Crazy Anti-Drug Ad Tells Kids to Do Parkour Instead of Drugs

by Scott Morgan, StoptheDrugWar.org

As I've discussed previously, Drug Czar is just one of the worst jobs you can have. You don't get to use cool weapons or go on missions or do anything exciting, ever. Your job is to convince adults that the drug war is good and convince young people that drug use is bad. It hasn't gone well for anyone, no, not at all.

If anybody needs a quick exhibit in why the government's anti-drug propaganda has become such a joke, you're in luck, because the Drug Czar's office continues to release some of the straight-up stupidest advertisements I've ever seen, and this is one of them right here:

The message of this ad is, "Hey kids, don't do drugs. Jump from rooftops! It's better somehow." That's exactly what the message of this ad is, and it's the only message the ad even contains. If I am mistaken, if the message of this ad isn?t that leaping from dangerously high places is better for you than smoking marijuana or tripping on silly-pills, then please explain to me what it is that I don't understand about this.

As Pete Guither points out, it's all just a sad attempt by the Drug Czar's office to associate their messaging with something cool, and it's true that parkour is A) hip, and B) not drugs. But that's about as far as this idea gets before literally landing flat on its face. You see, parkour is, well, let's just say it's not a very good way for young people to avoid injuring themselves.

The very idea that the Drug Czar would endorse this particular pastime as an alternative to pot is incredible. Is it necessary for me to continue to pointing out that a lot of the people responsible for manufacturing anti-drug messaging in America are nothing more than professional drug war cheerleaders who don't have a clue what they're talking about, don't give a crap about the safety of children, and wouldn?t know where to begin even if they did?

We've come a long way from the days when the government warned everyone that taking drugs would make you go crazy and jump off a building. Now, our young people are being encouraged to jump off buildings in order to distract themselves from the alluring dangers of drugs. The whole thing is so pure in its irony, so perfectly and completely absurd, that it could come from only one source. The Drug Czar's advertisements pose a continuing threat to the safety of the nation's youth, and parents will have to take an active role in protecting their children from the dangers of ill-conceived anti-drug propaganda until these reckless messages are removed from the airwaves once and for all.

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British Ambassador Tells of UK Media’s Hypocrisy

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A former British ambassador has shed light on the British media’s hypocrisy in covering the anti-regime protests in Bahrain as recent reports tell of Britain’s role in suppressing Bahraini protesters.

Craig Murray, a human rights activist and former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, has lashed out at the state-funded BBC for its coverage of the Bahraini regime’s brutal crackdown on protesters. “The Shiite majority does suffer discrimination, but the rest of the population is getting fed up with the continual disruption and demonstrations,” Murray quoted the BBC’s Frank Gardner as saying while he described the Bahraini regime forces’ crackdown on protesters.

Murray also made a comparison between the British media’s coverage of Bahraini people’s revolution and the way the western media covered the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. The two descriptions contained identical words while the words “black majority” were used instead of “Shiite majority” in the report quoted by Murray which described the way western media covered the anti-apartheid movement.

This comes as recent reports have shed more light on the role Britain plays in the brutal crackdown on the Bahraini people. As the Bahraini people took to the streets to mark the anniversary of the dawn of their revolution, Bahraini regime’s forces employed weapons and tactics which were imported from the UK.

Britain’s former Metropolitan police assistant commissioner John Yates, who was forced to resign following the phone-hacking scandal, popped up in Bahrain to help the regime oversee “police reforms.”

However, the reforms seem to be the use of tear gas and stun grenades and the introduction of “kettling” tactics to the Bahraini regime’s security forces. Bahrain’s “police reforms” overseen by Britain is not restricted to tactics. Official figures revealed that the British government sold over £1m worth of rifles and military equipment to the Bahraini regime from July to September last year.

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Ron Paul tells CBS cameraman to stop being rude!

