HomeMy WebLinkAboutCOM 0102.032 2000-2002 WELL HERE WE ARE, YEAR NUMBER 2 OF THIS NEW MILLENNIUM AND AS
A PLANET, WE FIND OURSELVES IN THE SAME WARLIKE POSITION THAT HAS
BEEN SO PREVALENT IN THIS PLANET'S LAST 2,000 YEAR HISTORY.
AND WITH OUR ATTORNEY GENERAL, JOIiN ASHCROFT, DOING ALL HE CAN TO
USURP, ON A FEDERAL LEVEL, OUR CIVIL RIGHTS, BOTH IN MEDICAL
MARIJUANA ISSUES AND OREGON'S "DEATH WITH DIGNITY ACT" WE FIND
OURSELVES, NOT ONLY IN A WAR AGAINST TERRORISM, BUT ALSO WE FIND
OURSELVES IN A WAR ON OURSELVES. DIVIDE AND CONQUER
LAST THURSDAY 1/3/02 THERE WAS A MEETING IN KONA, WHICH BY THE
WAY WAS NOT COVERED BY THE (H T-H), A MEETING WHERE A NEW SET OF
RULES WERE INTRODUCED---RULES ON HOW THIS UNCONSTITUTIONAL WAR ON
OURSELVES WILL BE PLAYED. AGAIN DIVIDE AND CONQUER.
AND HERE WE ARE TODAY, ONCE AGAIN, TO GET REPORTS ON HOW MANY
PLANTS WERE ERADICATED AND HOW MANY COMPLAINTS RECEIVED.
AND THIS YEAR IS SOMEWHAT OF A MILESTONE, IN TfPIS, FAST BECOMING
FASCIST, HYPOCRITICAL, ABSURD PROGRAM. THIS PROGRAM, THIS YEAR IS
18 YEARS OLD----IN HUMAN LIFE OLD ENOUGH TO BUY THE LEGAL DRUG
TOBACCO, AN ADDICTIVE SUBSTANCE .THAT IS ONE OF THIS COUNTRY'S
BIGGEST KILLERS.
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18 YEARS OLD, OLD ENOUGH TO VOTE AND IT WOULD VOTE FOR ITSELF
~~'-ryio FOR WOULD YOU VOTE TO DO AWAY WITH YOURSELF AND DON'T KID
~ YOURSELF THIS PROGRAM HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN, WITH MANY, MANY
~ DEPENDENTS AND IN ITS 18 YEARS OF LIFE IT HAS BECOME SO STRONG
cg THAT "IT" CALLS THE SHOTS .
~ AND IN 18 YEARS IT HAS CHANGED ONLY ONE THING THE PRICE OF
~ MARIJUANA, IT HAS SOLVED NOTHING, BY ITS EXISTENCE, ONLY CREATED
MORE PROBLEMS AND HARDSHIPS FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS ISLAND.
L1HAT IS THE MOST SERIOUS PROBLEM. FACING HAWAII COUNTY TODAY ?
"THE INTOLERANCE AND DISRESPECT OF OTHER IDEAS AND LIFESTYLES."
TH I S PROGRAM I S 18 YEARS OLD AND I KNOW I T I S A HARD D I S C I P L I NE
TO BE FRIENDLY TO ALL, BUT SINCE WE ARE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, WE
MUST ALLOW ALL, WHO SO DESIRE, TO COME OUT AND SAY HOW THEY FEEL.
MY FEELINGS CAN BE SUMMED UP BY ONE QUESTION. WHAT PART OF
IT IS NOT WORKING THIS WAY DON'T YOU UNDERSTAND ?
SIX MONTHS AGO WHEN I APPEARED BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE I LIT AND
INHALED A SUBSTANCE SAYING, IN PROTEST I WILL DO SOMETHING I
HAVEN'T DONE IN 36 YEARS. UPON LEAVING THE CHAMBER REPORTER
JASON ARMSTRONG OF THE HAWAII TRIBUNE-HERALD SAID "HANK IS THAT
. A MARIJUANA CIGARETTE MY REPLY "JASON JUST AS I SAID IN MY
TESTIMONY WE LIVE IN A WORLD OF ILLUSIONS". WHAT IT WAS IS NOT
IMPORTANT WHAT APPEARED IN THE NEXT MORNING`S TRIBUNE-.HERALD IS,
"AS A PROTEST AGAINST THE GREEN HARVEST OPERATIbNS, HANK. ROBERTS
APPEARED BEFORE LAW MAKERS AT TUESDAY' S MEETING AND LI`I~ ~A~ '`I-IE
CLAIMED WAS A MARIJUANA CIGARETTE." `
I TRIED FOR SEVERAL MONTHS TO GET THEM TO RUN A RETRACTION.
BOTTOM LINE DAVID BOCK THE PAPER'S EDITOR CLAIMED THAT EVEN
THOUGH HE HAD VIEWED THE VIDEO OF THE MEETING WHICH PROVED ME
RIGHT, HE HAD TO SIDE WITH HIS REPORTER, WHO NOW TOLD HIM THAT,
OH NO HE DID NOT SAY IT IN TESTIMONY, HE TOLD ME IN PRIVATE AFTER
THE MEETING. THIS NEVER HAPPENED AND SINCE IT STARTED HERE, IN
THIS COMMITTEE, LET IT END HERE.
JASON I DO NOT KNOW WHY, BUT WHAT YOU QUOTEb ME AS SAYING IS A
LIE. AND MY LIFE IS NOT A GAME, AND I WILL NOT BE PLAYED.
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• Creates a criminal class of great wealth with the power to corrupt
• Provides profit motive for selling drugs to our youth
• Generates huge illicit profits that fzlnd terrorists and destabilize nations
• Wastes between $35 and $40 billion of our taxes each year
• Arrests nearly 1.6 million people each year, most just ordinary citizens
• Chips away at our Constitutional rights and liberties
• °Targets African-American and Hispanic communities
• Denies marijuana to patients :suffering with AIDS, glaucoma and cancer
• Spreads AIDS and Hepatitis C to the general population and to
newborns by denying clean needles to injection drug users
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Kevin Z~.se, President, Co~non Sense for I)ru~ Policy
3220 N Street, NW, X141, Washington, D.C. 20007
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