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FEATURE ARTICLE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Hard-Hitting Drug War Ad Airs Friday 11/3 | ||||||||||||||||||
Dear Friends: | ||||||||||||||||||
A hard-hitting, revolutionary drug war ad appeared on nationwide TV
Friday November 3rd during the debut of Paramount's UPN network action
thriller, "Freedom." The show starts at 8:00pm ET. | ||||||||||||||||||
This powerful ad, produced by the Libertarian Party, slams Al Gore and
George W. Bush for their hypocrisy on the drug issue. It features
man-on-the-street comments about the failure of the War on Drugs,
highlights the lengthy prison sentences served by many young people,
and questions whether "Al Gore and George Bush would be better off
today if, for their youthful indiscretions, they had served 10 years in
prison?" | ||||||||||||||||||
As the question is asked, pictures of Bush and Gore appear on the
screen, and prison doors slam shut over their faces with a loud clang
-- as an audience cheers. | ||||||||||||||||||
The debut of "Freedom," a futuristic, sci-fi thriller, was the perfect
place to air this revolutionary ad. | ||||||||||||||||||
Washington Post TV critic Tom Shales calls "Freedom" a "raucously
entertaining" show featuring a "world reeling from a stock market
crash, a global depression and an epidemic of terrorist bombings.
America is under martial law now that a military coup has taken over
the government in a heavy-handed effort to restore order. Our heroes,
the 'Freedom' fighters, are independent renegades who have been tossed
into the slammer at the request of the ruling junta. Tough cookies all,
they grumble and mumble and plot revenge." | ||||||||||||||||||
Shales adds that "one little detail in the scene suggests that our
current president will indeed be remembered: The scene is set at
William Jefferson Clinton Federal Prison." | ||||||||||||||||||
The ad can be viewed on-line at http://www.lp.org/campaigns/pres/ads | ||||||||||||||||||
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WEEKLY NEWS IN REVIEW (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Domestic News- Policy | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (1-4) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Since '96, November has come to mean anxiously awaiting the fate of
drug policy initiatives; last Sunday's Washington Post carried William
Booth's well balanced and accurate background piece explaining how-
and why- this year's crop made it to the ballot. | ||||||||||||||||||
An interesting sub text to California's Proposition 36 has been
newspaper ownership's acceptance of simplistic law enforcement
arguments; most unsigned editorials urging "no" agree the system needs
help but still insist on "consequences." | ||||||||||||||||||
A similar newspaper schizophrenia was found in Massachusetts- where Question 8 is the homologue of 36; a column in the Boston Herald argued persuasively for reform, but the unsigned editorial- although agreeing that change is needed, sided with traditional arguments. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(1) DRUG WAR IS IN FIGHT OF ITS LIFE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES - Their political operatives call them "the funders," a trio of enormously wealthy businessmen who are united behind one idea: that the war on drugs is a failure. And they want to end it. | ||||||||||||||||||
So with their money, consultants and sophisticated polling, they are transforming drug policy in America with a steady stream of ballot initiatives about medical marijuana, incarceration and drug-related forfeitures. They are winning at the ballot box and in the courts. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(2) PROP. 36 REMOVES THE HAMMER FROM DRUG COURT JUDGES (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
This is one of a series of editorials on issues and candidates on the
ballot in the upcoming election. | ||||||||||||||||||
Proposition 36 offers the promise of greatly expanded drug treatment
programs throughout the state. That would be a laudable achievement in
itself, but this measure takes such a lenient approach to drug
violations that it's tantamount to decriminalizing "hard" drugs such as
cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(3) FAILED WAR ON DRUGS HAS TAKEN HARD TOLL (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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How did we ever let the war on drugs get this crazy? This is America, not Havana. Yet here we've given police the power to seize the property, homes, cars and land, of an innocent person who happens to be related to a suspected, not even a convicted, drug dealer. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(4) VOTE 'NO' ON QUESTION 8 (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The ways in which Massachusetts deals with the damage that illegal
drugs do to vulnerable lives can always stand improvement, but the
proposal in Question 8 on the Nov. 7 ballot is definitely not the way
to go. If passed, it would take the state a long way down the road to
back-door legalization of every kind of dangerous drug. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (5-9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Against the backdrop of reform initiatives, the drug war continued to fail in its old familiar ways; albeit with new wrinkles: another Boston report that school children are snorting Ritalin was hardly encouraging; nor was the Oklahoma update on its rural meth problem. | ||||||||||||||||||
