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December 31, 2008 at 13:57:52
Will The Obama Administration Use The Dominio Effect To End ALL Wars by Pat Smith Page 1 of 1 page(s) |
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"Afghanistan has doubled its opium production over the past two years and now accounts for 93 percent of the world's output, according to the annual UNODC survey. The southern province of Helmand alone has become the world's biggest source of illicit drugs. The amount of Afghan land used for opium has surpassed the total used for coca cultivation in Colombia, Peru and Bolivia combined. Afghan poppies, which start as flowers in farmers' fields and often wind up as heroin on U.S. streets, fuel a $3 billion a year industry in Afghanistan. The industry is filling the coffers of the Taliban, the group who gave safe haven to al Qaeda before and after 9/11, and it is destabilizing the Afghan government" (CNN).
This investigative report was done using the figures from 2005, since then the figures from 2006 have been released and are much higher. After our many decades of fighting this same war on illegal drugs; it would be safer, faster and much cheaper to end this war by legalizing the drugs. The worst resistance would come from the drug cartels world-wide and the terrorist networks in the Middle-East and Mexico. Without the illegal drug industry funding the terrorists, this global war on terror could end much sooner, and our own boarders would be easier to guard. At the same time for just a few more years (not decades) the United States would still have to continue clearing up the mess by the once illegal drugs; the same way as usual, with taxpayer funded drug rehabs, including heroine or methadone babies and their lifetime medical costs etc...
Our society needs to get more faith in itself, because in the Middle-East where it is much easier to get heroin than it is to get clean drinking water they are not a society of drug addicts. This would also cut off the funded government corruption in the Middle East, Mexico, and the United States. In time this will also solve many other problems in our economy especially the cost, and availability of health care. The repercussions this would help to create for a few years (not decades) is one of the best examples of why our forefathers emphasized so strongly on the necessity of separation between the church and state. We should take one-third of the drug rehabs in the U.S. and turn them into hospice units for the "drug challenged."
Please try leaving out the reasoning used to legalize drugs used by many like the ACLU use; how people should have the free choice of what they do to themselves – that is not the correct reasoning. And leave out the opposite reasoning of the many religions in America; how legalizing drugs would be a crime against humanity or how it would not be the humane thing to do. Time has already proven that both sides here--completely opposite one's--are wrong and both sides have already caused most of society a small fortune. Do you think there is enough job opening's in the medical field to employ those who now work in the drug rehab field? Where would all those doctor's and nurses who HELP and cater to drug addicts find employment? What about those in the mental health field who use cognitive behavior therapies to "change" drug addicts? Would the emergency rooms be more accessible without drug addicts or the maternity wards without heroin and methadone babies to work on (for life)? Do you know any doctors (and nurses) who quit work after they delivered a seven-month old methadone baby because they where afraid of the lawsuit they could face if the preemie did not survive? Why does anyone wonder why health insurance is so costly? How about the other hospital employee's who could not face the sorrow at work everyday, caring for this preemie and watching it go through painful drug withdrawal, while knowing most of this future life will be a struggle filled with pain and hardship ? (And this is considered the humane thing to do!)
Will the drug companies survive once the need for methadone or other similar synthetic drugs are not is such high demand? What would happen to our court system and law enforcement, would they have enough work to keep them busy? What would all these defense attorneys do? The prison guards? With most all of society making a living on this war on drugs for so many decades now, do you think our economy would collapse by ending this war on drugs? What would happen to the terrorists' networks in the Middle-East if American taxpayers ALSO stopped funding them? What would the Mexican drug cartels do without our tax money or the gangbangers in and around all our middle and high-schools? And would the cost of oil skyrocket again when the illegal drug industry is no longer more profitable than the oil industry? MAKE YOU VOTE COUNT HERE AT CHANGE DOT ORG AND HELP END ALL WAR'S (THE DOMINIO EFFECT)
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Don't Hold Your Breath
Afghanistan is next, then with Obama and Congress's overwhelming support of Israel, war with Iran is on the table. Troops will remain stationed in Iraq (in Obama's words "to fight terrorism"). The "Mandatory Civil Service" program is on the horizon - be prepared for a military draft beginning with 18-25 year olds to increase troop levels. by Deborah Wells (0 articles, 1 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 92 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 at 3:47:08 PM  (0+)
