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Stripe:
Certainly actively speaking out against government expendiutres that I personally see as wasteful and bad is a great idea and when the opportunity presents itself, I do.

And I don't disagree that public health should be proactive in some respects, but I am not looking to support the wholesale violation of privacy rights when the actual threat is not nearly as severe as the remedy proposed.

Perhaps this is just another Bush code "brown"?    

Does any one know of legitmate organizations I can support finacially that will lobby against these kinds of measures?  Looking to actively work against this kind of policy funding is not going to be a very popluar stand to take.    [ This Message was edited by: Stripe on 2005-04-14 22:20 ][ This Message was edited by: Stripe on 2005-04-14 22:21 ]

Anonymous:
I want to puke reading this:

Founding Members The Semblers
04/15/2005


Betty S. Sembler

Betty S. Sembler has dedicated the past three decades to fighting the war on drugs. In 1976, she was one of ten founding members of Straight, Inc., a nonprofit drug treatment program that successfully treated more than 12,000 young people with drug addiction in eight cities nationally from Dallas to Boston.

Mrs. Sembler then turned her sights to establishing a national drug policy to reinforce the four critical fronts to combat drug abuse: education, treatment, interdiction and law enforcement. She has helped form public policy in the United States' campaign against drugs through her participation in the White House Conference for a Drug Free America, as a member of the Governor's Drug Policy Task Force in Florida, and as a board member of DARE Florida (Drug Abuse Resistance Education), a national organization that provides drug resistance education for elementary and middle school students. Mrs. Sembler also serves on the board of DARE International as vice-chairperson.

Mrs. Sembler has continued her campaign against liberal drug policies and legalization of mind-altering substances on an international basis. She accompanied her husband, Mel, on his mission to Australia as United States Ambassador and presently resides in Rome while her husband serves as the United States Ambassador to the Republic of Italy.

Mrs. Sembler is the founder and president of Save Our Society From Drugs (S.O.S.) and the Drug Free America Foundation, Inc. Both organizations work to educate people about attempts to legalize as "medicine" unsafe, ineffective and unapproved drugs such as marijuana, heroin, PCP and crack as well as to reduce illegal drug use, drug addiction and drug-related illnesses and death.

Mrs. Sembler serves on the boards of the Republican Jewish Coalition, Operation PAR (Pinellas County, FL), Florida Holocaust Museum, Florida Governor's Mansion Foundation, Florida National Guard Multijurisdictional Counterdrug Training Advisory Board, the Jewish Policy Center and St. Petersburg's Menorah Manor.

Mel Sembler, U.S. Ambassador to Italy

Ambassador Mel Sembler was appointed by President George W. Bush as Ambassador to Italy and on November 16, 2001, was sworn in by Vice President Cheney at a White House ceremony.

Ambassador Sembler, the former United States Ambassador to Australia and Nauru, was most recently the Chairman of the Board of The Sembler Company, one of the nation's leading shopping center developers. He is nationally recognized as an activist in the anti-drug campaign and as a staunch, long-time supporter of the Republican Party and its candidates.

As a developer, Sembler is recognized for building The Sembler Company into one of the country's most recognized shopping center development firms. In 1986-1987, Sembler served as the international leader and spokesman for the shopping center industry as President of the 40,000-member International Council of Shopping Centers, a position that capped 25 years of active service to this worldwide trade association.

Sembler's work as a civic and political activist is equally noteworthy. A supporter of George H.W. Bush since 1979, Sembler played a leadership role in raising funds for the Bush for President campaign. He was Finance Co-Chairman of The American Bicentennial Presidential Inaugural, raising the dollars needed for the nation's 41st inauguration of the President of the United States.

In February 1989, President George H.W. Bush appointed Sembler United States Ambassador to Australia and Nauru. As the President's personal representative, he actively promoted United States' interests abroad during his three and one-half years' service. At the recommendation of the Governor-General of Australia and with the approval of Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, Sembler was named an Honorary Officer in the Order of Australia at an investiture ceremony in October 2000. The Order of Australia is an Australian society of honor for the purpose of according recognition to Australian citizens and is rarely given to foreigners.

Although best known as a leading shopping center developer, Sembler is also renowned for his activism in the anti-drug movement. In 1976, Sembler and his wife Betty founded STRAIGHT, an adolescent drug treatment program. During its 17 years of existence, STRAIGHT successfully graduated more than 12,000 young people nationwide from its remarkable program.

Sembler served as Finance Chairman for the Republican National Committee from 1997 to 2000. He also served as Florida's National Committeeman to the Republican National Committee after his election in 1994 until 2000. Prior to his appointment as Ambassador to Italy, Sembler was the Honorary Chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition and Chairman of the Drug Free America Foundation, and served on the boards of the International Council of Shopping Centers, the Florida Governor's Mansion Foundation, and the Florida Holocaust Museum, and was a resident member of the Florida Council of 100, a business advisory group to the Governor of Florida. He continues to serve on the boards of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation and the American Australian Education Leadership Foundation.

Born in 1930 in St. Joseph, Missouri, Sembler is a 1952 graduate of Northwestern University, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree. He and his wife Betty have three sons, Steve, Brent, and Greg, and are the proud grandparents of eleven grandchildren

Antigen:
Stripe, there are a number of organizations working to bring about drug policy reform. The grandaddy of all serious reform efforts is probably the Drug Policy Foundation, which has since been split up, recombined and reorganized. Here are a few of the organizations that have sprung out of that.

http://www.drugsense.org/html/
portal for DrugSense - Media Awareness Project (MAP) - Drug Policy Central (DPC)

Here's one of my personal favorites:
http://leap.cc/
(My grandpa was a cop and so were a few of my dad's friends years ago)

Most drug policy reform organizations link to other resources pretty liberally. So you can pretty much follow links from there and find just about everything that's out there. And, of course, there's always NORML. And there's always the controversy swirling around it.

Anonymous, can you provide a link to tht news item you posted?

You know, too many weirdos out there. At least with you people I know WHY you are weird!!!

Kady
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GregFL:
On of those three sons mentioned was in the seed at the same time I was...

Anonymous:
I am also for a country that is completely free of illegal drug use. I say we legalize them all and stop trying to legislate these sorts of personal behaviour and stop punishing victimless crimes. This is also the policy position of such notable figures as George Shultz (former Reagan sec. of state) & conservative pundit William Buckley.

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