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Saturday, August 23, 2008


Joe Biden Coined The Term “Drug Czar”, Wrote Laws Banning Drug Paraphenilia

It turns out that Obama’s new running mate is one of the leading crusaders in the war on drugs.  Which isn’t something that’s likely to sit well with Obama’s base of young, college-aged supporters.

Earlier this week, in an interview with the Washington Post, Tommy Chong was asked what the average citizen can do to further the cause of decriminalization. “Check out the people you’re voting for,” Chong replied. “For instance, Joseph Biden comes off as a liberal Democrat, but he’s the one who authored the bill that put me in jail. He wrote the law against shipping drug paraphernalia through the mail - which could be anything from a pipe to a clip or cigarette papers.”

Barack Obama’s V.P. selection Sen. Joe Biden also spnsored the Rave Act, which targets music events where drug use is allegedly prevalent.

About medical marijauna, Biden has said: “We have not devoted nearly enough science or time to deal with the pain management and chronic pain management that exists. There’s got to be a better answer than marijuana.”

Biden coined the term “drug czar” and has championed the Office for National Drug Control Policy. 

If there’s anything in this country that needs the vaguely-invoked “change” Obama is always on about it’s the war on drugs (it costs us a hell of a lot more than Iraq does annually).  America suffers from one of the highest per-capita incarceration rates in the world (yes, we’re worse than China) and a majority of those incarcerations are tied to drug arrests.  We spend billions upon billions on fighting the prohibition of marijuana and other drugs, and to what end?  Drug use, particularly marijuana use, isn’t declining.

Meanwhile, politicians like Biden keep upping the ante in the “war on drugs.”  They come up with harsher punishments to inflate our already too-large prison populations, and new ways to invade our privacy and curtail our freedoms for the sake of making even more arrests.

Given that, is this really the guy Barack “Hope & Change” Obama wants on his ticket?

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Comments

Does anyone think biden will make citizen’s arrest on the hoards of pot transporters at the DemCon?


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RebTex on August 23, 2008 at 07:03 pm

My drug of choice is beer. How many young men have had any chance at a decent life destroyed by some over-zealous lawman, and judge, who apparently has no idea what a life is worth. A felony charge for a smoke is pretty steep, methinks. Anyway, whenever a cop stops you, for any reason, just say no. If they are intent on taking your life away make them spend a little effort doing it. As to hard drugs, make them free and uncut. After two weeks one half the users will have over dosed, the same for the following weeks, pretty soon, problem solved.

studakota on August 23, 2008 at 08:09 pm
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This article is total stupidity. Did McCain write this himself?

Look at the full quote: http://granitestaters.com/candidates/joe_biden.html

Joe Biden isn’t so bad on medical marijuana. The article totally misquotes him. Don’t be fooled into voting for the republicans by this crap!

Matthew Gordon on August 23, 2008 at 09:32 pm

This article is total stupidity. Did McCain write this himself?

Except from the pro-weed position, Biden has a worse record than Tom Tacredo. Only the statist big govt RINOS fares worse than him. HE gets a B-, Tancredo gets an A+.

The only credit to Biden is that he wants the federal raids stopped. Other than that, he has no clear record.


It’s all political bullshit. Liberals (and Robert108) lie and spin and twist and obscure and distract and cheat to protect their guys and hurt the opposing team. It’s like wrestling. They distract the ref while their team mate hits you with a chair. There’s no rule they won’t break, no law they won’t skirt, no crime they won’t forgive as long as they can win.

Kenny on August 24, 2008 at 12:25 am

Man this guy is a genius.


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goon on August 24, 2008 at 06:22 am

Just seeing a still photo of Joe Biden at FOX and comparing it to Walter, Jeff Dunham’s little buddy, I ask you are they the same dyspeptic old man? Yes, I know Walter is at least funny, but look at their faces and head, the grouchy demeanor and anger and I think we have a match:


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Neiman on August 24, 2008 at 07:30 am
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Obama and biden are made for each other. They’re both two faced. Any one gullible enough to vote for these guys may get exactly what they deserve. I detest McCain, too. He a hard line prohibitionist. Obama picked the long time washington insider Biden to be his prohibition hitman. This way he can keep his hands clean. While secretly taking bribes to keep cannabis illegal? But, don’t get too upset about all this deception. It’s been going on since the deceptive 1937 Marijuana Tax Stamp Act. The Electoral College actually picks our presidents, anyway. Often putting people into the White House who did not win the popular vote. So, we have two guys about to continue screwing us, for a long time. One is Obama, a disaster waiting to happen. The other is McCain who wants to openly continue the disaster of cannabis prohibition, amongst other things. There’s only one possible way to have any say in all this mess. We can all contact our elected officials/candidates and politely inform them that we demand an end to cannabis prohibition. That we want true controls over cannabis use installed via legalization. We can let them know that barring support for legalzation, we will either not vote for them, or we’ll vote for someone else. It only takes an active 10% of Voters to bring about change. This is why we must all be active, and don’t expect someone else to be active for you.

Antipro on August 24, 2008 at 07:41 am

Biden, r108, Neiman, and the pro-Drug War crowd can all get together and munch on some Doritos to celebrate their abysmal, wasteful, nanny-state agenda. After 20+ years, it ain’t working.

The other really sad part is that the War on Drugs is putting an overwhelming amount of young african americans in jail for what should be ticket-able crimes. Not a good ‘choici de veep’.

I’m sure McCain is pro-Drug War. Its the year of the wasteful nanny-staters.


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Sparkie Arbuckle on August 24, 2008 at 05:53 pm

“The other really sad part is that the War on Drugs is putting an overwhelming amount of young african americans in jail for what should be ticket-able crimes. Not a good ‘choici de veep’.”
. ..

What part of “against the law” do you think all these poor, young africans can’t understand?


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RebTex on August 24, 2008 at 06:06 pm

RebTex
That stings, for the Dems. Pick up on that?

That said, I am pro legalization.


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Sparkie Arbuckle on August 24, 2008 at 06:11 pm

The drug war is a farce.

If we really wanted to stop drugs, we’d have locked the borders down tighter’n a frogs’ ass stretched acrosst a rainbarrel.

But no.

The drugs sail on in, often with Mexican army escort and the US government puts Border Patrol agents in prison.

Something stinks here and the stink seems to be coming from a very high source.


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Move_Zig on August 24, 2008 at 06:21 pm

I got the point, Arbuckle.

If it’s deemed legal, I have absolutely no problem with it.
But when the very people charged with making our Laws are openly flaunting the breaking of the Laws, I have a problem.
Just as in Denver this week.
I wonder how loud the same folks would get if it were announced that the participants of the RepCon could carry their automatic weapons during the Convention?


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RebTex on August 24, 2008 at 06:35 pm

At least the campaign that imprisoned Chong was amply named: “Operation Pipe Dreams”.

That’s all the drug war’s goal is - a pipe dream.

likwidshoe on August 27, 2008 at 10:14 pm
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