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D.A.’ Mantis vs. The Truth

This Dumanis vs. Truth section will compare the lies being fed to the public by Bonnie Dumanis with known facts. Thanks to Dave RxMaass with CityBeat, San Diego now has a real investigative reporter working on the denial of safe access to medical marijuana, also known as Bonnie’s fierce fight.

Dave has reported on several issues relating to the “facts” behind the 09/09/09 terror raids on 14 provider locations in which ’shock and awe’ S.W.A.T. style raids were paid for out of a deficit budget.

http://bonniedamantis.wordpress.com/d-a-mantis-vs-the-truth/

Land of the not so free anymore ?

Gotta keep them privately own prison system full to the brim...
this is "free" market after all ;)

Penn. Judges Get Kickbacks for Placing Youths in Privately Owned Jails
http://www.democracynow.org/2009/2/17/penn_judges_plead_guilty_to_taking

This is tragic...the number of lives wasted just for these sick fuck's profits makes me want to puke.

The US citizens are treated like cattle & who stands up in its defense ?

As I posted before, the war on drugs & this phenomenon are all intertwined...

Them pesky pot smokers are perfect fodder...

Welcome to the war against drugs scam !

In the USA, the prison system is owned by private corporations (i), meaning that companies make money from putting people in jail.

This explains why America has the largest absolute prison population in the world (ii). Not just relative to its 300m population, but relative to the world. Even communist China, with 1.3 billion people, has less people in prison than America. US police officers are fired or given demotions if they do not meet a certain quota of people put in jail (iii). It’s called the prison-industrial complex (iv), and is just one example of how capitalism is yielding negative effects in America.
So how are so many people being put in prison?

Welcome to the drug war. The CIA ships in cocaine to the United States in mass (v), and then uses the corrupt police force to deal these illegal drugs to the American public (vi). Naturally, having dealt the drugs, the police then know who is in possession of cocaine, so later bust them for it. Not only is the drug-industrial complex served, but so is the prison-industrial complex. Classic corporatism all made possible through the corrupt police force of bully-mentality.

And if by now you’re saying, “well, just because people are selling drugs, doesn’t mean the kids are forced to buy them”, consider the glorification of drugs in movies and television. Young kids love listening to Amy Winehouse and others (vii) (viii), but there is no age limit on how old you have to be to watch her on the news, boxed into the classic drug nightmare of so many poor victims of the entertainment industry. The average lifespan in the United States is currently 78 (ix) and expected to be commonly as high as 100 in the coming generations (x), yet in the entertainment industry was just over 60 in 1999 and was as low as 48 in 1950 (xi). Also consider the abomination that is America’s education system (xii), and its up-to and in some cases above 50% high school dropout rates (xiii).

Footnotes
i http://www.correctionsproject.com/corrections/pris_priv.htm
ii http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/2925973.stm
iii http://www.emissourian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19506987&BRD=1409&PAG=46...
iv http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199812/prisons
v http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1998_cr/980507-l.htm
vi http://www.serendipity.li/cia/fifty.html vii http://danasdirt.com/2007/11/27/amy-winehouse-meets-a-young-fan/
viii http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_to_black#Charts
ix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expectancy
x http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1977733.stm
xi http://www.ancestry.com/facts/HOLLYWOOD-life-expectancy.ashx
xii http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx4pN-aiofw
xiii http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,344190,00.html

PS : Back then pot prohibition was but an excuse to wipe out the hemp industry … http://piratebook.com/chapter_17.htm

1937-ongoing: UNITED STATES. For the past hundred years, the cultivation of hemp has been expanding on a huge scale, originally providing mainly fiber for rope manufacture but, in the opening decades of the twentieth century, increasingly providing feed stock for a range of chemicals and plastics. Ford Motor Company actually makes a prototype car body of plastic from hemp which weighs only a third of a conventional steel body and is said to be ten times stronger.

Not only is hemp a direct competitor to the petroleum oil interests, most notably the Rockefellers' Standard Oil and the Mellon family's Gulf Oil, as a chemical feed stock, but, if car bodies were to be made of hemp-derived plastic as Ford proposes, the total weight of cars would be reduced thereby significantly reducing the demand for oil which seems positively un-American. Another interested party is Better Killing Through Chemistry Dupont whose petroleum-based synthetics are in competition with hemp and competition is, as John D. Rockefeller says, the deadliest sin.

For a period of about ten years prior to the passage of a bill effectively destroying hemp as a competitor to petroleum, the U.S. is flooded with anti-hemp propaganda. The print media of racist warmonger and Nazi mouthpiece William Randolph Hearst carries large amounts of propaganda designed to incite fear of the consequences of marijuana use among amongst Americans. Hearst's fabrications consist largely of ludicrous scare stories, many with a racist and/or sexually charged angle. In the mid-1930s, a whole string of equally ludicrous anti-marijuana propaganda films magically appears on American theater screens. Among these are the notorious Reefer Madness, Devil's Harvest, Assassin of Youth, Marihuana Girl and many others.

When all right thinking Americans have been brainwashed into believing that hemp is the fruit of Satan's loins, the Marijuana Tax Act is duly passed, effectively ending the cultivation of hemp for all purposes, putting American hemp farmers out of business and making the world safe for Dupont and the oil companies.

By disguising the anti-hemp legislation as a tax bill rather than as a legal prohibition, it is slipped through the six member House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Dupont minion Robert Doughton. It thus bypasses the full House and goes to the Senate Finance Committee controlled, coincidentally, by yet another Dupont minion, Prentiss Brown. Testimony in favor of the defacto banning of hemp before the Ways and Means Committee is provided by none other than Harry Anslinger, longtime head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who just happens to be a member of the Mellon family and had been appointed to his position by Andrew Mellon. Those who might have opposed the bill, including those who support the medical uses of marijuana, are given no notice of the meetings concerning the bill. Later, Anslinger will attempt to suppress the publication of books critical of his "war on drugs".

FYI

1930-1962: UNITED STATES. An ultra right wing conspicuous non-combatant, Harry J. Anslinger, is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) by Gulf Oil/Alcoa representative cum Treasury Secretary Andrew Mellon. Anslinger's reign, which rivals J. "Edna" Hoover's as head of the FBI, is marked by absurd and blatantly racist disinformation campaigns on the terrifying evils of marijuana, carried to the U.S. public by the media empire of warmonger, yellow journalist and paid Nazi mouthpiece, William Randolph Hearst.

Anslinger's war against marijuana may have something to do with the fact that his patron, Mellon, is heavily involved with the Dupont interests whose petrochemical-based fibers are in direct competition with hemp, which is grown on on an industrial scale and promises to provide a wide range of fibers, chemical feedstocks and other raw materials for industry in sharp competition with oil. Anslinger sabotages attempts by the medical profession to use marijuana and other "narcotics" for pain relief.

In the classic fashion of the U.S. ruling class and its minions, Anslinger plays both sides of the street and, in the 1950s, becomes the morphine supplier to alcoholic druggie witch hunter Senator Joseph McCarthy. Following his retirement in the 1970s, after decades of blocking the medical use of "narcotics" for pain relief, Anslinger ends up taking morphine to control his own pain.
Two Negroes took a girl fourteen years old and kept her for two days under the influence of marijuana. Upon recovery, she was found to be suffering from syphilis. From anti-marijuana propaganda article by Harry Anslinger published in Hearst's American Magazine.
A very nice combination of fear mongering, racism and anti-hemp propaganda from the highly principled Hearst.