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We are asking the people who care abut the humanity
We are asking the people who care abut the humanity to take some time and imagine without biased emotionally. If Arabs do poses power like Jews; what they are going to do to the Jewish people in Israel? If you really care about the humanity then you can see the truth about the unjust of the Arabs. The Arab and Jewish people’s problem can be solved based on truth about the past. When the Arab Imperialists are going to acknowledge the truth? By admitting the crime they did commit against the humanity in the past. The Jewish people are in title of more land than what they have now because they are the original people from the region. Saddam Hussein of Iraq in front of the eye of the World buried 180,000 people from our people the Iranian Kurds in Iraq; not too many people wrote about our atrocities. Why so many people are defending the Palestinian people without thinking about the problem between Arabs and Jewish people. The Arab calling us “Kurds” the children of devils’; they did kill our people, raped the women’s before killing and took our lands too. The US Government has been in Iraq for five years without giving back one inch of our territories back to us. They are clamming that they do not know about the region. The Arabs oil is doing the tricks around the world. If Jewish was not educated and powerless like us “Kurds” then the Arabs will kill all the males and older women’s and then will marry yang females and use them as sex slaves for life. The Arabs in Iraq used code name “Anfal” another name for holly wars of “Jihads” for our eliminations. For your information we are all Muslims. Most of the people got killed was holding Qur’ain too, but did not helped infant children’s. The Arabs does not have any humanity toward others. Yes we all do not like killing but when some one does not let you to have peace for one second, what you are going to do. Let Ask former President Carter with his humanity values. Because he is only see the Palestinians problems and blind to other human tragedies around the World. The Arab took the land of western Persian Gulf, Iraq, and half of Syria from our Iranian people just like few years ago Saddam Hussein took part of Kirkuk, Mousel, Daylia from our Kurdish in this modern ages. Now Noori Maliki the Iraqi PM want the land because he is clamming that the land belongs to his father from Basra/Iraq. We are all seeking justice from the Arabs too. Where are the people who care about humanity of Iranian Kurds in Kurdistan, none Arabs in Darfore, Barbars, and Christens in Egypt, Iraq and Lebanon and other people who are getting hurt by the Arabs around the World? by Jaff Sassani (19 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 138 comments) on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 at 5:08:06 PM (0+)
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Reply: Not Enough People Really Care
All I can say is the Jews learned a lot from Hitler and they are using that knowledge against the Arabs. The Jews don't give a damn about humanity just as our government doesn't. They only care about expanding their own agenda. And on the idea that the Jews deserve more land because they where originally there, thousands of years ago, we should give this country back to the natives. That sounds like a bright move, doesn't it? by arlen custer (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 466 comments [69 recommended, 1 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 1, 2009 at 11:48:07 AM (0+)
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I'm with you.
Prior to the Harrison Narcotics Act (1914) and the Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) ALL drugs were legal including heroin, morphine, Cloral Hydrate, Marijuana and Cocaine. Did I leave something out? At any rate prior to the aforementioned "prohibition" legislation there were no drug gangs, cartels and there was no significant government corruption and symibiosis between government and illicit drug producers. You could go to your local pharmacy and purchase a few grams of Cocaine right over the counter. Fast forward 100 years and what have we got. Zetas and MS-13 infiltrating our cities like a cancerous malignancy. A Prison Industrial Complex "addicted" to having a population to harvest for their economic benefit. While I think Marijuana is the first non-alcoholic drug to be Re-Legalized I could see the day when we recognise the benefit to broader forms of drug Re-Legalization. Right now the time is ripe for Marijuana Re-Legalization. After that occurs public opinion will be reeling as they notice that there is no social fallout from Re-Legalizing Marijuana. In fact they will see crime fall. This great non-event will cause a complete rethinking of our views on drug policy. It cannot happen soon enough. Bruce W. Cain by Bruce Cain (21 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 99 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 at 6:02:47 PM (0+)
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Reply: Bruce they closed the comments on change...
