A Drug Dealer's Toll on Americans By Karen P. Tandy
And of course, not only is this BS, it's recycled BS... anonymous
CN Source: Washington Post March 29, 2006 Washington, DC

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Tandy sez: Marc Emery, who distributed millions of marijuana seeds throughout the country, admits the accuracy of the Drug Enforcement Administration's charges against him, but he denies harming Americans ["High Crimes, or a Tokin' Figure?" Style, March 18]

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"Medicines often produce side effects.
Sometimes they are physically unpleasant.
Cannabis too has discomforting side effects,
but these are not physical they are political"
The Economist March 28th 1992

DEA Release Admits Marc Emery Extradition Politically Motivated
The US Drug Enforcement Administration admitted on the day of Marc Emery's arrest that his investigation and extradition were politically motivated, designed to target the Marijuana Legalization organization that Emery spearheaded and ran for over a decade in Canada.
F U L L S T O R Y/4685.html

High Crimes, or A Tokin' Figure?
CBS: 60 Minutes Prince of Pot ~ Transcript
Prince of Pot Fights Extradition on Drug Charges

Canada's Supremes Cower Under DEAth Threats

Emery contends a news release issued July 29, the day of his arrest, reveals the U.S. government's intention to mute his efforts to advance the spread of marijuana. In the release, Karen Tandy, head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, wrote: "Today's DEA arrest of Marc Scott Emery, publisher of Cannabis Culture Magazine, and the founder of a marijuana legalization group, is a significant blow not only to the marijuana trafficking trade in the U.S. and Canada, but also to the marijuana legalization movement. ... Hundreds of thousands of dollars of Emery's illicit profits are known to have been channeled to marijuana legalization groups active in the United States and Canada."

Tandy's office has declined to comment about the statement, but locally, federal prosecutors have distanced themselves from her remarks.

The 'Virtues' of Ganja

The Ganjawar Fraud...

"Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way around, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise."
From Benito Mussolini contributing to the "London Sunday Express," December 8, 1935



NFL's Buzzkill

Fans Too Relaxed for Fights
Cannabis Helps Keep Fans Calm
Basketball Riots in L.A., Soccer Thugs in Europe
Euro 2000 Soccer Violence Could Vanish in a Puff

UNITED STATES DISPENSATORY also listed cannabis as a useful medicine. The 1851 edition states: The complaints in which it [cannabis] has been specially recommended are neuralgia, gout, rheumatism, tetanus, hydrophobia, epidemic cholera, convulsions, chorea, hysteria, mental depression, delirium tremens, insanity and uterine hemorrhage. Cannabis was removed from the US Pharmacopeia in 1942 because of political pressure from Harry Anslinger and the U S Treasury Department.



NORML: 68th Anniversary of Marijuana Prohibition
For the anniversary NORML has compiled some 'fun' facts and resources to help you get through another birthday.

"Several generations of high school students have grown up ignoring and disbelieving everything they've heard from government and police about drugs, including information that was factual and valid, because they discovered for themselves that most of what has been taught to them was simply not true."
Ann Shulgin, PhD, Therapist and Author, Lafayette, CA,
at the DPF Conference, November 1996

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Tandy sez:Like all dealers, Mr. Emery turns a blind eye to marijuana's victims -- people like Victoria Rogers, a mother driving with her children when she was killed by a marijuana-intoxicated motorist.

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Nebraska -- Rape. Murder. Drunk driving.
None of these crimes will cost college students their Pell Grants, but walking down the street with a joint could. As of July 1, 2000, a provision in the Higher Education Act mandated that students’ eligibility for federal financial aid be suspended if they are convicted under federal or state laws of offenses involving the possession or sale of controlled substances.

