marijuana to a new level early this year.
>
> Tom O'Brien, currently chief of the criminal division for the U.S.
> attorney's office in Los Angeles, told members of the Coachella
> Valley Association of Governments on Jan. 8 that government
> officials could be prosecuted for allowing medical-marijuana
> dispensaries to operate.
>
> Marijuana is legal in California to treat certain medical conditions.
>
> It is illegal for all uses under federal law.
>
> Palm Springs is considering a proposal to allow medical-marijuana
> patients to grow the plant at city-approved collectives.
>
> Palm Springs City Councilman Mike McCulloch asked O'Brien whether
> members of city councils are "exposed to risk of arrest or other
> prosecution" if they allow dispensaries.
>
> According to a tape recording of the meeting, O'Brien answered,
> "Anyone who aids or abets the commission of a crime -- in this I
> believe you're hypothetical -- in terms of someone who is
> distributing marijuana, anyone who assists in that process is
> technically liable for prosecution."
>
> Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the U.S. attorney's office in Los
> Angeles, insisted Thursday that O'Brien never directly addressed
> the issue of liability.
>
> "In our interpretation, what he addressed there was saying like in
> some theoretical or possible world, that could happen, but I'm not
> going to address whether that is in the realm of possibility," he
> said.
>
> McCulloch called O'Brien's comments "intimidating."
>
> "I interpreted that comment that as far as the federal government
> is concerned, city council members shouldn't approve marijuana
> dispensaries or you will be prosecuted for aiding and abetting a
> criminal action," McCulloch said.

Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:43 pm

I hear you loud and clear VAN. You can go buy a gallon of Jack Daniels or Jim Beam whiskey a drug which has destroyed more lives than all the other drugs combined including marijuana and all of the terrible legal prescription drugs. It all boils down to nothing but the common denominator of Federal tax revenue. The DEA and the BATF are both departmental agencies of the TReasury Department. They are not part of the justice depart as many people believe.

If they could figure out a way to proficiently tax marijuana just like they have figured out how to proficiently tax alcohol and tobacco it would be legal tomorrow. The problem with marijuana is that if they legalized it people could ( and would) grow it in flower pots, grow it in their back yards or in the farm fields right along with their corn and soy beans. Thus if you could grow your own then you wouldn't pay taxes on it. That's all these dispicable bastards care about is whether they can tax it or not. They know it has medicinal value. They know that it helps cancer and glacoma patients. They also know that it's not nearly as deadly as alcohol and tobacco are. It's all about Federal tax. Most people will never grow their own tobacco because of the difficultly and limited soil and climate growing conditions; nor would they try to distill their own liquor because of the time consuming work involved in that process. But marijuana is very easy to grow and very easy to produce your own>> and the Feds can't concoct a way to keep tabs on it thus not be able to tax it proficiently and the end result is that it is illegal and will remain villified and illegal for the foreseeable future. And those aren't the only reasons it's illegal. Read a book entitled "Not Guilty As Charged" by David R. Ford. It tells the whole story about how marijuana became illegal. There were a lot of big money robber barons that had a lot to gain by it being illegal. Just to quell potential competition for the paper industry would have been reason enough for W. R. Hurst. Get the book and read it. It will blow you away. JD

Newbie Joined: Aug 15, 2007 Posts: 3

Oh man this is an issue that really gets me going. There is no reason for this plant to be illegal. Its all about money and control. This is why people freak out. Humans are a free spirit and when you slap control like this on them its hard to understand. People who have no thoughts for themselves are unable to understand why we are so upset. They think it's bad because the Government told them it is. They are to damn lazy to get up and actually look into the issue themselves and form their own opinion. This plant is decriminalized in NY because one mayor listened to the community he represented and investigated this issue on his own. Its all about money and thats all it will ever be about. Anyone who believes that our government cares about us are really going to have a rude awakening when there is a millitary boot crushing down on the back of their necks.