California cops to DEA: Help us undermine state law

Capitalism isn't a political concept, it's an economic concept. Just like Communism is not an economic concept, it is a political one. If you want to bash capitalism for the prison-industrial complex, then you have to also realize that its survival is dependent upon political, not economic cooperation. There is no demand by the people to support a prison population as we do, but through government support, the prison systems become profitable. Capitalism isn't to blame, government influence in capitalism is to blame. Socialism doesn't work when there is a centralized governing body orchestrating the distribution of goods, and the same goes for capitalism. Some smart guy said something like, 'We can either have a democracy in the United States, or we can have a large amount of wealth in the hands of a few, but we cannot have both.'

That's just what happened to Tommy Chong in 2001

There are more motorists violating other people rights than there are cops violating any one's rights.

I've noticed something..All I ever see the cops doing is harassing Motorists. I can only speculate that what the local Governments are into is Generating Income. These cameras at stoplights are another thing that irk Me. With a possible 3-$400 Ticket. I've watched these things click off 2,3,4 times in a single line of traffic. I'm sure they are raking in thousands per hour. Our Local Governments help us out by creating silly as shit Parking rules and Traffic Laws. They are all Money Grubbing Entities. Funding taxpayer paid Lunches and Buffets for themselves Let's not forget retreats and Seminars, New Furniture, Computers, City Vehicles and it just goes on and on. I was a City Employee for five Years in L.A. I know the deal. Of course I was a Maintenance Employee working out in the field so very rarely were We invited. The Office Staff live large I'll tell You that. They use drug tests to help screen out applicants which I believe personally to be Illegal Search and Seizure. to have to give up Body fluids to get a Job is paving the way for mandatory D.N.A. Testing for risk management. It's all about revenue generation. And that's all above and beyond the exorbitant Taxes and Fees We are required to pay for the privledge to drive a fucking car. Let's not forget the perks for Doctors to prescribe Drugs for the Drug Manufacturers, Food and Drug Administration monitoring it all. As white noise has stated that the Prison System is privatized now so it's profit for them and everyone up and down the line. We are only just now seeing the formation of the North American Union. They dumb down our Kids so they can turn out good little taxpaying Robots. Meanwhile the Parents have to work 2 and 3 Jobs to keep up with Poverty Levels while the School System raises our Kids for us, feeding them lies and bullshit that still don't make them competitive with Third World Level Education Systems. I am sick and tired of hearing America love it or leave. I believe it's America, Love it or change it! They keep us distracted with shit like Britney Spears or Lindsey Lohan, Paris Hilton Drama.How about the last six months of the constant Election Bullshit every nite. There is other more important news out there but You won't see it or hear it on the Major Media Outlets. The whole shit house is on fire but We don't know it. Our Political Leaders are really all the same. Fucking Lawyers turned into Judges, all to build themselves up for the Political Arena. Mayors screaming for the hiring of More Police. Legislating Morality. FUCK THEM ALL! I hate to say this but I'm sure I'm correct to say it. Obama is just another cog in the wheel for Corporate Slavery along with the Federal Treasury creating false, inflation. "Meet the new Boss, same as the old Boss.!" I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it. Time to wake up America! I fear it's too late. When You stand up and voice Yourself Your labeled as a "Conspiracy Freak" it's so easy to dehumanize when You get a label. So simple to persecute and hide the truth. Why are the Marines manning check points in California. Why are so many being brought Home. Could it be for fear of food riots? I don't want to be seen as Paranoid or just another Whacko. The Truth is there. You have to get Your face out of the T.V. sitcoms and Bullcrap the Media feeds us to keep us distracted. You have to get Educated and to be informed. That's a start but that does not end it. Maybe this next Generation will be the ones to work to stop it all. My Generation Sold Out just like our Parents did. Look at this massive Debt that has been left to our Childrens Children. We are Screwed!

These cops deserve deportation from the Nation of California...

There are people who are in legitimate need of painkilling options without risking puting mass quantities of prescription drugs into their systems. I live in Oregon and personally know people who benefit from medicinal marijuana. The resource centers allow these individuals to reduce their pain without having to turn the streets and pay highly inflated prices. It is a shame that the federal government still has the ability to overturn the vote of the state and criminalize these helpful centers and or jail people who are legal to grow medicinally.

when I lived in AZ the people of that state voted not once but twice to legalize med. marijuana and the then governor of the state Fife Symington said I don't care what the people of the state want Im not signing the bill and he didn't. I all but lost what little faith I still had in the political process at that point. Fuck the cops and the dea and the gov. Fife Symington was later convicted of crimes and sent to the joint.[pun intended] Good for that rotten piece of shit. The people of AZ finally got legalized med. marijuana. and ole Fife got what he deserved.

And municipalities are balancing their budgets with their cut of the so-called "war on drugs" money. They’re profiting just as much as the underground trade. But to stoop so low & bust the easiest targets - medicinal MJ users & their supply clinics is heartless, leaving a lot of people in physical pain & distress. Why don't they bust some real gangsters? Or haven't you heard, there's a spike in juveniles smoking pot.

This is outrageous and sadly not surprising. People politically in power were growing political roots during the height of the terribly FAILED drug war and they don't want to give up to scientific fact. It's sad and their crave for power and control is killing the liberties and lives of Americans.

Welcome to the war against drugs scam ! The criminalization of pot is simply needed to fill the prisons & rationalize the private incarceration system… & they get to destroy the black community as a bonus… Business as usual !

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

Bring it on baby! We've been using this plant for thousands of years, it has slipped through the hands of everyone that has tried to keep it "off the streets". Why should we let this scare us? I say roll one up for the feds and chill.

who arrests the police when they break the law?

I remember there were a few scenes about this in the movie/documentary Super High Me. The fact that the police are ignoring a law that was VOTED in by the majority of voters and is supported by doctors is disgusting. Law enforcement is supposed to uphold the laws of the people and protect us from harm. By circumventing the state laws and siding with the federal agents, the police are not doing their sworn duty.

The only good news is that Obama has said that he will stop the federal prosecution of medical marijuana patients. We need to make sure he sticks to his words.