"Congress should definitely consider decriminalizing possession of marijuana... We should concentrate on prosecuting the rapists and burglars who are a menace to society."
U.S. Representative Dan Quayle, March 1977

CC:Cannabis and Driving
While acute cannabis intoxication has been shown to have demonstrable impact on psychomotor performance, these effects are typically mild and short-lived lasting at most one to three hours, and certainly not 24 hours, as claimed by the ONDCP. Moreover, unlike with alcohol, the accident risk caused by cannabis - particularly among those who are not acutely intoxicated - is often limited because subjects under its influence are generally aware of their impairment and compensate to some extent, such as by slowing down and by focusing their attention when they know a response will be required. This response is the opposite of that exhibited by drivers under the influence of alcohol, who tend to drive in a more risky manner proportional to their intoxication.

Marijuana is one of the world's most commonly used illegal drugs.
There are approximately 300 million users worldwide and 28 million users in the United States (Diaz, 1997)

300 million users worldwide vs "A" marijuana-intoxicated motorist?

Police officials lied to toughen laws...

"The only solution to the drugs problem is the legalisation of all drugs"
Sergeant Gordon Payne, Southampton Police

"This study indicates that there is little correlation between the use of ganga and crime, except insofar as the possession and cultivation of ganga are technically crimes"
Jamaican Study 1970

"Marijuana is not the determining factor in the commission of major crime....The publicity concerning the catastrophic effect of marijuana smoking in New York City, is unfounded"
The LaGuardia sub-committee of New York 1944

Police officers launch drive against pot decriminalization
Janice Tibbetts Vancouver Sun Monday 28 May 2001
Group cites 'weakening' moral values.
OTTAWA -- Canada's police officers will counter a growing movement to decriminalize marijuana by making a public call today for possession of the "gateway drug" to remain a criminal offence.

Fully Informed Jury Association
Erowid Freedom Vault : Jury Nullification
Trial by jury — Cato Institute

"It is not only his Right but his duty to find the verdict according to his own best understanding, judgment and conscience, though in direct opposition to the direction of the court"
John Adams Second USA President

Canadian Jury nullification

"The jury has the right to judge both the law as well as the fact in controversy"
Chief Justice John Jay USA

How FIJA Saved My Life! By D. Paul Stanford 
Source: CRRH  December 19, 1999

"The use of marijuana does not lead to morphine or heroin
or cocaine addiction and no effort is made to create a market for these narcotics
by stimulating the practice of marijuana smoking"
The LaGardia sub-committee of New York 1944

Our American Common Law

Juror Dismissed “For Handing Out Constitutional Propaganda”

Marijuana does not lead to physical dependency,
although some evidence indicates that the heavy, long-term users
may develop a psychological dependence on the drug"
The Shafer Commission of 1970

Jurors Tell Ed Rosenthal They're Sorry
Ed Rosenthal Trial Pics/News

"The jury has the right to determine both the law and the facts"
Samuel Chase, US Supreme Court Chief Justice 1796

Juries: Just Say No!

"The Jury has the power to bring a verdict in the teeth of both law and fact"
Chief Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes

An Essay on the Trial by Jury — Lysander Spooner

"The law itself is on trial quite as much as the case which is to be decided"
Judge Harlan F. Stone, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1941-1946

Jury rights quotes — Lone Star FIJA

"If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California,
in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one"
Judge James Grey, Orange County Superior Court, Santa Ana, CA, at the DPF
Conference, November 1996

Prison Profit and Slave Labor

Slave labor means big bucks for U.S. corporations

The Real Price of Prisons

'Relax Your Muscles as Much as Possible'

The stakes are high, public health experts said. "If you begin to use alcohol at a very young age, you have over a 40 percent change of being an alcohol-dependent person," said Faye J. Calhoun, deputy director of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism....
Legalise Cannabis To Cut Heroin Addiction

Center for Cognitive Liberty and Ethics

I do not think there is such a thing as not being able to cure an addict. Marihuana addicts may go to a Federal narcotic farm. But I have not seen many addicts who could not be cured. An addict could drop it and he will not experience any ill effects.
ANSLINGER: Sworn Congressional testimony 1937

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Tandy sez:Thousands of adolescents whose brains are still developing also suffer from depression, memory impairment and diminished judgment because of marijuana.

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Marijuana may block Alzheimer's

Cannabis prevents brain damage
Science Daddies Rejoice: Marijuana Prevents Brain Damage!

