Wha?
DOH!
Grumble grumble grumble.
I wonder why they put that on their priority list, when there's so much else that needs doing:
Missing women:
http://www.missingpeople.net/home.htmlMissing children:
http://www.mcsc.ca/photo_dir/default.aspRCMP most wanted:
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/wanted/index_e.htmI guess busting the hemp store guy was less work.
I think you guys should charge the police with genocide:
1) The same folks that created and funded and profited from the Nazi's also created and funded and profited from the drug war:
http://www.cannabisculture.com/news/gwbayer2) The Nazi's had THEIR OWN drugwar:
"Germany needs the strength of every single man for the development of its national and economic freedom. Therefore, no German has the right to impair his strength through alcohol abuse. Such action is detrimental not only to himself, but to his family, and above all, to his people."
- Heinrich Himmler, 1938. (42)
"Rauschgiftbekaempfung" meant literally "the combatting of drugs." It was a policy coordinated by the Reich Health Service within the Ministry of the Interior. It was part of the same bureaucratic labyrinth that included the departments of hereditary science and racial hygiene, and much of its policy-making was conducted by Nazi physicians. An unholy alliance of Nazi eugenics and American prohibition, Rauschgiftbek"mpfung unsuccessfully attempted to undo centuries of traditional social behavior. (43)
As in America, industrial hemp was being grown in Germany for the war effort. Similar to New York Mayor LaGuardia's 1944 investigation into the effects of cannabis, the Nazi's allowed cannabis research to continue through the 1930's. (44) When the war began, Germany's research ended.
Addicts of morphine and cocaine were locked up starting in 1941 by the "Reich Bureau for the Struggle against Addictive Drugs," a project under the direction of Reich Health Fuhrer Dr. Leonardo Conti. (45) Dr. Conti also conducted medical experiments on those he locked up. He was responsible for the killing of a large number of Germans of "unsound mind." (46)
http://www.cannabisculture.com/news/gwbayer(3) The only public mass executions for "criminal offences" anywhere in the world are for the drug war:
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2119.html(4) Everything they are doing to us, the Nazi's did to their scapegoats in the 1930's.
http://www.forces.org/evidence/pharma/conclusions.htmDrug Warriors And Their Prey by Richard Lawrence Miller
Usenet citizens generally realize that once an agument has reached the point where "the Hitler analogy" is advanced, the discussion is over. Analogies have been taken to the limit of absurdity and there is nothing more to say. That was my immediate reaction to this book, which compares the systematic destruction of American drug users to the systematic destruction of Jews in Nazi Germany. But I kept reading. Miller builds his case slowly and carefully, and, at the moment you realize that the parallels are indeed exact, your blood runs cold, and you experience terror and dread -- for your country, for what you thought were its values, and for freedom itself. The simplicity with which ordinary people can be signed up for campaigns of destruction against their neighbors is utterly terrifying. Miller follows the five-step process by which ordinary citizens are removed from the social and economic life of their nation, deprived of property, and finally deprived of life itself: identification, ostracism, confiscation, concentration, and annihilation. Mandatory drug testing has so permeated society that it is essentially impossible to become employed without undergoing it. But if drug use produces the obvious deficits in performance that we are told it does, then why are special laboratory tests required to identify drug users? If a person's job performance is exemplary, what does it mean when we fire that person because of molecules detected in his urine? American drug users are identified and pushed out of society and the economy. What is the next step? This book will wake you up to an obscenity that has been going on right under our noses for decades. History shows that it is not too late to shake off our collective slumber and set things right. An absolute must-read for anyone interested in the long war America has been waging on a group of entirely ordinary citizens.
http://www.etfrc.com/ReadingRoom.htm(5) The United Nations anti-Gencide treaty was written in response to Nazi Germany - the war on cannabis users, growers and dealers meets every criteria that the United Nations use to define genocide:
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htmIf scapegoated groups are not allowed to refer to Genocide until they are being executed in large numbers, then history is useless and we shall keep having genocides until the human race exterminates its self.
I have yet to hear a compelling argument that negates the five above points. As a half-jew I resent some people laying claim to the term "genocide" as it it were only to be used to refer to the killing of Jews (and perhaps the native peoples of North America).
I give the last word to those who watched the Vancouver Police come down hard on the pot community 35 years ago:
March 14, 1969, Georgia Straight.
Don't carry cannabis in your car. Don't walk around with it on your person. You might me stopped and searched at any time, not by a narc, but by an ordinary traffic cop, a cop on the beat, or one driving a paddy wagon. Quietly, without the usual fanfare, every policeman in every major Canadian city has been trained and ordered to search every young person who might possible be a head. Anyone with longish hair. . .
Genocide is a term poularized by the trials of the Nazis at Nuremburg. It's reality is as old as history, still with us, still practiced in various forms by US and Russian imperialists. But genocide is not homocide. Consider the roots of the word: genus, type or kind, and cedere, to kill thus, to kill, not individuals, but their individualistic traits, their community, their kind . . .
