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Presenting
"BUSTED:
The
Citizen's
Guide
to
Surviving
Police
Encounters"
10/31/03
DRCNet is pleased to offer
a bold and exciting new instructional video, "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide
to Surviving Police Encounters," as our new premium gift to members donating
at the $35 level or above. Produced by the Flex Your Rights Foundation
and narrated by retired ACLU executive director Ira Glasser, BUSTED realistically
depicts the pressure and confusion of common police encounters. BUSTED's
actors illustrate the right and wrong ways to handle different police encounters,
in an entertaining but revealing way, with special attention focused on
instructing viewers how to courteously and confidently refuse police search
requests. BUSTED is hot off the press, and you can be one of the
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If you've ever been stopped
and searched by the police, you know how humiliating it feels to be forced
to sit and wait like a child while strangers with guns tear through your
personal belongings. But that could be just the beginning of your
ordeal. What if the police find a marijuana seed that your friend
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Viewing BUSTED can prevent this from happening to you and your loved ones.
So visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/
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Your donation will also help
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-- which means that members and readers like yourself are more important
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Here is some of the advance
praise that BUSTED has received:
"Our precious constitutional
rights are worth only the paper they are written on unless we understand
and exercise them. BUSTED makes an important contribution toward
transforming the Constitution's paper promises into real rights for real
people."
-- Nadine Strossen, president,
American Civil Liberties Union
"BUSTED provides effective
instruction in how to benefit from basic constitutional rights. It
deserves wide distribution."
-- Milton Friedman, Hoover
Institution fellow; Nobel laureate economist
"As a journalist covering
the war on drugs, I've often been surprised at how readily people consent
to searches. By clearly explaining and vividly illustrating the dynamics
of encounters with the police, BUSTED should help people keep their calm
-- and their freedom."
-- Jacob Sullum, senior
editor, Reason Magazine; author, "Saying Yes: In Defense of Drug Use"
"Chronic disregard for civil
rights is tearing apart the fabric of America. Flex Your Rights has
hit the nail on the head in this hard hitting instructional video."
-- Mike Gray, author, "Drug
Crazy"; chairman, Common Sense for Drug Policy
"BUSTED is the only video
I know of that is providing clear and candid information about how to 'just
say no' to intimidating police searches. Parents, teachers, and concerned
citizens across the US should use BUSTED to protect young people, who are
often targeted by police, from the greatest harm of using marijuana --
arrest."
-- Robert Kampia, executive
director, Marijuana Policy Project
"We should not be put in
the position of trying to protect individuals from themselves, because
that is when we police start violating people's constitutional rights."
-- Jack A. Cole, executive
director, Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
"If enough people see BUSTED
it will alter the balance of power on America's streets forever."
-- Nora Callahan, executive
director, November Coalition
I was privileged to assist with
the production of BUSTED as a member of the Flex Your Rights board of directors.
I learned a great deal from watching BUSTED and also enjoyed it a great
deal, and I believe you will too. So please order your copy today!
Again, just visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/
and donate $35 or more, and we will put your copy in the mail! (You
can also request other books we offer, as well as StoptheDrugWar.org t-shirts,
mugs and mousepads, a variety of books and other items.)
Please note that donations
to the Drug Reform Coordination Network are not tax-deductible. If
you wish to make a tax-deductible donation to support our educational work,
make your check payable to DRCNet Foundation, same address. Again,
visit https://stopthedrugwar.org/donate/
to join, donate and order your free copy of BUSTED today. Thank you
for your support.
Read DRCNet's 6/02 interview
with Flex Your Rights' Steven Silverman at https://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle-old/242/stevensilverman.shtml
-- and visit Flex Your
Rights at http:/www.flexyourrights.org
to learn much more!
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Issue #307, 10/17/03
Editorial: It's Time to Rejoin the Free World |
Presenting "BUSTED: The Citizen's Guide to Surviving Police Encounters" |
Decriminalization Comes to Britain: House of Commons Passes Cannabis Rescheduling Bill |
Leftist Legalizer Elected Mayor of Bogota in Voter Rebuke of Colombian President |
Dutch Government Seeks Ban on Foreigners in Coffee Shops |
One and a Half Million Drug Arrests Last Year, Nearly 700,000 for Marijuana, FBI Reports |
Media Scan: David Borden on Cultural Baggage, Forbes, Alternet, Pot TV |
This Week in History |
Newsbrief: MAPS/UMass Marijuana Grow Proposal Gets Backing from Senators Kennedy and Kerry |
Newsbrief: This Week's Corrupt Cops Story |
Newsbrief: Campaign Comments -- Lieberman on Drug War Racial Disparities |
Newsbrief: Federal Appeals Court Says Nervousness Not Enough to Prompt Driver Search |
Newsbrief: More Death Squad Drug Killings in the Philippines |
Newsbrief: Retrograde Drug Politics in Kentucky Governor's Race |
Newsbrief: North Carolina Congressman in Drug Treatment Slush Fund Scandal |
DRCNet Temporarily Suspending Our Web-Based Write-to-Congress Service Due to Funding Shortfalls -- Your Help Can Bring It Back -- Keep Contacting Congress in the Meantime |
Perry Fund Accepting Applications for 2003-2004 and 2004-2005 School Years, Providing Scholarships for Students Losing Aid Because of Drug Convictions |
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