If you're looking for something intelligent, read this: The reason why pot is illegal
Economy of Lies
The cost of enforcing the illegal prohibition of hemp and marijuana has been phenomenal. This cost has become a veritable pork barrel by which elitist politicians, at the behest of their elite owners, are able to abscond with huge amounts of the publics money, to enforce special interest laws that benefit only them and their industries. Monopolistic and dynastic characteristics epitomize industrys goals as far as fair competition is concerned. Fuels, Materials, pharmaceuticals, and recreational drugs (Budweiser:King of drugs) have been sewn up tight, with legislation and its attendant law enforcement keeping the lid and cuffs on for their bosses, the ultra-rich. Billions of dollars of the peoples moneys have been spent to secure monopolys that act directly against the interests of the public, as concerns business and fair competition. Years have been lost and gargantuan chunks of productivity thrown to the wayside, while huge conglomerates tighten the collar, nay, noose, to the point of strangulation.
To enforce these laws of monopoly huge prison industries have been spawned, to incarcerate those who would have the colossal audacity to compete with big business on its own terms. Most times examples are made of the small fry "Criminals", fodder for the fear machine of television, which A) is NOT a press, and B) is owned by the very interests who wish to lock down opportunity and fair competition.
My question is this. Once it is shown how badly Americans have been ripped off as far as fair competition in the marketplace is concerned, which means ever since hemp and its products and byproducts were illegally made illegal, and the beneficence of this crop is once again realized as an alternative to fuels and materials production; once the inmates who are serving time for using this natural substance as a recreational drug (mostly as an alternative to the very debilitative alcohol) get released from jail, who is going to sue government for all the lost time and lives spent in jails that were created for no other reason than to restrict fair trade in America? Who?
The reason marijuana has not become re-legal so far is because government understands only too well the mistake that was made when they capitulated to William Hearst, and the Duponts and the Mellons when those apes railroaded hemp illegality through the law system by using yellow journalism scare tactics. They have been able to enforce the conditioning through television, but Americans are not really stupid and are waking up. So whos going to pay us back the money that was stolen from us? Where is the money going to come from? Who will pay to tear down the prison "INDUSTRY", which is still being used to restrict fair trade in American markets and the World, and who will pay to have them converted to useful and productive institutions, instead of the holding pens for those who have challenged the elitist criminals in control now? WHO?
The lock down is so thorough that surveillance has become the norm among the elite who need every advantage they can lay their hands on, because people really are waking up from their television induced fear/hysteria. Prisons no longer need to be locked buildings and cells. It is possible, and has been well exercised by the super powerful, to make prisoners of anyone, at anytime, by controlling them through surveillance. Look at what is available as far as surveillance equipment is concerned, versus countersurveillance equipment. Look at the cost and understand, KNOW that the devices are restricted to only those of upper echelon means. The Goddess Columbia is dying, has been dying ever since she was raped and left bleeding in the gutter at the beginning of this century. But there are those to avenge her, and as ugly as her downfall was, the downfall of the perpetrators of lies and special interests will be AT LEAST that horrible when it happens. 10/9/98
The REAL Reason Hemp/Marijuana was MADE Illegal
How DID True Hemp ( Cannabis sativa,sub-species sativa ) disappeag from Americanfamily-hemp-farms? Starting in the late 1920's, forest-products, cotton, oil, petrochemical, steel, and perhaps even aluminum industries feared COMPETITION from a very innovative new technology; the HEMP DECORTICATOR.
HEMP DECORTICATORS were just becoming commercially-available on True Hemp farms. This key technology would have allowed
family farmers to create a carbohydrate economy to replace what is now
a system dominated by hydrocarbons (oil, coal, and natural-gas).
In fact, in the February, 1938 edition of Popular Mechanics, hemp was
heralded as a 'New Billion Dollar Crop'. Exactly what caused the demise of True Hemp commodity farming? Well, in 1917 George W. Schlicten pulled off a sort of Eli-Whitney-cotton-gin stunt, only way better....he patented the HEMP DECORTICATOR; a farm-machine that mechanically separates the fiber in the True Hemp stalk. This labor-saving device was just barely beginning to kick some centralized-polluting-corporate-butt in the late 1920's.
Coincidentally, this is exactly when a deliberate smear campaign was
launched (by print, newsreel, and radio) to discredit what was THEN a
very new and mysterious word: marijuana. A negative image was assigned to that now-dreaded M-word. Non-drug, True Hemp simply had to be stopped (if youwere a wealthy industrialist, that is....)
