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America's new Drug Czar sailed thru the Senate confirmation process with a 91 to 1 vote! Former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, encountered no obstacles to his confirmation from Republicans or Democrats.

Kerlikowske is considered to be a pragmatist and much more likely to listen to a wider spectrum of opinions on drugs than previous Drug Czars who hardlined against marijuana, even medical marijuana which is still classified as having no medical value!

So hopefully the endless drug wars will at least get a second look by this new bureaucrat.

Read more here:
http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/05/obamas_drug_czar_sails.php
 
FreedomFGHTR

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Why do we need a "Drug Czar" anyways? Waste of money and resources if you ask me. But hopefully this guy can do something other than be another talking head with size issues.
 
spadedNfaded

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A major law enforcement officer that upheld the people's vote even though he didn't totally agree? I like this man already! Listen to America, Kerlikowske. And you will be well liked.

- SubN
 
shack

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yeeehawww,this country(US)needs to open its fucking eyes and stop arresting people for growing weed.
There just might be a light at the end of the tunnel.
 
turbolaser4528

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91 to 1? kinda makes me think he's paid off or something, I just don't trust the government. Congress is probably paid off too, what did they have a 4% approval rating just last year? Makes me wonder if they are just that out of touch, or they have a hidden agenda.:dueling:
 
belfast

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Why in America a county that calls it self a Republic does it need so many czars.
The word Czar means Emperor or Caesar.

Hail Caesar.
 
SkareCrow

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belfast said:
Why in America a county that calls it self a Republic does it need so many czars.
The word Czar means Emperor or Caesar.

Hail Caesar.
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yea the whole Czar thing has really pissed me the fuck off.

why the fuck would they use the word czar in the first place considering its obvious references to the old russian monarchy.


but I do agree that this dude from seattle will be much more open to mary j. most cops admit that cannabis being illegal just causes more problems.
 
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spadedNfaded said:
A major law enforcement officer that upheld the people's vote even though he didn't totally agree? I like this man already! Listen to America, Kerlikowske. And you will be well liked.

- SubN
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Isnt that what elected officials are SUPPOSED TO DO ANYWAYS!!!!


THE VOTERS ARE THE VOICE!!!

we shall find out what happens in the next few years. i have a feeling they will throw us legal marijuana to appease anti government tensions because people are getting sick of their BS and the banks controlling our country, they will give us MMJ to keep americans from revolting!
 
BobbleheadJed

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belfast said:
Why in America a county that calls it self a Republic does it need so many czars.
The word Czar means Emperor or Caesar.

Hail Caesar.
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Ask Vice President Joe "Lock up Chong and his Bong" Biden. He is the one drug war waging politician most responsible for creating the Drug Czar bureaucracy. Expanding the drug war and federal criminal law are crowning achievements of Joe Biden's Senate career. Joe Biden was rewarded for his war efforts resulting in hundreds of thousands of American human beings being locked in cages with the Vice Presidency by Barack Obama.

We have Czars because Democrats like Joe Biden and Barack Obama, and Republicans would LOVE to have that kind of power over us serfs. They aleady tax poor families more harshly in places like Chicago than Russian Czars did to their serfs. Republicans and Democrats see no problem using the word Czar to refer to the power taken from us individuals because they have become no better than power abusing Czars themselves.

The revolution is coming. You can't stop the truth.
 
Snagglepuss

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another snippet.....

Seattle Times Editorial
Source: Seattle Times

Seattle, WA -- Former Seattle Police chief Gil Kerlikowske is making headlines by making clear the nation's new drug czar intends to scrap the frayed and fractious "war on drugs" for a fresher description.
He is absolutely right, words do matter. The "war on terror" was more than hyperbole for the Bush administration, which used the phrase to invoke, and invent, all manner of executive powers and prerogatives the country is still learning about.

Kerlikowske, the Obama administration's director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, wants to promote treatment over sending drug users to jail: "Regardless of how you try to explain to people it's a 'war on drugs' or a 'war on product,' people see a war as a war on them," he told The Wall Street Journal. "We're not at war with the people in this country."

Kerlikowske has his own long law-enforcement career to draw on, but he was also exposed to successful use of drug courts in King County, which work to steer those convicted toward help and away from being locked up. National experience with diversion and drug courts found them to be half as expensive as prison time.

Resources for law enforcement and the bricks and mortar of jails and prisons is clearly an issue for the administration, and states and local governments around the country. Locking people away yielded dubious results at very high costs to public treasuries.

The Obama administration already decided not to go after medical-marijuana facilities in states that changed local laws, laws in tension with federal regulations. The president campaigned on lifting a federal ban on needle-exchange programs that seek to reduce HIV infections.

The United States is working through the consequences of three decades of policy that was no more creative than lock 'em up, forever. Columnist Neal Peirce has reported on an unintended consequence to prison reform: politically powerful unions representing tens of thousands of guards. Prisons are employment centers in many states.

Kerlikowske raises important points about treatment versus incarceration as he assumes his new job. He will accomplish none of the good ideas — including banishing the war on drugs — without the steady support of his new boss, President Obama.

Note: The nation's new drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, wants to move federal policy toward treatment and away from incarceration. He begins with a good idea, scrap the "war on drugs" for a description that does not sound like the country is against its own citizens.

Source: Seattle Times (WA)
Published: Friday, May 15, 2009
Copyright: 2009 The Seattle Times Company
Contact: opinion@seatimes.com
Website: http://www.seattletimes.com/
URL: http://drugsense.org/url/QJy7ilNQ

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No "Czar" here!

No "Czar" here!

Article 1, Sections 9 and 10 of the Constitution prohibit the granting of, or recognition by the government, to titles of nobility.

Section 9. ( partial) No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.

Section 10. ( 1st paragraph ) No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility.

Unfortunately, the amendment to the Constitution that enacted penalties for violations was never ratified by enough states to become law. It's still possible, since there is no time limit, for it to be enacted.

In my opinion, it's long overdue.

One way that "titles" have snuck back into the US is via the Media. The network broadcasters and PBS always address retired politicians or former officials by their former title, as "Congressman", or "Senator", or "Mr. Secretary". The same goes for the military, an even graver mistake. They might have a crawl at the bottom of the screen that tags "ret." at the end of their name, but that's Bullshit! The tag begins "General" or "Captain". They are actually "Mister Blah-Blah" and should be addressed that way from the moment they retire!

There are no "Life Peerages" in America! As it stands now, every retired "chicken colonel" who's being paid by a Network gets to be "saluted" for the rest of his life. Screw that! The same goes for war criminals like Henry Kissinger. That smug, filthy, dirt-bag is always addressed as "Dr. Kissinger", which he isn't entitled to use outside of a university lecture hall, or "Mr. Secretary", which he hasn't been entitled to use in decades.
 
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