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i hear on the radio that they want camera in all cabs (taxis - doing the knowledge - life on the meter for the punters). as a freemason enterprise likely they are there already. walking to the library i pass a young woman driving a plymouth council corporation with a big camera on the roof. ie i am supposed to notice this, i did.

the message implementation is something of a brotherhoold and sisterhood scream of 'we are watching you'. well, erm, library's are spied on, outwardly for austerity and inwardly it is big business, a book moves someone or group gets paid.

did anyone suggest the camera is rude? if one wanted evidence big brother is a nut, well, we are all surrounded with evidence.

the dictatorship presents to me as very human. over time every now and then one would hear a story of people living next door to each other had an argument over a hedge and on occasions to the point of murder. amplified up to power networks (what happens if people are grouped up, grouped up creates unconscious function of a predatory nature).

with the military industrial complex downsizing, the prisoners face an increasing struggle for the necessities of survival and their awakening is automatic in the circumstances. this situation is described as global warming as despite the media trying to chuck as many arguments at people so they take sides and argue, people become politically aware.

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15-Year-Old Schoolboy On Trial After Head Teacher Tells Police About File-Sharing

by Enigmax, TorrentFreak

A 15 year-old schoolboy with a taste for BitTorrent went to trial yesterday after downloading and sharing 24 Hollywood movies. The case, however, has a worrying twist. Rather than being hunted down online by an anti-piracy company, the teenager was turned over to the police by the head teacher at his school. The prosecutor says he had no choice but to take action.

In March 2011 the IT department of a Gothenburg school investigated the issue of a virus which apparently came from a student?s computer.

During a closer examination IT staff found that the student had 24 Hollywood movies stored on his hard drive. The 15-year-old boy in question had obtained them from two Swedish torrent sites ? tankafetast.se and tankaner.se.

Ultimately the school?s head teacher learned of the IT technicians? discovery but rather than deal with the issue in-house, she chose to drastically escalate the matter ? by calling in the police. Now, five months after the alleged offenses, the boy is on trial in Sweden.

?Our policy is to always notify the police if we have suspicion of a crime,? the head teacher told GP.se. ?It is not our job to investigate, it?s a matter for the police.?

The investigation was led by the International Public Prosecution Office in Stockholm and the trial began in the Gothenburg District Court yesterday. Prosecutor Fredrik Ingblad, a veteran of such cases, says this trial is a record-breaker ? no-one this young has ever been prosecuted for file-sharing violations.

?If I find that I can prove a crime, I have to prosecute. I do not consider the person?s age or whether file sharing has occurred on a small or large scale,? Ingblad says. ?By contrast, his young age, of course, is important in terms of what punishment he will be sentenced to.?

Although Ingblad says he will press for the teenager to be sentenced as a juvenile, the punishment for copyright infringements still run from fines to two years in jail.

?Politicians and copyright monopolists alike have been promising solemnly to never send the police after the entire younger generation,? Pirate Party founder Rick Falkvinge told TorrentFreak. ?Here, we can see for ourselves how much those promises were worth. The politicians who let this happen need to be kicked out of office.?

During the hearing the boy admitted downloading movies such as The Fighter, The Mechanic, The Social Network and Scary Movie 4, but said that he had no idea he was uploading them to others at the same time.

?It?s paradoxical,? says Inglblad. ?The thousands of small users who are online to download a single movie is a prerequisite for the entire system to work.?

?To prosecute one of them is of course just scratching the surface. But if you want the legal download services to work there must be at least a small chance you will get caught if you download illegally, even if you are young,? he says.

Rick Falkvinge sees the situation somewhat differently, in that sharers should not be subjected to criminal trials but rewarded, and that hopefully attitudes in the future will change.

?If the government should interfere at all with people sharing culture, it should be in the form of medals to those who share the most,? he told us.

?It is of poor comfort for a 15-year-old in a criminal court that the laws will have changed to prove him right and dignified several years later. In the meantime, he has the full moral support of pirates all over the world, from San Francisco to Sydney,? he concludes.

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Arrested for Selling Lemonade, Activist Meg McLain Tells Her Story

Lemonade "Terrorism"
by Meg McLain

On August 20th, 2011 at 12:31pm on the Capitol lawn in Washington DC,?Kathryn Dill,?William Duffield, and I were arrested for selling 10cent cups of lemonade. ?The events leading up to our arrest, along with our capture and kidnapping were beautifully documented by several activists who came armed with cameras (see high quality video below); therefore, I feel no need to cover those details. ?However, once we were taken away, there were no more cameras to share our experience.

