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james freitas
Florence, OR
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james commented on the petition |Please leave my medicine and it's laws alone. The constant assault on the OMMA is an unfair assault on the sick and injured not crime.
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james commented on the article |More scapegoating the poor by a socially retarded hypocrite.
How much would you like to bet he is favorablee to the idead of drug testing welfare recipients also?
Then why is it politicians like him never demand the same from the largest welfare recipients? You know the banks we just bailed out to the tune of trillions.We want to attack the least among us over their lousy few hundred bucks a month and totally ignore the criminals who are adding to the welfare roles each dday due to the damage done to tthe economy. We give trillions to men with golden parachutes and million dollar bonuses without question yet we wish to scapegoat the poor.
The callous attitude of some New Republicans and others is troubllesome for me and I am a firm believer in self responsibility and wrking to succeed
Jim
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james commented on the article |I get to hear all the time about "gun crime" but when my home was invaded by 6 punks and I got clobbered by an unopened beer can well that did not even make the news despite contacting them. It was my wife and a little 357 mag that saved my life and family that night. Without it I was down and fighting for my life against six gangbangers with a severe concussion.A very bad situation made worse by incompetant police who botched the arrest and then had the gall to tell me and my family "to be afraid" of the punks.
All I had to say to the entire local PD and city hall was that if I even see the bastards again I would shoot them where they stand since they made death threats once the gun ran them off of me and the officer said I should fear for my families safety. I now have a concealed carry permit.
I know how to handle a gun better than most LE and should a situation EVER arise that I must defend my home and family it will be with a gun not a maple club kept at the door.
Funny how that all worked they bust in my front door I smack two into oblivion and chase them out into the yard away from my family and according to the cop it was "lucky" I got nailed and did not continue to beat them with the stick or I would have been arrested for assault on a minor. Better to have blown their asses to hell when they were standing in my entry.
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james commented on the article |So just recieved this post via E-mail yet it did not appear here where it was originally posted.
I hope you do not mind my reposting this Matthew, I thought it too pertinant to have it not appear.
I find it a bit funny how this groundswell of response is being ignored.And how the readership of this blog has been underestimated yet again.
The "what are you smoking" mentality of many of those who have sought recognition using the cannabis issue simply will no longer be tolerated by folks like me( or apparently Matt Bristow) Either get on board and use the facts or step aside and shut up.Enough people have been played and abused by the present policy of fear mongering to let articles like this stand unchallenged.
Funny thing is I could be texting this while driving over seventy in traffic and you would never know. I guess at some point we all must make the decision to be responsible and just what responsible means to each of us.
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james commented on the article |
Matt,
I believe you when you say that you are one person trying to cover a wide range of issues that fall under the heading of 'criminal justice'.
The fact that you are the only person working on this stuff--that you are the cannabis hemp movement's point person--is a big example of what's wrong with what happened/is happening.
Marijuana legalization seems to be something that you tacitly support but something that you are not particularly passionate about. That's fine. (Please correct me if I'm wrong.) You should be able to focus on the many important things that you really would like to.
Because the decisions were made to make you responsible for so many things you can't be solely responsible for the lack of coverage of the top topic.
The problem is that while I and most others are passionate about many many things, cannabis is something that THE MOST PEOPLE OVERALL are passionate about.
We voted here at Change.org!
It's true!
Yet, it is an issue that appears to be, truly, marginalized.
See for yourself! Isn't it obvious?
...not a conspiracy?!
Are you kidding me?!
One might argue that it was a "good" or "practical" conspiracy, but how could it not accurately be considered conspiracy?
(I realize that the "C" word is bandied about a lot, but I don't feel like finding a euphemism this time.)
What happened at Change.org & Change.gov was such a blatant example of conspiracy that I am nearly at a loss for words!
...(...)...
We the people were asked to vote on what our favorite issue is.
Overwhelmingly...
...at both sites...
...Cannabis was #1 !
Will you please confirm (or deny) this?
I know that it is true and I know that anyone should be able to research and discover this.
There is a clear subversion of democracy in this situation. Prove me wrong. I'm sorry that the powers that be here exert their difference of opinion to override the will of the voters. Sad but true. True.