Look at the last comment left there to me that I wasn’t able to answer, but please read the response I should have been able to post; Re Pat Smith and:"Would the emergency rooms be more accessible without drug addicts or the maternity wards without heroin and methadone babies to work on (for life). Do you know any doctors (and nurses) who quit work after they delivered a seven month old methadone baby because they where afraid of the lawsuit they could face if the preemie did not survive?" Hello DH Michon “You should retract.” – Not so I also know a few too many methadone (now) babies since their conception, and I am not your enemy here – I am not saying anyone should not be alive or that anyone should be killed. . . « « About fifteen months ago when the local methadone clinic “celebrated” their third year in operation I sent the note below to the clinic’s director. When the newspaper did this years fourth year running I did not saying anything, two problems where correct fast, but the two worst still remain. If birth control was mandated for ANYONE between 14 and 40 using any welfare or drug services eighty-five percent of the two remaining big problems would soon be solved. P S – I hope you can see how this is still very much on topic here. « « A few months ago I was happy to meet a client of your clinic that informed me she was now attending classes at a local college because of your services. I will refer to her as Kim (not her real name). Even though she was terrified of relapsing, Kim said she had agreed to start having her methadone dosage lowered. Kim still had much guilt and low self-esteem because of her addiction, but I saw a real sparkle in her eyes as she spoke of her future. Kim also said it was not right for some of your clients to be able to receive such a high dosage of methadone for so many years without an end in sight. « « Choices would save much money if the new clinic was located in Lackawanna or Hazleton. Their daily bill from the taxi cab services for their clients would greatly decrease. Perhaps they can use these travel funds on mandatory birth control for their clients. The children living close to a methadone clinic are not in danger, these clients are not pedophiles. These clinic’s have a problem similar to the welfare office where a girl will get pregnant just to stay on welfare. You have some girls in the welfare system who are getting pregnant so they do not have to pay the (methadone) clinic’s little five dollar a day service charge. You also have some that are getting pregnant just to be first in line to receive methadone. Babies born to a mother on methadone usually arrive just beginning the eighth month of pregnancy. It is rare for these premature newborns not to be put into neonatal intensive care while they battle to live and experience a painful withdrawal from methadone. « « Who pays for a lifetime of medical bills on this poor child who never asked to be born and was just created so their mother could be first in line to receive methadone? I think the tragedy that results from your clinic far outweighs your success stories. As a Catholic I offer you a partial solution; mandatory birth control for the girls on methadone and also for the girls using the welfare system. Please do it for the future of the children and society as a whole. « « PSS – Just a few month’s ago I learned that the methadone clinics for very hard core clients where “looking the other way” for cannabis on the urine screening. This is excellent to prove that cannabis itself does not lead to hard-core drugs because it is being used to keep hard-core addicts from hard-core drug usage. by Pat Smith (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 6 diaries, 70 comments [11 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:21:25 PM (0+)
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who opposes?
hemp would replace all the oil used for diesel.-- oil co's. & OPEC oppose hemp would replace trees for paper & fiber.-- lumber co's. oppose hemp would replace booze.-- alcohol co's. oppose hemp needs no herbicide, fertilizer, pesticide.-- Chem. co's. oppose hemp would cut prescription drug use.-- Pharma co's. oppose hemp would cut prison population.-- police & prison guards' union oppose hemp would replace corn-ethanol.-- big agriculture opposes hemp eradication funds the military-industrial complex.-- Defense industry opposes and this is just a short list of moneyed interests: oil, lumber, paper, alcohol,, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, agri-giants, defense industry-- all with big bankrolls to lobby with. Then political powers like police, religious, prison guards, not to mention the drug dealers themselves-- all giving money to Congress to keep the profits rolling in. That's who is keeping kids who smoke a joint in jail at a profit. Jailing these non-violent citizens costs more than fifty billion per year-- plus the cost of drug wars and spraying vast acreage with herbicides in Columbia.So drug legaliztion may be logical but not profitable to vested interests. Money is imprisoning our kids. Propaganda supports major media. the people who own our country are imprisoning us. Just like the Sheriff of Nottingham or King Henry before the Magna Carta. This is wrong and it is also poor strategy, based on lies. by martinweiss (41 articles, 6 quicklinks, 13 diaries, 503 comments [3 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Wednesday, Dec 31, 2008 at 10:09:40 PM (0+)
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Tell Obama to Cut Wasteful Military Spending
The first step towards ending all wars is bringing US military spending under control. Read, sign and circulate the petition for a Secure Green Future at Green Change: click here We're telling President Obama to cut military spending by at least 70% and invest the savings in education, health care, preventing home foreclosures and developing green energy. More militarism will only create more violence. Real security will come from living peacefully, within the limits of Earth's capacity. Sign on and spread the word: click here by David Schwab (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 54 comments [25 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Thursday, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:42:18 AM (0+)
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Reply: i told him
Obama, does need to answer to this wasteful pentagon spending issue..... During the iowa caucus, one of the goals was to get the candidates to join truemajority by pledging to reduce pentagon spending...i had the chance to talk to obama about this, told him my concerns, and asked for his committment to which he replied that he had already talked to Ben (Ben Cohen of Ben and Jerry's ice cream) about it...(SEE VIDEO BELOW) and the inference i got from his following vague comment was that he needed first of all to win the nomination because of dems who would oppose him going with Ben on this....so now is he with Ben, with the True Majority? I dunno..... by karmacounselor (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 106 comments [7 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Friday, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:28:58 AM (0+)
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