The New Jim Crow

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If any of you thought that it should be easy to change the formula of funding for the drug war, this piece will help demonstrate the sad reality.

We’ve talked so many times here about the death of the Fourth Amendment, particularly in the war on drugs. It has been trashed over and over again from every direction.

Despite President Obama's promises, the DEA is still going after medical marijuana providers.

Oliver North has a piece at Townhall: The Other War

WASHINGTON — It’s a war the so-called mainstream media apparently have decided to ignore. Though its death toll is higher than Iraq’s and Afghanistan’s combined, it evidently isn’t worth covering; and unless you’re reading this in the Southwest, you probably haven’t even heard about it.

A grass-roots campaign is under way to legalize marijuana in Washington state.

Three New York City police officers were acquitted on Monday on charges one of them sodomized a man with a police baton on a subway platform and two others helped cover it up.

I received a friend request the other day from Christopher Frizzo, the subject of the story linked above. We talked for a few minutes on Facebook IM, and he sent me the letter and stories linked below. He seems like a really cool dude, and a human face on what our government does everyday in violation of our rights.

We have to remember that these are real people being hurt. It is them that we fight for.