While a local Washington State report showed slight declines in teen
drug experimentation, the illegal heroin market retains a toe hold
with younger users in Pennsylvania. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(5) 'AS EASY TO GET AS CANDY' (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A New Massachusetts Study Finds Wide Teen Abuse Of Ritalin | ||||||||||||||||||
NEWTON - At 13, the girl knew precisely why so many classmates darted into the school nurse's office in the late morning: There, they swallowed their daily doses of Ritalin pills to help them concentrate. | ||||||||||||||||||
That year, she was on Ritalin, too. But instead of a visit to the
nurse's office, she got her pills through the black market that
operates out of school bathrooms and hallways, often for $1 to $5 a
pill. And, instead of swallowing the pills, she crushed them and
snorted them through her nose to get high. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It's as easy to get as candy," said the teenager, now 15, who spoke on
the condition of anonymity while attending an adolescent drug treatment
program in Newton. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(6) EDITORIAL: METH SCOURGE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Problem Still Growing | ||||||||||||||||||
Once again Oklahoma has made the top of one of those lists we'd sooner
not make at all. According to a recent published report, Oklahoma is
one of the nation's leaders in methamphetamine labs, arrests, addicts
and cases. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Statistics show that meth cases have increased more than 8,000 percent
since 1994. This shocking figure also surprised some state and local
law-enforcement officials, who had believed that new regulations
regarding the sale of precursor chemicals were making a dent in the
problem. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(7) '99 TEEN HEALTH SURVEY SHOWS SOME GOOD NEWS ABOUT CITY'S SCHOOL KIDS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
But Responses About Gangs And Suicide Concern District | ||||||||||||||||||
These are the vital signs of Seattle's high school students: | ||||||||||||||||||
Nearly half have tried marijuana, 6 percent have tried cocaine and 17
percent have tried hallucinogens. | ||||||||||||||||||
More than 30 percent got in a car with a drunk driver at least once in
a one-month period. | ||||||||||||||||||
One-fifth seriously considered suicide last year. | ||||||||||||||||||
Forty percent have had sex. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(8) EDITORIAL: HEROIN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Project F.A.I.T.H. Deserves Support | ||||||||||||||||||
Heroin is in our streets, in our schools, in our homes, and - all too
often -- in the veins of our children. | ||||||||||||||||||
According to the Office of National Drug Control Policy, "rates of
heroin use among teenagers rose significantly among eighth, 10th, and
12th graders during the 1990s." First-time users are getting younger,
too, with the average age of first use dropping from 27 in 1988 to 18
in 1996. High school sophomores are the age group most at risk for
trying heroin. | ||||||||||||||||||
The price of the drug also has dropped, making it more affordable even
as it has become more pure. | ||||||||||||||||||
Recent news reports from the Central Susquehanna Valley attest to the
fact that the highly addictive drug is here and readily available to
our young people. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (9) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The most visible government response to law enforcement failure: sermons and exhortations; last week the departing drug czar went on the road to open for an even more experienced preacher. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(9) TOMA DELIVERS SHARP DRUG MESSAGE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Ex-Cop And Motivational Speaker Got Some Kids' Attention | ||||||||||||||||||
There was no mistaking David Toma's message to 4,000 Jackson County high
school students Tuesday. | ||||||||||||||||||
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This time around, Toma was joined by Gen. Barry McCaffrey, the retiring director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. ... | ||||||||||||||||||
The time to consider the effects of drug use is now, he told the
youngsters, because adolescents are most vulnerable ... | ||||||||||||||||||
"Beyond the age of 19, almost no one is stupid enough to start using drugs," he said. The most worrisome kid is "the 12- or 13-year-old boy or girl who is regularly smoking pot on the weekends and binge-drinking on beer." | ||||||||||||||||||
"How many of you have a friend who uses drugs?" McCaffrey asked the crowd. | ||||||||||||||||||
Nearly every hand in the room went up. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Law Enforcement & Prisons | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (10-12) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Two drug war's excesses are increasingly well known: the sheer numbers
in prison for drug offenses- and the disproportionate percentage who
are black. That prominent columnists now regularly devote part of
their output to these injustices is starting to have an effect; two
such columns appeared last week. | ||||||||||||||||||
