LA’s Sheriff Baca Stirs Fear Against Marijuana (Cannabis) Days Before The Election

[asdjrocky]

All through the George W. Bush administration, Americans were fed a steady diet of fear, strategically orchestrated by Bush and Cheney to promote their political agenda. Americans were scared into supporting war. They were frightened into buying masking tape. They were jolted by elevated color codes. They were unnerved about flying on planes. And much much more…

For eight long years Bush and Cheney were masters of mania, preying on a nervous nation through well-timed machinations. What coincidence that terrorist threats would arise before elections and critical legislation. Even Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al Zawahiri would broadcast messages that helped push G.W.’s platform.

Using unjustified fear is an abuse of governance. Sadly for Los Angeles, Lee Baca, its Sheriff of twelve years who is running unopposed in this election, is employing the abusive fear tactic. Mere days before California’s November 2nd election, whose ballot includes Proposition 19, which if passed, would regulate, control and tax marijuana, Sheriff Baca is using free broadcast media to strike fear in voters against the Proposition he vehemently opposes.

As Baca’s luck would have it, Halloween arrives just two days before the November 2nd election. To frighten voters against Prop 19, Baca ordered his sheriffs to confiscate marijuana edibles from legal dispensaries and remove them from circulation so they’re not distributed to trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Baca then used the confiscated edibles as part of his free anti-Prop 19 broadcast media blitz.

Link-
http://blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2010/10/31/las-sheriff-baca-stirs-fear-against-marijuana-days-before-the-election/

We're going to file this under 'A', for Asshole.

[Tsiyu]

1. kicking for California

all the income saved by those who choose to garden will also flow into the economy.

It's a win-win.

[asdjrocky]

3. Thanks!

It's down the the wire now.

[Tsiyu]

5. I'm wishing for the best over there

on your Left Coast.

We here in TN applaud all the efforts you Californians have made toward a saner state.


:thumbsup:

[Sonoman]

2. He's probably driving around in some dude's Escalade, too.

The police don't want to lose all of those cool perks.

Sonoman

[msongs]

4. Baca's afraid sheriffs will have to go after real criminals when his bloated budget is cut lol nt