Cannabis Blocks Irreversible Brain Damage

Cannabis May Prevent Brain Damage
National Institute of Mental Health Study, But Reported In British Media

Dr J. H. Jaffe, The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics .
L.Goodman and A Gillman, 3rd edn. 1965.
"There are no long lasting ill-effects from the acute use of marijuana and no fatalities have ever been recorded ... there seems to be growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marijuana does not directly cause criminal behaviour, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addiction."

Marihuana, the Forbidden Medicine
http://www.rxmarihuana.com

Examples of the ways that marihuana alleviates symptoms of cancer chemotherapy, multiple sclerosis, osteoarthritis, glaucoma, AIDS, and depression, as well as symptoms of such less common disorders as Crohn`s disease, diabetic gastroparesis, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Study: Marijuana Eases Traumatic Memories

LaGuardia Commission Report, 1944
"Cannabis smoking] does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration... Those who have consumed marijuana for a period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed to the drug."

Food Stamps Become a Weapon in the War on Drugs

Drug Ruling Worries Some in Public Housing

US PA: The Informant, The Lies, The Injustice -and A Life Lost

The Lancet, vol 352, number 9140, November 14 1998:
"We.. say that on the medical evidence available, moderate indulgence in cannabis has little ill-effect on health, and that decisions to ban or legalise cannabis should be based on other considerations."

The Drug War Refugees

The Murder of Peter McWilliams
On 6/15, poet, publisher, Libertarian crusader, bestselling author of over 30 books (How to Heal Depression; Getting Over the Loss of a Loved One; The Personal Computer Book; Life 101; et al...), Peter McWilliams, died in his home, asphyxiated on vomit, for lack of medical marijuana. Remember Peter McWilliams the next time Drug Czar Walters claims the "drug war" is not really a "war." McWilliams had his computers siezed, his livelihood and works in progress destroyed, his finances frozen and bankrupted, his critical lifesaving anti-nausea medication- marijuana- denied, even his mother threatened with the loss of her bailbonded-home if Peter tested positive with one iota of THC in his system. The federal judge even denied McWilliams the right to use Marinol, "legal" synthetic THC available in pill form.

[t]Peter McWilliams: 1950 – 2000[/t]

Rainbow Farm Massacre
Federal and state police kill owner of Rainbow Farm
On the Friday before Labor Day 2001, rather than face a bail revocation hearing for holding an unauthorized marijuana rally last August Grover "Tom" Crosslin and Rolland Rohm retreated to Rainbow Farm...


Tom Crosslin - Nov. 10, 1954 - Sept. 3, 2001
Rollie Rohm - Dec. 27, 1972 - Sept. 4, 2001

The Return of Reefer Madness

'After Two Puffs, I Was Turned Into a Bat'

Drugwar Lies Linked to Schizophrenia

The Invisible Prohibition
The Marijuana Tax Act was prepared during two years of secret meetings, held by Treasury Department officials between 1935 and 1937. At no time was the American Medical Association consulted for an opinion on the health effects of Marijuana smoking and were not even informed that the meetings were taking place

Once-Secret Nixon Tapes Show Why US Outlawed Pot

Nixon Launched The 30 Years' War as Election Issue

Drug czars failing grades
It may be a surprise to some people born in, say, the last thirty years to know that major drug abuse is a relatively new problem. It's a product of drug prohibition and punitive enforcement.

"How many murders, suicides, robberies, criminal assaults, holdups,
burglaries, and deeds of maniacal insanity it (marijuana) causes each year,
especially among the young, can only be conjectured." Harry Anslinger

Czar Waldo's Pimp Patrol



"The commission has come to the conclusion that the moderate use of hemp drugs is practically attended by no evil results at all. ... ...moderate use of hemp... appears to cause no appreciable physical injury of any kind,... no injurious effects on the mind... [and] no moral injury whatever."
Indian Hemp Drugs Commission, 1894

Priming The Propaganda Mill

Drug Control Office Faulted For Issuing Tapes

Bad research makes headlines

Anti-pot propaganda 14 Mar, 2005
US feds are addicted to making up fake anti-pot news.

