I believe in your cause and would like to joint your operations, do you need anyone with a IT background.

Looking forward to your reply,

Jon M. Scalise

I’d love to exchange links. Get in touch

http://warlockrants.blogspot.com

Guess we still have Nader but I’m voting for Barr/Root. A dim glimmer of hope for the future but at least a glimmer.

Proclaiming one side is more responsible than the other for the (medical) marijuana mess is to fall into a trap set for opponents of the status quo by these very politicians and veterans of both political stripes: It isn’t just Conservatives or this administration.

Democrats and liberals dominated the congress during every period of drug war ramp-up. Dianne Feinstein (D, California), for example, is a ruthless prohibitionist who will not hear of any “medical excuse,” pot. Many other Democrats in Congress share this stance. Nancy Pelosi, of San Francisco no less, is Speaker of the House, and she could not even engineer -a party line vote- on the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment, which would have prevented the Federal Government from financing medical marijuana raids and patient arrests.

The Clinton Administration threatened doctors careers with the withdrawal of DEA prescription writing ability and fought defeats until it left office. Its drug kingpi..ahh..Czar, Barry McCaffery, called medical marijuana, “Cheech and Chong medicine,” when denouncing California’s proposition 215, as he turned the sick and dying into the main cannon fodder for the whole anti-marijuana campaign. And he is a Veteran.

So this is not a dispute between Republican or conservatives or this administration, and everyone else… It is, however, a clear dispute between Democrat as well as Republican politicians, their henchmen and political advisors in the DEA and the ONDCP, and everyone else.

To claim one side is more responsible than the other for the (medical) marijuana mess is to fall into a trap set for opponents of the status quo by these very politicians and veterans of both political stripes.

If we (in the reform movement) are too busy pointing fingers at each other and placing blame, these politicians hope we will forget about the real issue entirely: that of providing the sick [veterans] with efficacious medicine.

Even Jimmy Carter, also a veteran, joined with Barbara Bush, [married to a veteran] to make political commercials opposing various citizen initiatives regarding medical access to marijuana.

So If one more than just -claims- to care about the legal status of drugs and the war rhetoric and actions, rather than using this issue to advance Bush bashing, Conservative bashing, and Republican bashing in general, one will have to recognize the Democrats’ and Veterans’ parts in creating, maintaining and protecting the status quo, aka the War on s’me Drugs.

Eric Johnson, Medical marijuana patient(HMSN type X-1), son of Vietnam Vet, brother to USAFA graduate and Desert Storm veteran,

Los Angeles

P.S. Barney Frank could be seen in the aftermath of the drug induced death of college basketball star Len Bias in 1986 literally -shoving- other congressmen out of the way of the microphone and (CSPAN)camera in the House of Representatives to show his support for the draconian legislation which followed… all from a -Democrat- controlled Congress.

Frank brought it to us, and he has little if any support for taking it all back.

He is -not- a hero for our cause.