First, we were placed in a cage in the back of a van and taken to the police station. ?Upon arriving, police took Will inside, leaving Kathryn and I in the?sweltering?cage. ?The men in blue guarding our cage continually taunted us; making jokes and expressing their enjoyment of "locking us away for the weekend", and how our arrests were "marvelous". ?When it was my turn to enter booking, I was taken to a room where I was photographed, forced to remove my jewelry and shoes, then cuffed to a bar while an officer rubbed every part of my body, including my breasts and vagina. ?I was then led down the hall to a small room where I would spend the next 4 hours chained to the wall.

Officer Weatherbee was assigned to my room. ?He began a standard line of questioning, failing to read me my rights in advance. ?I was continually told I would be caged if I failed to give them every detail they requested, which included the names, phone numbers, addresses, ages, etc... of my friends and family. ?I constantly asked "Who was the victim of my supposed crime?", to which they continually answered, "society". ?When I pointed out that the majority of the crowd had been supportive of our cause, and that 'society' was not a person whom I could confront in a court (therefore eliminating my right to face my accuser); I was laughed at and taunted. ?I was also told that my friends would be arrested should they attempt to protest our capture at the police station. ?One officer smirked, "I can do this [booking prisoners] all day. ?Arrest as many as you want."

After a couple of hours, a man in jeans and a blue shirt came into my room with a notepad and paper. ?While I don't remember the name of his job title (Capitol Criminal Investigator or something like that), he basically explained that he investigated organizations that the government believed to be potential terrorist, and the "Lemonade Liberation" had become their newest big threat. ?Although friendly and very light hearted, he seemed?aggravated?with the lack of information I was giving him. ?He wanted to know who the leaders of the organization were [none]; where we held our meetings [we never had any]; where we are based out of [everywhere]; what other plans we had [none]; and a whole line of ridiculous questions that were geared towards finding dangerous, violent, angry people. ?That's not us. ?After several hours of friendly, yet inappropriate questioning, I finally asked, "Where is your line in the sand? ?At what point do you say, 'No. That goes too far, and I'm not willing to do that to peaceful people'? ?Because if you don't know where that line is, you're gonna blindly cross it one day, and regret it for the rest of your life." ?It was at that point he fell silent, then left without saying another word.

Eventually I was able to call my mom from one of the officer's cell phones (because their landlines were all busy), and she was able to contact Nathan Cox, who was able to bring my ID and the names, addresses, and phone numbers the police were?demanding they get before releasing me. ?I was taken to a room where all my tattoos were photographed, and multiple versions of my fingerprints were scanned; after which, I was promptly returned to my room and re-chained to the wall. ?Finally I was taken down a hallway, forced to put an ink thumb print on a stack of paper work, handed my copy, then given back my property, and told I was free to go.

It wasn't until after we were out that we heard about all the support that had poured in for us immediately after our arrest. ?We discovered there had been a massive call flood to the police station, which we realized had been the direct reason our captors became more and more friendly as our detention progressed. ?I also discovered that the police had attempted to discourage Kathryn and Will with lies like, "Those people with the cameras were just using you for their own agenda" or "they didn't give you a Lemonade Liberation tshirt (some shirts a few of us had made for the event), because they are not your friends." ?Luckily these tactics failed; however, I found it encouraging that they didn't even attempt this with me. ?I knew better, and the cops were aware of that.

Our charges were:
Vending without a permitUnlawful conductFailure to obeyWe have all been scheduled to appear in court on October 4th, and we are hoping that people will come out and show their support; be it for us, our cause, or the children who wish to create their own lemonade stand without being harassed or threatened by men with guns. ?Details about this event can be found?here.

While being arrested is not something I enjoy, I am honored I had the opportunity to participate in such a beautiful demonstration of innocence and peace; and shine light on how it is under attack by the very people sworn to protect it. ?But the real heroes of the day were those who ignored the threats of arrest and made their way around the police to purchase a cup of lemonade. ?To see a child shrug at a cops threat, then defiantly disobey it... it was inspirational, and gave me hope for the inevitable positive change that will come from all this.