D.E.A.th Deceptions

Debunking "Gutter Science"

"I wouldn't answer the marijuana questions. You know why?
Because I don't want some little kid doing what I tried."
- George W. Bush, US President

Marijuana May Live Up To Be The Elixir of Life

'Cannabis' Acts as Antidepressant

Marijuana May Spur New Brain Cells

Marijuana Compound Spurs Brain Cell Growth

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Tandy sez:Users destroy their lungs because marijuana smoke contains 50 to 70 percent more cancer-causing chemicals than tobacco smoke.

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CANNABIS DOES NOT CAUSE CANCER

The U.S. federal government has failed to make public its own 1994 study that undercuts its position that marijuana is carcinogenic - a $2 million study by the National Toxicology Program. The program's deputy director, John Bucher, says the study "found absolutely no evidence of cancer." In fact, animals that received THC had fewer cancers. Bucher denies his agency had been pressured to shelve the report, saying the delay in making it public was due to a personnel shortage.
Cannabis is a safe medicine by Ian Williams Goddard
BOSTON, Jan. 30, 1997 (UPI)

Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco

http://feministing.com/limp

Researchers at the University of California (UCLA) School of Medicine have announced the results of an 8 - year study into the effects of long-term cannabis smoking on the lungs. In Volume 155 of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Dr. D.P. Tashkin reported: "Findings from the present long-term, follow-up study of heavy, habitual marijuana smokers argue against the concept that continuing heavy use of marijuana is a significant risk factor for the development of [chronic lung disease. ..Neither the continuing nor the intermittent marijuana smokers exhibited any significantly different rates of decline in [lung function as compared with those individuals who never smoked
marijuana. Researchers added: "No differences were noted between even quite heavy marijuana smoking and non-smoking of marijuana."

Marijuana Less Cancerous Than Tobacco

Pot Smoke: Less Carcinogenic Than Tobacco?

Cannabis in Costa Rica:
A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use; Institute of Human Issues.
"Users in our matched-pair sample smoked marijuana in addition to as many tobacco cigarettes as did their matched non-using pairs. Yet their small airways were, if anything, a bit healthier than their matches. We must tentatively conclude either that marijuana has no harmful effect on such passages or that it actually offers some slight protection against harmful effects of tobacco smoke"

Pot Less of a Cancer Risk Than Tobacco

More DEAth side tracking and avoiding reality. Tobacco “products” contain hundreds of deadly chemicals that when ignited and sucked into lungs cause harmful damage. Chemicals not added to Ganja. Ganja is a known expectorant, used in cough medications throughout Europe and America until the reefer madness fascism of the 1930’s. Also as a capillary dilator it can help open bronchial passages restricted by tobacco. That is unless you choose not to smoke. Ingestion can be done in food, liquid extraction's or bang drinks and with atomizers. No excuses! Just another red herring and hobgoblins to maintain profits perpetuating the Ganjawar. KP Tandy should be ashamed and if any of the DEAth mongers had souls they probably would be... DdC

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Tandy sez:That Mr. Emery sees no consequences of his actions does not change the fact that they destroy innocent American lives and that he should and will face legal consequences as a result.

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Psychosis, Hype And Baloney

The Kaiser Permanente study
"Marijuana Use and Mortality" April 1997 American Journal of Public Health". "Relatively few adverse clinical effects from the chronic use of marijuana have been documented in humans. However, the criminalization of marijuana use may itself be a health hazard, since it may expose the users to violence
and criminal activity."

Conservative Addiction Good, Liberal Addiction Bad!

"If the hideous monster Frankenstein came face to face
with the monster of marijuana he would drop dead of fright."
- Harry J. Anslinger

D.E.A.th Deceptions

Safer Choice
Change The Climate

There are 100,000 total marijuana smokers in the US, and most are Negroes, Hispanics, Filipinos and entertainers. Their Satanic music, jazz and swing, result from marijuana usage. This marijuana causes white women to seek sexual relations with Negroes, entertainers and any others...
Harry Anslinger, 1937 testimony to Congress in support of the Marijuana Tax Act.



