Enforce the Hatch Act: Prosecute Bushies using government funds to oppose medical marijuana.

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Drug Warriors Illegally Using Funds to Bolster Right-Wing Republican Candidates

Rove and Walters are Stealing Your Cash

The article below should motivate the Democrats to begin enforcing the Hatch Act which the Drug Czar thinks does not apply to him.

Remember how John Walters overtly interfered with ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana in Colorado and Nevada? Remember how Walters ran around the country opposing every medical marijuana initiative?

These violations of the Hatch Act were ignored because the Demos were OUT. Without control of committees in the Senate and House they could do nothing to protect their candidates and punish violators.

The knowledge that the drug warriors took political sides against the Demos could (and should) lead to 8 years of serious assaults on the drug warriors.

Passing a stricter version of the Hatch Act with felony penalties would end the GOP game of using the ONDCP to attack Democrats.

Remember that drug prohibition IS and always WAS a Republican hobby horse. Now that GOP political fortunes are declining would be a good time to drive a stake through the heart of drug prohibition.

The goal should be REPEAL, not reform. R Givens

article at: http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_6143.cfm

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1. K&R. Seeing the TRUTH means understanding that Drug Laws are used as

willy nilly tools for increasing police powers, keeping people under the thumb of Big Pharmaceuticals because they can't use a simple herb to feel better and as racist propoganda.

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2. It's market control too. n/t

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3. Chairman Waxman is on it.

Chairman Waxman on Politicization of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy
July 17th, 2007

From the Oversight Committee:

Politicization of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy

Washington, D.C. — Today Chairman Waxman released new documents regarding politicization of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

The documents reveal that at the request of Sara Taylor, the former White House Director of Political Affairs, John Walters, the nation’s drug czar, and his deputies traveled to 20 events with vulnerable Republican members of Congress in the months prior to the 2006 elections. The trips were paid for by federal taxpayers and several were combined with the announcement of federal grants or actions that benefited the districts of the Republican members.

A November 20, 2006, memo from Ms. Taylor summarizes the travel Director Walters took at her request. An agency e-mail sent the following day describes how Karl Rove commended the historically nonpartisan Office of National Drug Control Policy and three cabinet departments – Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture – for “going above and beyond the call of duty” in making “surrogate appearances” at locations the e-mail described as “the god awful places we sent them.” Other documents include an e-mail from the Interior Department to Ms. Taylor’s predecessor stating: “these folks need to be reminded who they work for and how their geographical travel can benefit this President.”

Chairman Waxman wrote to Ms. Taylor to request her attendance at a Committee deposition on or before July 24 and her possible appearance at a Committee hearing on July 30. He also wrote to White House Counsel Fred Fielding, the Republican National Committee, Director Walters, and the Secretaries of the Departments of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture requesting relevant documents.

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=592

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4. I like it.

I don't like marijuana, myself, personally. But I would like medical marijuana to be an option for those who would benefit from it.