No Thank You
Some bizarre news today:
An Idaho man charged with attempting to assassinate President Barack Obama by shooting at the White House practiced with his weapon for six months and may have been upset about the country's marijuana policy, prosecutors said in a newly filed court document.
Oscar Ramiro Ortega-Hernandez is currently awaiting trial for the 2011 shooting, which didn't injure anyone but left more than five bullet marks on the executive mansion.
[AP]
Assuming it's true, no thank you to Mr. Ortega -- not the kind of help we need.
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Blaming Obama
I have to say the the entire reform movement seems to have some unrealistic expectation that President Obama can just reverse the entire drug war single handedly. I wish we would stop doing that. We only encourage idiots like this to blame President Obama for everything that is wrong in this world.
I can and will blame Obama (and Republicans)
Sorry, but Obama is a coward whose improvements on drug policy are negligible at best. We might as well have Biden as a president.
He had every opportunity to discuss this issue with the public in 2009, but he chose to laugh it off.
He had every opportunity not to choose Michele Leonhart to lead the DEA.
When he finally began to discuss the subject of cannabis, he was sure to pass the buck to a Congress full of greedy bigots. "Yes, he can" do something...
The raids on dispensaries continue.
The Drug War Budget shows no improvement, and now Kowardski is trying to sugar-coat it expecting us to believe his lies. "Trying to make drug use less of a stigma" while still arresting people and ruining their careers/marriages/lives. Really?!
Don't forget that Obama fanatics like Yahoo block out the word "cannabis" so that people are continually exposed to its stereotypical name.
By the way, stopthedrugwar.org, WHY DO YOU STILL USE THE "M" WORD??? (the same word used by Harry Anslinger)
PS: Half of the country is upset with prohibition, so I'd assume 1 out of 2 crazed whackos are using that as extra fuel for their craziness. Some are upset at their job, some at the government. "Crazy" has to manifest itself somehow...
Two words
Obama *is* to blame
Never forget that the Controlled Substances Act gives the Executive branch--specifically, the Attorney General--the power to schedule and/or reschedule.
Obama-Holder could make the the medical cannabis debate go way for good this afternoon if they had any will whatsoever to do so.
Medical cannabis is still "controversial" and dispensaries are still being raided because that is what Barack Obama and Eric Holder want.
Blaming Obama
Obama is not helpless in his own power to change the course of the Federal government on this front in the War on the American People. Congress didn't make marijuana illegal: they delegated the power to the executive branch to put drugs on the Federal drug schedules. Obama could order his subordinates in the DEA and FDA to take marijuana off Schedule I (the only non-narcotic on it) and put it in a more rational place.
I'm with you, Mr. Borden
When you say "assuming it's true."
I'm pretty suspicious of this story.. the shooting happened in 2011. I'd not heard anything of it at that time, or any time since. Why is it suddenly in the news now, with emphasis on marijuana's "connection" with the story?
What's next? When will the mass media actually start blaming marijuana on things, directly? It seems like only a matter of time.
They've run out of other justifications to oppose legalization...
Don't blame Obama???
Of course it's sad that someone became so frustrated with the war on drugs that he actually took the war to the WH.It's also sad that Obama became a hypocrite and a liar as soon as he saw he had a chance to be President.What has this President done for any progressive cause?We all know the answer to that.Of course no one wants to be associated with someone who shot at the WH.It doesn't change anything and Romney probably would have been just as bad.I doubt there are many who would still say he would have been worse.There is no worse.Perhaps the man lost friends and relatives in the Mexican fiasco and was so grief stricken he couldn't see straight?It's easy for us to say that nothing can justify what he did.We,however,haven't walked a mile in his shoes.
People who resort to violence
When diplomacy fails...
The Drug War Causes Violence
Drug War causes violence.
The title was meant to read "The Drug War causes violence".
Drug War causes violence.
The title was meant to read "The Drug War causes violence".
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