People solicite seeds and ganja, not reversed.
No harm except drug czar deceptions, victims, jail terms, racism, religious fanatics money $$$$$,,, DdC

100 YEARS OF "JUST SAY NO" VERSUS "JUST SAY KNOW"
Reevaluating Drug Education Goals for the Coming Century
by Jerome E. Beck, Dr. P.H.

A particularly notorious example of this was the time Anslinger began to issue frequent press releases in 1935 that documented the horrible crimes committed by marijuana-intoxicated youth and/or addicts. With headlines announcing "The New Narcotic Menace" and the "Crusade Against Marijuana," articles that contained remarkably similar accounts appeared in major newspapers and national magazines. This was hardly surprising, in that mainstream media relied almost solely on the Federal Bureau of Narcotics (FBN) for their facts, figures, and requisite horror stories (Becker 1963). The success of Anslinger’s efforts in this particular instance was found in the smooth passage of the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 by Congress (Dickson 1968; Morgan 1981)



Boycott Radio Shack a KP Tandy Corporation

US Jamaican Study 1974
"... as a multipurpose plant, ganga is used medicinally, even by non-smokers. ....There were no indications of organic brain damage or chromosome damage among smokers and no significant clinical psychiatric,
psychological or medical) differences between smokers and controls." "No impairment of physiological, sensory and perceptual performance, tests of concept formation, abstracting ability, and cognitive style, and tests of memory" "[Cannabis smoking] does not lead directly to mental or physical deterioration... Those who have consumed marijuana for a period of years showed no mental or physical deterioration which may be attributed to the drug."

A Drug Warmongers Toll on Americans
By Karen Pee Tandy Corp.
Source: Washington Post (DC) Arlington
Sponsor: Radio Shack
Administrator Drug Enforcement Administration DEAth
Published: Wednesday, March 29, 2006
Contact: letters@washpost.com
Website: http://www.washingtonpost.com

"Dear Agent ..., please prepare all cases in your jurisdiction involving musicians in violation of the marijuana laws. We will have a great national round-up arrest of all such persons on a single day. I will let you know what day."
Harry J. Anslinger, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1947

Tommy Chong Gets The Joint
DEA Set To Battle Pot Advocates Over Hemp Use
Cannabis News Search: Keywords: reefer madness

"Not only are we here to protect the public from vicious criminals in the street
but also to protect the public from harmful ideas."
- Robert Ingersoll, first director of the DEA

About Pushing Back
Pushing Back provides up to the minute news on the Drug Czar his staff, and other national efforts that "push back" against the drug problem in America

A Focus on Underage Drinking
Our nation would face a public health nightmare if we had just as many illegal drug users as alcohol users. An important lesson on supply and demand ran in today's Washington Post after a local summit on underage drinking. The bottom line: the more expensive drugs are for users, the less likely they are to use or to begin using...

"There is a wealth of research that demonstrates that young people among all consumers are responsive to price," Hacker said in an interview. "Higher taxes and higher prices depress demand."

Booze $10-20
PCP $10-20
Crack $10-40
Meth $20-100
Heroin $50-100
Marijuana $300-400/oz

Drug Czar Discusses Random Drug Testing
and Harms of Marijuana During Visit to San Francisco
Director Walters discussed the benefits of random drug testing during a keynote speech to the National Student Assistance Association today in San Francisco. During numerous media interviews throughout the day, the Director noted that random drug testing of students is a non-punative, confidential, and effective way to deter drug use among high school students.

Student Assistance Program (SAP) process are referred and connected to the behavioral health care system at a much higher rate of almost 80% compared to other traditional means used throoughout the country.

Youth Hyping the Culture War



The Ganjawar Fraud

President Ronald Reagan, at the urging of then Vice President George Bush, appointed Carlton Turner as the White House Drug (czar) Advisor in 1981. Soon after Turner left office, Nancy Reagan recommended that no corporation be permitted to do business with the Federal government without having a urine purity policy in place to show their loyalty. Carlton Turner became a rich man in what has now become a huge growth industry: urine-testing.