Essentially genocide is the utmost expression of cultural imperialism - the practice of stripping a people of their particular cultural characteristics, and imposing on them by force the "proper way of life." Thus in practice the powers-that-be use minimum force - arresting enough to dampen enthusiasm, but not quite enough to provoke resistance. Our power structure prefers to rule with that special mix of police terror and material reward which is the trademark of modern "democratic" totalitarianism. BRAVE NEW WORLD has been married to 1984.
http://www.cannabisculture.com/backissues/mayjune96/grasstown.htmlAnd from a Gastown merchant who observed the Gastown Police Riot of 1971:
"If we don't do something now, it's going to be just like Germany in 1935, with people looking out from behind their curtains as the police do whatever they want." - Vancouver Sun, Aug. 9, 1971
Here is the definition of Genocide according to the United Nations:
The United Nations anti-Gencide treaty was written in response to Nazi Germany - the war on cannabis users, growers and dealers meets every criteria that the United Nations use to define genocide:
Article II: In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
http://www.preventgenocide.org/law/convention/text.htmThis treaty was Adopted by Resolution 260 (III) A of the U.N. General Assembly on 9 December 1948. It's Entry into force: 12 January 1951
Now we will deal with criteria (c) in the Genocide treaty, as it pertains to drug users, growers and dealers in general, and cannabis users, growers and dealers in particular. Any time a prohibitionists expresses their desire to live in a "drug free society", they allow us to qualify for protection under criteria (c).
Can a society become drug free? A few Australian towns and a small number of individuals, some in senior positions, are pursuing this cause. Some cities in the USA and Europe are also. Sweden has adopted the ideal of a drug free society nationally. In 1998 the UN formally set a target date, 2008, for ridding the world of the "scourge of drugs".
http://www.ffdlr.org.au/commentary/CleanSociety.htmUSA:
The Drug-Free Ambassadors program (called Drug-Free Marshals in the United States) is sponsored by the Church of Scientology International and local Scientology churches around the world.
http://www.scientology.org/en_US/news-media/briefing/drug-free/index.htmlDrug Free America Foundation, Inc. is a drug prevention and policy organization committed to developing, promoting and sustaining global strategies, policies and laws that will reduce illegal drug use, drug addiction, drug-related injury and death.
Drug legalization and permissive drug policies will lead to a greater availability of dangerous drugs in our communities and undermine each nation's commitment to law enforcement, health care, education, commerce and the family.
Accordingly, Drug Free America Foundation commits to the following objectives:
Opposing efforts that would legalize, decriminalize or promote illicit drugs or promote illicit dug use.
Encouraging citizens of all nations to strive for drug-free homes, schools, workplaces and communities.
Advocating abstinence-based drug education in our schools and teaching our children healthy alternatives to drug use.
Educating employers about the dangers of illicit drug use in the workplace and the important role of drug-free workplace programs.
Supporting law enforcement and drug interdiction efforts.
Promoting cooperation between national and international leaders and governments to develop and implement polices and laws that will reduce drug use and abuse.
Improving global communication between scientists, researchers and physicians to advance our knowledge of drug abuse, addiction and treatment.
Sharing our knowledge, resources and experience with others working to prevent or eliminate illicit drug use.
http://www.dfaf.org/about/The Partnership for a Drug-Free America is a nonprofit coalition of communication, health, medical and educational professionals working to reduce illicit drug use and help people live healthy, drug-free lives.
The Partnership?s research-based, educational campaigns are disseminated through all forms of media, including TV, radio and print advertisements and over the Internet. In our 18-year history, we have utilized the pro-bono work of the country?s best advertising, PR and interactive agencies, and the donated time and space of major media, to create the largest public service campaign in the nation?s history.
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/About/The American Society of Addiction Medicine (ASAM) will sponsor three Medical Review Officer Training Courses in 2005. The course is a comprehensive review of federal drug-free workplace requirements, as well as the clinical aspects of MRO practice.
http://www.asam.org/Canada:
However, we are seeing new problems and categories that are causing us to question the ideal of a drug-free society.
http://www.parl.gc.ca/37/1/parlbus/commbus/senate/com-e/ille-e/presentation-e/kokoreff4-e.htmSweden:
A drug-free society
For some time now, Sweden has been working to reduce the use and presence of drugs in the country. In January 2002, the Government presented a national action plan on narcotic drugs. In it, the objectives of Swedens drug policy were set forth. The vision is that Sweden should be free from drugs.
