Obama Insults Online Community for Supporting Marijuana Legalization
At his Online Town Hall meeting this morning, President Obama joked about the overwhelming popularity of marijuana legalization questions on his online forum.
Well, Mr. President, if you "don't know what this says about the online audience," allow me to clue you in. We're more than just some nicknames on a computer screen. We're Americans and we have the same right as anyone else to be heard and to be treated with respect.
As nearly a million among us are arrested each year for marijuana, it should come as no surprise to you that we've come together to ask why. The reason you find us in every category of your site is because the harms of the war on drugs reach into every facet of American life. Drug prohibition destroys all it touches and there is scarcely a problem we face as a nation that couldn’t be made more manageable by ending this great war that continues to stigmatize and divide us.
You can trivialize and dismiss our argument, but you cannot silence our movement. You make us more powerful with every public forum you hold.
Update: This quote from Jack Cole at LEAP pretty much sums it up:
"Despite the president's flippant comments today, the grievous harms of marijuana prohibition are no laughing matter. Certainly, the 800,000 people arrested last year on marijuana charges find nothing funny about it, nor do the millions of Americans struggling in this sluggish economy. It would be an enormous economic stimulus if we stopped wasting so much money arresting and locking people up for nonviolent drug offenses and instead brought in new tax revenue from legal sales, just as we did when we ended alcohol prohibition 75 years ago during the Great Depression."
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Comment posted by aahpat on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:04pmI did not vote for Obama because i could see that he is just another drug warrior.
He LIED. He is still raiding medical pot dispensaries.
He mocks the pot reform people who shut up during the campaign because he LIED to them offering them platitudes and vague promises.
There is only one thing that will end the prohibition, us Americans streaming out into the streets screaming at Obama, the congress and state legislatures:
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
We need organizations that will LEAD US instead of following the politicians.
----- FAX PROTEST THRU MONDAY MORNING -----
U.S. Senator John Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, is going to El Paso,TX on Monday to thump his chest and look macho over the blood and chaos caused by his drug war policy. I wrote to him in his capacity at chair of the committee and I am encouraging others to write to him also. And if your senator is on the committee write to them too. Contact information for the committee is on the letter.
Drug Warrior John Kerry border Chaos Hearing
Flood the fax machines of congress. Especially the Senate Homeland Security and Foreign Relations Committees:
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
Foreign Relations has no fax or email number for the committee office so flood John Kerry's office fax and all of the members of the committees.
You ain't seen nothin yet
Comment posted by aahpat on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:18pmObama included $3-billion in the stimulus package for Byrne Grants for drug task forces.
Clinton assured the Mexican government that the administration knows that America has to control demand.
In the campaign people misinterpreted Obama when he talked about the injustice of more black Americans than white Americans being in prison for drugs. He was not implying that he would arrest fewer blacks. He was hinting that he will arrest more whites.
So what do you think that $3-billion will stimulate?
Add 2+2+2 folks and you get more drug courts. More drug courts need more arrests. More arrest need more police. More police need more prisons. And more coerced rehab to rationalize the lie that America is controlling demand.
This is authoritarianism in its most addicted state. It will not be reduced by any means except the America people in the streets fighting it with all our hearts and bodies.
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
Liar Obama
Comment posted by aahpat on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 8:11amObama lied to drug policy reform activists during the campaign to stop them from confronting him and detracting from his campaign. Instead many of the activists believed Obama and became supporters and 'online' activists for Obama. Now he mocks the online activists and belittles them while their issue is among the most supported and voted for issues when HE requested issues and signs of support for issues. Obama LIED!
Last month Obama said that busts at medical marijuana dispensaries would stop. But the day before the town hall meeting there was another bust at a medical marijuana dispensary in San Francisco. Obama LIED!
Obama is just another right-wing Democrat doing what right-wing Democrats do, manipulate and lie to core constituencies in order to keep them down while he at the same time panders to the right-wing oppressors and subverters of American democratic and constitutional values of social justice, civil liberties and human rights.
Get out in the streets people. Get onto the front pages of news papers with your rage against the Obama drug war political machine. Scream it loud and scream it long:
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
NO MORE DRUG WAR!
A$$holes are all the same color
Comment posted by aahpat on Fri, 03/27/2009 - 10:54pmAnd hopeless proves that.
I didn't vote for him
Comment posted by Moonrider on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 12:05pmI had no illusions about either of the two major party candidates, they don't get to be major party candidates unless they are aleady sold out whores. I've been saying this ever since Reagan, every election, but nearly everyone ignores that fact when they get into the voting booth. They use the excuse "but we've got to vote for the lesser of the two evils, or else the worse one will get in".
Bullshit, people! If EVERYONE who didn't like either major party candidate had voted for the Libertarian candidate (I didn't like Barr, didn't trust him, either, too recently he was a big bad drug warrior, but the previous LP candidates were true libertarians) in previous elections, and if everyone who had supported Ron Paul and his position actually voted for him in the primaries and local and state conventions, this election, we wouldn't, now, have to live the next 4 years with an "evil", sold out (to the elites) whore of a president saying one thing and doing another.
I'm pro-choice on EVERYTHING!
its herd beast behavior
Comment posted by aahpat on Sat, 03/28/2009 - 1:58pmHumans have to feel like they are part of a herd. Even if that means forsaking their values.
You are rationalizing
Comment posted by aahpat on Thu, 03/26/2009 - 11:22pmAnd you are in denial.
I have been involved in politics since the 1960's and you are wrong. On all counts. You are lubricating their plunger handle in hope of getting better treatment from your oppressors.