Kinda Like Deja Vu…

Hairs went up on my arms when the curly headed guy  said about 30 seconds into this clip, and I’m parapharasing without a transcript here…”Many people are mistaken when they think that impeachment causes constitutional crisis…it actually cures a constitutional crisis without the need to raise an army and go to Washington, DC…”

Now…remember this post? It’s called, “Impeachment Versus Revolution” so I’m wondering if this dude cruises YouTube or maybe my argument is a sound and common one? Either way, glad more people are thinking along these lines now.

NAACP GOP Forum: A Picture Says A Thousand Words

Original Post HERE thanks to Frameshop For This!!!

Frameshop: A Picture of the GOP on Civil Rights

 

The one photo the GOP does not want anyone to see was snapped at yesterday’s NAACP GOP Presidential Candidate Forum. The NAACP invited all 9 Republican candidates to the forum, but only one showed up: Tom Tancredo. All the Democratic Presidential hopefuls showed up for their forum. The excuses given by the Republican campaigns mostly had to do with scheduling conflicts–just too busy to make it.

The resulting photo of Tancredo–standing on a stage of empty podiums–sums up the Republican party’s commitment to civil rights in America: the only Republican interested is the guy running to deny immigrant workers their rights.

One has to wonder why this photo was not the lead on every morning show and on the front pages of every morning newspaper in America.

The reason, most likely, is a coordinated effort by Republicans to pressure news agencies to downplay the obvious implications of having 8 out of 9 of their Presidential candidates as “no shows” for a debate at the NAACP.

What is keeping the obvious story about Republicans and racism out of today’s headlines? David Beckham’s arrival in Hollywood.

This is an ideal moment to stand up and demand the kind of news coverage we want in America. Contact your local TV stations and newspapers. Ask them to run this photo and to write an article about Republicans, civil rights and racism.

Reefer Blindness???

(parenthetical quips in bold are mine…)

Federal official calls marijuana growers dangerous terrorists

By Dylan Darling (Contact)
Friday, July 13, 2007

The nation’s top anti-drug official said people need to overcome their “reefer blindness” (this must be the 21st century version of ‘reefer madness’ right?) and see that illicit marijuana gardens are a terrorist threat to the public’s health and safety, as well as to the environment.John P. Walters, President Bush’s drug czar, said the people who plant and tend the gardens are terrorists who wouldn’t hesitate to help other terrorists get into the country with the aim of causing mass casualties. Walters made the comments at a Thursday press conference that provided an update on the “Operation Alesia” marijuana-eradication effort.

“Don’t buy drugs. They fund violence and terror,” he said. (yea HEROIN and COCAINE MAYBE…but not pot…I just don’t buy it, pal.)

After touring gardens raided this week in Shasta County, Walters said the officers who are destroying the gardens are performing hard, dangerous work in rough terrain. He said growers have been known to have weapons, including assault rifles.

“These people are armed; they’re dangerous,” he said. He called them “violent criminal terrorists.” (OH FUCK OFF AND DIE…enough with throwing the word ‘terrorist’ around so flippantly…I think YOU need some time down at Gitmo personally, oh…and take GEORGE AND DICK with you.)

Walters, whose official title is director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, said too many people write off marijuana as harmless. “We have kind of a reefer blindness,’ ” he said.

No arrests have been made so far in the four days of raids, the opening leg of what Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko has promised will be at least two straight weeks of daily raids.

He said suspects have been hard to find because their familiarity with their terrain makes it easy for them to flee quickly.

Although crews doing the raids are using Black Hawk and other helicopters to drop in on some of the gardens, Bosenko said they don’t want to give the growers any warning of a raid.

“We try to move in under stealth,” he said.

As of Thursday morning, Operation Alesia raids had resulted in the yanking of 68,237 young marijuana plants from public lands in Shasta County. Raids already have been conducted in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, as well as on land managed by the U.S. Forest Service north of Lake Shasta and other public land near Manton.

The operation is being led by the sheriff’s office and has involved 17 agencies, including the California National Guard and the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. It’s believed to be the largest campaign of its kind in the state, Bosenko said.

The operation is named after the last major battle between the Roman Empire and the Gauls in 52 B.C. That battle was won by the Romans. (Not looking for repeats this time, as we are closer to JULIUS CAESAR at this point, thanks to Bush appointing ASSHOLES like this one.)

With the blitz of marijuana gardens around Shasta County, Bosenko said officials hope to not only get rid of the pot, but also win back the land for the public that owns it.

“These organizations are destroying our lands and wildlife,” he said. (Yea ok isn’t that a pretty big stretch???)

Bernie Weingardt, regional forester for the Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Region, said the 28,000 acres believed to house illegal marijuana grows on national forest land throughout the state would cost more than $300 million to revive.

“These lands must be cleaned and restored,” he said. (WHAT???)

His estimate is based on a National Park Service study that found it costs $11,000 per acre to pull the plants, clear irrigation systems, reshape any terracing and replant native vegetation, said Mike Odle, Forest Service spokesman. (Your tax dollars HARD at work…)

While Walters didn’t give specific goals for Operation Alesia, he said anti-drug agencies aim to cripple the organized crime groups that he said are behind the marijuana cultivation.

“This business we intend to put into recession, depression and put its leaders into jail,” Walters said. (Good luck with that one.)

Reporter Dylan Darling can be reached at 225-8266 or at ddarling@redding.com.