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Submitted by Bill St. Clair on Mon, 28 May 2001 12:19:20 GMT
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Cures not Wars has the poster for the 2001 Million Marijuana March:

mmm2001: 2001, The Space Odyssey, Saturday, May 5, everywhere

John Beresford, M.D. - {@The Nazi Comparison}: Sent in the Cures not Wars newsletter, from the people who sponsor the Million Marijuana March in NYC. Dr. Beresford describes the feeling he got on visiting a family in north-west Germany in 1938 when he was 14. He had not felt that way since until he started crossing the border from Canada to visit drug war POWs. It took a while to dawn on him, but eventually he realized that coming into the United States gave him the same feeling he had back in Nazi Germany 50 years earlier. Warning Will Robinson!

Flat out, it will be objected that a world of difference separates a prison from a death camp. Drug War prisoners are not intended for a holocaust. Ominously for our peace of mind, however, until the last minute neither were the people held in concentration camps. They were held there to protect the health of society. Moreover, with the obsession with death that gains ground daily, it is probable that death is in the cards for people accused of drug law violations in the future. A questionnaire is making the rounds in Congress that has Yes and No boxes for questions which include: "Do you favor the death penalty for drug trafficking?" Who in their right mind in Congress, I wonder, will check No to that question, "trafficking" being the loaded term for what most people call dealing?

Someone will point to the absurdity of thinking that America would ever tolerate a "Fuhrer," a wild man with a funny mustache and a way of haranguing crowds burlesqued by Charlie Chaplin. The point, though, is that the Nazi comparison refers not so much to rhetoric, inevitably different in two quite different places and at different times, as to the dehumanization and trashing of large numbers of people for lifestyles and practices that violate the norms of mainstream society. For this we do not need a Hitler. We can do it the American way.

A Million Marijuana March page with a huge number of links to news and pictures from the 1999 & 2000 events.

Walter E. Williams at WorldNetDaily - Guns and Econ 101: An perspective on the Brady Bunch seen through an economics lens. [picks]

Space.com - Stainless Steel Rat Goes Hollywood: Harry Harrison hits the big screen. Yay! When will they do Bill, the Galactic Hero? [latte]

Kevin Tuma - Rosie Gets Your Gun: Mr. Tuma is hitting it good this week.

Arianna Huffington - The Drug War's Unequal Justice: What can I say? I'm sick to death of the war on freedom. If I thought I could fix it by killing 100,000 drug warriors, I'd do it in a minute. I don't believe that, though. We've gotta win their hearts and minds, and that takes a lot more work than killing. Thank you, Ms. Huffington for your continuing contribution to the peace.

From The Federalist:

The one good thing that has come out of the Microsoft antitrust case is that it has demonstrated to the public how government has become nothing but an elaborate protection racket that makes the Mafia seem like child's play by comparison. -- Thomas J. DiLorenzo
and:
By all means marry. If you get a good wife you will become happy, and if you get a bad one you will become a philosopher. --Socrates
and:
A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. --George Bernard Shaw.

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