Not really a confession, just sharing. When I was a kid my dad used to grow Marijuana, he had two really big plants in out house. He didn't deal the drugs, he used it for medical purposes. He worked a dairy job, all night and it helped him, especially when a cow kicked him and he really screwed up his shoulder.
Regardless of this, its against the law. One of the neighbors found out and he decided to call the cops. I was in the 5th grade at the time, I remember waking up at 7am, getting ready and about to get out the door to go to school when the Police where outside asking for my dad. I looked at them and told them I'd get him, he worked all night and was sleeping in his room. They said "No, we have to come in with you."
As I opened the door to his room, the cop pushed me away and ran at my father, holding him down telling him to stop moving, which he wasn't.. he didn't even wake up when I opened his door. They got him out of bed and took him to the kitchen where they asked him to call someone to 'take us to school'. He picked up the phone and called his brother, he didn't answer his phone. Then the cop said "Look, don't make us embarrass you in front of your family" while holding a baton, seemingly ready to use it. I couldn't believe these people would say something like this to my father. I mean, he didn't kill anyone or wasn't trying to defy them. Why is it his fault that someone didn't answer their phone?
He ended up calling my mother to come out of work. I will never forget that day, it was the day I stopped seeing cops in the 'positive' light that they portray themselves at those school events. Not saying all cops are like this, of course. I didn't really smoke pot growing up, in high school I did it a few times, nothing special. But I was always for legalizing the use of marijuana from that day forward.
http://www.reddit.com/r/Marijuana/comments/f7bc8/experienced_marijuana_raid_as_a_kid/
65 stewworthy comments at the above link.
The Strangest Drug Bust in Tucson, Arizona
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Welfare Drug Testing Bills introduced in four states - http://stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/2011/jan/20/welfare_drug_testing_bills_intro
--- says it's for those on the support of taxpayers - would that mean that the politicians will be drug tested? Barf Stew.
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Are routine roadblocks coming in the name of security? Unthinkable? Consider this account:
Driving from California to East Texas, my daughter and grandson were 90 miles into the Lone Star state when traffic was stopped at a road block just outside the little town of Sierra Blanca.
Drug-sniffing dogs worked down the line of cars. Under treatment for a medical condition for which her California doctor prescribed medical marijuana, my daughter had a small amount in her luggage in the trunk. The dogs immediately sniffed it. She showed the police her medical authorization, but California law didn’t apply in Texas. She and my grandson were arrested, taken to jail and put into a holding tank with a dozen or more men and women who had been arrested for the same crime.
A few days later, singer Willie Nelson was arrested at that same checkpoint. My daughter was fined $550. Perhaps Willie got off just signing a few autographs.
A short time later my grandson and I drove back to California. A dozen or so miles after crossing into California, we were suddenly funneled into another roadblock… only this time it was manned by half a dozen armed Border Patrol agents.
We were asked to state our citizenship, and then carefully scrutinized by an unsmiling officer who finally waved us through.
An even more sobering surprise awaited us…
We were stopped at a second roadblock 20 miles later… and yet again 15 miles after that. Three roadblocks between the California border and San Diego!
Never in six decades of driving in the United States had I ever experienced being stopped at even one checkpoint. My only prior experience was in Nicaragua in 1956 when that country was under the strong-arm dictatorial rule of Anastasio Somoza. Every few kilometers my companions and I were stopped by armed soldiers, questioned and required to show passports. We were all grateful to be from the “land of the free,” where such things couldn’t happen…
The rise of checkpoints in America, as well as the indignities we suffer at the hands of airport Transportation Security Administration agents, is merely outward evidence of a much deeper net being cast around individual liberty.
According to a recent Washington Post investigative report, “Top Secret America,” a web of 3,984 Federal, state and local law enforcement agencies, complete with technologies used on the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, has been developed by the FBI. The process is constructing a database with the names and personal information of thousands of U.S. citizens and residents whom any local police officer or a fellow citizen might believe to be acting suspiciously.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, who as Governor of Arizona built one of the strongest state intelligence organizations to stop illegal immigration and drug importation (the raison d’être for those roadblocks), has launched a "See Something, Say Something" campaign to encourage citizens to become informants. It started with traffic signs asking drivers entering the nation’s capital for "Terror Tips" and to "Report Suspicious Activity." Recently, she called on Walmart, Amtrak, major sports leagues, hotel chains and metro riders to join the surveillance network, admitting that, "This represents a shift for our country."
One can’t help but reflect on George Orwell’s dystopian novel, 1984. Published in 1949, it is a nightmarish depiction of what life could be like if the repressive nature of government was extrapolated from those post-World War days into the future. Orwell’s prescience is unnerving.
Cognitive scientist Steven Pinker tallied the similarities between Orwell’s novel and today’s world in his 2003 book, The Blank Slate. The elements of that Orwellian nightmare are either proposed or already here. Government euphemisms… national identity cards… surveillance cameras on streets and in shopping malls, and drones… satellites in the sky… personal data on the Internet… endless wars with shifting enemies… dossiers in government databanks… and ever-increasing controls on the actions and statements of individual citizens.
From checkpoints and electronic strip searches at airports… to your banker being forced to report suspicious deposits to being locked up for not disclosing all of your assets to the IRS… the signs are clear: 1984 is here. Whether it’s a War on Drugs, Illegal Immigration, or Terrorist… it is all a war on individual sovereignty.
Winston Smith, the protagonist in Orwell’s novel, rebels against Big Brother. His fate is arrest and torture. O’Brien, a member of the Inner Party and the person in charge of torturing and converting Smith back into a docile slave, tells Smith about the future: “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever.”
Finish the article at this link -
http://www.personalliberty.com/conservative-politics/freedom-concerns/welcome-to-1984-your-papers-please/ Barf Stew Folks. Oh, I have PERSONALLY been involved in controlled slow downs on the Atlanta interstate system - each lane occupied by a police cruiser. For miles and miles upon end going like 25.
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Meanwhile - Fake Pot" -- A New Threat to Children and Parents - http://newcanaan.patch.com/articles/fake-pot-a-new-threat-to-children-and-parents - fake pot or fake politicians, your choice. Barf Stew. Oh my oh my, we are all so threatened - please let me give up my adult freedoms for your agenda, please. (BTW, political ads are an important part of the revenue of the newspapers.)
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Sense a political theme today? LOL.
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Okay, I'll lighten it up - someone bought this book from a Barf Stew click yesterday:
Ride 'Em Cowgirl! Sex Position Secrets For Better Bucking
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I kid you not. Read the F-ing reviews of this book. Amazing.
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Yeah, that was the lead in for the sexy BS Gallery - a Barfster Favorite - #1 - Self-shot cutie, http://i.imgur.com/iL5BH.jpg #2 - same deal, http://i.imgur.com/7jM2e.jpg #3 Beach Babe, http://i.imgur.com/7UxOM.jpg #4 Teen Jumpers, http://i.imgur.com/OUg2C.jpg - Barf Stew Entertains.
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Over at The AnomalyMan Listing - the first FULL post - http://theanomalymanlisting.blogspot.com/2011/01/paranormal-blogger-dilemma-share.html about the dilemma of being a paranormal blogger. The Ultimate of Froths. BS.
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Finally today - a top read from Regan Lee - who is really beginning to question JUST WHAT THE H is going on? No, not with strange things in the sky - strange things on the GROUND. Like false fake flag events - seemingly designed to see what the reaction would be --- read more and yes, be concerned:
UK School Tells Students WWlll Has Broken Out
http://orangeorb.blogspot.com/2011/01/uk-teacher-tells-students-wwlll-has.html
Stewable.
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