Eliminate the Violent Black Market, Reduce Drug Use

by | May 22, 2011 | 12 comments

Since 2001, when alcohol sales began funding prevention services following passage of Gordon’s bill, the state has seen a 23.8 percent reduction in underage drinking, said Linda Paquette, executive director of New Futures, an advocacy group for substance abuse services.

That sounds laudable to me: reduced alcohol addiction/abuse and no violent black market created.

The same thing could be true of other drugs if politicians would only have the courage to think critically about it.  When criminals control the drug market, there is no harm reduction.  They’re criminals, remember?  They want to sell more drugs, not less.  They don’t want to help educate people about the dangers of their behavior.  They want to make money.

The article talking about the success of alcohol harm reduction (and it’s threatened continuation) is in today’s Concord Monitor here.

Ron Paul announces his 2012 bid for the presidency

by | May 13, 2011 | 1 comment

“I’m officially announcing that I am a candidate for president in the Republican primary“– Ron Paul, earlier today, on Good Morning America.

Shortly thereafter he spoke to a gathering in the town hall of Exeter, NH. The hall was packed and overflowing with energy. (Some of us Keeniacs were in attendance.)

Expect video from the event soon from Dave Ridley, Biker Bill, Judge Napolitano, Megan from Silver Circle Underground, mainstream news networks, and more.

Be Proud, New Hampshire

by | May 12, 2011 | 2 comments

“A bill to reaffirm the authority of the Department of Defense to maintain United States Naval Station, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as a location for the detention of unprivileged enemy belligerents held by the Department of Defense, and for other purposes” has just been introduced by New Hampshire’s own United States Senator Kelly Ayotte.

I wonder if Senator Ayotte had been born in Afghanistan and watched as her innocent family was black-hooded and taken away to Guantanamo if she would still exhort such deplorable treatment of human life.

Colonel Wilkerson, who was General Powell’s chief of staff when he ran the State Department, was most critical of Mr Cheney and Mr Rumsfeld. He claimed that the former Vice-President and Defence Secretary knew that the majority of the initial 742 detainees sent to Guantánamo in 2002 were innocent but believed that it was “politically impossible to release them”.

CopBlock.org featured on Adam vs THE MAN

by | May 11, 2011 | 0 comments

Adam Kokesh is a former marine, congressional candidate and activists who has taken his message to RT with ADAM vs THE MAN. The show airs daily Monday through Friday at 7 pm central and tonight I was on the show to talk about CopBlock.org and police accountability.

I’m glad that Adam choose this topic and that CopBlock.org was asked to speak. It means we’re making progress, yet, we have a long way to go. More people need to get involved, question authority and stop paying (taxes) for the government’s protection services. Let’s allow those “good cops” to conduct good business, which most likely wouldn’t consist of caging victimless offenders at alarming rates, instead of the government’s for profit (while being taxed) and control methods.

 

Thanks to Beau Davis, newest member of LibertyOnTour.com, for editing this video.