The Swedish drug policy is set forth in three principal objectives:
to reduce the number of new recruits to drug abuse,
to encourage more drug abusers to give up the habit, and
to reduce the supply of drugs.
http://www.sweden.gov.se/sb/d/2943Pakistan:
The PM said that government's ultimate objective was to create a drug-free society and it was working on a long-term socio-economic strategy so that drug-use could be discouraged.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_27-6-2005_pg7_30Do you need more proof? Here, watch these two shows I did on the subject for PTV:
http://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-3096.htmlhttp://www.pot-tv.net/archive/shows/pottvshowse-2119.htmlQuestions remain ....
When will the lawyers of the movement start to use the G word?
Or will it be brought up only after it's too late?
Look at the legal definition of "Nation":
"An independent body politic. A society of men united together for the purpose of promoting their mutual safety and advantage by the joint efforts of their combined strength." - Boviers Law Dictionary, 3rd Edition, 1984
"People distinct from other people, USUALLY because of language or government." - Pocket Dictionary of Canadian Law, 2nd Edition, 1995
I think we qualify using either definition.
Here are some more definitions of "nation", just in case you're interested:
The oft quoted words of Rupert Emerson emphasised the subjective attributes of a nation:
'The simplest statement that can be made about a nation is that it is a body of people who feel that they are a nation; and it may be that when all the fine spun analysis is concluded, this will be the ultimate statement as well'. (Rupert Emerson: From Empire to Nation - The Rise to Self-Assertion of Asian and African Peoples, 1960)
Seton-Watson echoed these words when he declared:
"All that I can find to say is that a nation exists when a significant number of people in a community consider themselves to form a nation, or behave as if they formed one. It is not necessary that the whole of the population should so feel, or so behave, and it is not possible to lay down dogmatically a minimum percentage of a population which must be so affected. When a significant group holds this belief, it possesses 'national consciousness'." (Hugh Seton-Watson, Professor of Russian History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University of London:* Nations & States - Methuen, London 1977)
"But what is a nation? Many great thinkers have applied their minds to this. Many answers have been given, often conflicting, and usually confusing. One of the truest and most moving descriptions I know was contained in a short essay by a little known professor of Ohio University. About 40 years ago Professor Taylor wrote: Where and what is a nation ? Is there such a thing ? You would answer that the nation exists only in the minds and hearts of men. It is an idea. It is therefore more real than its courts and armies; more real than its cities, its mines, its cattle; more real than you and I are, for it existed in our fathers and will exist in our children. It is an idea, it is an imagination, it is a spirit, it is human art. Who will deny that the nation lives?" (Achmed Sukarno : Address to The National Press Club - 1956 Department of State Bulletin)
"A portion of mankind may be said to constitute a nationality, if they are united among themselves by common sympathies, which do not exist between them and any others - which make them cooperate with each other more willingly than with other people, desire to be under the same government...
...This feeling of nationality may have been generated by various causes. Sometimes it is the effect of identity of race and descent. Community of language, and community of religion greatly contribute to it. Geographical limits are one of its causes. But the strongest of all is identity of political antecedents; the possession of a national history, and consequent community of recollections; collective pride and humiliation, pleasure and regret, connected with the same incidents in the past." (*John Stuart Mill: Considerations on Representative Government. London 1872)
http://www.tamilnation.org/nation.htmMr. Weinglass: Where do you reside?
Abbie Hoffman: I live in Woodstock Nation.
Mr. Weinglass: Will you tell the Court and the jury where it is?
Yes. It is a nation of alienated young people. We carry it around with us as a state of mind in the same way as the Sioux Indians carried the Sioux nation around with them.
-The Conspiracy Trial (transcripts), 1970, Bobbs-Merrill, p. 344
http://www.libs.uga.edu/darchive/hargrett/maps/1884r6.jpghttp://www.usd.edu/iais/images/sious2.gifSIOUX RESERVATIONS IN PLACE BY 1900
http://www.usd.edu/iais/siouxnation/tst.htmlAs the end of the nineteenth century drew to a close, the few remaining free-roaming Indian tribes were pushed onto reservations and forced to become dependent on government rations and relinquish their customary way of life. In addition, throughout the century there had been numerous armed conflicts between the U.S. army (which was carrying out the government policy of manifest destiny) and the Indian tribes who resisted the destruction of their own cultural values. In particular, tension between the U.S. government and the Sioux nation escalated after the Indians, led by Sitting Bull, defeated Gen. George Custer at The Battle at Little Bighorn in 1876.
http://www.bgsu.edu/departments/acs/1890s/woundedknee/WKsioux.html1889 - The Sioux sign an agreement with the U.S. government
breaking up the great Sioux Reservation. The Sioux will get six separate small reservations. The major part of their land was thrown open to settlers.
http://www.hanksville.org/daniel/timeline2.htmlConversion is a form of destruction. If you tell all Jewish people all over the world to "convert or be jailed" - that's Genocide, even if nobody is put to death. If conversion is what the prohibitionists want, we still qualify under section "c" of the genocide treaty definition.
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