Month: October 2010

[From Saturday Night Live – Christine O’Donnell ad – Video – NBC.com]

Prop 19

With a month to go before California voters decide whether to legalize marijuana, Proposition 19’s opponents have pinned their hopes on desperate arguments that illustrate the intellectual bankruptcy of the prohibitionist position. Unable to offer a persuasive moral justification for continuing to treat marijuana users and suppliers like criminals, the No on 19 crowd has tried to distract voters’ attention with several bright red herrings. Here are five of the smelliest:

[From Pot Prohibitionist Prevarications – Reason Magazine]

Moms Unite to Legalize Marijuana | NBC San Diego: “A group of local mothers who believe legalizing marijuana will help end the war on drugs rallied outside San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis’ office on Tuesday to encourage her to support Prop 19.

‘Prohibition has failed, and the war on drugs is really a war waged against individuals and their families, so mothers are leading the charge once again to end drug prohibition — marijuana prohibition — just as a group of mothers did in the 1930s to end alcohol prohibition, not because they loved drugs and alcohol but because we love our children,’ said Gretchen Burns Bergman, a co-Founder and executive director of A New PATH (Parents for Addiction Treatment and Healing).

Regulating marijuana would mean that children would not have as much access to the drug and that police would be able to focus on other criminal matters, according to A New PATH.”

 

Neo-Nazi couple find out they’re Jewish – AOL News: ” Two Polish neo-Nazis who were childhood sweethearts and later became skinheads have discovered what for them is a shocking family secret: They’re actually Jewish.

Pawel and Ola, identified only by their first names, are the subject of a CNN documentary about Poles rediscovering their Jewish roots generations after their ancestors hid their religious identities to escape persecution during World War II.

A few years ago, Ola found out from Warsaw’s Jewish Historical Institute that both she and her husband are technically Jews. ‘It was unbelievable — it turned out that we had Jewish roots. It was a shock,’ she said.”

 

Chart Of The Day – The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan: “It’s easy as pie to generalize to millions of people the crimes of a few. We Catholics have had it done to us. And we can have it done to us again. So we should be bloody cautious about insane schemes to do it to 18 million fellow citizens.

The grotesque excuse ‘But the the first amendment is dead, and Islam killed it. There is no ‘freedom of speech’ or ‘freedom of religion’ with the threat of Muslim violence hanging over your head’ is rubbish. Cancelling the rights of 307 million people because you are, by your own admission, afraid is neither patriotism, nor courage, nor Christian fortitude. It is cowardice. And it is extra-special cowardice when you are ready to cancel your most precious national heritage because you are afraid of a speck.”

 

Big Alcohol Donates Money To Fight Legalization Of Pot: “One group that really doesn’t want the legalization of marijuana is big alcohol.

California Beer and Beverage Distributors, a group which includes Anheuser-Busch InBev, donated $10,000 last week to the campaign against Prop. 19 (via HuffPo).

Would marijuana legalization really cut into alcohol consumption?

Probably so. The interest group also includes Heineken, which knows from Amsterdam how legalization affects the market.

The real question is why haven’t pizza vendors and Netflix”

 

[From YouTube – Consequences]

[From YouTube – Parallels: PCRM Public Service Announcement]

[From YouTube – Maher’s 3rd clip: O’Donnell’s Dabblings]

?Napolitano on Arizona:

“I cannot begin to tell you how steamed I am when any government violates first principles of our Constitution. Never before in our modern history has an American government purported to give police the power to stop someone because of their appearance and then require the stopped person to prove a negative on the spot–namely, that he or she is not in the US illegally. In the American justice system, the government must prove everything about the defendant’s behavior; it is a profound violation of due process to impose upon the stopped person the obligation of coming forward with any proof of anything in order to avoid the summary loss of freedom. This is a consistent and unchallenged component of our jurisprudence. Someone should ask Governor Jan Brewer what an illegal alien looks like–she will not be able to answer. As well, can she tell of a person’s immigration status by looking at that person? I can’t imagine that she could answer in the affirmative, yet she has purported to give to police the mental subjective discretion to do so. This is East Germany and the ante-bellum South all in one.”