The same word is being spread in academic circles; that such
disproportion can only result from endemic racism is finally becoming
well understood. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(10) DRUG CRACKDOWN ENDS UP AIDING CRIME (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
As the owner of an Audi 5000 during the mid-'80s, ... I'm convinced that the reason so many of those cars took off through garage walls and hedges, often injuring their drivers, is that the drivers ...were pressing not on the brake but on the nearby accelerator. | ||||||||||||||||||
But because they were certain their foot was on the brake, their
panicked response was simply to press harder. | ||||||||||||||||||
California has been doing it again. Not with Audis, of course, but with
drug incarcerations. | ||||||||||||||||||
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California now leads the nation with a drug-offender imprisonment rate of 115 per 100,000. (The national average is 44.6 per 100,000.) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Mike Males, a co-author of the JPI report "Drug Use and Justice,"
offers two possibilities... | ||||||||||||||||||
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(11) DRUG WAR WEAK, MANY READERS SAY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Early returns are running about 3-to-1 against the criminal-justice
professor who believes the drug war is succeeding as a surrogate for a
war on violent crime. | ||||||||||||||||||
A former Houston policeman who became a Harris County prosecutor, Mark Stelter currently is an associate professor of criminal justice at Montgomery College. He explained here on Wednesday why he believes that "when you take a crackhead off the street, you are not just removing a drug user, you are also removing a burglar or a robber." | ||||||||||||||||||
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(12) WAR ON DRUGS ENDANGERS FAMILIES, NSU SPEAKER SAYS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
NORFOLK - Blacks represent 13 percent of the population, about 13 percent of illegal drug users in the country and a disproportionate 55 percent of the citizens convicted on drug charges, said Sean Heller, national director of Students for Sensible Drug Policy in Washington. | ||||||||||||||||||
"The war on drugs is ruining lives, destroying families and wasting
millions in tax dollars," Heller told students at Norfolk State
University. "And we have more African Americans in shackles today than
since slavery -- well, metaphorical shackles." | ||||||||||||||||||
Heller was one of several speakers Tuesday at NSU for the start of a three-day, three-university regional conference, "The Celling Of A
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COMMENT: (13-15) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
There was continued evidence that whenever the drug war infringes on
personal safety and liberty, redress through the system is glacial in
pace and unpredictable in outcome. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(13) JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO PROBE TULIA BUST (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
LUBBOCK - The Justice Department has opened a criminal investigation
into whether civil rights were violated in a drug bust that rounded up
40 black people in a small, predominantly white Texas Panhandle farming
town last year. | ||||||||||||||||||
Justice Department spokeswoman Kara Peterman said Thursday the
department's civil rights division has opened a criminal investigation
of the case that has attracted national attention. Federal law
prohibits police officers from depriving citizens of their
constitutional rights. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(14) GRAND JURY TO REVIEW DRUG RAID THAT WENT AWRY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
The results of two investigations into a police drug raid that resulted in the death of a Lebanon retiree will be presented to a special grand jury likely to convene next week, Lebanon Police Chief Billy Weeks said. | ||||||||||||||||||
The panel will review the results of internal probes by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation and Lebanon police into the Oct. 4 incident. | ||||||||||||||||||
Two Lebanon police officers shot and killed John Adams, 64, after they
said he fired a shotgun at them. | ||||||||||||||||||
Friends and relatives said Adams and his wife, Lorine, believed they
were the victims of a home invasion when police kicked in their door
about 10 p.m. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(15) CHARGE AGAINST N.J. TROOPER DROPPED (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
TRENTON, N.J.(AP) -- Prosecutors dropped an attempted murder charge
yesterday against one of two state troopers accused in a 1998 shooting
that led to a public outcry over racial profiling on the New Jersey
Turnpike. | ||||||||||||||||||
In court papers, prosecutors said they do not have sufficient evidence to support the attempted murder indictment against Trooper John Hogan. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Public outcry after the shooting led to widespread allegations of racial profiling by state troopers and a highly critical report by the New Jersey attorney general's office detailing the practice. | ||||||||||||||||||
