The last couple of weeks have been fun. I have logged a lot of time writing, just not on my stories. I've been updating the pages on FaceBook ,mypage, Little Rock Teapot Party and The Arkansas Teapot Party page. Some good news is that FaceBook restored the Original facebook page for Willie Nelson's Teapot Party! It seems that the teapot meltdown was because a bunch shit-heads felt that Mr. Bloom (cofounder of the WNTPP) was making a profit on t-shirt sales via the internet. Willie Nelson had a vision for this movement. Everybody spread the word, each person do what you can from where you are and encourage lawmakers to support/propose Cannabis reform legislation. The end game, for this movement being to abolish the prohibition on Cannabis & Hemp. If the current elected officials won't listen to the voice of the people then find a candidate that will listen and back them to replace the politician that doesn't want to act upon the will of the people!
Some people had other ideas and wanted the teapot party run their way. Claim a democratic majority the proclaimed the Willies Nelson Teapot Party was theirs and it would be run the way they wanted it to be run. Now, that's all well and good but, come on! You can't just arbitrarily decide that a few people constitute a majority and are taking control of the movement. First consider that Willie Nelson never intended to create a "Political Party" like the Dem's or the Rep's. he envisioned a "grass roots movement" where everyone that is tired of the failed drug policies, tired of reading about slaughter Mexican citizens. Alteing the Drug Policies would in effect cripple the financial income the drug Cartel's are receiving from the black market trade of drugs. Hillary Clinton has assured the President of Mexico that the US will through more money at the problem along with more guns. ??? What the Cartels aren't rich enough? The Citizens of Mexico aren't being slaughtered fast enough? At the rate the war on drugs is going, the US could cancel every single program and devote all the funds to the DEA to fight the war on drugs and they still wouldn't win, they might make a little headway until they bankrupt the nation.
It's amazing how, for a democracy with a "Government for the People, by the People," the politicians have stopped listening to the voice of the people. The failed war on drugs has been nothing but a drain on the government finances. It has accomplished not a single tangible goal. It should have been obvious before now, that the money they are giving to Mexico is actually being used to funnel more drugs into the US! Since 1972 the US has been fighting the war on drugs! Nearly 40 years of financial siphoning of the taxpayers hard-earned money and what do we have to show for it? We have a trail of unnecessary violence, entire families, terrorized, small children scarred for life. The killing of family pets for sport by law enforcement officers. Our judicial system may not be the best in the world. The foundation of our justice system is the it is better for 10 guilty persons to go free than one innocent may be jailed for a crime he didn't commit. These commando style raids are a direct violation of our rights. Being denied due process, corrupt law enforcement officers abusing their authority.
Marijuana is the most widely used substance in the world perhaps. The only reason it is illegal is because Harry J. Anslinger played upon the racist attitude of the era. Cannabis was widely used among the minority races. Anslinger invented may lies and use the Newspaper Mogul, Randolph Hearst's hatred of the Mexicans, displayed in his newspaper articles to convince the government that Cannabis should be illegal! Now there was one Man, a Doctor that tried to refute Anslinger's claims. The committee didn't want to hear the truth, they were more interested in finding a way to exert further control over (as Anslinger put it) "the degenerate races" infesting our nation taking jobs away from whites.
It is unlawful to discriminate against a person because for the color of their skin! The prohibition on Cannabis and Hemp was enacted for racial reasons and has since been maintained by special interest groups not wanting to have to compete in the market place with a naturally superior resource. Thursday is the president's youtube Q&A session. The first 59 most popular questions are concerning Cannabis/drug law reform. I can't say that he will listen to the voice of the people. Last time he laughed it off and hinted that the online audience wasn't very intelligent. This year the questions are more focused on drug law reform, legalizing Cannabis and regulating drugs. That would in effect end the war on drugs for the most part. We'll see, either we get the change we were promised, the change We The People Want or we work on replacing the president next election. Kind of déjà-vu.
Well, one more e-mail to the Whitehouse from there website and then I'm off to bed.
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