on Bush/Cheney:

“What President Bush did with the suspension of habeas corpus, with the whole concept of Guantánamo Bay, with the whole idea that he could avoid and evade federal laws, treaties, federal judges and the constitution was blatantly unconstitutional — and in some cases criminal,” Napolitano said. “They should have been indicted. They absolutely should have been indicted. For torturing, for spying, for arresting without warrants. I’d like to say they should be indicted for lying but believe it or not, unless you’re under oath, lying is not a crime.”

on Surveillance:

“Those who believe the Constitution means what it says should tremble at every effort to weaken any of its protections. The Constitution protects all “persons” and all “people” implicated by government behavior. So the government should be required, as it was until FISA, to obtain a 4th Amendment warrant to conduct surveillance of anyone, American or not, in the U.S. or not.”

News Hounds: Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano Is “Going Rogue?”: “Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano Is ‘Going Rogue?’ Reported by Priscilla – July 13, 2010 – Comments (13)

As pointed out by Jon Stewart, Fox ‘News’ senior judicial analyst, retired Judge Andrew Napolitano, doesn’t seem to be towing the ‘party’ line. What, what?! In a satirical montage about the right wing reaction to Arizona’s new immigration law, Stewart asked if Fox ‘News’ anchor, Megyn Kelly, would bring in Napolitano ‘to smack down Obama.’ He played a video clip of Kelly asking if the Obama administration ‘ginned up racial tensions over an issue that they apparently think has no legal merit?’ (Hey Megyn, have you been ginning up racial tensions with your not so ‘fair & balanced’ coverage of the Black Panther case?) Stewart ‘wondered’ what her anti-immigrant guest, Lou Dobbs, would say and then asked why she didn’t consult Napolitano as racial tensions ‘have nothing to do with it.’ He then played a video clip of the judge, on the Fox business network, stating that the law is unconstitutional and that it encourages racial profiling. What, what?! And now Napolitano is saying that Bush and Cheney ‘should have been indicted’ for torture. What, what?! Has Napolitano been taken over by an evil librul spirit or is this Napolitano really an evil librul shapeshifter? What would prompt an otherwise ‘reliable right wing source’ to speak this heretical blasphemy? Is Andrew Napolitano going rogue?”

 

[From YouTube – U.S. GOV can kill ANYONE including YOU without trial COVERTLY !!]

Obama Assassination Program: Shortlist Of US Citizens For Killing « The Tonka Report: “Sound too conspiratorial to be true? Like the cover-up ops of spy novels?

Well, it’s reality. And it is possibly the most bizarre, inhumane and abusive way that the White House is expanding its power over the American people.

It’s not an extremist belief or theory of the far right. It’s a fact that has been confirmed by The New York Times, The Washington Post and MSNBC and even documented by the far-left online magazine Salon.com. And it’s the gravest nightmare of U.S. citizens and abandonment of our Constitution to date: a presidential assassination program in which U.S. citizens are in the literal scopes of the executive branch based upon nothing more than allegations of terrorism involvement as the branch defines it.”

 

?And here’s Beck and Napolitano fulminating from the right about it:

?I’m all for this info getting out ANYWHERE, whatever the frame (including the completely insane Marxist/Weather Underground one that Beck applies to it). Just have everyone screaming about his assassination program against Americans. It’s all that matters on this point.

 

 

Obama’s Assassination Program

[From » Obama’s Assassination Program NoisyRoom.net: The Progressive Hunter]

Obama’s Assassination Program Could Be Used on American Peace and Environmental Activists Labeled as Terrorists « Bodhi Thunder: “Recently the FBI raided Peace Activists in Chicago and Minneapolis. The search warrants indicate that they were looking for connections between the activists and groups in Columbia and the Middle East.

One of those activists being investigated, Jess Sundin a longtime antiwar activist in Minneapolis, had this to say about the government’s investigation”