in response to the latest appeals court decision attempting to obstruct democracy here in america:
it's the same old argument of the 1960s; why is it ok for an 18 year old to die and/or kill for the military, but not ok for that same 18 year old to drink and/or smoke?...
my grampa used to get medicinal alcohol by prescription, and while society has gone back and forth with it's attitudes towards alcohol consumption since then, recent studies have shown that moderate amounts of alcohol do in fact have some medicinal qualities (and likewise; the U.S. government can't spread AIDS into the human population, then deny their unsuspecting victims of medicine that actually helps them)
my point is this; even WHEN marijuana is fully legalized, there will probably be certain segments of our society fighting against it's usage just like the continuing fight against alcohol...
the truth is; the federal law which criminalized marijuana was signed by an impeached president [nixon] therefore it is all but meaningless at this point in time - and an updated new E.S.A. could be signed by the next democratic president - so why can't congress draft a new law allowing selective expungement of laws signed by any impeached president, then start the impeachment process?...
and like i have said so many times before; in this proud 'democracy' we call america, roughly half the voting electorate has legalized marijuana for medicinal usage, but it's going to take a regime change and/or the establishment of a true deepened democratic state before the will of the people is fully realized and/or self-actualized...
if not, we could be in for a messy uprising here in america just like they had recently in china, brought about by an increasing population of ignored and/or invisible people...nine people in the supreme court cannot possibly represent nine million people - nine people can only truly represent nine people, and this should be obvious to everyone...
in the beginning; there may have been 5 or 10 homesteaders in town, and whatever the government did happened way over yonder and didn't affect anyone adversely, but now there are a million homesteaders and the government is doing things just over our back fences...
WAIT A MINUTE - STOP RIGHT THERE!...this ridiculous and largely obsolete concept of 'representative democracy' is now on the way out, and it will die a slow painful death as entrenched government leaders (and their egos) desperately hold on to power that will eventually slip between their fingers and be spread evenly amongst THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA - AND THE WORLD!...
oh! and anyone who honestly believes that the word 'populist' is a dirty or bad word is working against the better interests of everyone, and should be considered an enemy of sorts or evil in a sense...you know; fuck your damn market based economy!...
the US government on the whole really doesn't like the concept of deepening democracy, because it denies the rich from getting whatever they want...democracy in america has been in constant flux since its' inception many years ago, and this process of change will not stop anytime soon...
and ABAG predicts massive future population growth in the bay area, and their population growth statistics are often used as an excuse to give developers a green light, so why aren't our local leaders preparing our young democracy for this future time by deepening democracy?...
you know; what are we gonna do; curtail the 3 minute speaking limit at city council meetings down to 1.5 minutes once another million babies get dumped into the democracy pile, then 45 seconds - then 22.5 seconds - then 11.25 seconds etc?...what?...
IT'S HIGH TIME TO DEEPEN DEMOCRACY AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY, US. GOVERNMENT!...THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS OBSOLETE AND CLEARLY DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE...YOU BETTER GET READY TO STAY UP ALL F#%CKING NIGHT AND LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS - OR GET THE F#%K OUT OF THE WAY BY LETTING EVERYONE VOTE ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEM DIRECTLY AND MATTER TO THEM MOST! NO MORE BULLSHIT!
it's the same old argument of the 1960s; why is it ok for an 18 year old to die and/or kill for the military, but not ok for that same 18 year old to drink and/or smoke?...
my grampa used to get medicinal alcohol by prescription, and while society has gone back and forth with it's attitudes towards alcohol consumption since then, recent studies have shown that moderate amounts of alcohol do in fact have some medicinal qualities (and likewise; the U.S. government can't spread AIDS into the human population, then deny their unsuspecting victims of medicine that actually helps them)
my point is this; even WHEN marijuana is fully legalized, there will probably be certain segments of our society fighting against it's usage just like the continuing fight against alcohol...
the truth is; the federal law which criminalized marijuana was signed by an impeached president [nixon] therefore it is all but meaningless at this point in time - and an updated new E.S.A. could be signed by the next democratic president - so why can't congress draft a new law allowing selective expungement of laws signed by any impeached president, then start the impeachment process?...
and like i have said so many times before; in this proud 'democracy' we call america, roughly half the voting electorate has legalized marijuana for medicinal usage, but it's going to take a regime change and/or the establishment of a true deepened democratic state before the will of the people is fully realized and/or self-actualized...
if not, we could be in for a messy uprising here in america just like they had recently in china, brought about by an increasing population of ignored and/or invisible people...nine people in the supreme court cannot possibly represent nine million people - nine people can only truly represent nine people, and this should be obvious to everyone...
in the beginning; there may have been 5 or 10 homesteaders in town, and whatever the government did happened way over yonder and didn't affect anyone adversely, but now there are a million homesteaders and the government is doing things just over our back fences...
WAIT A MINUTE - STOP RIGHT THERE!...this ridiculous and largely obsolete concept of 'representative democracy' is now on the way out, and it will die a slow painful death as entrenched government leaders (and their egos) desperately hold on to power that will eventually slip between their fingers and be spread evenly amongst THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA - AND THE WORLD!...
oh! and anyone who honestly believes that the word 'populist' is a dirty or bad word is working against the better interests of everyone, and should be considered an enemy of sorts or evil in a sense...you know; fuck your damn market based economy!...
the US government on the whole really doesn't like the concept of deepening democracy, because it denies the rich from getting whatever they want...democracy in america has been in constant flux since its' inception many years ago, and this process of change will not stop anytime soon...
and ABAG predicts massive future population growth in the bay area, and their population growth statistics are often used as an excuse to give developers a green light, so why aren't our local leaders preparing our young democracy for this future time by deepening democracy?...
you know; what are we gonna do; curtail the 3 minute speaking limit at city council meetings down to 1.5 minutes once another million babies get dumped into the democracy pile, then 45 seconds - then 22.5 seconds - then 11.25 seconds etc?...what?...
IT'S HIGH TIME TO DEEPEN DEMOCRACY AND GET THE FUCK OUT OF THE WAY, US. GOVERNMENT!...THE CURRENT SYSTEM IS OBSOLETE AND CLEARLY DOES NOT WORK ANYMORE...YOU BETTER GET READY TO STAY UP ALL F#%CKING NIGHT AND LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS - OR GET THE F#%K OUT OF THE WAY BY LETTING EVERYONE VOTE ON THE ISSUES THAT AFFECT THEM DIRECTLY AND MATTER TO THEM MOST! NO MORE BULLSHIT!