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COMMENT: (16-19) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Bad news for the feds; not only is popular sentiment for legal
recreational use inching upward at home and abroad, American college
students are using cannabis in increasing numbers; now, if they could
just be persuaded to vote... | ||||||||||||||||||
Another example of ephemeral drug war "success:" the size of
California's illegal marijuana crop continues to rise; even as more
money and resources are poured into interdiction. | ||||||||||||||||||
Also from Northern California- a vote to decriminalize cannabis in
Mendocino- while only be an expression of sentiment- could have an
interesting effect; in the landmark Kubby trial in Auburn, the
prosecution rested its case after failing to impress the editor of the
local paper. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(16) STUDY: COLLEGE MARIJUANA USE GROWING (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
BOSTON (AP) - Northeastern University junior Robert Devaney says many
of his fellow students have trouble buying beer at nearby bars - but no
problem getting marijuana. | ||||||||||||||||||
"It's the alternative to drinking,'' Devaney said. .. | ||||||||||||||||||
Marijuana use among college students rose 22 percent between 1993 and
1999, according to a study released this week by the Harvard School of
Public Health. | ||||||||||||||||||
Seven years ago, 12.9 percent of students claimed to have used marijuana in the previous month. Last year, the figure was 15.7 percent. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(17) PLANTATION RAIDS REACH A RECORD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Somewhere in the hills of western Tehama County, marijuana growers are rushing to harvest the last of their crops, drying them in the sun and packaging the green bud for transportation to cities across the country. | ||||||||||||||||||
Soon they'll leave the makeshift camps they've called home since the
gardens were planted in the spring. And they may consider themselves
lucky for avoiding the long arm of the law during a record-breaking
marijuana eradication season that only now is waning. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(18) MENDOCINO VOTES ON GROWTH INDUSTRY (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Though Largely Symbolic, Measure G Would 'legalize' Small Marijuana Farms | ||||||||||||||||||
Fall is harvest time in Mendocino County, with the cash-flush marijuana crop breathing new life into the depressed local economy. And this particular fall, this pot smoker's haven is poised to become the first jurisdiction in the nation to attempt to "legalize" the leafy plant. | ||||||||||||||||||
Voters in this rural North Coast county, driven by the free spirits in their midst, are likely to approve an initiative on Nov. 7 that declares that growing pot for recreational use should be decriminalized -- although, if passed, Measure G will be pre-empted by state and federal law. But the initiative has inflamed the passions of residents. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(19) KUBBY PROSECUTION ENDS NOT WITH A BANG BUT A WHIMPER (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Placer County's prosecution of medical marijuana advocate Steve Kubby and his wife Michele came to an abrupt conclusion this week. | ||||||||||||||||||
If it were a softball game, I'd invoke the mercy rule and acquit the Kubbys
before the defense even begins its case on Tuesday. | ||||||||||||||||||
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International News | ||||||||||||||||||
COMMENT: (20-24) (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Most economists know the drug war can't possibly succeed, but rarely
bother to say so; an exception is Filip Falda, who authored an
off-beat piece for Canada's National Post. | ||||||||||||||||||
One politician who obviously hasn't received Falda's message: Keith
Hellawell, the UK version of Barry McCaffrey- but it appears Slobodan
Milosevich would probably agree. | ||||||||||||||||||
As for Colombia, the LA Times pleaded earnestly for the "Plan" of the
same name to somehow succeed, but SF columnist Jon Carroll was snidely
realistic. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(20) OPED: YOU CAN'T MAKE WAR ON ORGANIZED CRIME (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In August, two gunmen wounded a Quebec criminal reporter. Since then,
Quebec and Ottawa have vowed to crack down on organized crime with more
policemen and harsher laws than now exist. As with most top-down
solutions, this one is likely to fail... | ||||||||||||||||||
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The evolutionary force that transforms criminals into governments
should give our official leaders pause before cracking down on
organized crime in Canada. Organized crime is the government of
prostitution, drug-taking, and gambling.... By putting these industries
outside the law, our elected leaders guarantee employment for juntas of
strong men whose specialty is defiance of the state. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(21) UK: DRUG CZAR WANTS CABINET TO TAKE BLOOD TESTS (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
TONY BLAIR'S drug czar has made a daring proposal that cabinet
ministers should be subjected to random drug tests. | ||||||||||||||||||
Keith Hellawell wants to see testing for narcotic substances become
more widely used in the workplace, including Whitehall departments.
