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Henry Lamb at WorldNetDaily - New U.N. treaty ratified quietly: the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification was ratified by the senate on October 18th. It was in a package of 34 treaties that were ratified by a hand vote. Many senators don't know what they have wrought. This treaty gives the U.N. land-use policy power over 70% of the earth's land. Really bad news. [wnd]
There's a new article in The Libertarian series by Vin Suprynowicz:
- The failed drug war and the real significance of 'Dune' -
Comments on the new TV mini-series production of Frank Herbert's
Dune. Vin liked the original movie better. Interesting in a
culture permeated by the war on some drugs that no hew and cry has
arisen from this movie where "the future of the human race depends on
the ability of a guild of space navigators to mutate in themselves the
ability to travel through space, a mutation they can only accomplish
by consuming an hallucinogenic substance known as 'the spice
melange'."
I believe we'll see the War on Drugs collapse, some time in the next 15 years, with the same kind of startling suddenness and wave of public common sense that finally took alcohol Prohibition to its well-deserved grave in 1933.
For the unanswerable question is: In a land that supposedly cherishes individual freedom, why and how can our frenzied modern nanny state punish the possession of any hallucinogenic sacrament as the most serious "drug crime" imaginable, even though our own versions of the sandworm's "water of life" ... peyote, psilocybin, LSD ... are not addictive, and are not nearly as damaging (either to the user, or to "society") as plain old alcohol?
demitria monde thraam at randomonium - From the Way Too Little, Way Too Late department: Monde has some choice words to the rapist in chief about his Rolling Stone interview. [randomonium]
Samuel L. Blumenfeld at Sierra Times - The Clinton Factor in Gore's Actions: I hadn't considered this before. Makes sense. The rest of the article didn't interest me much. [sierra]
President Clinton is sitting on pins and needles awaiting the outcome of the election in Florida. He needs Gore to win because he will need Gore's presidential pardon if he is indicted by the Independent Counsel on charges of obstruction of justice and perjury. According to a CNN report of Dec. 1st, it appears that Independent Counsel Robert Ray is stepping up his investigation of Clinton's alleged criminal actions in order to decide whether or not to indict the President when he leaves office.Ray's office has begun contacting potential witnesses to appear before a grand jury. Lewinsky herself would be one of them. The danger that Clinton might be indicted, found guilty, and put in jail is very real. And that is why he desperately needs Gore to win.
