Tireless DrugWarRant blogger Pete Guither continues to generate press coverage of his campaign against the DEAâs traveling museum exhibit:
From the Chicago Tribune:
Calling Guitherâs pamphlet "commercial in nature" is such crap. But there are a few commercial interests at stake here:
Ironically, the only party involved with absolutely no commercial interests is Pete Guither, a college professor who writes about the failure of the drug war in his spare time.
Unless, of course, not wanting your tax dollars spent on a pointless war that kills innocent people and funds terrorism counts as a âcommercial interestâ.
From the Chicago Tribune:
When an exhibition sponsored by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration opened at the Museum of Science and Industry in August, Guither showed up with a sack full of pamphlets denouncing the government's anti-narcotics strategy.
But soon after he began handing the pamphlets out, museum officials confined him to what he said was an almost deserted stretch of sidewalk. Then a lawyer for the Chicago Park District told him the pamphlets were "commercial in nature" and that he needed a permit to distribute them at all.
Calling Guitherâs pamphlet "commercial in nature" is such crap. But there are a few commercial interests at stake here:
- The museum has a commercial interest in silencing Guitherâs valid claim that it has allowed itself to be hijacked by the DEAâs propaganda machine.
- The DEA has a commercial interest in justifying itâs existence by exploiting 9/11 with a ridiculous âexhibitâ that attempts to obscure the obvious fact that prohibition funds terrorism.
- Terrorists have a commercial interest in the success of DEAâs propaganda since they get their funding as a result of the same policies DEA struggles to uphold.
Ironically, the only party involved with absolutely no commercial interests is Pete Guither, a college professor who writes about the failure of the drug war in his spare time.
Unless, of course, not wanting your tax dollars spent on a pointless war that kills innocent people and funds terrorism counts as a âcommercial interestâ.
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