The Ganjawar is a Product Sold by D.E.A.th to Profit Fascist

"Another weapon I discovered early was the power of the printed word to sway souls to me. The newspaper was soon my gun, my flag- a thing with a soul that could mirror my own."
Adolph Hitler

Prison and the War on Drugs
I've been doing a little bit of collaboration. Be sure to read Prison and the War on Drugs: Just Say No by Hypatia over at Glenn Greenwald's Unclaimed Territory. I provided an assist, and will be helping with a couple of other drug war posts there. If you're not familiar with Unclaimed Territory, it's a site worth reading regularly, if for no other reason than the outstanding coverage of the NSA warrantless search scandal.

US drug-war in Canada! 27 Jun, 2001
Cross-border drug war destroys Canadian sovereignty, as NAFTA helps DEA control RCMP in BC.

DEA International Conference Counter-Conference 19 Mar, 2006
The DEA is having their annual international conference in Montreal this year!

The Informant, The Lies, The Injustice -and A Life Lost
Philadelphia Daily News (PA) 24 Mar 2006

Cannabis in Costa Rica: A Study of Chronic Marijuana Use
Institute of Human Issues
"No significant health consequences to chronic cannabis smokers"

US: Police Finding It Hard to Fill Jobs 27 Mar 2006
Washington Post (DC)

Police Are the Prohibitionist Lobby in Canada 05 Mar, 2006
The Canadian War On Drugs is almost entirely fueled by police

US Drug Enforcement Administration Conference Coming to Canada 17 Mar, 2006
Activists planning protests against the Drug Enforcement Administration's annual conference in Montreal, May 8-11


Columbian farmer loses his legal crops from aerial spraying

US House Votes for Biological Drug War Weapons
by Sunshine Project News release (16 Mar, 2006)
On March 15th, The US House Voted to Advance Offensive Biological Weapons Plan
US House of RepresentativesIn an titanic fit of myopia, the US House of Representatives has passed a bill that advances a US plan to wage biological warfare against Colombia and other countries where illicit narcotics are produced. If passed by the US Senate, the bill (HR 2829) will require the US Drug Czar to quickly formulate a plan to field test biological weapons designed to eradicate illicit crops.

Cannabis for the Environment 04 Nov, 2005
Cannabis has many environmentally friendly uses


Cattle graze on poisoned land after aerial spraying

Environmental Weed 31 Oct, 2005
Plants Are Targeted By Anti-Drug Corporations


Columbian children with dead legal crops

US Government Surrenders Data on Drug Law to Avoid Court Battle
After being sued by one of the nation’s largest student organizations, Students for Sensible Drug Policy (SSDP), the U.S. Department of Education has agreed to waive a hefty fee and turn over data on the effects of a law that strips financial aid from college students with drug convictions.



Two Million Too Many National Vigil Day
Thoughts from Kevin Zeese, President of Common Sense for Drug Policy and advisor to The November Coalition

Cannabis Psychosis - the new reefer madness

U.S. Marijuana Party
Calls for the Resignation of D.E.A. Administrator Karen Tandy
Is the DEA hiding behind the pot seed laws to target its political foes?

Tandy opens her big mouth again

The story of RadioShack begins in 1919 in Fort Worth, Texas, with a chance meeting of two friends, Norton Hinckley and Dave L. Tandy (1889-1966).

John Hinckley was an Oklahoma-born loner who came from a wealthy family, growing up in the upper-class Dallas, Texas neighborhood of Highland Park.  His father was a self-made man successful in the oil business,

Ms. Tandy was Chief of the Asset Forfeiture Unit in the United States Attorney's Office in the Western District of Washington. She has lectured extensively on forfeiture law and practice, conducted international training, and developed a forfeiture teaching model for the American Bar Association. Prior to joining the Justice Department, she clerked for the Chief Judge of the Northern District of Texas. Ms. Tandy, a native of Fort Worth, Texas, is a graduate of Texas Tech University and a 1977 graduate of the Texas Tech Law School. She is married with two daughters.

RadioShack's World Head-quarters is located along the banks of the Trinity River in downtown Fort Worth, Texas.


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