Now that's change I can vote for!! But, in all fairness, I hated Biden's speech, too!

'Drug free America, Amen. Drug free America, Amen........'
Ooooooooommmmmmmmm.....
Its the beat, the beat, the beat......

If you want to see where drug warrior Obama is taking drug war policy look at the newly released 2009 National Drug Control Strategy: http://www.ondcp.gov/policy/ndcs.html

It is 99% touting the successes of the Bush administration and promising more of the same.

Look too to the 1,000 troops that the Obama administration announced on Monday they are sending to the U.S. Mexican border in a significant escalation and militarization of the domestic drug war: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Soldiers-Sent-to-Texas-Mexico-Border-to...

The Dallas Morning News on March 12th in a story titled, "Obama says no U.S. troops needed yet at Mexican border", reported that:

"WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama is keeping close watch on the violence from Mexico's drug war, but he said Wednesday that so far it hasn't spilled into this country enough to justify sending troops to the border." http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/DN-obama...

These troops have no civilian mission. They have no civilian training or authority. But they do have counter-insurgency experience and training from their time in Iraq according to Admiral Mullen the Chairman of the Joint Chief’s of Staff who dispatched the troops two days after it was reported that he was just talking alternatives with Obama in a briefing. http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archives/2009/03/030909-Mexico.aspx

Militarization and escalation of the domestic drug war, that is what we are getting from the Obama administration.

This is a national security nightmare and it will get so much worse before it gets better.

The idiot Biden, during the press conference, touted a reduction in violence in Colombia as success ignoring that the promise of his Plan Colombia in 1999 was to reduce cocaine productions which has not at all happened. Just two paragraphs prior to his fallacious assertions of reducing violence in Colombia Biden says about Mexico: “All you have to do is pick up your paper anywhere in the nation, national and local — since the beginning of last year there have been nearly 7,000 drug-related murders in Mexico. If we had said that years ago we would have looked at each other like we were crazy — but 7,000 drug-related murders in Mexico. Violent drug trafficking organizations are threatening both the United States and Mexican communities.”

Like his mindless and ritualistic parroting of the “drug free America” mantra Biden ignores the reality in the violence transfer from Colombia to Mexico. It is called the balloon effect. Squeeze the market in one place and it pops out someplace else. Plan Colombia squeezed the cartel control in Colombia and it transfered to Mexico. Next it will have only one place to go from the Mexican border, heartland America. And Joe Biden will, like all drug warriors these days, tout the increased violence as success.

“The reason you see the escalation in violence is because U.S. and Mexican law enforcement are winning,” Garrison Courtney, spokesman for the Drug Enforcement Administration, said Tuesday. “You are going to see the drug traffickers push back because we are breaking their back.” http://www.azstarnet.com/news/283781

More chaos and instability is success in the war on drugs. So look out America because the war on drugs is going ballistic and coming to main street America.

If not, I'll be happy to remind them, 1000 times if necessary. But all they have to do is read the news, it makes it very clear what a dangerous drug killer alcohol is. Go have another drink of your favorite drug, Mr. Joe Flaming Hypocrite Biden.

editorial comment from a anti-drug war perspective, and posts from a wide range of people generally agreeing with the anti-drug war perspective and sometimes extreme in language. Only the most extreme seem to be removed, so there is a bias in favor of free speech, but there is regular editorial comment criticizing extreme language.
Of course what is extreme language is debatable. I have no problem calling drug warriors thugs because the war on cannabis is so bogus and the war on hard drug users so draconian and cruel.
Does the author of "what?" post understand how dangerous the drug alcohol is and how much catastrophic harm it causes?

Gil Kerlikowske; Shill For Drug Gangsters, Cartels & Terrorists

President Obama appointed Gil Kerlikowske (transcript) as the latest drug czar, or Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. In other words Kerlikowske is the latest shill for the cartels and drug gangs of the world. The ONDCP is the U.S. government's official voice for preserving and protecting the drug gangster business, drug cartels and stateless terrorist armies that all thrive on profits derived from the continued illegality of drugs.(more)

There will be a United States senate Judiciary Committee Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs hearing “Law Enforcement Responses to Mexican Drug Cartels”

Majority Office
Phone:202-224-7703
Fax:202-224-9516

Minority Office
Phone:202-224-5225
Fax:202-224-9102

Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs
Majority Office
Phone:202-224-0558
Fax:202-228-0623

Minority Office
Phone:202-224-5972
Fax:202-224-9102

Senate Judiciary Committee
Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs

DATE: March 17, 2009
TIME: 10:30 AM
ROOM: Dirksen-226

Please FAX them today your opposition to continuing the war on drugs.

and gave him the thorough intellectual thrashing he deserved. And my ears perked up, so to speak, at the phrase "Jim Crow Joe Biden." I have to see how I can work old Jim Crow into some future rants. Something like this maybe- cannabis prohibition: it's the same old Jim Crow wine in new bottles. We sure didn't have liberty and justice for all then, and we sure don't have it now.