Even Tony Blair might be asked to take a blood test or give a urine
sample in his capacity as head of the civil service. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(22) GIANT COCAINE BUST LINKED TO MILOSEVIC UNDERWORLD (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
A YUGOSLAV intelligence official has been caught trying to smuggle
cocaine with a street value of up to UKP4m out of Venezuela. Diplomats
say the case reveals a murky world of multi-million-pound drug
smuggling that helped to prop up the regime of Slobodan Milosevic, the
former president. | ||||||||||||||||||
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The embarrassment of the Belgrade authorities intensified when the German Federal Intelligence Service, the BND, issued a report last week claiming that Milosevic, his family and regime had profited from a range of trafficking operations during the past 10 years. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(23) EDITORIAL: A WAR COLOMBIA MUST NOT LOSE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
In October 1998, a time when drug dealers, right-wing paramilitary
groups and left-wing guerrillas were tearing his country apart,
Colombian President Andres Pastrana flew to Washington to meet with
President Clinton and key members of Congress. He made his case for
desperately needed financial, military and moral support. The United
States had a stake in the crisis--90% of the cocaine that reaches
America comes from Colombia--so Pastrana's plan found favor. What was
needed was money. | ||||||||||||||||||
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No country is safe from this plague. Some consume the drug, others profit from it, all to their detriment. The Pastrana government cannot win this war without help. Colombia must not be lost to the drug lords. | ||||||||||||||||||
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(24) COLUMN: SAY, NOW, HERE'S AN ISSUE (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
As I suggested yesterday, seeing ``issues'' as discrete and unrelated
entities has allowed the law of unintended consequences to run riot.
Add to that the brainless pandering by the presidential candidates
coupled with the implacable will of the big-money donors, and very
quickly things spiral out of control. | ||||||||||||||||||
It would be nice if the big-party candidates were talking about this,
but they're not. | ||||||||||||||||||
For example: The $1.3 billion being funneled into Colombia to purchase American arms and armaments, particularly attack helicopters... | ||||||||||||||||||
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HOT OFF THE 'NET (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Proposition 36 Ad in LA Times | ||||||||||||||||||
LOS ANGELES, October 27 -- Supporters of Proposition 36 are running a
new 30-second TV spot as part of a statewide ad campaign. The new ad is
viewable on-line in Quicktime and RealVideo formats at: | ||||||||||||||||||
Submitted by Dale Gieringer | ||||||||||||||||||
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Senator Feinstein Ads Run in California Papers | ||||||||||||||||||
Wayne Haythorn has headed up some efforts to run print ads opposing Dianne Feinstein for her drug war positions. The ad has run in the San Francisco Bay Guardian and the West Coast edition of the New York Times | ||||||||||||||||||
The final ad as it was sent to the Times can be reviewed at: | ||||||||||||||||||
Submitted by Wayne Haythorn | ||||||||||||||||||
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THIS JUST IN (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
Busting the Cops | ||||||||||||||||||
Four Oakland Cops Face 48 Felony Counts Alameda County crackdown in
police corruption probe. | ||||||||||||||||||
Too late for this weeks edition it appears that yet another brewing California Police corruption scandal has surfaced. While not directly drug related (so far) this is another example of how our drug laws have made corruption in our law enforcement agencies a common occurrence. | ||||||||||||||||||
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QUOTE OF THE WEEK (Top) | ||||||||||||||||||
"God save us from a government that wants to 'save' us from our own
free will and free choice." -- Mark Greer | ||||||||||||||||||
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