On 2004-05-05 14:33:00, The One and Only Anonymous wrote:
What if they are diversions ? How much research have you done ?"
Here's what I know and how I came to know it. Going back to around 1990, I started taking a mild interest in industrial hemp. Don't ask me why, but I just got a whild hair and picked up a copy of High Times; to Hell w/ the raised eyebrows and all. Jack Herrer was just breaking into celebrity status w/ his book
The Emperor Wears No Clothes and that issue of HT had a lot of info. about that.
Of course, I thought it was bunk, but artful, interesting bunk. As I looked into it, I've found that it's nothing but the truth. Every time I did a little spot checking I came up w/ corroboration. For example, I found a copy of the 1850 Patent Office Report among the old books that my dad had left behind in the house I took over from him when he moved. Sure enough, the reports issued from Kentucky and surrounding states listed hemp as one of the top 5 crops. Same for the report on imports/exports from the Port of St. Louis.
That interest led me to an interest in drug policy in general. In the course of grazing on whatever info came my way in that vein, I became familiar w/ names like DFAF, Robert DuPont, Donald Ian MacDonald, Wm. Bennett, Daryl Gates and a good many others that just happen to turn up in association w/ Straight, Inc.
I think the connections are real.
I don't give a flying run at a rolling doughnut what happens to these people on a personal level.
I just want these sadistic lunatics out of the business of making public policy that I and mine have to live with.
Is that so much to ask?
If we choose to violate the rights of the innocent in order to discover and act against the guilty, then we have transformed our country into a police state and abandoned one of the fundamental tenants of a free society. In order to win the war on drugs, we must not sacrifice the life of the Constitution in the battle.
--US District Judge H. Lee Sarokin