There are a lot of interesting stories going on right now With the near certain death of the Euro and the ensuing Greatest Depression that will follow, not to mention the fact that war with Iran appears imminent in the next few months, some other stories are not getting the attention they deserve. Here's an interesting story from CBS news:
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/more-60-percent-males-arrested-2011-used-drugs-federal-survey-shows
In it, arrest records show sixty percent of all men arrested in 2011 tested positive for drugs. That figure is not shocking in and of itself, but WHAT the arrested are actually doing is.
The 10 cities in the survey were Atlanta, Charlotte, N.C.; Chicago; Denver; Indianapolis; Minneapolis; New York; Portland, Ore.; Sacramento, Calif.; and Washington, D.C.
The testing was done to detect the following drugs: marijuana, cocaine, opiates, amphetamines/methamphetamine, Darvon, PCP, benzodiazepines, methadone, and barbiturates. To be honest, I've never heard of Darvon, which not surprisingly is a painkiller.
Pot was the most common drug found in people but as it is a recreational drug for at least half the country anyway, this is not an unusual statistic and one more reason why not legalizing it is really quite stupid and short sighted.
The bigger shock is that cocaine use is down, a number that echoes the fact that coke is expensive and unaffordable to a majority of the populace struggling to get by. Also not surprising is that opiate use is WAY up thanks to the easily available prescription pills which kill more people than all other illegal drugs combined. Yet the DEA is making us safe by concentrating on weed which has never killed anyone. Shameful. When I was deathly ill you wouldn't believe the hoops one has to jump through to get painkillers on a steady basis thanks to the assholes abusing them. For those of us out there really suffering, the addicts and the DEA proved to be one giant pain in the ass with all the regulations put up to try to stop drugs from getting out to those that abuse them. If the regulations actually did anything other than affect those playing by the rules, I would be all for it but they don't and I'm not after all the pain and suffering those rules cost me. If I didn't loathe the DEA before, I certainly did after my back problems started.
Speaking of drugs, Trayvon Martin's autopsy report was released showing THC, or pot, in his system. Who cares? How does that affect what happened? More damning were medical reports released showing Zimmerman injured and signs that Martin was fighting such as bruised knuckles. Witnesses also state they saw Trayvon beating Zimmerman on the ground. This does not bode well for the Trayvon supporters which I have said, since day one, that we should wait until all the evidence was in before we start the gallows for Zimmerman. It also looks bad for the prosecution that has overcharged Zimmerman as I see no way they can prove 2nd degree murder. Manslaughter, maybe, but not what they charged him with.
The feds have talked about a possible hate crime possibility against Zimmerman which bodes the question, "Did Martin racially profile Zimmerman?" Martin seemed to have that black racist position taken by some minorities that whites are evil and deserve a beating as seen form his posts on line about "throwing down" with white bus drivers. These hate crime laws always seem to be white on black crime and never the vice versa, which seems odd as they both do happen and should be treated equally or eliminated. Trayvon was definitely affected by the thug life that black culture is so in love with and it got him killed. I really don't think either person is completely innocent in what happened but it is going to be hard to prove it one way or another. Expect rioting when Zimmerman walks free.
Lastly, let's talk about the waste of space Tea Party that are supposed to be the lovers of all that's free and good about the country but then killed a bill, proposed by other GOP members, to exempt the NDAA law from American citizens. This is one of the worst laws EVER signed into law and Obama was the one who did it. If the GOP wasn't so determined to be the neo-fascists they appear to be, I'd never vote for him again, but as the alternative is a United States that will be radically transformed into a place where the rich have everything while the rest of us starve, I have no choice but to vote Obama come November and hold my nose. I hope others will follow suit and vote ALL Republicans out of office who have proved to be a party no beholden onto anyone except the very rich.
The Tea Party and the GOP by extension are neo-fascist, demonstrated by every action they take. There are some, like Ron Paul, who are NOT to be lumped in with these losers and a few democrats, like Elizabeth Warren, who I think would do good things in Congress. Let's get rid of the dead weight people and save this country. As I've said many times, Hitler was elected into office. Do you honestly think that those that did expected concentration camps, genocide and a severe police state? We have the camps and police state already in place and all we need is a foe to rally around. That next attack by Muslims may be the false flag needed to get them all the power they need to really hang us.
Obama 2012. Yuck.
Friday, May 18, 2012
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