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Cubie
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Leap
#8023060 - 02/14/08 04:19 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre
Today marks the 79th anniversary of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, in Chicago at the height of the alcohol Prohibition Era, seven bootleggers working for George “Bugs” Moran were lured to a local garage under the guise of buying high-quality whiskey at a very low price.
COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS! ASK US WHY After nearly four decades of fueling the U.S. policy of a war on drugs with over a trillion tax dollars and 37 million arrests for nonviolent drug offenses, our confined population has quadrupled making building prisons the fastest growing industry in the United States. More than 2.2 million of our citizens are currently incarcerated and every year we arrest an additional 1.9 million more guaranteeing those prisons will be bursting at their seams. Every year we choose to continue this war will cost U.S. taxpayers another 69 billion dollars. Despite all the lives we have destroyed and all the money so ill spent, today illicit drugs are cheaper, more potent, and far easier to get than they were 35 years ago at the beginning of the war on drugs. Meanwhile, people continue dying in our streets while drug barons and terrorists continue to grow richer than ever before. We would suggest that this scenario must be the very definition of a failed public policy. This madness must cease!
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TheShroomJew23
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Re: Leap [Re: Cubie]
#8023081 - 02/14/08 04:22 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I live in Chi-Town and went to the spot where the garage used to be. If I wasnt born and raised here I would never have found the building that stands in its place. pretty weird how the times they are a changin.
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Alan Rockefeller
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Re: Leap [Re: Cubie]
#8023681 - 02/14/08 06:10 PM (15 years, 11 months ago) |
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I joined LEAP about a month ago, that was $35 well spent. I smile every time I read about them confronting a politician.
I ran into Howard Woolridge from LEAP at a NORML conference in 2002. He was wearing a tshirt that said in huge letters "COPS SAY LEGALIZE DRUGS. ASK ME WHY."
I knew at that point that he had massive balls, but I didn't realize at the time how serious or effective his campaign would become. They are truly amazing people, fighting the good fight in a particularly effective way.
This is a good article on them:
http://www.fwweekly.com/content.asp?article=3271
Also some good stuff on youtube.
http://www.leap.cc
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Cubie
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Quote:
Alan Rockefeller said: They are truly amazing people, fighting the good fight in a particularly effective way.
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hell yea. their smart and persistent
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