Whitebread's History
It is widely assumed by the other side on the drug question that to decriminalize drugs would be to register a social assent to drug consumption. [I] ... stress the contrary. The initial problem is to make clear that to license an activity is not to approve it. We license the publication of Hustler magazine even as we gag at the knowledge of what goes on within its covers. -- William F. Buckley Jr.
Signe at The Washington Post Writers Group - Hand it over, lady - cartoon commentary on airport "security". Hehe. [brianf]
From Sports Afield magazine, April 2002:
There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home. -- Mark Twainand:
Following is a portion of a National Public Radio interview between a female broadcaster and U.S. Marine Corps General Rienwald sponsoring a Boy Scout Troop visit to his military installation.
Female Interviewer: So, General Reinwald, what things are you going to teach these young boys when they visit your base?
General Reinwald: We're going to teach them climbing, canoeing, archery, and shooting.
Female Interviewer: Shooting! That's a bit irresponsible, isn't it?
General Reinwald: I don't see why, they'll be properly supervised on the rifle range.
Female Interviewer: Don't you admit that this is a terribly dangerous activity to be teaching children?
General Reinwald: I don't see how. We will be teaching them proper rifle discipline before they even touch a firearm.
Female Interviewer: But you're equipping them to become violent killers.
General Reinwald: Well, you're equipped to be a prostitute, but you're not one, are you?
The radio went silent, and the interview ended.
There's a new Libertarian Enterprise Issue, "Blubbery Bully-Boy". It's all good. Read the whole thing. Articles from James J. Odle, L. Neil Smith, Bill Westmiller, Jeff Elkins, Glenn Sacks, Jim Lesczynski. A review of The State vs. the People from Sunni Maravillosa. Letters from James J. Odle, Curt Howland, Jeff Colonnesi, and others.
William Stone, III at smith2004 - Re: Who Enforces the NAP - The Non-Agression Principle needs to organized enforcement. Those who agress are killed on the spot or sought out by the victim's insurance company. They then either pay restitution or are excommunicated. Worth registering just to read this. [smith2004]
Jonathan Schuppe at The Star-Ledger (NJ) - 'Just say no' plan targets 'consent searches' - The Black Ministers Council of New Jersey threatens to launch a "just say no", to consent searches, campaign unless law-makers eliminate the practice. Yes! Never, never, never, consent to any search of any kind. IMNSHO, the proper thing to do should a cop persist and search anyway, is to shoot him dead, but it's not very practical. You tend to live longer if you let him go ahead, and then challenge the search in court later. [drugsense]
David Borden at DRCNet - Congress's Bad Joke - the reasons for the drug laws would be funny if they didn't ruin so many lives. The referenced 1995 speech by Charles Whitebread, The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States, is worth a read if you haven't seen it or a re-read if you have. Excerpts are from Dr. Whitebread's speech, not Mr. Borden's essay. [drcnet]
Commissioner Anslinger gave the Government testimony and I will quote him directly. By the way, he was not working from a text that he had written. He was working from a text that had been written for him by a District Attorney in New Orleans, a guy named Stanley. Reading directly from Mr. Stanley's work, Commissioner Anslinger told the Congressmen at the hearings, and I quote, "Marihuana is an addictive drug which produces in its users insanity, criminality, and death." That was the Government testimony to support the marijuana prohibition from the Commissioner.
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The other piece of medical testimony came from a man named Dr. William C. Woodward. Dr. Woodward was both a lawyer and a doctor and he was Chief Counsel to the American Medical Association. Dr. Woodward came to testify at the behest of the American Medical Association saying, and I quote, "The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana is a dangerous drug."
What's amazing is not whether that's true or not. What's amazing is what the Congressmen then said to him. Immediately upon his saying, and I quote again, "The American Medical Association knows of no evidence that marihuana is a dangerous drug.", one of the Congressmen said, "Doctor, if you can't say something good about what we are trying to do, why don't you go home?"
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"Mr. Speaker, what is this bill about?"
To which Speaker Rayburn replied, "I don't know. It has something to do with a thing called marihuana. I think it's a narcotic of some kind."
Undaunted, the guy from Upstate New York asked a second question, which was as important to the Republicans as it was unimportant to the Democrats. "Mr. Speaker, does the American Medical Association support this bill?"
In one of the most remarkable things I have ever found in any research, a guy who was on the committee, and who later went on to become a Supreme Court Justice, stood up and -- do you remember? The AMA guy was named William C. Woodward -- a member of the committee who had supported the bill leaped to his feet and he said, "Their Doctor Wentworth came down here. They support this bill 100 percent." It wasn't true, but it was good enough for the Republicans. They sat down and the bill passed on tellers, without a recorded vote.
In the Senate there never was any debate or a recorded vote, and the bill went to President Roosevelt's desk and he signed it and we had the national marijuana prohibition.
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Ready? What are we going to have? You know what we are going to have. One day -- when's it gonna happen, ten years, fifteen? -- some legislator will get up and, just as though it had never been said before, "You know we gotta solve this smoking problem and I got a solution -- a criminal prohibition against the manufacture, sale, or possession of tobacco cigarettes." And then you know what happens. Then everybody who did want a cigarette here today, if there is anyone here who smokes, you are going to have to hide in the bathroom. And cigarettes are no longer going to be three dollars a pack, they are going to be three dollars a piece. And who's going to sell them to you? Who will always sell them to you? The people who will sell you anything -- organized crime. You got the concept, we will go through the whole darn thing again because I am telling you this country is hooked on the notion of prohibition.
Roadhouse Sierra - Letter from a Broken Heart: Part 2 - the story becomes a little clearer. Subscribe. Read. Enjoy. [sierra]
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