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Meg McLain Tells Fox News About Her Arrest for Selling Lemonade

by TalleyTV

This morning Free Keene blogger Meg McLain was on Fox News, along with Robert Fernandez, to discuss yesterday?s successful Lemonade Freedom Day. Despite being a nationwide event, it appears that there were only three arrests made on Lemonade Freedom Day and all were in Washington, DC. Everywhere else in the country, including Keene, cops used their discretion and ignored the open agorism taking place. Here?s Meg and Robert on Fox and Friends this morning.

Meg wasn?t given much time to discuss the abuse she faced at the hands of the U.S. Capitol Police Department but she did post the unfortunate details to her new blog, MegMclain.com.

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THANK GOD THERE ARE STILL A FEW GOOD PEOPLE IN UNIFORM THAT CAN THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

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Steve Jobs Tells City Sopranos No!

by Charles Goyette

Apple, the consumer electronics company, has outgrown its headquarters in Cupertino, California. It wants to build a bigger, better campus. That?s when the shakedown started. You know the kind: "What are you going to ?give back? to the community?"

Thanks to the success of iPods, iPhones, iTunes, iPads and Macs, Apple?s headquarters building in Cupertino is woefully too small. So the company bought some nearby land and in early June co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs went before the City Council to unveil plans for the new headquarters. It?s an innovative design that looks like the mother ship has landed right there in Cupertino, a ring shaped building around a huge central courtyard area. The new headquarters will accommodate 12,000 employees, up from only 2,600 at its present campus.

Jobs displayed a project that any city would love to have. The park-like campus increases the landscaping at the location by 350 percent, almost doubles the trees on the site, and reduces the surface parking by 90 percent.

After his presentation of the stunning project, the very first question from the very first council member was, "What?s in it for us?"

Apparently, making innovative and life-enriching products that serve the needs of millions of people and being the largest taxpayer and premier employer in the city isn?t enough; what else can we shake you down for?

Thousands of businesses dealing with thousands of governments at all levels run head on into these rackets. It?s like dealing with Tony Soprano: "That?s a real nice expansion plan you got there. It?d sure be too bad if something happened to it."

In other words, what can we extort from you in return for approving your project? How about a big donation to some official?s favorite cause, or why don?t we make you pay for some bad public art, chosen by committee with no taste? In Apple?s case it was, "how about giving us all free Wi Fi?"

Jobs' reply should be repeated whenever these shakedowns start. He said, "You see, I?m a simpleton. I?ve always had this view that we pay taxes and the city should do those things. Now if we can get out of paying taxes, I?d be glad to put up Wi Fi."

Or as Jobs said to the Cupertino city council in so many words, "We can always sell off the land, take our little company, and go somewhere else."

That stopped the shakedown attempt dead in its tracks. Clearly, we need more CEOs like Jobs.

American businesses have been packing up and going somewhere else for years now as they seek to escape shakedowns. After all there is always another state mobster at the door wanting taxes, creating regulations, demanding inspections, setting wages, mandating benefits, restricting business, controlling hiring, and imposing costs. Maybe it will take a further slide in American living standards and the squeeze of a higher unemployment rate for the people to wake up and put a stop to the Tony Soprano state.
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Charles Goyette [send him mail] is the author of the New York Times bestseller The Dollar Meltdown: Surviving the Impending Currency Crisis with Gold, Oil, and Other Unconventional Investments, now available in paperback.

Copyright ? 2011 Charles Goyette

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ALL apples 'innovative' products are manufactured by Commie-fascist
slave labour so the question is actually fair ..
What IS apple doing for the local community ?
And is their way of business, with 'patent'-suits and what not really
compatible with libertarian dogma ?? Steve Jobs is a Mafia Don himself. If he doesn't like wealth redistribution, he should speak out against Obama. Redistribution is ok, as long as it's not his wealth. When will the medical field recognise liberalism as a mental illness, similar to being a sociopath. The liberal tree, bears no good fruit, just dependence. About Us - Disclaimer - Privacy Policy
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Peter Schiff: The Lies a Fed Chairman Tells

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