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Treatment Abuse, Behavior Modification, Thought Reform => Straight, Inc. and Derivatives => Topic started by: Anonymous on October 23, 2004, 04:28:00 AM
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Has the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc., formerly known as STRAIGHT,INC., attempted to influence national, state or local legislation, including any attempt to influence public opinion on a legislative matter or referendum in either of the following years?
1999
2000
2001
2002
Seeking a factual answer and supporting 'evidence'
Thank you
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The DFAF heavily influenced the Drug Free America Act, part of shrub's "faith based inititiave". (faith based, what joke that man is). Read the law, it sounds like straight.......
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Well, you can start w/ the mission statement and press releases at DFAF.org.
Here's some more:
http://ideas-canada.ca/about.htm (http://ideas-canada.ca/about.htm)
http://fornits.com/anonanon/Forbes/ohio/ (http://fornits.com/anonanon/Forbes/ohio/) (don't miss the full report in PDF format, linked in the yellow box on the left)
Then, if you want more, you could look into the myriad organizations to which DFAF members belong. There's the Drug and Alcohol Testing Industries Association; a trade association of piss nazis who's mission is to promot public and private use of their products. Also the Drug Prevention Network of the Americas, focusing on So. America and Global Drug Watch.
In a word, you can't swing a cat inside the Beltway w/o hitting a DFAF lobbyist.Faith is a cop-out. It is intellectual bankruptcy. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
--Dan Barker, author and former evangelist
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That's what I needed... thank you. According to their last 4 tax returns, they spend 0 dollars on influencing, etc... hmmm. Oh and mel and betty are volunteers, LOL... This is truly a mess... :eek:
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ooh, ooh, and non-profits (or foundations or whatever?) aren't supposed to be "influencing", right? is that where you are going with this?
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a certain percentage of fuinds can go to influence policy. . . I think no more than 10%. They can not support a single politician or party though.
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This was investigated about 3 years ago and a compliant was filed with the IRS. Of course, it went no where.
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What about a thorough follow up? Calvina is the only person being paid a salary there? Why would these Sembler folks be involved with something that pays nothing? Doesn't make sense.
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P O W E R ; that is what they get out of this shit. They have become powerful players in politics of the state of Florida and the USA.
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Are you shettin me, man? Not make money? How much do DATIA members make on piss testing? What DFAF does is invest in public policy that mandates (requires) public and private spending on their "services".
That's just one example of how DFAF "makes" money. Actually, the term "to make money" usually means to generate something of value for which people will voluntarily pay. DFAF and their cronies are not very good at that. They're good at taking money, alright. There lives more faith, in honest doubt,
Believe me, than in half the creeds.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Maybe DFAF reels in the cash, but, according to the tax returns the Semblers are not taking a salary. Power or no power, it seems odd that they would do their jobs there for free. :???:
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What about that americus brief in the suspicionless drug testing saga? That's legislative coersion, right?