It's not really a question of "did that happen?" it's a question of "why did that happen?" and "when will it ever change?"
Maybe it's only temporary? Maybe it was "for our own good".
I'm not pretending like I don't understand why this happened either. I think it was a calculated decision to, in Obama's words, "not spend a whole lot of political capital on this."
Today I log on to Change.org and what is one of the "Top Posts"? ...
"Biden Serves Fish Sticks to the Homeless"
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It is the top post, with a total of five comments! It has many views but then it is on the front page. (This page "P&tSDM", strangely, doesn't have a view counter like others.)
About the post that you refer to (in regards to the Drug Policy Alliance and the American Medical Association)...
It should be on the front page.
But first...(I'll email you personally, also)
...a few problems:
For some reason there is not a video, or a link to a video, by Ethan Nadelmann. (That is what your post is mostly referring to.) So, I will have to search for it myself, which I don't think a lot of people will do.
Also, one sentence doesn't exactly do justice to the story of the reversal of the detrimental, longstanding, influential, AMA political position.
Question:
Why can't we post a comment to that article?
Do you notice that there are (0) comments to the story that I'm talking about: 'The Wind is at Our Back'? http://criminaljustice.change.org/blog/view/the_wind_is_at_our_back
That's because the Comment feature is not working (again). Is that intentional, or just another mistake?
The very act of making Cannabis (food, inspiration, fiber, medicine, economics, ethics, etc.) a Cause at Change.org will do a world of good including but not limited to bringing people into the realm of activism.
Here is a summary, from Changes.org (with an "S"), of why I keep working on getting this issue up front:
If every marijuana using adult in the United States CAME OUT OF THE MARIJUANA CLOSET, there'd be political clout to STOP THE WAR ON DRUGS which has bankrupt the U.S. morally, politically and economically.
--Elizabeth Gips, Changes.org,
Celebrating Our Growing Consciousness
What do you think?
posted by Matthew Bristow
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james commented on the article |
Nice to wake up and see the most active topic in CJ has been buried on page 4. I guess it is a bit embarassing to be called on the carpet for using assumption and half truth for 150+ posts.
To me this smacks of more political bait and switch politics.
"This site is about the change you want to see" LOL
this site has become the propaganda arm for the Obama regime and people like Kelly it's disinformation specialists.
From the opening article and it's carefully picked illustration to the half assed and weak attempt by Kelly to dissemble and attempt to damage control the harm done with his use of drug war lies on an informed and educated readership.
No one is here to defend driving while incapacitated. The standards for testing a drivers acuity exist already and if someone has had so much cannabis they cannot pass a field sobriety test then they should be arrested.
The thought of creating special hoops for cannabis users to leap through is discriminatory at it's mildest and a dangerous precedent. Especially in the wake of a lack of hard evidence it is even a real problem. Especially compared to legal impediments to driving skill such as cell phones, OTC drugs,Life's distractions.
Finding this topic buried this AM was the final and telling blow to Matt Kelly's credibility.He should either address the issue or retract the article, then resign.
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james commented on the article |
It is a bit of a slap in the face of all who stood in support of Change .org regarding Cannabis to have this approach be used.
Mr. Kelly, please stop talking down to us as if we were ignorant children. many of us have more experience driving with cannabis than you have years out of the womb.
As has been stated there exists NO HARD EVIDENCE of cannabis being more incapacitating than many legal activities.
I used the cell phone example and there are hundreds more.To single this issue out in the absence of hard data is the same political smoke screen used by the anti-drug crowd and to me seriously damages the credibility of not only change.org but this administrations commitment to the truth.
That it was brought out and displayed as if it was a well established problem that must be addressed before any further progress is made reeks of manipulation.
It simply MUST be proven to be a real problem, not assumed to be one.That people we trust to field our interests are using assumption instead of hard fact not only hurts the legalization movement it destroys any credibility the may have built among those represented.
Mr. Kelly I must say I will read your words with a grain of salt from now on. You have shown your willingness to use assumption over fact and hype over reality to further your own political cache`. You have become no different than those we oppose.
Please, everyone, keep out of my body. I am a soveriegn individual not a commodity of the state.
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