Although the indica sub-species may or may notcompete with patented,
synthetic, man-made-chemicals that can be centrallycontrolled by pharmaceutical corporations, Sativa sub-species-non-drug-True-Hemp commodity COMPETITION is what very big business actually
stopped (by clever deception).
Thanks to Gary Thomas
A Sometimes Fibrous World
The conditions by which fibrous material forms are very diverse. Fibers are a naturally occurring specific in most situations where raw matter, gravity, energy, and liquid possess enough order to call forth Life The Builder. A major example of this is plant produced fiber, and the tough and lengthy fiber strands are not only the plants plumbing, but its very skeleton as well.
Its a nice thing, is fiber, much sought after throughout the whole of human history, and highly utilized too. So. The formation of fibrous material seems inherent here on Earth, and this can be witnessed readily in some geological formations too.
Asbestos, and many other stone types, including agate, are fibrous in nature. Fiber is one of the major ways matter coalesces, Grows, within the universal life form at this milieu.
Fastening, a science unto itself, was born of the versatility gained once real cordage was developed. Up until 1937 AD one of the most preferred woven cordage's was made of the hemp fiber, manila rope, in one form or another. Hemp fiber was also used for a very common material called canvas. The word Canvas is directly derived from the word Cannabis. I've seen some newer dictionaries that don't illustrate this, but most of the dictionaries before the 80's, if they are comprehensive at all, will show the derivation, and my favorite dictionary, a humongous tome from some 1902 school library, says this: Canvas n. [OE. canvas, canevas, F. canevas, LL canabacius hempen cloth, canvas, L cannabis hemp....a strong cloth made of hemp...used for tents sails etc... Thats not a complete ver batim rendition but very near.
The plain fact is that hemp was not just a fiber within Humankinds repertoire, but a PREFERRED Fiber. So much so that many times export of a particularly valuable hemp strain was violently discouraged. When Thomas Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds out of Manchuria, it was a killing offense had he been discovered. He of course owned a farm in America, and propogated hemp energetically there, as did almost all other farmers of that time and general locale, because growing hemp in Early America was quite the accepted thing to do. It was THE major source of fiber from which to fashion cordage and sails, and at that time, as with all times preceding it, the quality of a nations Navy was what its ranking in superiority was based upon. Hemp, through the navys of the world, literally ran the world.
Many wars were fought over Hemp accessibility, and when put alongside all the other wars of our history, they together create a banal little cartoon about misappropriation at all costs. Kind of sleazy. I guess and whatever. Be all that as it may. War REALLY got going after hemp was outlawed, so that finer technology in the form of petroleum plastics could be pumped out by the boatload.
Have we gotten better since hemp was outlawed? No, we have gotten even worse. We have allowed ourselves to fill up the world, and our trash to fill up the world, and our trash will be around looooooong after we are dust in the wind again. Hah! The very presence of our nondegradable trash could become directly responsible for us becoming dust in the wind again. Hows that for banal? Get so far and die of the rat syndrome. Not very funny, but something must be laughing somewhere.
There are times where its not very comfortable being able to sense the humorous aspect of this many times slapstick universe.
Simplified completely though, The Human Race is Life The Builders latest attempt at shining through the darkness. A high order within chaos, a rendering of energized chemicals and rarefied matter: I don't guess its called Hum-ous for nothing. Its mud.
Twice the Earths mud got splattered and exploded by roving asteroids so badly that the entire planet was inundated with it in one form or another, and most of Life The Builder died. Each time though the force that is here, Life The Builder, of which humans are only a small but humongously egotistical part, shouted back at fate, at the universe. Starting over, almost from scratch each time, Life grew and thrived again. AND IT USED WHAT HAD BEEN LEARNED IN THE PAST.
And he we are. By no means the end, another means if we are lucky, and lets hope not too mean a means, or we'll be out of here too. Life The Builder learns, and will have its way. As long as the sun shines.
Had we not gotten so enamored of the new lands of North America which sparked a renaissance of greed down to the lowest levels of european society, thus enamored likewise and sequentially by the seemingly infinite opportunity in petroleum, we would by now have some pretty cool steam engines, hi tech, and our trash would be compost not poison. We have fouled our nest mightily, and could very well pay with our lives. But not an end, bet on that. Just another means to NO END.
Bill Gallagher 3/99
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