Below this current message is the valis/maggie exchange on marijuana.
Valis, interesting quotes. However, they interviewed farmers in one southern
county where they had voted out the old sheriff who used federal money to
harrass the shit out of weed growing farmers, and elected a new sheriff who
was the brother of one of the largest farmers in the country. Said brother
had made no arrests for marijuana growing after over a year in office. (I
think it was 60 minutes, but it might have been dateline) interviewed the guy,
and it was truly, truly funny. The reporter would ask these direct, 'tough'
guy type questions such as 'in 14 months in office, you have made no arrests.
why do you think this is?' The brother would look in the air, scratch his
head, and look directly into the camera, saying "dunno." In fact, after
several minutes of questioning, this was all the guy said. But what kept
running through my mind the whole time was this: previously the old sheriff
had made all kinds of arrests with federal monies and the new sheriff was not
allowing the feds into the county at all. In my ignorance, I didn't think
this was possible. Anyone?
maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Maggie
<< > There have been several newsprogram reports lately about the extensive
> marijuana cultivation in the deep south: Georgia, Alabama, etc. Does
> anyone
> know exactly how true these reports are? I wonder if, now that the
> conservative farmers are making ends meet with marijuana cultivation,
> the weed
> will become legalized.
Valis:
Yes, there is a lot of that going on down south, particularly by Vietnam
vets who have managed to re-wire their political heads over the decades.
When I travelled through Kentucky some years ago people were talking about
almost nothing except the splendid gall of Democratic gubernatorial
primary candidate Gatewood Galbraith and his advocacy of legal pot farming
as an elixir of life for blasted counties like Harlan in the east Kentucky
coal country.
Below are some of his recorded political utterances. See his kickass site
at www.gatewood.com.
Personally I don't belief that all the _de facto_ or even _de jure_ changes
in the world will alter the Federal posture; come back in 15 years and
you'll see still more anti-pot fascism, more arrests, more prisons, more
high-tech snooping, and greater numbers of goons making good livings thus.
Nothing will change until said goons, and the pols and yawping know-nothing
preachers they depend on, are sent on a glorious heavenward journey.
The reason being that the ruling class wants to maintain society as an
industrial feedstock: docile, suggestible and stuck to the cross,
particularly now, as the primacy of America ceases to matter in the
the context of a global marketplace and its offshore banking spas.
The bourbon-and-water boys will never forget how high the waves of
rebellion mounted in the '60s, and the role of pot in altering attitudes.
That's why I'm ready for civil war right now.
valis
(`99 ??) The Last Free Man in America says ...
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* We can restore liberty by taking government out of our bedrooms, our
bloodstreams, our bladders, our brains, our businesses and our
back-pockets.* Gatewood '95
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Gatewood Galbraith
* We live in a police state. There's no doubt about it. When we walk
out of our home, get in our car and go down the street, they can set
up random roadblocks; make us get out of our car; bring up a dog to
sniff us and our car's contents. Do you think John Wayne would have
put up with that?
John's riding his horse down a trail. They drop a log in front of him
and say, "John, get down off that horse, let this dog sniff you, we're
going to take blood out of your arm and make you pee in this bucket."
I believe John Wayne would have said, "I'm afraid not, Pilgrim. This
is where I draw my line in the sand." I think The Duke would be with
me on this one.* Gatewood '91
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* Did my father's generation hit the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima
so their children would have to pee in a cup to hold a job in America?
* Gatewood '95
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* This new prohibitionist mentality is the cornerstone of a new, yet
old,
form of slavery where the "status" criminal is the fodder for dealing
anew in human beings. Fathers and mothers are condemned to
extraordinary
prison terms, torn from the arms of their distraught wives and crying
children, replaying those tragic scenes of forced family separation on
the auction block 150 years ago. The privatization of prisons has
further
institutionalized this dealing in human beings as a form of commerce
and
it is just as immoral and unchristian in this century as it was in the
past. The madness of slavery revisited! * Gatewood - The Synthetic
Subversion
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