I can't help but wonder and worry if some of the language used by the cannabis community doesn't have a tendency to attract the scrutiny of the CIA, NSC, DIA. FBI, TSA, and god knows what other kooks bush has unleashed, along with the israilies, the british, the french and all the other intelligence agencies in the world.

Terms and words like "afganistan", "AK 47, "Pakistan", "Iranian", " the bomb", "drugs", "Hashish", and the thousands of other terms and words that show up in threads like this one that are flags for the dragnet computer programs that these intelligence agencies use, scare the hell out of me. And im sure the gung ho ideologs manning these wiretapping agencies are lurking on every thread, misinterpreting every other sentence and then turning their misguided conclusions over to others for further invesitgation.

Am I the only person concerned with this or are there others.?

[anikas88]

lol, yeah ive thought of this too when im high, im pretty sure words like afganistan pakistan and ak47 in a same sentence do set off some bells, i dont see them really raiding your place or the servers, but i have not doubt LEO visits places like this,

[teddybud]

theres always goin to be leo lurkin and watching.. comes with the territory.

[whiterabbit9]

lol

funny i was just smoking ak47 the other day

What if I was to say I got some Bomb Afghanistan thats gonna blow fucking heads off!!!Would that be a bad thing?

[southflorida]

there is a zillion more things out there than they can do something with....there is billions of us smokers....and only a few of those mofos....so fu..k them all....as some french singer put it in her song

[Papa_Moña]

if there were billions of smokers, that'd mean a third of the world's population smokes, which, in the US might be true that at more than a third of the population smoked pot at some point(those babyboomer hippies put us straight in the majority, hehe), and in the westernized world about a 15-20 percent of the population should theoretically be smokers, you gotta realize that in mcuh of the world there is no cultural exposure to cannabis,be it strictly because of cultural norm, or because of economic strife.

hmm... i must be very stoned to take all this time jsut to say there can't be billions of us...

[PazVerdeRadical]

hello silverback, the title you chose for the thread exemplifies well your point


" Obviously, we cannot continue to think about drug use in the same old ways. As a global society, we must find a new guiding image for our culture, one that unifies the aspirations of humanity with the needs of the planet and the individual. Analysis of the existential incompleteness within us that drives us to form relationships of dependency and addiction with plants and drugs will show that at the dawn of history, we lost something precious, the absence of which has made us ill with narcissism. Only a recovery of the relationship that we evolved with nature through use of psychoactive plants before the fall into history can offer us hope of a humane and open-ended future.

Before we commit ourselves irrevocably to the chimera of a drugfree culture purchased at the price of a complete jettisoning of the ideals of a free and democratic planetary society, we must ask hard questions: Why, as a species, are we so fascinated by altered states of consciousness? What has been their impact on our esthetic and spiritual aspirations? What have we lost by denying the legitimacy of each individual's drive to use substances to experience personally the transcendental and the sacred? My hope is that answering these questions will force us to confront the consequences of denying nature's spiritual dimension, of seeing nature as nothing more than a "resource" to be fought over and plundered. Informed discussion of these issues will give no comfort to the control-obsessed, no comfort to know-nothing religious fundamentalism, no comfort to beige fascism of whatever form. " Terrence McKenna, from Food of the Gods

Paz

God we're all on the radar screen now. There's probably bells and whistles going off in some basement somewhere!!
Paz, Im with you brother. It gets worse all the time.

If the TSA has a million entries on their "terrorist watch list", who the hell are they?

My real hope is that the US will get a new president that doesnt urinate on himself evertime he hears the word terrorist, or toss the bill of rights out the window because his fear is guiding his every decision. People like that tend to surround themselves with like minded people. Their just "keeping us safe"

Seems like this thinking is coming straight from the man himself.

We don't really hear much specifically about "the war on terror" anymore. The State department has officially excised the use of the terms islamofascism, radical islam, even terrorists. Instead, they're militants and insurgents. Iran used to be part of the "axis of evil" and now we're in the infancy of diplomatic relations for the first time in 30 years.

I don't really care much about the "terr-a-ists". What scares me is when the man starts doing stuff like redefining our situation and official terms for people they used to call by other names. This almost always ends up with normal folks like us getting some sort of shaft rammed someplace uncomfortable.